Dear Reader,I have two stories to share with you today.They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Study the diagrams below and see if you can pick up some of the distinctions between the two stories. If you’re financially intelligent, you can see important distinctions in the diagrams.Here is the first story:Here is the second story:The Power of Cash FlowThe first diagram depicts the...Read More
As the end of October approaches, I’m noticing tombstones popping up in a number of my neighbor’s yards.Of course, my kids are getting excited about Halloween and binging on as much sugar as possible over the next few weeks. But while the fake tombstones in my neighborhood have my kids excited about candy, I’m seeing a number of Wall Street tombstones popping up in my daily resea...Read More
- 2018 drill program expands the known Copper King mineralization- The eight-hole drill program was designed to further assess the westward extension of the Copper King deposit, initially intersected within the 2017 step-out hole, CK17-01rc- Multiple thick zones of copper, gold, zinc, and silver mineralization were intersected in five of the eight recently drilled holes- In addition, this new min...Read More
Oct 18, 2018 Guest(s): Martin Murenbeeld President, Murenbeeld & Co. A number of factors could push gold above $1,250 an ounce, including a weaker U.S. dollar and a more dovish stance from the Federal Reserve, said Martin Murenbeeld, president of Murenbeeld & Co. "The dollar [could roll] over, which I think is the end game of the Trump program, [so] that can happen. The Fed can suddenly paus...Read More
Ah, Saudi Arabia, land of heat and contradictions. One day they're jailing women's rights activists for wanting to drive, the next day they're dismembering still-living Washington Post journalists. And yet they can count the world's capitalist democracies as friends, because today's dysfunctional economic/geopolitical system depends on both Saudi oil and Saudi willingness to keep their (apparently...Read More
Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More
Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the author, most recently, of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China and Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization.Read More
Link to Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/no-li...Under SEC rules, companies can't buy back any of their shares during earning season. This blackout period ends two days after the company's results are released. This is most likely a key cause of the recent stock market declines. But this should really be taken as a warning gift.These pattern shifts seem eerily similar to what I...Read More
Is the Greatest Bull Market Ever finally ending? One straightforward approach to is to follow the money, i.e. global capital flows: assets that attract positive global capitalContinue...Read More
"While we are disappointed by today's verdict, we will be making a number of post-trial motions and will continue to seek justice for Gavin Black,"Continue...Read More
Yesterday came the big bounce…The Dow Jones roared back to life with a 548-point spree - its grandest performance since March.The S&P jumped 59 happy points. The Nasdaq had itself a day at the races, up 214 points - percentagewise, better even than the Dow.Gold was down. So was volatility... and the 10-year Treasury yield.So we wonder…What gusting updrafts barreled through the cany...Read More
(Reuters) - Poland raised its gold holdings to the highest in at least 35 years, data from the International Monetary Fund showed on Monday.The country increased its holdings by 4.4 tonnes from August to about 117 tonnes in September, a record, according to data going back to January 1983."We have a really exciting announcement coming this Thursday, learn more about it here...""While the exchang...Read More
Gold needs to trade over the $1225-$1230 zone to rise. Silver needs to break and trade over $14.90 to start another wave of rise. Copper and industrial metals will be very volatile. Crude oil will be very volatile. Brexit woes and political issues within the Eurozone have resulted in a firm US dollar. The Euro and cable have fallen slightly. Investor sentiment towards the euro and cable is shaky...Read More
Yellow metal remains unable to extend rally above $1,230/oz. Stronger US dollar during the US session pushed XAU/USD back to the $1,225 area. Gold is about to end the day flat, although consolidating most of the gains of last week and yesterday. Today peaked at $1,232/oz but after the beginning of the US session pulled back to the $1,225 area. The rally in gold that started last week...Read More
For the most part, gold has held on to the recent gains which occurred on Thursday of last week and continued into trading yesterday. Currently, gold futures basis the most active December Comex contract is trading down $2.30 and is fixed at $1,228 per ounce. Gold traded to an intraday high today of $1235.90, which is just below yesterday's high. However, gold could not hold onto its modest gains...Read More
These Top 10 lowest cost gold mines are all below all-in-sustaining costs (AISC's) $550/oz level and will prove profitable - even if the price falls 50%.Mining Intelligence looked at costs at primary gold mines and found 10 operations that would still make money, even if gold halves in value from today's levels. AISC metrics has been taken as a basis of comparison and ranking.Since the World Gold...Read More
The Nasdaq outperformed alongside a bounce in techU.S. stocks closed significantly higher in today's trading, with bullish sentiment stoked by impressive corporate earnings. Specifically, a strong post-report rally from UnitedHealth (UNH) helped send the Dow more than 567 points higher at its intraday peak, while traders also cheered results from big-cap names like Goldman Sachs (GS) and Johnson &...Read More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has reached a preliminary decision to revoke the license of Malta’s Pilatus Bank after its chairman was charged with money laundering, two ECB officials told Reuters, though legal hurdles remain.The bank was accused of processing corrupt payments for the Azeri and Maltese leadership by investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was kil...Read More
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks surged on Tuesday after upbeat earnings reports from major companies including UnitedHealth and Goldman Sachs and solid economic data, as equities rebounded from a recent sharp sell-off.Wall Street’s three major indexes gained more than 1.5 percent each, with the Nasdaq up well over 2 percent.Technology, which sold off heavily in the recent pullback, led the gains as...Read More
GROUNDBIRCH, British Columbia (Reuters) - At a massive natural gas field in northern British Columbia, Royal Dutch Shell Plc is using new technologies and processes to cut emissions to address public and environmental group concerns that Canada’s nascent liquefied natural gas export industry could be a climate time bomb.The Groundbirch project, perched above Canada’s richest shale gas...Read More