Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India (Sail) reported a rise in profit in the fourth quarter of 2017 after ten consecutive months of decline, the company said on Thursday February 8.The company reported earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) of 15.71 billion rupees ($244 million) in October-December 2017, the third quarter of its current financial...Read More
Critics of "New Age" monetary policy have been predicting that central banks would eventually run out of ways to trick people into borrowing money. There are at least three reasons to wonder if that time has finally come: Wage inflation is acceleratingNormally, towards the end of a cycle companies have trouble finding enough workers to keep up with their rising sales. So they start paying new hi...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
Continue...Ray Dalio is an American businessman and founder of the investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. In 2012, Dalio appeared on the annual Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2011 and 2012 he was listed by Bloomberg Markets as one of the 50 Most Influential people. Institutional Investor's Alpha ranked him No. 2 on their 2...Read More
For those that follow me regularly, you will know that I have been tracking a set up for the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX), which I analyze as a proxy for the metals mining market. I believe that the GDX can outperform the general equity market once we confirm a long term break out has begun, and I still think we can see it in occur in 2018. But, after last week’s break down...Read More
Listen to the Podcast Audio: Click Here Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Greg Weldon, CEO and president of Weldon Financial. Greg has over three decades of market research and trading experience, specializing in the metals and commodity markets, and even authored a book in 2006 titled Gold Trading Boot Camp, where he accurately predicted the implosion of the U.S. credit market...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
"You can't buy anything with gold. What does gold do."Photo credit: FlickrRead More
Rebar producer Sohar Steel has received certification of its responsible sourcing of construction products and sustainable constructional steel (SCS) from the UK-based Certification Authority for Reinforcing Steel (CARES), the Omani company said on Sunday February 11.The company produces 800,000 tonnes per year of rebar and 600,000 tpy of steel billet.It sells its products in Oman and...Read More
It was a rough week for investors in stocksand stocks of all kinds. The S&P 500 lost 5%. Emerging Markets also lost5%. Gold Stocks, which had weakened before the broader equity market have beenhit hard. They (GDX, GDXJ) also lost 5% last week. The HUI Gold Bugs Index(which excludes royalty companies unlike GDX) lost 7%. After a strong start tothe year, gold stocks have essentially given back a...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1321.30+$6.50Silver$16.52+$0.20XAU81.08+3.49%HUI180.45+3.38%GDM613.99+2.89%JSE Gold1118.34-13.55USD90.14-0.29Euro122.92+0.54Yen92.02-0.07Oil$59.29+$0.0910-Year2.857%+0.002T-Bond144.50+0.34375Dow24601.27+1.70%Nasdaq6981.96+1.56%S&P2656.00+1.39% The Metals: Gold gained $11.10 to $1325.90 in early Asian trade before it fell back to $1317.50 in London, but it then climbed t...Read More
By Keith WeinerHow Not to Predict Interest RatesWe continue our hiatus from capital destruction to look further at interest rates. Last week, our Report was almost prescient. We said:The first thing we must say about this is that people should pick one: (A) rising stock market or (B) rising interest rates. They both cannot be true (though we could have falling rates and falling stocks).We write...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
By Ira EpsteinMetals move higher, but will it last?https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More
By BullionStarhttps://www.bullionstar.com/Chinese New Year is probably the most important date in the Chinese calendar, with the event being celebrated throughout China and in Chinese communities around the world. Gold plays an essential part of the Chinese New Year celebrations.Also known as Lunar New Year, the date on which Chinese New Year falls each year is variable since it follows the Luni...Read More
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / February 12, 2018 / MGX Minerals Inc. ("MGX" or the "Company") (CSE: XMG / FKT: 1MG / OTCQB: MGXMF) is pleased to report the adsorbtion rate for the Company's lithium extraction nanofiltration process (the "System") has been increased from 20mg/g, milligram of lithium per gram of adsorbtion reagent, to an optimized 40mg/g Li/reagent. This reflects a doubling of ads...Read More
China's rebar futures increased on Monday February 12 as the country's steel production hub announced more manufacturing restrictions, while spot prices were stable amid sparse trading ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,860-3,920 yuan ($613-623) per tonne, unchanged. Northern China (Beijing): 3,950-3,990 yuan per tonne, unchanged. Ferrous futures jumped by...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
The purpose of this update is to try to make sure that you remain aware that the dollar has broken down from a giant top area, and is probably headed much lower, a prospect which is not diminished by the modest countertrend rally of the past week or so. We can see this top area and the breakdown last month to advantage on the latest 4-year chart for the dollar index below. With respect to the do...Read More