Semiconductor stocks have been in focus as U.S.-China trade tensions festerTech stocks have been in focus lately, amid the escalating tariff war between the U.S. and China. Unlike several of its Huawei-exposed peers, though, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) stock is higher in today's trading, already up 2.8% at $28.34. And, per data from Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White...Read More

Options traders are targeting chip stocks amid new Huawei dramaThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is soaring today, up over 250 points and barreling toward its third straight win, thanks to a combination of well-received blue-chip earnings and upbeat economic data. Cisco (CSCO) has popped more than 6% -- and is on pace for its best day in three years -- as traders cheer its minimal trade-war e...Read More

Several Fed members will speak throughout the weekNext week will feature the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes, as well as several Fed speakers, including Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida. A few more earnings reports will roll out, with a focus on retail stocks, including reports from Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), and Best Buy (BBY). Elsewhere, Wall Street will digest d...Read More

British Columbia's mining sector posted positive results for the second straight year in 2018 coming off a period of lower commodity prices and reduced activity, according to PwC Canada's latest BC Mine report.In total, BC miners posted a record high gross revenue of C$12.3 billion, compared with C$11.7 billion in 2017. Capital expenditures also fell to C$1.2 billion from C$1.5 billion.Key contrib...Read More

Puts are running hot as the chip stocks sinkPresident Donald Trump's latest efforts to stifle Huawei Technologies imports are weighing on several of the Chinese telecom company's U.S. suppliers. Among them are semiconductor concerns NeoPhotonics Corp (NYSE:NPTN) and Skyworks Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:SWKS). What's more, both NPTN and SWKS are seeing unusually heavy put volume this morning, pointing to...Read More

Higher prices for industrial precious metals palladium and platinum have boosted earnings at Sibanye-Stillwater, enabling the miner to repay debt and plan to resume dividends next year, its chief executive Neal Froneman said.Sibanye, once the industry's highest dividend payer, last made a payout to investors in 2016.The company also expects to halve the amount of job cuts previously announced in t...Read More

(Corrects after company gave an amended figure for EBITDA ratioin paragraph 7, adds dropped word in paragraph 3)By Zandi Shabalala and Pratima DesaiLONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Higher prices for industrialprecious metals palladium and platinum have boosted earnings atSibanye-Stillwater, enabling the miner to repay debt and plan toresume dividends next year, its chief executive Neal Fronemansaid.Siba...Read More

The two stocks are climbing the Nasdaq todayTwo biotech stocks are making noise this morning on Wall Street. First, there's Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:IOVA), up 42.2% to trade at $15.63, one of the best stocks on the Nasdaq this morning, after the company reported upbeat cancer drug data at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting. Analyst Biren Amin at Jefferies...Read More

Cisco Systems is eyeing a close back above the 40-day trendlineBlue chip Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is up 5.1% at $55.12 this morning, after last night reporting fiscal third-quarter profit and sales that surpassed analyst estimates. The company cited router and switch sales, alongside cyber security strength, as the main catalyst behind the beat. Analysts have been quick to react to the...Read More

Azerbaijan's leading gold mining company, Anglo Asian Mining, said on Thursday its gold output rose 22% in 2018 to 72,798 ounces from 59,617 ounces in 2017.London-listed Anglo Asian produces gold at Gedabek and other Azeri mines in a joint venture with the Azeri state in which the company holds 51%.The company said its total production of gold-equivalent ounces (GEO), which includes other metals,...Read More

Azerbaijan's leading gold mining company, Anglo Asian Mining, said on Thursday its gold output rose 22% in 2018 to 72,798 ounces from 59,617 ounces in 2017.London-listed Anglo Asian produces gold at Gedabek and other Azeri mines in a joint venture with the Azeri state in which the company holds 51%.The company said its total production of gold-equivalent ounces (GEO), which includes other metals,...Read More

The firm reported revenue that fell below analysts' expectationsThe shares of retail stock Dillard's Inc (NYSE:DDS) are way lower this morning, after the firm reported first-quarter revenue below expectations. Plus, hedge fund Greenlight Capital dissolved its stake in the department store. As such, DDS shares have dropped 9.7% to $57.26 as a result.Dillard's stock today is now dangerously close to...Read More

African swine fever is likely to hurt demand for grains and oilseeds in the next couple of years, the chief executive of fertilizer dealer Nutrien Ltd said on Thursday, the latest threat to a sector already reeling from the U.S.-China trade war.CEO Chuck Magro, speaking at the BMO Farm to Market conference in New York, said agriculture markets will eventually correct themselves from the impact of...Read More

Chinese alumina prices have jumped to a five-month high on news that at least two refineries in the province of Shanxi are being shut down pending environmental inspections.So far the market impact seems localised.Shanghai aluminium prices have risen on concerns about the potential knock-on effect on metal production in China. Alumina is the intermediate product derived from bauxite used to smelt...Read More

Markets Trade War Gold Oil Equity markets are marginally in the red again on Thursday, with US futures in a similar position, as investors continue to weigh up the ongoing trade war threat for the global economy and markets. It’s been quite the couple of weeks on the trade war front. We’ve gone from a deal being close to done, to talks collapsing and tariffs imposed and now T...Read More

For two weeks in 2006, Australia's news cycle was dominated by the gripping and ultimately successful bid to rescue two men trapped in a collapsed gold mine. The real-life drama also unearthed an unlikely star - Bill Shorten, a union leader who's now poised to become the nation's prime minister."It was an incredible story and he made sure he was heavily involved in it," says Barry Easther, who at...Read More

Chinese tech stocks are under fire in the Trump administration's latest executive order Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are pointed toward a positive open, as the latest quarterly earnings reports from Dow stocks Walmart (WMT) and Cisco (CSCO) exceeded analysts' expectations. Both WMT and CSCO are poised to open about 3% higher, offsetting a fresh round of U.S.-China trade tensions afte...Read More

Zimbabwe's biggest gold producer sued the country's central bank for $132 million because it has been paying for the metal in a local quasi-currency rather than U.S. dollars, highlighting the business sector's dissatisfaction with the nation's financial regime.Metallon Corp., which acquired Lonmin Plc's gold mines in Zimbabwe in 2002, wants an additional $5.8 million because the central bank preve...Read More

Zimbabwe's biggest gold producer sued the country's central bank for $132 million because it has been paying for the metal in a local quasi-currency rather than U.S. dollars, highlighting the business sector's dissatisfaction with the nation's financial regime.Metallon Corp., which acquired Lonmin Plc's gold mines in Zimbabwe in 2002, wants an additional $5.8 million because the central bank preve...Read More

With a new CEO, Veeral Rathod, who cofounded menswear fashion brand J. Hilburn, Spence Diamonds is expanding from its Canadian roots into the U.S. market offering lab-grown diamonds side-by-side with mined diamonds. For 80% of its customers, lab-growns are their choice.Read full newsRead More