By Tom ArnoldDUBAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ), the Gulf state's third-largest lender by assets, is in talks with banks about a syndicated loan of up to $500 million, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.Raising money through a loan was one option open to the bank, which was also considering bonds as part of its normal funding pattern, one of the sources said.Qa...Read More
AMSTERDAM, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank (ECB) should end its asset purchases as soon as possible after its current bond buying programme ends in September, Dutch central bank president Klaas Knot told Dutch current affairs programme Buitenhof on Sunday."There is no reason whatsoever to continue the programme", Knot said. "I feel that we need to be clear about this.&q...Read More
DUBAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Shares in Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding soared in early trade on Sunday after owner Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was released from detention, but top petrochemical producer Saudi Basic Industries fell on weak fourth-quarter earnings.The Saudi stock index was flat after an hour but rising stocks outnumbered losers in a ratio of about two to one.The release of Prince Alwaleed...Read More
DUBAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Shares in Riyadh-listed international investment company Kingdom Holding soared at the opening on Sunday after the company's owner, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, was released after being detained for over two months in a corruption probe.The stock immediately jumped its 10 percent daily limit to 10.04 riyals in unusually active trade. Shares in Saudi fashion retailer Fawaz A...Read More
By Devidutta Tripathy and Manoj KumarMUMBAI/NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - India's government may look to raise as much as a record 1 trillion rupees ($15.7 billion) from the sale of state assets in the next fiscal year to help meet tough fiscal deficit limits while giving it room to boost spending and woo voters before general elections that must be called by early 2019.Investment bankers and econ...Read More
CAIRO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - INTEREST RATESLatestLast change PreviousCentral18.75 06/07/1716.75 bank o/n depositCentral19.75 06/07/1717.75bank o/n lendingCentral19.25 06/07/1717.25bank discount rate MONTHLY DATA _____________ Month Pvs Yr agoUrban 21.92623.3consumerDecemberprices(year-on-year,pct change) CoreinflatioDecember19.8625.53 25.86n (year-on-year,pct change) Foreign December37.02036.72324....Read More
DUBAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The release of Kingdom Holding head Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and other senior businessmen from detention in Saudi Arabia's corruption probe at the weekend may boost that country's stock market on Sunday.Saudi officials said the men reached financial settlements with authorities, but terms were not disclosed and Prince Alwaleed said he had continued to maintain his innoce...Read More
McClellan Financial Publications, IncPosted Jan 27, 2018January 25, 2018Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies have captured the hearts of millennial speculators around the world.Their grandfathers may have traded gold during the run-up to gold’s big blowoff top in 1980, and their parents may have traded Internet stocks in the late 1990s, but the young hipsters want to play a more modern bub...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend P.C. writes:"As a long-time GATA follower, I fully subscribe to the understanding that markets generally, and particularly the precious metal markets, are controlled to keep international exchange and trade 'stable' and maintain 'Western' market wealth. But I have a question you may be able to answer."If the major players in the futures and paper markets a...Read More
The key message of this update is that gold is getting closer and closer to breaking out of a giant Head-and-Shoulders base pattern that started to form back in the middle of 2013 and to point out that it won't be stopped from doing so by any minor short-term reaction, especially as the dollar has just broken down from a giant top pattern and looks set to plummet, notwithstanding any near-term r...Read More
By Jordan Roy-Byrne Gold and gold stocks have enjoyed an excellent rebound since their December lows. Over the past six weeks Gold rebounded from a low of $1238 all the way to $1365 in recent days. The miners meanwhile rebounded nearly 18% (GDX) and 21% (GDXJ). However, these markets are approaching important resistance levels and at a time when sentiment is becoming stretched and the US Dollar...Read More
By Gary SavageThis video explores a provocative hypothesis that stock's current parabolic move will end much differently than anyone imagines.https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Technical analyst Clive Maund today takes a crack at those who complain about the rigging of the monetary metals markets. In commentary headlined "Controlled Demolition of the Markets -- Dollar, Next Treasuries, Then Stocks -- Gold, Silver, and PM Stocks to Soar" --http://news.goldseek.com/CliveMaund/1516975121.php-- Maund asserts: "The extensive talk about manipulat...Read More
By John MauldinThe Plow Horse Speeds UpLibraries and TypewritersBetter MousetrapsSonoma and San DiegoFictitious Wall Street villain Gordon Gekko famously declared, "Greed is good." I think actual Wall Street titans would mostly disagree. They would change one word. Instead of "greed," they would say, "Growth is good." That is Wall Street's real mantra. Growth is the magic elixir we all need.Gett...Read More
By RambusWith the rally continuing to power higher in the stock markets I'm going to update the portfolio combo charts so you can see how this once is a lifetime rally in unfolding. When this impulse move finally burns itself out we will get a decent sized correction that may take a year or two build out. Until then the hardest thing for most investors riding this bull is to hang on for dear lif...Read More
Price DataSymbolDatePriceASX:CMM01/24/2018AUD0.08Alert me when stock is updatedQuick LinksLogin to accessDescriptionCapricorn Metals Ltd are a gold focused junior, late stage development companyLogin to access Don's SummaryGeneral DetailsFinancial01/28/2018LastAnalysisDataCurrent DataChangeItemValueValueUpdatedValueMkt. Cap (Fully Diluted):$50.84M$50.85M01/28/2018$0.01MTotal Assets:$20.27M$20.27M0...Read More
By Steve St. AngeloThe leverage in the economic system has become so extreme; investors have no idea of the disaster that is going to take place during the next stock market crash. The collapse of the U.S. Housing and Investment Banking Industry in 2008 and ensuing economic turmoil was a mere WARM-UP for STAGE 2 of the continued disintegration of the global financial and economic system.While...Read More
Price DataSymbolDatePriceASX:THX01/24/2018AUD0.03Alert me when stock is updatedQuick LinksLogin to accessDescriptionThundelarra Ltd are a junior, project generator looking for goldLogin to access Don's SummaryGeneral DetailsFinancial01/28/2018LastAnalysisDataCurrent DataChangeItemValueValueUpdatedValueMkt. Cap (Fully Diluted):$18.95M$18.95M01/28/2018$0.00MTotal Assets:$3.89M$3.89M01/28/2018$0.00MT...Read More
We’ve been warning our members that this move was going to happen and it looks like it is just starting to initiate. The US Dollar and Metals markets are about to rotate in dramatic form over the next few weeks – possibly months. Right now, what we can tell you is that our cycle analysis and adaptive learning models are showing we are in for a very dramatic move in these ma...Read More