In this day and age, you may be wondering what the best asset or TSX stock to invest in is. There is a tonne of uncertainty and no guarantees when putting your money in the stock market today.Despite a market rally in the last few weeks, there is nothing to stop the market from selling off once again.And when you consider that nobody knows how much our economy will be affected and the duration of...Read More
The TSX Composite Index has risen consistently for the last two months. Many top TSX stocks have shown a notable surge from their record lows in March. However, it will be interesting to see whether these stocks could maintain gains. Rising recession fears and uncertainties on the pandemic front pose a significant threat to the current market rally.So, how can investors protect their portfolios fr...Read More
For the last two years, I have been writing about adding gold to your portfolio to protect against economic uncertainty. These stocks have done very well, doubling or more over the past year. Continued strength in gold prices should continue to drive prices higher in the coming months or even years.That is great for people who’ve invested early on, but it does not help curious investors deci...Read More
Superior's Fusion Platform system. Credit: Superior Industries. Superior Industries, a manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, is offering a new series of modular plants for aggregate crushing, sorting, sizing and washing applications.Known as Fusion Modular Platforms, these pre-engineered, ready-to-build systems still allow customization to achieve best...Read More
Aerial view of the Windjammer gold zones at Moneta's Golden Highway project in northern Ontario. Image from Moneta. Stepout drilling is expanding Moneta Porcupine Mines' Windjammer South deposit, part of its Golden Highway project, 110 km east of Timmins, Ontario.The company released four drill holes totalling 2,115 metres from the project that extended gold mineralization over 500 metres west a...Read More
Canadian Malartic mine in Quebec is currently on care and maintenance. Image from Agnico Eagle. Wordwide, mining companies are facing disruptions in supply chain, parts and consumables as a result of near-global government directives to contain the covid-19 pandemic. Suspension or reduction of mining activity isexpected to lead to lower guidance from companies, according to EY's Q1 miningperform...Read More
Exploration camp at Fisher before the 2017 burn. Credit: Taiga Gold Corp. Taiga Gold (CSE: TGC) has received a report from SSR Mining (TSX, NASDAQ: SSRM) containing partial drill results for the Q1 2020 drill program on the Fisher property, which is wholly owned by Taiga and under option to SSRM.The Fisher project is located 125 km east of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, contiguous to the north, south an...Read More
Mother Lode project. Image courtesy of Corvus Gold. Corvus (TSX:KOR) shares traded up 10% on the TSE on Thursday after the company announced a new discovery below its Mother Lode deposit in Nevada.The company discovered the CIZ zone, an oxidized intrusive dyke swarm below the Mother Lode late last year hitting 50.3m at 1.5 grams per tonne gold, followed by 41m at 1.6 grams per tonne in January.Co...Read More
Norges Bank said yesterday it had decided to exclude Sasol Ltd, RWE AG, Glencore (LSE: GLEN), AGL Energy Ltd and Anglo American (LSE: AAL) from the Government Pension Fund Global after an assessment against coal criteria.It has placed BHP (ASX: BHP) and four other companies on an "observation list" following their assessment against the product-based coal criterion.In a separate announcement, the...Read More
Monday marks the fifth anniversary of the company's ASX listing after it was demerged from BHP.Read More
It said Mexico's tax authority, Servicio de Administracion Tributaria, had "exhibited a total disregard for the applicable provisions of three separate double taxation treaties" and had unlawfully opted to ignore an advanced pricing agreement, governing the tax on silver sales between 2010-2014 by its subsidiary Primero Empresa Minera.The silver miner said its efforts to resolve the dispute had be...Read More
Share this articleGreat Atlantic Resources Corp. [GR-TSXV] is pleased to announce it is planning exploration during 2020 at its Keymet Precious Metal - Base Metal Property, located in northeast New Brunswick. The program, planned to begin this spring, will focus on gold exploration in the southwest region of the property. The Company has identified exploration targets in this region based on histo...Read More
With all the smugness and vitriol they can muster up, certain members of the republican party are taking to Twitter to share their displeasure with the recently delivered stimulus bill. Most notably, the fact that the word cannabis appears in it 68 times more than the word "jobs."It seems to be a shared sticking point, too, as this has been mentioned by a few GOP lawmakers. As often is the case...Read More
I took two grams of mushrooms before heading out into the forest.It was around 5:30 a.m. and the cool, morning rains were just starting to fade and transition into the warm blanket of an orange peel sunrise. The bird songs were oddly melodic, my water jug was full, and it didn't take long for me to start melting into my surroundings.The fruit of the staghorn sumac was glowing, and I could taste t...Read More
By Stefan GleasonFoodflation is registering at the checkout lines of your local grocery store - and in a bigger way than has been seen in decades.On Tuesday, the U.S. Labor Department reported that grocery prices paid by consumers surged 2.6% in April. That's the largest one-month price spike recorded in 46 years.Food Costs JumpBLS/CNBCThe last time a food shock of this magnitude hit consumers w...Read More
The April federal budget deficit came in at a staggering $738 billion as government coronavirus stimulus began flowing through the pipelines and revenue dipped due to the government lockdowns.Analysts expected a massive deficit in April, but it's still a staggering number. To put it into perspective, the previous record for a single month was $235 billion and that was just in February of this...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold chart action shows the triangle forming, the apex with the bulls in the control at its downtrend test..Read More
The mirage of quick growth vanished and realty bite came after Federal Reserve chairman Powell dashed hopes an early US economic recovery. He also struck down any chances of negative interest rates. Gold rose as a result. There was short covering in gold as well. At the moment gold looks headed for $1760. Silver will follow the trend of industrial metals. Overall sharp correction in silver will...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger expands on both the latest money market moves and his investment thesis for Getchell Gold. I was pacing around the house this lovely but cold Friday afternoon (after finally having the water supply restored after our well filed for unemployment benefits), trying desperately to think of a topic to write about in this weekly missive, when it suddenly occurred to me t...Read More