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

(IDEX Online) - World Diamond Council (WDC) Acting President Stephane Fischler joined a group of executives and dignitaries at a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) side event, discussing the Kimberley Process (KP) and strategies to advance its ongoing contributions toward peace, security and sustainable development in diamond mining communities.   This year marks the beginning of a pivot...Read More

The three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange continued to fall on Tuesday August 20, ending the day down by 0.3% at the afternoon kerb to $15,860 per tonne, compared with Monday's close at $15,920 per tonne.The LME's nickel inventory volumes stayed flat during the day's trading. The September/three-month spread was in a backwardation of $40 per tonne and the cash/three-month spread in...Read More

Along with the highest silver grade, a new discovery and extensions of known mineralization are the highlights of new drill data, noted a Research Capital Corp. report.Just announced 2022 drill results from Dolly Varden Silver Corp.'s (DV:TSX.V; DOLLF:OTCQX) Kitsault Valley project are noteworthy, for extending the Wolf and Kitsol deposits, returning the best silver grade to date and illuminating...Read More

RAPAPORT... The National Retail Federation (NRF) has forecast a strong risein US holiday sales, as a healthy economy outweighs tariff fears in the shortterm.Retail sales in November and December are expected toadvance 3.8% to 4.2% year on year, for a total of between $727.9 billion and$730.7 billion, the organization noted. The average increase over the past fiveyears was 3.7%, it added. "There is...Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More

?EUR<"We Don't Need New Rules: What We Need Is For the Existing Rules To Be ENFORCED"~ Rob KirbyRob Kirby, proprietary analyst and founder of KirbyAnalytics.com, returns to Liberty and Finance to offer a blistering critique of official destruction of the USD and other world currencies, unconstitutional infringement of our liberty and rights, blind-eyed regulation of banking, equity markets, and co...Read More

It's only a matter of time before Bitcoin "death spirals" down to its true intrinsic value, which is $0, said Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University.0:00?EUR< - Bitcoin's fundamental value10:22?EUR< - The "ideal" cryptocurrency14:02?EUR< - Federal Reserve's inflation outlook19:51?EUR< - Canadian CPI revisionRead More

Drilling at the Cotabambas Project in Peru. Source: Panoro Minerals Ltd.Panoro Minerals Ltd. [PML-TSXV, Lima; PZM-FSE] said Wednesday October 4 that it has executed a joint venture agreement with Japan Oil, Gas Metals National Corp. (JOGMEC) on its Humamantana property in Peru. Under the agreement, JOGMEC will have the option to earn up to a 60% interest with an investment of US$8 million."Panor...Read More

* Discount for cash over 3-month copper contract narrows * Alumina prices help fuel aluminium's climb to 2-month high (Updates with closing prices, adds comment)By Pratima DesaiLONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Copper prices eased on Wednesdaydue to worries about demand in top consumer China after a stateplanning official said there were increasing risks to growth inthe second half of the year.Benchmark...Read More

Clive MaundIt has been a week of surprises since the last updates were posted. First, I had not expected Iran to retaliate following the murder of its top General by a US drone, but it did, despite the risks, as it was politically necessary to assuage the extreme anger of its population who demanded revenge. The next surprise was that Israel and the US did not use this retaliation as an excuse t...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Alrosa has resumed operations at its International underground mine, a week  after a dozen workers tested positive for COVID-19.The mine (pictured), close to the town of Mirny, in the subarctic Russian republic of Sakha, yields some of the world's highest diamond grades, and produced 2.2 million carats in 2019.All staff have now been tested. Those awaiting results have be...Read More

The pig iron import market in the United States improved during the week to Friday February 19 on a bullish attitude among suppliers.Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US, was $510-520 per tonne on Friday, widening upward from $510 per tonne a week earlier.One large pig iron buyer purchased a cargo for April shipment from...Read More

* Italian coalition deal takes pressure off stocks, euro * Platinum on track for 1.5-percent weekly gain * GRAPHIC - 2018 asset returns: (Updates prices)By Jan HarveyLONDON, June 1 (Reuters) - Gold steadied below $1,300 anounce on Friday ahead of U.S. payrolls data due later that willbe closely watched for clues on the outlook for U.S. interestrate policy.The U.S. non-farm payrolls report for May...Read More

RAPAPORT STATEMENT, June 19, 2018 ... The De Beers Group is refusing to allow its clients to disclose the legitimacy of diamonds from De Beers. All De Beers' rough diamonds are now opaque. That's 42% of the world's legitimate diamond production in 2017, and $14.993 billion of rough diamonds from 2015 through 2017.In a letter to clients, De Beers states: "In relation to programmes such as GIA's 'Mi...Read More

The attack is the deadliest in recent years as the military struggles to contain Islamist violence that has overrun parts of Burkina Faso.Read full newsRead More

The WSJ is the latest media outlet to report on leadership trouble at FBThe shares of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) are down 5.8% today to trade at $131.40, fresh off a 22-month low of $131.27. In addition to a broader FAANG stock sell-off, the social media name could be reacting to another PR disaster, with the Wall Street Journal the latest media outlet to weigh in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg's leadersh...Read More

By Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA Ask some gold bugs why Gold has not broken out yet and you will probably get the usual answers. Some will say it's due to manipulation or price suppression. Others will mention the current rally in the US Dollar (while neglecting that the previous decline in the greenback was unable to take Gold to a new high). Few would say the fundamentals are not in place. No on...Read More

You need to own gold; and you need to own shares in companies that find and mine it. I lay out seven reasons below, in what I'm calling the "Seven Pillars of Gold."Each "pillar" reinforces the argument for holding gold.There's some overlap between each of the pillars. In fact, it's fair to say that many of the reasons to own gold actually segue back and forth, bumping into each other. But it's pos...Read More

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RAPAPORT... Three industry members have found homes in executivepositions at Jewelers' Security Alliance (JSA), Jewelers Mutual Insurance Group and RoyalAsscher. Steven Kaiser was elected chairperson of the JSA board,replacing Stewart Wicht, the recently retired CEO of Rolex Watch USA, whocompleted his term. Kaiser will serve a three-year term alongside other boardmembers, including Alan Zimmer o...Read More