Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 18 points at 8:30 AM EDT.KB Homes advanced $1.00 to $37.80 after reporting higher than consensus fiscal first quarter revenues and earnings. Steelcase added $0.42 to $7.60 after reporting higher than consensus quarterly earnings. The company also offered positive guidance. Darden Restaurants gained $2.05 to $153.10 aft...Read More

Twentieth-century British philosopher Bertrand Russell once gave a public lecture on astronomy.An attendee - supposedly - claimed that Earth was not situated in space, as this Russell fellow argued...This attendee claimed instead that Earth rested upon the back of a monstrous turtle.Russell asked this individual what particular solidity the turtle was standing upon, what structure held it up.The a...Read More

Good Thursday morning to you!I've been putting off writing about the demise of my old bank, Credit Suisse. I didn't write about it in the Rude all week because I didn't have the energy to do it justice.But since this Morning Reckoning gives me a bit more latitude, I'll tackle the subject here.If you read the Rude, you know I spent over 11 years of my life over two stints working for Credit Suisse....Read More

The market's in a highly unstable state right now. These violent swings show the inadequacy of the standard models that the Fed and other mainstream analysts use.The Fed assumes so many things about markets that are simply false, like that markets are always efficient, for example. They're not. Under volatile conditions like these they gap up and down - they don't move in rational, predictable inc...Read More

Like an expecting father pacing the ward... markets were pacing the trading floors today.Rate hike or no rate hike? Would the bank wobbles back the Federal Reserve into inaction? Would the cigars go passing around - or not?Word came issuing at 2 p.m. Eastern. A 0.25% hike it was.Thus the federal funds rate dangles between 4.75-5%… its highest point since 2007.What are we to make of today's i...Read More

A new report by market analyst Wood Mackenzie argues that steel, aluminium, and copper stand to benefit most from an uptick in China's gross domestic product growth this year.WoodMac suggests that if China's economy grows at the expected base case of 5.5% in 2023, the recovery will remain domestically contained with minimal global impact.However, due to the industry-intensive nature of the high-ca...Read More

Patriot Battery Metals (TSXV: PMET; ASX: PMT; US-OTC: PMETF) said it has extended the main spodumene deposit on its Corvette project in Quebec by half a kilometre, sending its stock higher. The Vancouver-based explorer's 20,000-metre winter drilling campaign at the project about 300 km east of James Bay has lengthened the CV5 deposit strike another 550 metres to 3.15 km, it said on Thursday. As...Read More

Northern Miner staff reporter Colin McClelland recently spoke with Jonathan Lafontaine, mining exploration activity monitor with Quebec's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources at PDAC 2023 in Toronto. Quebec has one of the most diverse commodity bases in the world, from precious metals, including gold, to bulks like high-grade iron ore and critical metals such as nickel, copper, and lithium. Th...Read More

Northern Miner staff writer Colin McClelland recently caught up with Maple Gold Mines (TSXV: MGM; US-OTC: MGMLF) CEO Matthew Hornor at PDAC 2023 in Toronto. Maple recently announced assays from the past-producing Eagle mine at its Joutel project in Quebec were the strongest yet and showed a wider mineralized corridor than previously thought. Maple holds the adjacent Douay project in a 50:50 joint...Read More

High-grade drill results extending the mineralization at Troilus Gold's (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) main project to revive a gold and copper mine in Quebec will probably increase its profitability, an analyst said. Troilus shares rose. The assays add 150 metres to the project's X22 zone for a total strike length of 1 km, which remains open to the southwest and at depth, Troilus said on Thursday....Read More

NextSource Materials (TSX: NEXT; US-OTC: NSRCF) is one step closer to producer status now that it's started commissioning of its Molo graphite mine in Madagascar.Molo mine will initially produce around 17,000 tonnes of flake graphite concentrate per year. An expansion, which could elevate Molo's annual graphite production to 150,000 tonnes, is also planned for year three of production."Commissioni...Read More

Chile's top steel producer CAP is developing a green hydrogen pilot plant to decarbonize steel production at its unit in the south-central Talcahuano city, located about 500 km from capital Santiago.The company's steelmaking division aims to substitute coal used in its blast furnaces with less polluting fuels, including hydrogen, a clean, combustible gas often dubbed the "fuel of the future."Curre...Read More

Precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) said Thursday that it will provide up to $A30 million (about US$20 million) to its takeover target Australia's New Century Resources (ASX: NCZ), subject to certain conditions.The financial support comes as record levels of rainfall in North Queensland, Australia, resulted in flooding at the Century zinc mine and Karumba port facility...Read More

Vancouver, March 23, 2023 - FPX Nickel Corp. (TSX-V: FPX, OTCQB: FPOCF) ("FPX" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has been included in the newly launched Sprott Asset Management LP Nickel Miners ETF ("NIKL"), a U.S.-listed ETF focused on nickel companies that are providing a critical mineral necessary for the clean energy [...]Read full newsRead More

For the second time in a week the price of gold has reached and briefly surpassed a price per ounce of US$2,000.The precious metal cleared through the high mark on Thursday (March 23) around 2:00 p.m. EST, just three days after it first reached the high price point for the first time in 2023.On Mond...Read full newsRead More

Quest Resource Holding Corp (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:QRHC) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call March 23, 2023 5:00 PM ETCompany ParticipantsDavid Mossberg - Three Part AdvisorsRay Hatch - President, CEO...Read full newsRead More

Spire Inc. has rewarded shareholders with consistent dividend increases, and I think this trend can continue. Click here to read why I'm buying SR stock.Read full newsRead More

ADMA Biologics, Inc. (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:ADMA) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call March 23, 2023 4:30 PM ETCompany ParticipantsSkyler Bloom - Senior Director of Business Development &...Read full newsRead More

Aptose Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:APTO) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call March 23, 2023 5:00 PM ETCompany ParticipantsSusan Pietropaolo - Managing DirectorWilliam Rice - Chairman,...Read full newsRead More

BlackRock Enhanced Global Dividend Trust shares some similarities with BDJ but has a sizeable portion of its portfolio outside the US. See why BOE CEF is a Buy.Read full newsRead More