Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More

Barrick Gold Corp. boosted Executive Chairman John Thornton's total compensation last year 67 percent to $12.9 million, rewarding the former investment banker for the company's performance and his role in the merger with Randgold Resources Ltd.Thornton received a $9.74 million bonus on top of his $2.5 million salary, according to a regulatory filing Friday. He used most of the after-tax proceeds o...Read More

Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corp (ASX: LYC) is considering initial ore processing in the home country, where its Mount Weld mine is located, as Malaysia has stepped up pressure on the company to fulfill new, tougher requirements to have its processing licence renewed.Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday that parties interested in buying Lynas had agreed to extract radioa...Read More

Wildflower & Water Critters Hike10 a.m. to noon April 7, 2019Continues Saturdays and Sundays through May 12, 2019Jepson Prairie, 4845 Cook Lane, DixonJepson Prairie Preserve is one of California's best remaining examples of a vernal pool ecosystem and native grassland prairie. Dry and dormanRead full newsRead More

Stories from this compilation are excerpted from weekly newspapers from around the region.Read full newsRead More

Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. The Index finished hammering out a bottom at the 1120-1125 level (completing what looks like a triple bottom) in the first day or two of last week. The INK Canadian Insider Index then raged 23 points higher by week's end for a gain of 2%, closing at 1146.95, just off its highs. A mere t...Read More

Take advantage of the first amendment, and participate in a nation-wide poll.With the 2020 election growing ever closer, the country continues to be divided politically.From disputes about the appropriateness of displaying the Confederate flag, to rights for minorities, and the ever-growing concern about security at the U.S. border, the 2020 election promises to be contentious... if not the most c...Read More

"$SLB - Schlumberger Sees Decline In 2019 Upstream Capex In North America, But Investment Flows In Some International Markets https://t.co/yetlhAecqq"Read full newsRead More

Published 23 Hours AgoUpdated7 Hours AgoReuters Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGold will continue to shine amid a weak dollar, says author and gold pro Jim Rickards.Gold rose 1 percent to briefly breach $1,300 an ounce on Monday, and remained at its highest in more than one week as the dollar slipped and a recent equities rally paused.Spot gold was up 0.5 percent at $1,297.22 an ounce a...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday April 5 that are worth another look.Brazil's federal court in Bel?(C)m, in the northern state of Par??, has scheduled a second conciliatory hearing for Friday April 12 to discuss the production embargo of Norsk Hydro's Alunorte alumina refinery.Electricity cuts in Taiwan in May and June, along with ample offer...Read More

April 5th, 2019(S14-E690)Featured GuestsEd Moya &Bob HoyePlease Listen HereLIMITED OFFER - FREE $5 IN ONEGOLD DIGITAL BLOCKCHAIN EXCLUSIVELY TO GOLDSEEK.COM PATRONS! (Remember to say Goldseek Radio sent you!).Ed Moya, Chief Market Strategist at Oanda makes his show debut with comments on equities, PMs, Bitcoin and crude oil. Our guest notes the price of gold would be much higher if the trad...Read More

I was in receipt of the following erudite communication about Commercial gold short positions yesterday from a friend in Toronto..."Re: HOLY SHISA BATMAN: THE COMMERCIALS COVERED OVER 70 000 Gold Short Contracts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Can you say WOW!!!!!!!!!!"...and while I myself would perhaps have expressed this in a somewhat more restrained manner, the point is certainly worth taking, esp...Read More

By: David Chapman"If the market does not rally, as it should during bullish seasonal periods, it is a sign that other forces are stronger and that when the seasonal period ends those forces will really have their say." Edson Gould, stock market analyst, Findings & Forecasts, 1902-1987 "Early in March (1960), Dr. Arthur F. Burns called on me.... Burns' conclusion was that unless some decisive ac...Read More

The 2018 stock market crash is now a fait accompli, having taken a polar bear plunge that put ice in the veins of the Fed and electrified their collective spine with such a deep chill they ran like a fat walrus from the bear market to halt their long-nurtured plans of economic tightening. With that event fulfilled, I'm now predicting a 2019 recession as the major economic news for this year (...Read More

By: Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price didn't do much during the first two hours of trading once it began at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening in New York. But then the price pressure began -- and that sell-off lasted until a few minutes after 12 o'clock noon in Shanghai on their Friday. Except for a rather violent down/up move at 8:30 a.m. in New York wh...Read More

By: Jp CortezSix Other States Now Weighing Their Own Bills to End Taxes on Gold & SilverBefore the ink could even dry on West Virginia Governor Jim Justice's signature on a repeal of sales taxation on gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion and coins, legislators in Wisconsin and Maine introduced similar measures in their own states.All told, 39 states have now reduced or eliminated sales...Read More

By: Richard (Rick) Mills, Ahead of the herd Mining is all around us, though invisible to urban dwellers, so it's easy to forget that we live in a world of finite resources. Unlike forestry or agriculture, whose crops are renewable, once ore comes out of the ground and is processed into metals, it's gone for good. Some industrial metals are recycled after mining, like copper, but this only exten...Read More

- Unwise Investment- Zombie Companies- Gummed-Up Economy- Uncreative Destruction- The Drive for Scale- Helicopter Governments- Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, and SICRecession is coming. We can debate the timing, but the economy will turn decisively downward at some point. My own analysis, looking at the data available on April 4, says recession isn't likely this year but unfortunately looks very pr...Read More

By: Patrick J. BuchananIn the new Democratic Party, where women and people of color are to lead, and the white men are to stand back, the presidential field has begun to sort itself out somewhat problematically.According to a Real Clear Politics average of five polls between mid-March and April 1, four white men Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, "Beto" O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg have corralled 62...Read More

Steel billet prices fell slightly in most regions in the week ended Friday April 5, due to sluggish trading activity, public holidays and upcoming general elections.Billet prices in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Turkey dipped amid thin trading volumes and falling scrap prices.Fastmarkets' daily index for Northern Europe-origin HMS 1&2 (80:20) scrap, the feedstock for billet manu...Read More