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

Both nickel and copper possess properties that give them a central role in the drive for a greener future. While demand from existing use cases will continue to grow steadily, electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications will underpin a huge increase in long-term demand.At the recent Future Facing Mined Commodities Forum, we looked at the importance of these two metals for the energy tran...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. It’s a little over a year since the US Inflation Reduction Act was passed into law. Solar was one of the main beneficiaries, thanks to an extension and expansion of the tax credits available to the industry. So why has the sector fallen out of favour with investors recently?August was a difficult month for the...Read More

Sunrun has agreed to acquire Vivint Solar in an all-stock transaction. The deal is valued at $3.2 billion including debt.Commenting on the deal, Ravi Manghani, Wood Mackenzie Research Director, said: "Per Wood Mackenzie’s US PV Leaderboard, Sunrun and Vivint have been the #1 and #2 residential solar companies in the US for the past few years. Sunrun holds about 9% of the market share and Viv...Read More

Commenting on the news that offshore driller Ensco will buy Rowan in a $2.38 billion deal, Leslie Cook, principal analyst, Wood Mackenzie, said: "As we have been saying for the past two years, consolidation among drillers is paramount to a recovery. In that respect, this announcement comes as no surprise."Ensco and Rowan are companies that have strong brand recognition in both the jack-up and floa...Read More

Comstock Resources today tightened its grip on the Haynesville basin with a US$2.2 billion cash-and-stock deal to buy privately-held Covey Park.Robert Clarke, director, US Lower 48, at global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said: “The deal creates a Haynesville leader with the pro-forma company having access to the three best parts of the play: Caspiana Core in Louisiana, the S...Read More

Every so often, silver goes through a mania phase.I experienced my first and only silver mania from 2009-2011. There's nothing quite like it in the investment world. Simultaneously thrilling, nauseating, and lucrative.Silver is tiny compared to gold and other commodities, so bull markets tend to be almost violent in nature. Once generalist investors get involved, things can quickly get out of hand...Read More

Experts, analysts and investors are responding positively to top-tier silver producer MAG Silver Corp.'s (MAG:TSX; MAG:NYSE American) inaugural dividend announced with its financial results last week.Experts, analysts and investors are responding positively to top-tier silver producer MAG Silver Corp.'s (MAG:TSX; MAG:NYSE American) inaugural dividend announced with its financial results last week....Read More

Graphite One Inc. (GPH:TSX.V; GPHOF:OTCQX) has tripled its Proven and Probable reserves at the Graphite Creek Project in Alaska, now totaling 71.2 million tonnes. With an updated feasibility study on the way, find out what's behind the major increase.Graphite One Inc. (GPH:TSX.V; GPHOF:OTCQX) reported a significant increase in its mineral reserves and resources at the Graphite Creek Project in Ala...Read More

Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares his thoughts on the current state of the market and explains why he rates one copper stock a Strong Buy.The U.S. dollar index futures (-0.08%) are down to 103.795, while the 10-year yield is down 1.48%) to 4.182, while the 30-year yield is down 1.47% to 4.546%.Gold (+0.33%), silver (+0.84% ), copper (+0.84%), and oil (+0.28%) are up.Risk barometer Bitc...Read More

Barry Dawes of Martin Place Securities shares his thoughts on gold and silver and shares some North American producers he thinks are worth taking a look at. Gold has a strong performance in European trading, which took gold to a new US$ high of US$3060. And a 5.5% crash in the Yuan took gold to a sharp new high there. Silver is on the move too. Not quite a new rally high but getting close.Keep in...Read More

Robert Sinn of Goldfinger looks at a recent Bank of America publication that highlights how, when it comes to gold, "America first" may lead to "America alone."Remember that November 2024 tale suggesting Trump's second term would harm gold prices?It claimed that tariffs might trigger a U.S. dollar short squeeze, while tariff-induced inflation would force the Fed to implement stricter monetary poli...Read More

Technical Analyst Clive Maund explains why he thinks it now may be the time to buy or add positions of Armory Mining Corp. (ARMY:CSE; RMRYF:OTC; J2S:FRA).Although the price of Armory Mining Corp.'s (ARMY:CSE; RMRYF:OTC; J2S:FRA) stock has drifted off since we first looked at it early in February, its technical condition has strengthened greatly as we will see when we come to review its latest char...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. Demand for mined commodities exceeded pre-pandemic levels in 2021. Despite macro-economic headwinds over the next few years, growth seems assured and could be supercharged by a faster decarbonisation pathway. Supply constraints and disruptions continue and are likely to be exacerbated by economic sanctions on Russia...Read More

Growing US crude production – particularly in the midcontinent and Rockies regions – is upending traditional Gulf Coast pipeline routes.The result? An unprecedented great American oil pipeline build-out. The shale revolution has led to burgeoning pipeline takeaway access from the Permian basin. Last month, we discussed three reasons why the Permian’s future pipeline capacity won&...Read More

What does tight oil have in common with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet's Google stocks (known as FAANG stocks)? Answer: tight oil is arguably the upstream equivalent of these tech sector leaders. It's the hot investment play in the oil and gas index, it outperforms like mad, and it's been driving to distraction those that don't own any. Production has leapt from zero six years...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice.Once the deal closes, Chevron will be the second-largest producing major in 2019 terms. It was fourth.The acquisition makes the Majors' peer group much more polarised. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP are now in a league of their own. The deal plays to Chevron's strengths, which are tight oil and LNG. On top of this, it diver...Read More

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Big Oil is on the move, feeling its way into a changing energy world. There are two sides to adapting: how to decarbonise oil and gas and how to build a sustainable business around zero-carbon technology. Valentina Kretschmar, VP and Tom Ellacott, SVP of our Corporate Analysis team took me through their thinking of how company strategies are developing.This week, BP went a step further on the firs...Read More

Early 2022 has brought the most traumatic events in Kazakhstan’s 30 years of modern independence. Widespread protests and civil unrest led to unprecedented scenes of violence on the country’s streets. Especially in Almaty, the largest city. More than 225 lives have been lost.What began as peaceful demonstrations against a sharp increase in the price of LPG fuel in resource-ri...Read More

Speaking after ConocoPhillips announced it will take over Concho Resources in a $9.7 billion all-stock deal, Robert Clarke, vice president, Lower 48 upstream, at Wood Mackenzie, said: “The combination is remarkable. Just in scale, ConocoPhillips is adding enough Permian production to nip at the heels of ExxonMobil’s massive programme.“We like the distinctives each firm brings too...Read More