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

Interview with Nico Cookson, Head of Corporate Development for Marimaca Copper (TSX: MARI) Our previous interview: ...Read More

The premium hard coking coal price slipped slightly in the fob market after both sellers and buyers adopted a 'wait-and-see' attitude while the cfr market continued to climb up amid limited tradable seaborne resources in China on Thursday April 15, sources said.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $112.94 per tonne, down $0.24 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $220...Read More

U.S. carmaker Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is asking the Biden administration to speed up the permitting process for mining projects, particularly those targeting critical metals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite.In a letter to the Department of the Interior on Tuesday, the auto maker said the current "lengthy, costly and inefficient permitting process" makes it difficult for American busin...Read More

Whilst it must be frustrating for Precious Metals sector investors to watch Tech stocks continuing to "shoot the moon" while PM stocks have mostly done nothing, the chart presented below suggests that this situation won't persist for much longer.The 7-month chart for GDX shows it probably completing the Handle of a sizeable Cup & Handle continuation pattern. GDX has stayed above the support leve...Read More

"I think we are going to see an increase in the conversation about the decoupling and more conversations about 'Are we going into another Cold War between these two economies?'"Continue...Read More

When I first launched Junior Mining Monthly, it was predicated on the idea that governments around the world were spending at an unsustainable pace, that the general public would soon start adding and subtracting the numbers and come to the conclusion that there needed to be a change.I then speculated that volatility would ramp up as a result of geopolitical and monetary turbulence that would be m...Read More

Of the twenty-five countries I have explored, the most memorable trip I’ve made so far has been to the city of Amritsar. It is the religious center of the Sikhs and border town to Pakistan in India. It is a place of beauty and adventure. Here I had one of the most profound experiences of my life.Walking the streets of every city in the world, you will come across the homeless. You see pover...Read More

 CloseGain/LossGold $1225.00-$5.80Silver$15.38-$0.13XAU78.11-1.82%HUI168.71-1.92%GDM595.67-1.58%JSE Gold1015.69+5.26USD94.63+0.20Euro116.95-0.31Yen89.82+0.04Oil$67.89-$0.3710-Year2.964%+0.068T-Bond142.90625-1.28125Dow25044.29-0.06%Nasdaq7841.87+0.28%S&P2806.98+0.18%  The Metals: Gold fell $8.40 to $1222.40 in early afternoon New York trade before it bounced back higher at t...Read More

Why Do Investors Make Bad Choices? … For many years, I have studied human behavior, including the mistakes occasionally made by fallible people, including investors. But a few years ago, I made a really dumb investment decision. In a single day, I hit the trifecta, committing at least three classic behavioral mistakes. – Bloomberg/Cass SunsteinDominant Social Theme: The stock market is...Read More

Investing.com - Gold fell to its lowest level since December on Wednesday, as the U.S. dollar surged and bond yields rose.Comex gold futures for June delivery were down 0.15% to $1,288.40 a troy ounce as of 10:37 AM ET (14:37 GMT).The price of bouillon was driven lower by the rise in the greenback. The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback’s strength against a basket of six major c...Read More

The global Cannabidiol (CBD) market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 125% from 2019 to 2026. The robust growth stems from growing awareness of CBD health benefits as well as the opening up of the market around the world. An increase in the number of countries that have legalized theRead full newsRead More

The Federal Reserve's Shifting Makeup … The professional background of the Federal Reserve's leadership has moved from one that was dominated by bankers to one that is heavily academic … Fed research economists are Ph.D.s by training who worked in the Fed's economic research divisions and typically publish academic research; Fed administrators worked as managers in other as...Read More

(Adds LNG imports data, background)BEIJING, Oct 23 (Reuters) - China's September diesel andgasoline exports fell sharply from August as robust domesticdemand curbed overseas shipments.Gasoline exports were 730,000 tonnes last month, the lowestsince the same month a year ago when shipments were 568,000tonnes, data from the General Administration of Customs showedon Tuesday.Diesel exports in Septemb...Read More

Tata Steel and and Tata Power, two companies of the Tata Group, have agreed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar power to be installed in Jamshedpur and Kalinganagar, the company announced on Friday October 29.The two companies have signed a 25-year PPA to set up the 41 megawatt(MW) solar project, which will be a combination of rooftop, floating and ground mounted solar panels, it said....Read More

An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Janie Davies, Cristina Belda,...Read More

Turkish steel producers continued to raise their domestic scrap purchase prices over the past week amid higher imported scrap values, sources said on Monday December 16.The price of scrap imported into Turkey has risen over the past week due to tightening supply and firm demand.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), Northern Europe origin, cfr Turkey, was $296.06 per tonne...Read More

This is the 1st article in a series of 4 articles that concludes in a trend forecast for the Silver price 2019. Silver Price Trend Forecast 2018 ReviewGold - Silver RatioSilver Price Trend Analysis 2019Silver Price Trend Forecast Conclusion for 2019 The whole of this analysis has first been made available to Patrons who support my work. So for immediate First Access to ALL of my analysis and trend...Read More

With earnings season beginning to kick into high gear over the next several sessions, investors took a risk-on attitude on Monday, sending stocks sharply higherRead full newsRead More

When credit is too much of a good thing … What does credit do after it has finished the job it was designed for? The supply of credit ought to stop at funding productive activity. But the reality is different. Surplus credit fuels dangerous asset price inflation and funds profligate governments. – ReutersDominant Social Theme: A new kind of credit danger! And a new solution!Free-Market...Read More

Blackrock Gold (TSX: BRC, OTC: BKRRF, FSE: AHZ) https://blackrockgold.ca/ is a junior gold exploration company, targeting high grade gold at its Silver Cloud property, a low-sulphidation epithermal gold & silver project, located along the established Northern Nevada Rift gold trend in north-central Nevada, situated next to two prolific, high grade gold mines; Hecla's Hollister and Midas Mines. We...Read More