Saudi Arabia's air defenses claim they have intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched from Yemen targeting Saudi province of Jazan. AccordingRead full newsRead More
Second in a series of exclusive columns for The National from S&P Global Platts looks at oil group's changing relationship with continentRead full newsRead More
LONDON: Oman will be among the countries in the Gulf region expressing the most relief about recovering oil and gas prices. The Sultanate is more vulnerable to price shocks than others in the GCC as it holds less in the way of foreign exchange reserves. "It doesn't have the balance sheet strength of a country such as Saudi Arabia or Kuwait," said Jason Turvey, a Gulf specialist at Capital Economic...Read More
The law that requires America to turn some of its soybeans into diesel fuel for trucks has created a new industry. But it's costing American consumers about $5 billion each year.Read full newsRead More
A Canadian judge on Tuesday told jurors to continue deliberations, despite their difficulty in reaching a verdict in the joint trial of three former rail employees in the 2013 Lac Megantic train derailment that killed 47 in Quebec, local media said.Read full newsRead More
People living in some of the coldest places on Earth are hunkering down as temperatures fall to near-record lows that are even defeating thermometers. TempRead full newsRead More
Western Copper and Gold Corporation (TSX:WRN, NYSE AMERICAN:WRN) is pleased to invite shareholders and the investment community to the Cambridge 2018 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.Read full newsRead More
Speculation that Bitcoin mining will lead to "uncontrolled growth" in electricity consumption may be overblown, recalling the hype that surrounded projections for data centers and marijuana growing.Read full newsRead More
Mexican state oil company Pemex [PEMX.UL] has chosen Japanese conglomerate Mitsui as its partner for a $2.6 billion coking plant project at its Tula refinery in a preliminary deal, two sources told Reuters this week.Read full newsRead More
Heading into New Years, we posted a cryptocurrency poll to see how our Canadian Insider community felt about the cryptocurrency craze.Thank you once again to those who participated. We have pulled together the key findings. A good number (36%) of the responses said they are interested in cryptocurrencies but haven't bought any yet while only 31% had no interest.In total 69% of respondents were in...Read More
Ely Gold Royalties Inc. (TSXV: ELY) (OTC: ELYGF)('Ely Gold' or the 'Company') through its wholly owned subsidiary, Nevada Select Royalty, Inc ('Nevada Select') is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive option agreement with Intermont Exploration LLC.Read full newsRead More
Cache Exploration Inc. (the 'Company', or 'Cache'), (TSX-V:CAY) announces that it has closed its previously announced financing raising an aggregate of $738,600, through the sale of 9,232,500 units at $0.08 comprised of one common share and one common share purchase warrant at $0.10 per share for two years from closing.Read full newsRead More
CloseGain/LossGold $1339.30+$1.30Silver$17.21-$0.03XAU90.27+1.30%HUI204.39+1.52%GDM682.72+1.92%JSE Gold1316.17-51.24USD90.43-0.52Euro122.65+0.59Yen90.81+0.78Oil$63.73-$0.5710-Year2.543%-0.005T-Bond150.90625+0.53125Dow25792.86-0.04%Nasdaq7223.69-0.51%S&P2776.42-0.35% The Metals: Gold saw modest gains in holiday thinned trade yesterday before it fell back to $1331.80 in London today, but it...Read More
- JP Morgan continues to accumulate the biggest stockpile of physical silver in history- "JPM now holds more than 133m oz -more than was held by the Hunt Bros" - Butler- Silver hoard owned by JPM has increased from Zero ozs in 2011 to 120m ozs today- Money managers showing more optimism towards silver through record buying- "Near impossible to rule out an upside price surprise at any moment"Edi...Read More
Look for signs of profit taking in gold and silver as US markets reopen. Any further rise in gold and silver will be dependent on the ability or inability to break past key resistances of $1358 and $1754. Over the past two years gold has not been able to break $1380. It will not be easy to break $1380 on fears of sharp correction. However in case gold breaks and trades over $1380 anytime before...Read More
The world's biggest diamond producer is turning to the technology behind bitcoin to track gems from mine to retailer.Read full newsRead More
Aben Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ABN) (OTCBB: ABNAF) (Frankfurt: E2L2) (the "Company") is pleased to invite shareholders and the investment community to the Cambridge 2018 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, the world's largest resource investment conference dedicated to resource exploration, on January 21st and 22nd at the Vancouver Convention Centre West Building.Read full newsRead More
Iran's supreme leader accused Saudi rulers on Tuesday of committingRead full newsRead More
Supreme leader calls on Muslim countries to rally behind 'totally ignored' PalestiniansRead full newsRead More
MGX Minerals (CSE: XMG) and Highbury Energy have partnered to prepare a detailed process to extract metals such as nickel, vanadium, and cobalt from petroleum coke.According to a press release, Highbury's experts in thermochemical gasification are assisting MGX in designing a process to generate hydrogen gas and concentrate metals in the form of ash byproduct. Since petcoke is itself a carbon bypr...Read More