NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The dollar held its modest losses against a basket of currencies on Wednesday even as the Federal Reserve's latest Beige Book showed U.S. business activity was expanding with inflation growing at a modest to moderate pace in late 2017. At 2:08 pm (1908 GMT), the index that tracks the greenback versus the euro, yen, sterling and three other currencies was last down 0.10...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold priceswere modestly up in early afternoon U.S. trading Wednesday. Some minor profit-takingearly saw gold traders then step in to buy the dip when the U.S. dollar indexcould not hold its early gains and dropped to a 3.5-year low. February Comex gold was last up $3.70 an ounce at $1,340.80. March Comex silver was last up$0.016 at $17.20 an ounce.Goldand silver market bulls are si...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold prices were modestly up in early afternoon U.S. trading Wednesday. Some minor profit-taking early saw gold traders then step in to buy the dip when the U.S. dollar index could not hold its early gains and dropped to a 3.5-year low. February Comex gold was last up $3.70 an ounce at $1,340.80. March Comex silver was last up $0.016 at $17.20 an ounce.Gold and silver market bulls a...Read More

Amid the wild Bitcoin ride that's wiped more than 40 percent off the cryptocurrency's price in a month, a pattern may be emerging: sellers are switching out of digital gold and into the real thing.Read full newsRead More

Anglo Asian Mining Plc's  (LON:AAZ) Bill Morgan and Steve Westhead chat to Proactive's Andrew Scott following the release of their Q4 & FY 2017 Production and operations review.The miner produced 71,461 gold equivalent ounces during 2017, a production rate which hit the uppermost level of guidance.  Meet Netscientific PLC, discoverIE Group plc, Itaconix Plc and Realm Therapeutics plc...Read More

BAMAKO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Industrial gold production in Mali rose to 49.6 tonnes in 2017, up 5 percent from the previous year, a senior Mines Ministry official said on Wednesday.The figure beat the 46.9 tonnes that Africa's third-largest producer managed in 2016 and was well ahead a forecast of 45 tonnes that the government had given half way through last year."There was real progress in the...Read More

Jan 18 (Reuters) - Stock MarketsNet ChngStock MarketsNet ChngS&P/ASX 200** 6,015.80 -32.80NZX 50**8,297.67 47.13DJIA26,032.96240.10NIKKEI**23,868.34-83.47Nasdaq7,281.45757.77 FTSE**7,725.43 -30.50S&P 500 2,797.69 21.27 Hang Seng** 31,983.4178.66SPI 200 Fut 5,966.06.0 STI** 3,541.91 -8.30SSEC**3,445.36 8.76KOSPI** 2,515.43 -6.31---------------------------------------------------------------...Read More

(Adds more detail)LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Britain's Barclays is axing up to 100 jobs at its investment bank, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, following another set of disappointing results from the division in the third quarter. The cuts will be split evenly between Europe and the United States and be weighted more towards roles at the director and managing director level,...Read More

Ray Gibbs, chief executive of Haydale Graphene Industries PLC (LON:HAYD), tells Proactive they've entered into a commercial supply and development agreement with Australia-listed Talga Resources.The tie-up will see the two work together to produce, market and sell jointly-developed transparent conductive ink products using graphene for industrial applications in Asia.The two companies - which have...Read More

(Kitco News) - Kitco aficionados, it isnow time to have your say in where you think gold prices are heading in theshort-term.Will gold prices go higher, lower or remain unchanged nextweek? Kitco readers will have until 9 a.m. EDT, Friday to cast their vote. The results will be tabulated and released after noon (12PM EDT) along with the results fromour market professional survey.Readers can also se...Read More

(Kitco News) - Kitco aficionados, it is now time to have your say in where you think gold prices are heading in the short-term.Will gold prices go higher, lower or remain unchanged next week? Kitco readers will have until 9 a.m. EDT, Friday to cast their vote. The results will be tabulated and released after noon (12 PM EDT) along with the results from our market professional survey.Readers can al...Read More

Jan 17 (Reuters) - Apple Inc will make about $38 billion in tax payments to bring funds kept overseas back to the United States under new federal tax laws, the company said on Wednesday. Apple said it expected to invest over $30 billion in the United States over the next 5 years, and would create 20,000 jobs through hiring at existing campuses and through opening a new campus. (Reporting by Sonam...Read More

* Goldman Sachs slips on trading revenue weakness* Boeing shares jump after announcing JV to make aircraft seats* Apple slips after brokerage downgrade* Indexes up: Dow 0.82 pct, S&P 0.60 pct, Nasdaq 0.59 pct (Updates to early afternoon)By Sruthi ShankarJan 17 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes were higher on Wednesday, led by technology and industrial stocks as well as a recovery in the f...Read More

Bank stocks remain in focus today, with a handful of companies reporting earnings. Big-cap financial name Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) will soon be in the spotlight, too, expected to reportfourth-quarter earnings before Thursday'sopen. Below, we take a look at how MS stock has performed on the charts, and how options traders are speculating ahead of tomorrow's report.Morgan Stanley stock has had a res...Read More

By Lynn AdlerNEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Retail investors are expected to keep pouring money into leveraged loan funds this year as they continue to show a clear preference for floating-rate assets in a rising interest rate environment, portfolio managers said.Net inflows of nearly US$13bn in 2017 were 34% higher than in 2016, despite moderate outflows in most weeks since early August, according...Read More

(Repeats to more subscribers with no changes to text)* Fees estimated at less than 0.2 pct of listing* Financial reward smaller than other big IPOs* Bankers jostling for mandates for league table credit, prestige* Also hoping for piece of larger Vision 2030 pie By Dasha Afanasieva and Clara Denina LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The banks that will advise and execute Saudi Aramco's stock market listi...Read More

The last week saw speculators in the EURUSD FX futures market added dramatically to their long positions. In fact, as Bloomberg reports, hedge funds and other speculative investors have amassed the heaviest long positions on the euro ever, according to the latest CFTC data.Read full newsRead More

Eastern countries appear a lot more closed off to Bitcoin than their Western counterparts...Read full newsRead More

CHINEXT - China's index of small cap and tech stocks - has tumbled in the last few days (while the major Chinese indices have risen), as blockchain-related stocks across Asia have crashed along with the cryptocurrency carnage.Read full newsRead More

(Repeats item to attach to alerts, no change to content)TORONTO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Below are some key quotes from a news conference by Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz and Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins on Wednesday after the central bank raised interest rates to 1.25 percent. POLOZ ON NAFTA RISK"For us, it is not a matter of a binary event. We simply don't know enough about th...Read More