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SolidusGold Inc. announces private placement

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

VANCOUVER, BC-(Marketwired - January 26, 2018) - SolidusGold Inc. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: SDC)Not for distribution to United States newswire services or for dissemination in the United StatesSolidusGold Inc. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: SDC) is pleased to announce that it intends to raise up to $375,000 through a non-brokered private placement of up to 3,571,429 units at a price of $0.105 p...Read More

Liberty Gold closes $10.5 M bought deal private placement

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

Liberty Gold Corp. (TSX:LGD) ("Liberty Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced bought deal private placement (the "Private Placement") of units (the "Units").Pursuant to the Private Placement the Company issued 24,938,426 Units at a price of $0.42 per Unit for gross proceeds to the Company of $10,474,138.92. The Units consist of one common shar...Read More

RT @zerohedge: Last Year The SNB Earned 32 Times More Than The 85 Swiss Private Banks

January 28, 2018 / www.zerohedge.com

Why would the Swiss absolutely want to pay CHF25-100BN in-kind foreign aid to the foreign countries and hedge funds?Read full newsRead More

Asia Morning Call-Global Markets

January 28, 2018 / www.kitco.com

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Stock MarketsNet ChngStock MarketsNet ChngS&P/ASX 200** 6,050.00 -4.70 NZX 50**8,311.42 -58.36DJIA26,616.71223.92NIKKEI**23,631.88-37.61Nasdaq7,505.77294.61 FTSE**7,665.54 49.70S&P 500 2,872.87 33.62 Hang Seng** 33,154.12499.67SPI 200 Fut 6,015.030.0STI** 3,567.14 -5.48SSEC**3,559.09 10.78 KOSPI** 2,574.76 12.53------------------------------------------------------------...Read More

Saudi foreign reserves rise for third straight month

January 28, 2018 / www.kitco.com

DUBAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Saudi Arabian central bank's foreign reserves rose in December for a third consecutive month, a sign that higher oil prices may be easing pressure on the government's finances, official data showed on Sunday.The bank's net foreign assets grew $2.0 billion from November to $488.9 billion last month, after increasing $1.0 billion in November and $8.3 billion in October....Read More

Preferred addresses for Toronto and Vancouver miners

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

Story developed using data from Mining Intelligence. Learn more and schedule a demo.Most Toronto-based miners have addresses on Bay Street while Vancouver miners are evenly split between Hastings and Pender streets.Despite the commodity price shake out in 2015 and 2016, miners have mostly hung onto their downtown addresses."The mining sector occupies a large footprint in office and commercial sp...Read More

Preferred addresses for Toronto and Vancouver miners

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

Story developed using data from Mining Intelligence. Learn more and schedule a demo.Most Toronto-based miners have addresses on Bay Street while Vancouver miners are evenly split between Hastings and Pender streets.Despite the commodity price shake out in 2015 and 2016, miners have mostly hung onto their downtown addresses."The mining sector occupies a large footprint in office and commercial sp...Read More

Preferred addresses for Toronto and Vancouver miners

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

Story developed using data from Mining Intelligence. Learn more and schedule a demo.Most Toronto-based miners have addresses on Bay Street while Vancouver miners are evenly split between Hastings and Pender streets.Despite the commodity price shake out in 2015 and 2016, miners have mostly hung onto their downtown addresses."The mining sector occupies a large footprint in office and commercial sp...Read More

Introducing The "Polar Silk Road" - #China's Latest Arctic Power Grab | Zero Hedge

January 28, 2018 / www.zerohedge.com

China would encourage enterprises to build infrastructure and conduct commercial trial voyages, paving the way for Arctic shipping routes that would form a "Polar Silk Road."Read full newsRead More

Visualizing Real #Inflation - A Decade Of Grocery Prices For 30 Common Items | Zero Hedge

January 28, 2018 / www.zerohedge.com

Over the span of 2000-2016, the amount of money spent on food by the average American household increased from $5,158 to $7,203, which is a 39.6% increase in spending...Read full newsRead More

