LONDON, 3 August 2020 - BullionVault analysis features today in Die Welt reporting on the outlook for industrial precious metals led by silver.With gold prices setting new all-time highs this week, "In the coming months strong industrial demand for silver could have a positive impact on its price," says Germany's 5th best-selling daily newspaper, quoting BullionVault's Adrian Ash.Read the full sto...Read More
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said earlier that Russia's compliance rate in June had been 99%Read full newsRead More
(Bloomberg) -- Tech and pharma may be getting the attention these days, but three mining billionaires are quietly padding their fortunes with an investment that's decidedly more old school.Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Al Amoudi and Russia's Alexander Nesis and the family of Suleiman Kerimov have the largestRead full newsRead More
Karangahake Gorge Historic Walkway in Karangahake, New Zealand, follows an old railway line with access to an abandoned gold mine. Bring a flashlight.Read full newsRead More
KORE Mining Ltd. (TSXV: KORE) (OTCQB: KOREF) (Read full newsRead More
Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to com...Read More
July ends with record monthly closes.Apple becomes world's most valuable company.Gold settings records.Silver has its best month since 1979.US Dollar has lost better than 99% of its value.Slow orderly decline could turn into rapid disorderly crash.10 and 30 year Treasury Bonds close with lowest yields in history.This is the 1970s on steroids.Jerome Powell levels up on not thinking about rates.Meal...Read More
"It is the square-root recovery in the sense that we came down very sharply, we saw that in today's 32.9% annualized contraction in GDP that you mentioned," El-Erian said. "We came back strongly initially - we saw that in last month's jobs report and the initial improvement in jobless claims, and now we're getting the leveling off.""And that is of worry because not only do we have to deal with the...Read More
Nouriel Roubini, NYU Stern School of Business Professor and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC joins Yahoo Finance's Julia La Roche to discuss his outlook on the global economy as the coronavirus pandemic continues, and bonus unemployment benefits expire.Nouriel Roubini, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics, was Senior Economist for International...Read More
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"In the midst of the worst global economic performance ever, Russia's reserve position is near an all-time high. Not because of energy or agricultural exports. It's because theyContinue...Read More
It’s a rare stock indeed that can satisfy multiple investing strategies at the same time. But one name just about pulls it off. Franco-Nevada (TSX:FNV)(NYSE:FNV) offers investors a reduced-risk play in the gold space. This rare ultra low-risk gold stock combines a strong growth thesis along with some passive income. Gold is on a tear this year, but it’s not too late to get invested.One...Read More
After a brutal March and April, the price of oil has risen significantly. This has provided some breathing room for energy companies, many of whom slashed dividends earlier this year in the face of plunging oil prices. Additionally, gold has rallied to all-time highs in 2020. This has provided a boost for gold miners who suffered during most of the past decade because of falling gold prices.Many i...Read More
One of the rainwater collection ponds in Magdalena Ocotl??n. (Image by Compa???-a Minera Cuzcatl??n). Mexico's Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection issued a report stating that the subsidiary of Canada's Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE: FSM), Compa???-a Minera Cuzcatl??n, hasn't caused any pollution to rainwater collection ponds in the Magdalena Ocotl??n municipality in the southern Oaxaca st...Read More
Rescue team at the Los Cedros coal mine in Colombia. (Image courtesy of the National Mining Agency). The bodies of nine miners have been recovered from a coal mine in Colombia where an explosion took place on July 31, 2020.According to the National Mining Agency, the blast at the Los Cedros mine in the El Zulia municipality of the Norte de Santander department was caused by the accumulation of ga...Read More
Pyrite on quartz. (Image by James St. John, Flickr). Researchers at the University of Minnesota in the US have electrically transformed iron sulfide, also known as "fool's gold" or pyrite, into a magnetic material.In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, the scientists explain that this is the first time an entirely non-magnetic material has been transformed into a magnetic one. In t...Read More
Michael McNeilly, CEO of Metal Tiger PLC (AIM: MTR) introduced us to his business. Metal Tiger is an AIM (London Stock Exchange) quoted investing company, focused on the natural resource sector. Metal Tiger has a portfolio of investments in development and exploration stage mining companies, with a current focus on precious and base metals, with a strong focus on copper, gold and silver. They hold...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger offers his latest analysis of how current economic circumstances are driving the gold and silver bulls. Gold barsBefore I begin this weekly missive (which is being penned on a Wednesday due to my impending cruise to the northern habitats of Georgian Bay), I need to present one quote that for me summarizes everything there is to know about risk management in the cap...Read More