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

Vaccine may be only way to bring Ebola under control in West Africa … As West Africa's Ebola outbreak continues to rage, some experts are coming to the conclusion that it may take large amounts of vaccines and maybe even drugs – all still experimental and in short supply – to bring the outbreak under control … "It may just keep going and going and it might require...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 4 points in pre-opening trade.Pepsico gained $3.64 to $111.40 after reporting higher than consensus second quarter revenues and core earnings.Celgene advanced $1.30 to $85.15 after reporting positive results in a breast cancer trial.eBay slipped $0.66 to $37.25 after SunTrust downgraded the stock to Hold from Buy.Urban...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - British and European Union airlines will automatically lose the right to fly to each other’s territories if Britain leaves the bloc without a divorce deal, the government warned on Monday, meaning that flights could potentially be grounded.Flying rights to and from and within the European Union, as well as between the United States and Britain, are currently covered by EU-...Read More

Here are my thoughts on why Millennials are not competing with Wallstreet and Blackrock to buy homes in 2023 - Enjoy! Add me ...Read More

Falling oil prices could also be creating headwindsThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is set for a third straight loss, as Apple (AAPL) stock continues to pull back. Sliding oil prices could also be adding to the bearish backdrop, after President Donald Trump tweeted about the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) this morning. May-dated crude futures were last seen down 48...Read More

The comments above & below is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by Egon von GreyerzGold is hated by governments around the world because it reveals their deceitful actions in totally destroying the economy. It is not an accident that gold is the only money that has survived for 6,000 years. Gold is the only money that tells the truth. And gold is nature's money, which means it cannot b...Read More

Primary aluminium stocks at the three main Japanese ports (MJP) of Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka rose another 6.4% month on month in May, according to Marubeni Corp data released on Friday June 15.MJP aluminium stocks totaled 284,200 tonnes at the end of last month compared with 267,100 tonnes at the end of April. Total stocks at the end of May were also up by 6.9% from the same period of 2017. ...Read More

- Darryl Robert Schoon...the financial system experienced some serious liquidity shortages in August 2007, and the Fed injected funds to help keep financial markets operating effectively so that they would continue to support ongoing economic activityFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, August 2007In August 2007, a credit crunch swept global markets forcing central banks to provide billions...Read More

Turkish steel producers have taken a break from the deep-sea scrap market after last week's burst of buying activity for December cargoes, sources said on Tuesday November 12.Fastmarkets has recorded trades for 10 deep-sea cargoes at strengthening prices since the beginning of last week, totaling around 340,000 tonnes.The mills stepped away from the deep-sea markets on Tuesday, but they were expec...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Edward Asscher, outgoing president of the World Diamond Council, defended the Kimberley Process and addressed the "white elephant" of Russian sanctions at the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) Congress in Israel."Today, through the KP and the work that we all do, I am convinced that 99.9 percent of all diamonds in the global marketplace are conflict free," he said."Is the...Read More

Tom welcomes Adrian Day back to the show. They discuss the lag in economic consequences as a result of rate hikes and ...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Gemfields say it set a record with sales totaling $43.7m from its Kagem mine, in Zambia.The UK-based colored gems miner says it sold all 35 lots offered, comprising 264,000 carats of higher quality rough, at a series of five auctions, with viewings in Bangkok and bids made online by sealed bids.The June auctions were the highest grossing since the Kagem mine opened in 2009 and narr...Read More

The media says, “Jump.” And the public responds in unison, “How high?”“As high as you ever have jumped before, except maybe after 9/11, or the Kennedy assassination.”Of course, when there is news, it should be reported. Today it is reported sensationally, as entertainment. Is it meant to inform, or induce?Which came first, the media’s obsession with violen...Read More

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China gingerly raised a key short-term interest rate on Thursday following the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank’s move overnight, in a symbolic reminder that Beijing is keeping an eye on global market trends even as it cracks down on financial risks at home.The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said it had increased the rate on 7-day reverse repurchase agreements by 5 basis p...Read More

PARIS, May 11 (Reuters) - Louis Dreyfus Company said on Friday it had completed the sale of its metals business to a Chinese investment fund for $466 million, as part of a push to revive profits by focusing on its core agricultural markets.Louis Dreyfus announced in December an agreement to sell LDC Metals to NCCL Natural Resources Investment Fund, without disclosing financial details.The metals b...Read More

Source: Michael J. Ballanger for Streetwise Reports 04/08/2019Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses movements in the gold and silver markets in the last week, as well as two companies on his radar screen.The past week was an exercise in total lockdown for both gold and silver as the price managers have succeeded, at least for now, in herding investor behavior into a cacophony of c...Read More

As the lithium growth play continues to shape up over time, Lithium Americas (TSX:LAC)(NYSE:LAC) and its more advanced counterpart Nemaska Lithium are two very promising pure-play lithium stocks on the TSX that have gone through severe pain during the past year. Could a lithium growth play deliver better returns in 2019?Forecasted growth in lithium demand driven mainly by future electrical vehic...Read More

Fastmarkets today, Friday November 6, launches its weekly Steel scrap shredded, index, import, cfr Port Qasim, Pakistan.Following a month-long consultation period, Fastmarkets has launched its price for MB-STE-0887 Steel scrap shredded, index, import, cfr Port Qasim, Pakistan, $ per tonne, to complement its existing steel scrap prices in the South Asia region.Fastmarkets already includes coverage...Read More

Iron ore prices moved up on Tuesday March 2 because of firmer prices for steel products, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $175.55 per tonne, up $1 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $175.70 per tonne, up $0.74 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $160.92 per tonne, up $0.83 per tonne65% Fe Brazil-origin fines, cfr Qingd...Read More

* Chinese currency depreciation to help exports * Copper's resistance at $6,110 where moving averagesconverging (Updates with closing prices)By Pratima DesaiLONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Copper prices climbed to one-weekhighs on Wednesday after reports of fresh stimulus in topconsumer China and signs of progress in Sino-U.S. trade talksreinforced expectations of stronger growth and demand.Benchmark co...Read More