Wall St Weekahead-State of the Union more likely to raise eyebrows than stocks

January 28, 2018 / www.kitco.com

(Updates status of NAFTA talks in paragraph 13)By Sinead CarewJan 28 (Reuters) - Anybody hoping for a replay of the stock market advance that followed U.S. President Donald Trump's first address to Congress may be disappointed. This time around, shares could suffer if Trump does not tread carefully on hot-button issues. The S&P 500 jumped 1.4 percent the day after Trump's speech last February,...Read More

As global economy hums, Davos turns bullish on commodities

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

The last two editions of the World Economic Forum were somber affairs for oil industry chieftains and commodities tycoons. The consensus in Davos was that oil was going to stay low, OPEC would fail to lift prices, and the mining industry faced a difficult time.Roll forward to 2018 and there's been a near-universal shift in sentiment as strong and synchronized global economic growth drives demand f...Read More

As global economy hums, Davos turns bullish on commodities

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

The last two editions of the World Economic Forum were somber affairs for oil industry chieftains and commodities tycoons. The consensus in Davos was that oil was going to stay low, OPEC would fail to lift prices, and the mining industry faced a difficult time.Roll forward to 2018 and there's been a near-universal shift in sentiment as strong and synchronized global economic growth drives demand f...Read More

As global economy hums, Davos turns bullish on commodities

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

The last two editions of the World Economic Forum were somber affairs for oil industry chieftains and commodities tycoons. The consensus in Davos was that oil was going to stay low, OPEC would fail to lift prices, and the mining industry faced a difficult time.Roll forward to 2018 and there's been a near-universal shift in sentiment as strong and synchronized global economic growth drives demand f...Read More

Copper deals off to best start in 12 years as prices surge

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

Copper mining deals are off to the best start in at least 12 years - and more money could be pouring into the sector this year.More than $500 million in transactions are pending or were completed so far this month, the most recorded for January in Bloomberg data going back 12 years. Merger interest is picking up after years of under-investment limited mining companies' capacity to meet rising dema...Read More

Average yields fall at Egyptian T-bill auction

January 28, 2018 / www.kitco.com

CAIRO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Average yields on Egypt's three- and nine-month treasury bills fell at an auction on Sunday, central bank data showed.Yields on the 91-day bills slipped to 18.006 percent from 18.362 at the last sale, while yields on the 266-day bills also eased to 17.080 percent from 17.563 percent. (Reporting by Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Catherine Evans) Disclaimer: The views expres...Read More

UPDATE 1-ECB should be clear on ending asset purchases after September - Knot

January 28, 2018 / www.kitco.com

(Adds more comments)AMSTERDAM, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank (ECB) should make it clear how it will end its asset purchases as soon as possible after the current bond buying programme ends in September, Dutch central bank president Klaas Knot told Dutch current affairs programme Buitenhof on Sunday."There is no reason whatsoever to continue the programme", Knot said. &quo...Read More

Commercial Bank of Qatar in talks about potential loan -sources

January 28, 2018 / www.kitco.com

By Tom ArnoldDUBAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ), the Gulf state's third-largest lender by assets, is in talks with banks about a syndicated loan of up to $500 million, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.Raising money through a loan was one option open to the bank, which was also considering bonds as part of its normal funding pattern, one of the sources said.Qa...Read More

ECB should end asset purchases as soon as possible after September - Knot

January 28, 2018 / www.kitco.com

AMSTERDAM, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank (ECB) should end its asset purchases as soon as possible after its current bond buying programme ends in September, Dutch central bank president Klaas Knot told Dutch current affairs programme Buitenhof on Sunday."There is no reason whatsoever to continue the programme", Knot said. "I feel that we need to be clear about this.&q...Read More

Robert Friedland tells Frank Holmes why copper is ready to run

January 28, 2018 / www.mining.com

Interview syndicated from Frank Holme's Frank TalkLast week the U.S. Global Investors office was visited by a living legend in the junior mining industry, billionaire founder and executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, Robert Friedland. In case you don't know, back in the mid-1970s, Robert was caretaker of an apple orchard south of Portland that one of his buddies from Reed College would often visit....Read More

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