If you're getting the sense that stocks always go up, that's because they've been doing so for a really, really long time. From CNBC today: On the bull market’s ninth birthday, here’s how it stacks up against history?EUR?The Dow has quadrupled during the bull market, which turned 9 on Friday.?EUR?This is the biggest and longest bull market for the Dow post-WWII, according to Leuthold G...Read More
Base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange are once again weaker across the board this morning, Monday March 12, with prices off by an average of 0.4%. Losses are fairly tightly grouped between 0.2% and 0.7%, with the three-month copper price down by 0.4% at $6,930 per tonne.Volume has been average with 8,181 lots traded as of 07.17am London time. Today's weakness follows strong rebounds last...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1323.70+$0.20Silver$16.55-$0.03XAU79.67+0.98%HUI174.41+0.86%GDM607.04+0.60%JSE Gold1105.94-20.68USD89.88-0.25Euro123.42+0.34Yen94.06+0.37Oil$61.36-$0.6810-Year2.867%-0.030T-Bond144.75+0.59375Dow25178.61-0.62%Nasdaq7588.32+0.36%S&P2783.02-0.13% The Metals: Gold fell $9.10 to $1314.40 at about 8AM EST, but it then rallied back higher throughout most of t...Read More
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, March 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") today announced the purchase of the County Line gold property located in Mineral and Nye Counties, Nevada from Nevada Select Royalty Inc. ("Nevada Select"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ely Gold Royalties Inc. (TSX-V: ELY, OTC: ELYGF). Gold Resource Corporation is a gold...Read More
Martin Armstrong is still bullish on the stock market. Europe is still in trouble. Draghi isn't abandoning QE so quickly. He's trapped and so is the Euro. There's a big bet against the Euro taking place as witnessed by the German Bund spreads. There's a huge crisis in the offing. And it's worldwide, the US and Europe and elsewhere. They need a minimum return of 8% and there's few opportunities to...Read More
U.S. Secret Service Also Frustrated with U.S. Mint's "Lack of Supporting Action" Washington, DC (March 12, 2018) - Congressmen Alex Mooney (R-WV) criticized the United States Mint for its "disappointing and concerning" lack of awareness or action on the growing problem of high-quality counterfeits of U.S. precious-metals coins entering the country from China and elsewhere.In a letter dated March...Read More
Shares in Newcrest Mining fell more 4.6 per cent Monday after the miner declared that its performance for fiscal 2018 will be definitely affected by the breach of a tailings dam wall at its Cadia gold mine."Whilst it is too early in the evaluation and recovery process for Newcrest to provide an indication of the extent to which FY18 production, capital and cost guidance will be impacted, this even...Read More
Jim, Evan and Phil discuss the latest happenings in the Middle Kingdom and around the globe.1:17 The People's Republic of Debt3:17 Zombie bond market for zombie companies7:10 ECB scorns tariffs, buys bonds13:09 The perils of social mediaJames "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is th...Read More
The bull market is turning 9 years old. Had we known we would have baked a cake. It is now the longest running bull market in history! What could possibly go wrong. The tree will surely grow to the sky. And as if that wasn't enough, corporate debt levels are surging. But don't worry, this time is really different because it's not being held by big banks, ETF's and pension funds will be left holdin...Read More
Vancouver-based Caza Gold and Arctic Blockchain have agreed to merge through a transaction described as a "reverse takeover" of Caza by Arctic. This means that the former will change its business from a mining issuer to a technology issuer. Even though the terms of the transaction are still to be defined, the idea is that following completion former Arctic shareholders will hold approximately 98.2...Read More
Operations at Newcrest Mining’s Cadia mine are temporarily suspended after a partial dam collapse following a series of earthquakes that hit New South Wales. Mine workers noticed the damage on Friday, Sydney Morning Herald reports, adding that “the tailings dams contain byproducts of mining and can contain materials which are harmful to the environment and human health.” Newcrest...Read More
Steel producers in Russia have increased their offers to the domestic markets for April-production hot-rolled (HR) and cold-rolled (CR) sheet, Metal Bulletin has been told.Metal Bulletin's weekly assessment of the price for Russian 4mm HR sheet was 43,000-45,000 roubles ($759-794) per tonne cpt Moscow, including VAT, on Monday March 12, widening upward from 43,000 roubles per tonne a week earlier....Read More
The US mining industry is asking the Supreme Court to revoke an Obama-era rule banning the mining of uranium on public lands nearby the Grand Canyon.The National Mining Association (NMA) and the American Exploration and Mining Association (AEMA) filed petitions on Friday asking the court to reverse the 2012 ban implemented by the previous administration as uranium prices soared and a flurry of n...Read More
David Stockman on "Fast Money Halftime Report" (CNBC, March 12, 2018)David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and he is the aut...Read More
Exporters of hot-rolled coil (HRC) and cold-rolled coil (CRC) from the Commonwealth of Independent States continued to be in bullish mood in the week ended Monday March 12, despite a rapid price decline for China-origin material.Metal Bulletin's weekly price assessment for CIS-origin HRC exports was $610-625 per tonne fob Black Sea on March 12, narrowing upward from $590-625 per tonne fob Black Se...Read More
By Keith WeinerThink back to the halcyon days of the dot com boom. This was a time after Greenspan declared "irrational exuberance". Long Term Capital Management collapsed in 1998, and Greenspan decided to risk propelling exuberance to a level beyond irrational. Super-duper-irrational exuberance?Anyway, Greenspan cut interest rates a few times in late 1998. Technology companies were able to rais...Read More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said it expected to be in contact with the United States over steel and aluminum tariffs this week, but added that no formal talks were scheduled."No meetings as such are planned at the moment between U.S. and EU authorities," a spokesman for the European Commission told a regular news conference."But we expect contacts to take place at s...Read More
There's a strange thing about the fear going through the global mining industry after the Democratic Republic of Congo signed an order to lift royalties last week: Compared with most other countries, these levies are still relatively low.The existing 2 percent rate on copper extraction compares with royalties five times that level in Chile and Peru, the two biggest producers.Even at the new 3.5...Read More
TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:01:25 Jim Willie's predictions for 201810:35 Death blow of the US Dollar15:00 What happens to Gold and Silver26:05 The transition and adjustment of world reserve currencies33:05 Gold suppression and rise in the Swiss currency36:05 Is Bitcoin a solution to the economic problems?Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD...Read More