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

Ray Dalio, co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, recently wrote that policy makers short on money will likely raise taxes and prevent capital flows into "other assets" like gold and Bitcoin. E.B. Tucker, director of Metalla Royalty and author of "Why Gold, Why Now" said that the government already has the tools to do this."Everyone gets this idea that the [government] will raid yo...Read More

Stock futures are signaling a sharp pullback following theresignation of White House economic advisor Gary Cohn. Cohn's departure has reignited fears of a trade war -- which have weighed on equities over the past week -- especially with European leaders warning of retaliatory tariffs. Turning to economic data, the ADP employment report for February revealed 235,000 new jobs in the private sector,...Read More

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company" or "GRC") reported production results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2018 of 6,411 ounces of gold and 321,590 ounces of silver, which along with base metal revenue generated $24.3 million in net revenue for the quarter. Gold Resource Corporation is a gold and sil...Read More

Gold's rally will revive the junior mining market, according to Brent Cook of Exploration Insights. "We've seen some major moves and there are some fundamental reasons behind that move in the gold price that I think are set to continue," he said.Junior mining companies will be benefiting the most in the long term, he said, as mid-tier and major mining companies will look to juniors for more resour...Read More

Key data from the Friday March 22 pricing session in London.Key drivers - Some sellers continued to offer aggressively to get stock off their books, but others took a step back and held their offers within range. - Consumers were emboldened to bid aggressively after...Read More

Chris MarcheseChief Mining Analyst, GoldSeek & SilverSeekWeek Ended April-24, 2020$AUN.V, $BSR.V, $CDE, $GORO, $GPL, $KL, $PG.TO, $SAND, $SILV, $SKE.V, $VGCX.TOThere has been a considerable lack of news flow recently as a result of on-going mining suspensions due to COVID-19. This should change over the next couple of weeks as companies report Q1 results. The Mexican Federal Government has exte...Read More

Kathleen Hays articulates the weight of legacy on Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell's shoulders amidst shifting economic tides.Read More

SHANGHAI, Apr 2 (SMM) – This is a roundup of global macroeconomic news last weekend and what is expected today.Last weekendThe US dollar index edged down below 90 with limited upward momentum, while base metals rose across the board. SHFE nickel jumped over 2.5%, lead surged over 2%, tin rose 1.7%, while zinc, aluminium and copper were up some 1%.China’s official manufacturing purchasi...Read More

SHANGHAI, Apr 11 (SMM) – Spot copper in the Shanghai market traded at a discount of 30 yuan/mt to a premium of 40 yuan/mt on Wednesday April 11, SMM learned. This compared with a premium of 30-90 yuan/mt on the previous day.During the day, spot offers dipped in line with the SHFE 1806 contract which fell to 51,000 yuan/mt. While sellers were keen to destock, prices of higher-grade copper fel...Read More

Deutsche Bank thinks C will benefit from the resultsThe Federal Reserve is expected to release the first-round results of its 2018 Dodd-Frank Act stress tests tomorrow morning -- an annual event that came as a result of the most recent financial crisis. Ahead of the event, Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) was upgraded to "buy" from "hold" at Deutsche Bank, which also raised its price target on the bank stoc...Read More

The export market for steel billet originating from the Commonwealth of Independent States was quiet on Monday June 7 with no trading reported due to an offer-bid mismatch. Billet offers from CIS producers were heard in the range of $650-670 per tonne fob on Monday, little changed compared with the end of last week. No buying activity was reported for these offer prices. Small tonnages of billet f...Read More

RAPAPORT... Rough-diamond prices will remain sluggish this year as themarket challenges that arose in the second half of last year are set to continue,two investment banks have warned.Prices are likely to drop 1% to 2% in the first half of2019, before recovering to end the year flat, analyst Kieron Hodgson atLondon-based Panmure Gordon said this week. Prices rose 2% last year due to astrong first...Read More

June 14, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) A Haywood Securities report reviewed the results this company released on its advanced-stage exploration project.In a June 5 research note, analyst Mick Carew with Haywood Securities reported that Vancouver-based Pure Gold Mining Inc.'s (PGM:TSX.V) initial results from underground drilling at its Madsen gold project in Ontario are "encouraging." Within th...Read More

(Kitco News) - Korean janitor hit a jackpot as he uncovered seven gold bars while cleaning out a garbage bin in South Korea’s biggest international airport.An unnamed male cleaner found $325,000 worth of gold bars on Thursday in Incheon International Airport located in South Korea’s capital Seoul.Each gold bar weighed 1 kilogram and was wrapped in a newspaper.After looking into the mat...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of base metals analysts are ready to view.Aluminium: SHFE tailwind for LME pricesAs we are entering the traditional strong demand season, we expect Chinese aluminium demand to show further recovery, and we expect demand from existing end-user sectors, new infrastructure projects and the export sector to show some increases. As a result, we believe that S...Read More

In 2017, less than a year before he became national security advisor, John Bolton promised a gathering of the Mujahedeen Khalq (MEK) that:Continue...Read More

By Frank HolmesStrengths? The best performing metal this week was palladium, up 2.39 percent. In terms of gold, traders and analysts were bullish on the yellow metal this week after being split in the previous week, according to the Bloomberg weekly survey. The bullishness is driven by uncertainty over the future leadership of Italy and Spain, which could lead investors to gold. H...Read More

We study the impact of rising geopolitical tensions and slowing global growth on the demand for bullion-backed ETFs.Read full newsRead More

Sector expert Michael Ballanger reflects on the implications of recent market moves. The 2018-2019 bear market rally that we identified during the last week of 2018 via the 2019 Forecast Issue, entitled "2019: Mayhem, Misallocation and the Mockery of True Price Discovery," is now on record as one of the most ferocious rallies ever recorded, as short sellers are being carried out on stretchers and...Read More

China posts surprise trade deficit for March …China swung to a trade deficit of $880 million in March, the General Administration of Customs reported Wednesday, as imports surged 14.1% from a year earlier. The deficit, which followed February's $15.2 billion surplus, missed a forecast for a surplus of $14.7 billion from a Dow Jones Newswires survey and a $15.2 billion projected surplus t...Read More