US Trade Representative Lighthizer has released some details of the phase one US-China trade deal... there's just one big elephant in the room that is raising a few eyebrows.href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lighthizer-confirms-china-pledged-40bn-ag-buys-next-year-there-just-one-problem" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Continue...Read More

Daniel Rosen, Rhodium Group founding partner, and Matthew Slaughter, dean and professor of international business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, join "Squawk Box" to discuss the prospects for a U.S.-China trade deal.Read More

For those confused about what the US and China actually agreed on after months of negotiations and all that confusion in the past few hours, here is the bottom line,from the USTR: "The United States Continue...Read More

Newsletter writer David Erfle is extremely bullish on mining stocks for the coming year. They're outperforming the metal and they've made higher lows. Once this consolidation period is over, they're most certainly heading higher, probably to new highs. There's so many good companies out there and David talks about 3 of them. Always a great dialogue.Read More

Tim Johnson, CEO of Granite Creek Copper, sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss the copper market, his company's exploration plans in the Yukon and its recent purchase of a 30% stake in its neighbor. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for conversation is Tim Johnson, the president and CEO of Granite Creek Copper Ltd. (GCX:TSX.V). It's a pleasure to have you back to provide us...Read More

The gold miners’ stockshave largely been consolidating high following last summer’s powerful upleg.  That resilience has left sentiment relativelybullish, with traders mostly expecting this sector to soon start surging again. But the jury is still out on whethergold stocks will be lucky enough to evade a bigger correction.  Major downside risks still abound, primarilyin...Read More

The Fed kept the interest rates unchanged in December. The statement was rather hawkish, while the dot-plot rather dovish. What does such a mix imply for the yellow metal? Fed Keeps Interest Rates UnchangedYesterday, the FOMC published the monetary policy statement from its latest meeting that took place on December 10-11th. In line with expectations, the U.S. central bank left the federal funds r...Read More

- Dave KranzlerI originally shared this analysis with my Mining Stock Journal subscribers in the October 17th issue. I sent it to Peter Spina at Goldseek.com because I saw the idea from one of his tweets a few weeks earlier. It's rare when the market mis-prices a larger cap producing mining company, thereby allowing aggressive investors an opportunity to buy into a high quality operati...Read More

Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 329,16958,249101,409203,374505,657633,952665,315 Change from Prior Reporting Period -17,3562,4297,518-546-21,050-10,384-11,103 Traders 19458745550273163 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 56,05124,688690,003 -62990-11,013 non reportable positionsCha...Read More

The gold miners' stocks have largely been consolidating high following last summer's powerful upleg. That resilience has left sentiment relatively bullish, with traders mostly expecting this sector to soon start surging again. But the jury is still out on whether gold stocks will be lucky enough to evade a bigger correction. Major downside risks still abound, primarily in gold which domi...Read More

Japan is the canary in the bankers' coal mineBy: Darryl Robert Schoon"Japanification" describes a severe and prolonged deflationary state in which demand drops, prices and wages fall, and economic activity remains moribund for decades. Japan has been trapped in a deflationary state since the collapse of the Nikkei stock market bubble in 1990.Seventeen years after the collapse of the Nikkei, in T...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold was thrown back by the end of the day, higher lows and higher highs:Read More

There can be some calendar year end profit taking in gold by medium term investors and hedge funds IF and WHEN the details of US-China signed trade deal are known. I am not writing off gold and silver at the moment. I will prefer to read the full details of the trade deal and then take a call on short term investment decision in gold and silver. However I will prefer selected Indian stocks over...Read More

The Comex Silver Delivery Demand System has issues, as we observed the opening of the ICE session at 4pm...by J. Johnson of Fort WealthGreat and Wonderful Finally-a-Friday Folks! Gold again, is trading higher but is still stuck in a month long channel with the trade now at $1,477.60, up $5.30 with the high nearby at $1,480.00 and the low down at $1,465.50. Silver is up 13.1 cents with th...Read More

Broader markets are upbeat this morning, Friday December 13, because hopes are running high that a preliminary United States-China trade will be signed before new tariffs come into force on Sunday as well as following the United Kingdom’s general election result that means a Brexit deal moves forward.In a post on social media platform Twitter, US President Donald Trump said: “Getting ver...Read More

Galena provides a leading lightSPONSOREDgalena miningKalia said the incident occurred around midday yesterday.Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 9 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures responded to a first stage trade agreement between the U.S. and China and election of a majority government in the United Kingdom.Index futures moved slightly higher following release of the November U.S. Retail Sales Report at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was an increase of 0.5%...Read More

December 13, 2019 - Brixton Metals Corporation (the “Company”) (TSXV: BBB) (OTCQB: BBBXF) is pleased to announce the closing of the second tranche of its previously announced private placement on November 6, 2019 of common shares and flow-through common shares of the Company for gross proceeds of $512,324.00 (the “Private Placement”) through the issuance of 1,926,350 flow-t...Read More

With the mining sector generating 14% of Canada's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the presence of climate change presents the sector with both opportunities and risks. The transition to a low-carbon economy will require substantial development of low-carbon substitutes for aviation, shipping, and road freight, the development of biofuels, and the scaling up of carbon capture and storage. Fortunate...Read More

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the periodic table, which UNESCO has dubbed the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. Developed in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist and inventor, the periodic table is the foundation on which nearly all modern science is based. Even in its earliest form, Mendeleev used his newfound creation not only to hypothesize the pro...Read More