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

Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.In the iron ore market, supply issues including heavy rains at the start of the year, followed by staffing problems during the Covid-19 pandemic, have affected exports from Brazil. This has helped Australia gain a larger market share, but since June, Brazilian export volumes have returned to levels last seen before the...Read More

Soon after Fission Uranium (TSXV: FCU) clinched a merger with Alpha Minerals (TSXV: AMW), its 50% partner at the Patterson Lake North (PLN) uranium project in Saskatchewan's Athabasca basin, Northern Miner staff writer Matthew Keevil spoke with Fission chairman and CEO Dev Randhawa about the deal. The interview follows an initial conversation the two had in August, just before Fission announced it...Read More

Iron ore prices slipped to the $77-per-tonne- cfr-China mark on Monday August 28 following a weakening of the Tangshan billet market in China over the weekend.Metal Bulletin's 62% Fe Iron Ore Index Today: $77.15 per tonne cfr Qingdao Daily change: down by $1.23 per tonne Month-to-date average: $75.85...Read More

SHANGHAI, Mar 8 (SMM) – The copper spot market in Shanghai was less active on Thursday March 7 than a day earlier with the red metal trading at a discount of 130-70 yuan/mt. As the SHFE copper edged down today with resistance at the five-day moving average, spot prices faced pressure with reluctant buyers.At noon, higher-grade copper traded at 51,720-51,800 yuan/mt, SMM learned. Fo...Read More

Tin's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange declined during morning trading on Monday August 5, maintaining its downward price action while nickel futures traded higher.Reaching an intra-morning low of $16,800 per tonne from a high of $17,025 per tonne, tin's futures price is down by some 1.3% on the day with just over 60 lots traded as of 9:05am London time. Selling pressure began t...Read More

Gold has been caught in a broad trading range for the last two months, but one precious metals analysts said that a laundry list of fundamental factors supports the market.In June, Jeff Clark, senior precious metals analyst at Goldsilver.com, recommended that investors be overweight in gold. Although market volatility has picked up, he said he hasn't seen anything that has changed his bullish outl...Read More

They can expand leverage [gold hypothecation, leasing, futures, forwards, derivatives] freely given the craven silence of the regulators and professional courtesy amongst the looting class. But they cannot create more physical bullion, and therein lies their limits. - "Jesse" of Jesse's Cafe AmericainThe following commentary is just in case anyone was wondering about the existence of "backwardati...Read More

Aug 29 (Reuters) - Hillgrove Resources Ltd(HGO) HY statutory loss $9.6 million versus loss of $102.7millionHY revenue $62 million versus $ 58.8 millionBoard is lowering the annual copper production guidance to16,000 to 18,000 copper metal tonnesRead More

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Dave KranzlerA Global Race To Zero In Fiat Currenciesushers in the restoration of price discovery in the precious metals market. The price of gold is at or near an all-time in most currencies except the dollar. This summer, however, it would appear that the dollar-based valuation of gold is starting to break the shackles of official intervention and is beginning reflect the underlying fundamental...Read More

Bob Moriarty of 321gold profiles a junior that is exploring a property it has optioned from Great Bear Resources. For investors in the resource sector this year has to seem similar to one of those sick, good-news, bad-news jokes. As a result of some world-class stupidity from governments around the globe shutting down the world economy in response to what appears to be little more than a bad flu...Read More

And a U.S. news service didn't have the balls to report it.From UK Reuters - the U.S. media has not reported this:S&P 500 and DOW Circuit Breakers HitThey let the market run when it's spiraling higher non-stop, but they can't take it when the forces of nature take the market back the other way.This country is just as bad, if not worse, than China...Blame it on China.Ignore the fact that the primar...Read More

SHANGHAI, Aug. 29 (SMM) - Brazilian government decided to revise its mining law, opening its vast national reserve to commercial mineral exploration, drawing criticism from environmentalists and political opponents.The National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca) is rich in gold, copper, iron, tantalum, nickel, manganese and other minerals.At present, more than 20 firms have shown intention...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s condition for meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is that there be no nuclear or missile testing, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Sunday.“There shouldn’t be confusion,” Mnuchin told NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, when asked about White House press secretary Sarah Sanders’ statement on...Read More

Full Article: Gold and Gold Stocks - Small Rays of Light in the Vale of TearsBy: Pater TenebrarumA Rebound Gets Underway - Will It Have Legs?Ever since the gold indexes have broken below the shelf of support that has held them aloft since late 2016 (around 165-170 points in the HUI Index), the sector was not much to write home about, to put it mildly. Precious metals stocks will continue to battle...Read More

RAPAPORT... Stuller has promoted Alix Gonsoulin to vice president of itsbridal, fine-jewelry and findings division, it said Tuesday. Gonsoulin started as director of diamond-and-gemstonefashion with the US-based jewelry manufacturer in 2012, and was most recently it executive director of product development. "Alix has shown an exceptional ability to workcross-functionally throughout the organ...Read More

"It gets back to, would you rather be right and righteous or make money, but it also gets back to the tail risk, if you want to be a wise guy about it, in that torches and pitchforks are undervaluedContinue...Read More

Exploration in Peru is reactivating as pricing for key commodities such as gold, zinc and copper increase. Explorers in Peru such as Regulus Resources (CN:REG) and Tinka Resources (CN:TK) have had relative success with the drill bit this year for copper and zinc, respectively. "There are positive expectations about the zinc price, which has gone ...Read full newsRead More