Is there an internet purge of conservative voices or voices of dissension online? Some say yes, and that the purge is being pushed by several social media companies. We've heard about censorship before... but is what is happening now an all-out purge? This is a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.Read More
Swedish mining company Boliden (STO: BOL) won't have to pay over $12 million (100 million Swedish crowns) in compensation for health problems allegedly caused by toxic waste it dumped in northern Chile, a court ruled Thursday.The lawsuit filed in 2013 by around 800 residents of the city of Arica, in northern Chile, alleged Boliden exported 20,000 tonnes of mining waste in the mid-1980s, despite kn...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1322.10-$3.10Silver$16.48UNCHXAU78.97+0.23%HUI173.54+0.07%GDM605.40-0.08%JSE Gold1120.34-17.90USD90.13+0.55Euro123.15-0.98Yen94.15-0.20Oil$60.12-$1.0510-Year2.860%-0.022T-Bond144.6875+0.5625Dow24895.21+0.38%Nasdaq7427.95+0.42%S&P2738.97+0.45% The Metals: Gold fell $6.10 to $1319.10 in late morning New York trade before it bounced back higher into the close, but it still...Read More
ROME (Reuters) - Italy will not issue new, multi-year budget targets until a new government has been formed following Sunday's inconclusive election, the Treasury said in a statement on Thursday.The Treasury normally issues economic and public finance targets in April, which are the basis of the budget bill to be drawn up in September.The Treasury said it will issue its forecasting document as usu...Read More
Long Term Elliott WaveAnalysisGold probably shows a complete patternof supercycle degree into 2011. Its first spike appeared during the US civilwar. We interpret that as cycle wave I. The subsequent period shows acorrection that lasted for half of a century. It fits the character of acomplex sideways correction. It ended roughly at the same time as the USeconomy started growing from the Great Depr...Read More
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.John Maynard KeynesDespite the heavy beating Bitcoin has taken, the sentiment has not turned bearish, and Bitcoin experts are still enthusiastically issuing wild targets...Read More
Prices for hollow steel sections in Europe are expected to rise because of the low availability of steel coil, market sources have told Metal Bulletin.The supply of hot-rolled coil (HRC) has reduced because mills are heavily booked and there has been a lack of workable import offers. These factors have put tube mills in a quandary when trying to secure...Read More
"At no point did the FBI get warrants based on probable cause before Geek Squad informants conducted these searches. Nor are these cases the result of Best Buy employees Continue...Read More
The government of British Columbia revealed today the timeline that will guide the procedures to reform the province's environmental assessment process.Known by its initials, the EAP is a course of action to predict environmental effects of proposed initiatives, particularly mining and resource extraction projects, before they are carried out. In general, an EAP should identify potential adverse e...Read More
- Sales in London property market at 'historic lows'- 65% fall in pre-tax profits in 2017 to ?6.5m reported by London estate agents Foxtons- Foxtons warns 2018 will 'remain challenging' for London property- Norway's sovereign wealth fund is backing London's property market- RICS: UK property stock hits record low as buyer demand falls- Own physical gold to hedge falls in physical propertyThe w...Read More
The precious metals sector continues to correct and consolidate. Gold remains in a bullish consolidation. It recently reached resistance again and even though it has failed to breakout, it remains above long-term moving averages which are sloping upward. However, the gold stocks and Silver remain in correction mode. They are trading below the long-term moving averages and at the lower end of their...Read More
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (Reuters) - The Cboe Volatility Index .VIX, Wall Street’s so-called “fear gauge,” does not give the full picture of investor sentiment and other measures should be taken into account, speakers at a major derivatives conference said this week.A record spike in the index recently after years of muted activity has put the VIX back in focus as investors try to ga...Read More
While everyone is "high fiving" over stocks holding up, the bond market is back to imploding. Already Treasury yields have bounced and are soaring higher in one of the nastiest breakouts in over 20 years.In a world awash in too much debt (global Debt to GDP is over 300%) this is a MAJOR problem.Most investors believe that the 2008 Crisis was the worst crisis of their lifetimes. They're mistaken......Read More
Many advocates of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have a na??ve belief that their digital assets are "beyond the reach of governments," "cannot be traced" and "cannot be frozen or seized."Continue...Read More
Offer prices from mills for European domestic steel beams rose slightly this week, helped by an uptick in scrap prices and more interest from customers, although buyers were less convinced about the health of the market, Metal Bulletin heard.Higher offer prices from mills widened Metal Bulletin's price assessment for S235-grade, 200x200mm category-2 H-beams made in Northern Europe upward by ?,?5 p...Read More
DEEPCASTER LLCFORTRESS ASSETS PORTFOLIO | LETTERS, ALERTS & ARTICLESHIGH POTENTIAL SPECULATOR | HIGH YIELD PORTFOLIOPreserve & Enhance WealthInvestment & Geopolitical Intelligence Markets were triggered and shocked a few days ago when the yield on the Bellwether U.S. Treasury 10-Year Note shot up over 2.9% which resulted mainly from Fed Chair Powell's hinting at the possibility of 4 rate hikes...Read More
"Did you think that the high-powered world of the LBMA would operate in a fish-bowl for all to see? We cannot take what is on the outside as evidence for what is on the inside."Thoughts of ANOTHER - October 1997LBMA Gold Price and LBMA Silver Price - Price Publication DelaysIn August 2014, the long-standing and tainted London Silver Fixing daily auction was replaced by a newly launched London Bull...Read More
Bill Murphy is a former American professional football player, financial commentator, and the chairman and director of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), which was founded as a result of Murphy's essays on collusion among large financial institutions to suppress the price of precious metals. Murphy believes the price of gold is artificially low and has spent years lobbying the U.S. gover...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1322.10-$3.10Silver$16.48UNCHXAU78.97+0.23%HUI173.54+0.07%GDM605.40-0.08%JSE Gold1120.34-17.90USD90.13+0.55Euro123.15-0.98Yen94.15-0.20Oil$60.12-$1.0510-Year2.860%-0.022T-Bond144.6875+0.5625Dow24895.21+0.38%Nasdaq7427.95+0.42%S&P2738.97+0.45% The Metals: Gold fell $6.10 to $1319.10 in late morning New York trade before it bounced back higher into the c...Read More