A more dramatic move in the price of gold is necessary for miners to start outperforming the metal.Read full newsRead More

Edwin Wong, the chief investment officer of Hong Kong-headquartered SSG Capital Management and an ex-Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. banker, sees a multitude of opportunities in India as the nation pushes ahead with a bankruptcy system overhaul.Read full newsRead More

The national park's full planning committee will visit the site on 27 February before making a decision.Read full newsRead More

Climate Home News: In 1996, Osvaldo Wuaru and his family arrived on the outskirts of the vast Munduruku Amazon Territory with a crucial mission: set up a village to hold back the invasion of pariwat (non-indigenous) gold miners. Twenty-one years later, it has all but failedRead full newsRead More

A more dramatic move in the price of gold is necessary for miners to start outperforming the metal.Read full newsRead More

A more dramatic move in the price of gold is necessary for miners to start outperforming the metal.Read full newsRead More

ALROSA, the world's largest diamond mining company, summed up the results of the contest "She said "YES!" and chose the most interesting idea of a marriage proposal.A young man from Moscow has become a winner. His name and the idea will remain a secret not to ruin the surprise for his dearie. He will receive a diamond ring as a reward to translate the wish into reality. ALROSA plans to follow the...Read More

New York, Philadelphia Fed price indexes surged this monthProducer price index increased in January on energy costsMarket Is Sniffing Some Inflationary Pressure, Says GkionakisThree measures of price pressures for American businesses showed they’re facing higher production costs, adding to evidence that inflation is creeping up in the U.S. economy.The Empire State Manufacturing prices-...Read More

Paulson owned 4.36 million shares in bullion-backed ETFBridgewater Associates added to its stake in SPDR GoldBillionaire hedge-fund manager John Paulson maintained his holding last quarter in SPDR Gold Shares, before prices of the metal capped the biggest annual gain in seven years.John PaulsonPhotographer: Rick Maiman/BloombergAs of Dec. 31, New York-based Paulson & Co. kept his sta...Read More

Sheahan Diamond Literature Reference CompilationThe Sheahan Diamond Literature Reference Compilation is compiled by Patricia Sheahan who publishes on a monthly basis a list of new scientific articles related to diamonds as well as media coverage and corporate announcements called the Sheahan Diamond Literature Service that is distributed as a free pdf to a list of followers. Pat has kindly agreed...Read More

Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have now risen for five straight sessions. The Dow last closed above 25,000 on Feb. 2. The blue-chip index remained more than 1,400 points below its all-time closing high of 26,616 set on Jan. 26, 2018.Wall Street Overview Stocks closed higher on Thursday, Feb. 15, posti...Read More

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday February 16.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were broadly higher at the close on Thursday February 15, with only aluminium falling. Read more in our live futures report.Here are how LME prices looked at Thursday's close:Copper concentrate treatment and refining charges dropped marginally in the first half of Febru...Read More

As the Dow Jones industrial average fell over 2,600 points between Feb. 2 and Feb. 8, 2018, a decline of over 10% from the all-time high of 26,616 on Jan. 25, and officially a market "correction" as defined by Wall Street, one question kept repeating in investors' minds: Where is the "Powell Put?"A bit of explanation may be in order.The name "Powell" is a reference to Jay Powell, the newly install...Read More

The “most-watched data point in history” came out yesterday.January's Consumer Price Index (CPI) would inform markets if inflation was at last slipping its leash.Inflationary murmurs - and the aggressive rate hikes they might portend - were at least partly responsible for last week's "correction."Further inflation omens meant the Fed could tug hard on the leash... and choke off the sto...Read More

Today I want to pull back the curtain and explain how I use a little known Federal Drug Administration secret to identify the best biotech stocks that could trigger big profits in months.One that tells me exactly when drug companies expect to receive approval from the FDA.This information is an incredibly valuable first step when I begin researching a biotech stock.Because if a company's drug gets...Read More

Brandon Dugan, associate professor and Baker Hughes Chair in Petrophysics and Borehole Geophysics at Colorado School of Mines, was recently interviewed by The Verge about the possibility of tapping into offshore freshwater aquifers to address the Cape Town water crisis. From the article:According to [a 2013 Nature] study, there's an estimated 120,000 cubic miles of subsea fresh water globally -...Read More

The latest diet fad in America is the social media detox.Some folks go cold turkey, wiping their accounts clean. Other dieters delete apps like Instagram from their phone so they won't compulsively check for new posts every ten minutes.The goal is simple: to break the increasing stranglehold social media has on our lives."It consumed too much of my time, and I had stopped doing other things I love...Read More

I was in Hawaii that day - the day the ballistic missile threat scared the living daylights out of every single person on the islands.My first thought was what have I done?How could I have brought my kids to Hawaii when I knew it was possible a crazy man could drop a nuke on one of the beautiful islands?My second thought was whether we needed to be more worried about our building coming down or th...Read More

Headline EPS grew 55% but basic EPS fell 40%.Production increased 5% and ore grades improved.The dividend yield is over 3%.Harmony has one of the strongest balance sheets in the gold mining industry.Harmony Gold (HMY) experienced a good first half with increased gold production and better ore grades. This South African miner is a great way for the American investor to buy into a company with a nic...Read More

Paulson owned 4.36 million shares in bullion-backed ETFBridgewater Associates added to its stake in SPDR GoldBillionaire hedge-fund manager John Paulson maintained his holding last quarter in SPDR Gold Shares, before prices of the metal capped the biggest annual gain in seven years.John PaulsonPhotographer: Rick Maiman/BloombergAs of Dec. 31, New York-based Paulson & Co. kept his sta...Read More