The world's largest diamond miner said July 2019 sales of rough and polished diamonds totalled US$170.5 million, taking sales for the January-July period to $1,981.8 million."A significant decline in diamond sales was attributable to a number of factors including a sizable level of diamond inventory overhang in the midstream built-up last year on abnormally high demand growth," said Evgeny Agureev...Read More
The Denmark-based and listed equipment manufacturer said the lumpy but robust mining capital equipment market continued to look positive, with its mining capital business revenues up 36% for the first half of the year, versus the same period last year, at US$340 million, and 44% yoy for the second quarter, while services revenue was flat yoy for the half at US$530 million and up 2% yoy in the seco...Read More
The long-awaited rollout of 5G is now underway.Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile have initiated 5G service in some U.S. cities. And 5G services are also already available in parts of Europe and Asia.It's expected that by the end of this year, every major mobile carrier will be offering 5G services nationwide with new phones and plans. By 2024, it's expected that 1.5 billion people around the wor...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 350,55858,01349,905137,010461,335537,473569,253 Change from Prior Reporting Period 38,3441874,206-4,15432,20438,39636,597 Traders 23566765661312185 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 62,84431,064600,317 -1,37742237,019 non reportable positionsChange...Read More
Steve St. Angelo, SRSrocco Report After six long years, the precious metals are finally setting up for BIG MOVES higher. Even though the gold price has increased significantly over the past two months, we haven't seen anything yet. Of course, gold has already enjoyed big moves in other currencies such as the British Pound where it has reached an all-time new high. However, we have to be a...Read More
The US stock markets are becoming more unstable, fueling mounting anxiety about what's likely coming. After surging to new all-time-record highs in late July, stocks plunged in a sharp pullback as the US-China trade war escalated. Stock markets' resiliency in the face of bearish news is partially determined by how companies are faring fundamentally. The big US stocks' just-reported Q2'19 r...Read More
David StockmanCall it the monetary theater of the absurd. After all, here is what a determined currency manipulator did between September 2002 and July 2008.To wit, it pumped about $200 billion of new dollar liabilities into the world financial system, thereby expanding the Fed's balance sheet by 26%. Clearly, global traders and US trading partners didn't welcome that flood of freshly minted...Read More
Gary TanashianHave you heard the news? US Treasury bonds are sky rocketing as it turns out there is no inflation amid a global central bank NIRP-a-thon and race to the currency bottom. Going the other way, our 30yr Treasury yield Continuum is burrowing southward.If you check out yesterday's post you'll see proof that the 2018 NFTRH view that people should tune out the bond experts instructin...Read More
Dr. Stephen Leeb & Chris Waltzek Ph.D. - August 7th, 2019. .Mp3 file. RecapBest selling author and show Mentor, Dr. Stephen Leeb returns with insights on the financial markets.Dr. Leeb is especially fond of the yellow metal, which recently touched a new 6-year record.The BIS changed its stance on gold, which it now views as compared to cash, boosting demand.Ironically, gold is the true cas...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold market is a bit excessive and overbought. It has broken out to the upside..Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:In a letter he titles "Too Early to Throw in the Towel on Central Bank Gold-Market Rigging," our friend J.U. writes"Great piece you wrote about precious metals breaking out to the upside (http://gata.org/node/19326) but I suspect it is way too early to think that central bank market riggers have thrown in the towel on suppressing them."What I see, despite all the exc...Read More
Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More
Harley Schlanger's work can be found at LaRouchePAC.com.Read More
Every day brings new indications that the financial world is going from already nuts to even nuttier. According to Bloomberg, the total amount of bonds outstanding globally that are trading with a negative yield exceed for the first time $15 trillion. This includes government and corporate debt, and also some euro junk bonds that have joined the elite group.The Fed was dabbling in trying to stop t...Read More
Overnight, Heng Feng Bank was bailed out (in a more unusual way than Baoshang Bank and Bank of Jinzhou) were bringing the total number of Chinese bank bailouts to 3 in just the last 3 months!Bailout #3: Chinese Bank With $200 Billion In Assets Is Nationalized https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-0...Jason Burack is an investor, entrepreneur, financial historian, Austrian School economist, and contr...Read More
All markets go up. All markets go down. No market ever goes straight up unless it's the end of the world and in that case why would you give a shit?Continue...Read More
The UK economy shrank by 0.2% between April and June. It won't stop there. Germany is also in contraction.Continue...Read More
"Clearly, they are manipulating their currency from a trade point of view...They're going to, and we're going to take strong action against them."Continue...Read More
Ambulances covered in protective film transport six Russians who suffered severe radiation poisoning in mystery explosion during 'test of new hypersonic missile'Continue...Read More