Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort225,80489,15854,354175,715337,515455,873481,027Change from Prior Reporting Period -11,48414,9391,8542,180-21,282-7,450-4,489Traders18785804455270185 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 50,53725,383506,410 3,631670-3,819 non reportable positionsChange from the previous report...Read More

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fresh worries about rising costs and inflation face U.S. stock investors looking toward the coming week and the next leg of the first-quarter earnings period.In the latest week, the busiest for first-quarter reports, several companies warned about or cited higher costs.Caterpillar (CAT.N) said it was worried about higher prices for steel it needs for manufacturing. Alphabet (G...Read More

The Detour Lake Mine in northern Ontario. Source: Detour Gold Corp.Detour Gold Corp. [DGC-TSX] shares took a big drop Friday April 27 as investors reacted to guidance revisions announced in the company's 2018 first quarter results.The shares plunged 28.7% or $4.14 to $10.26 in late morning trading Friday. The volume of 6.65 million shares made Detour Gold the most actively trading stock on the TSX...Read More

- Gold mining shares require timing and are speculative- Gold mining: "maximising risk, while minimising reward"- Gold mining is increasingly complicated, difficult & much riskier- Easier, more cost efficient and safer to buy physical gold than mining stocks- "If your strategy is buy and hold, or buy and forget, go for the metal, not the miners"- Owning allocated and segregated gold is a hedge...Read More

Isodiol International Inc. (CSE:ISOL) has been improving revenues over the last three quarters, now at a rate of $2M/monthSmallCapPower | April 27, 2018: Isodiol International Inc. (CSE:ISOL, $0.80) announced on April 26, 2018, that the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted government approval to manufacture commercial cannabidiols (CBD) extracted from hemp stra...Read More

($1 = C$1.29)(Reuters) - Canada’s Imperial Oil Ltd (IMO.TO) on Friday reported a 55 percent jump in quarterly profit, helped by strength in its refining and chemicals businesses, and the company boosted its dividend and repurchase program.The company’s shares rose as much as 4.5 percent to C$40.47.Desjardins analyst Justin Bouchard called the dividend hike a “pleasant surprise&rd...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesApr 25, 2018The value of gold as an insurance policy grows with each passing day. The idiots in Washington, London and Paris known well for their gnashing of teeth and wailing while generating gallons of crocodile tears over a false flag attack in Syria are rolling the dice on a game of World War III. And while that’s not going to be any fun, it might be nice to have an...Read More

Metal Bulletin reported in May 2017 that movements in the spread between 37% fob and 44% cif manganese ore indices might provide clues about direction in subsequent weeks.At the time, Metal Bulletin had observed that a narrowing of the spread between the prices for the two grades of manganese ore was often followed by a rise in prices and that a widening of the spread often preceded a pr...Read More

Mining activities on the western wall of Pit 3 at the Copper Mountain Mine near Princeton, BC. Source: Copper Mountain Mining Corp.Copper Mountain Mining Corp. [CMMC-TSX; CPPMF-OTC] on Friday April 27 said President and CEO James O'Rourke will be retiring on June 1, 2018. Gil Clausen, currently President and CEO of Brio Gold Inc. [BRIO-TSX], will be his successor in the President and CEO role. Cla...Read More

Berkwood Resources Ltd. (TSXV:BKR), a graphite junior, climbed after announcing that it has intersected what it called "significant intersections" of visual graphiteSean Mason | April 27, 2018 | SmallCapPowerSignificant intersections of visual graphite sent shares of a graphite junior sharply higher Friday. Here's some small stocks making big moves on Friday, April 27, 2018 (as of 4 pm EST):Ber...Read More

(Reuters) - Wall Street moved to a defensive mode on Friday, shifting into safer equity sectors as economic data raised the specter of inflation and possible interest rate hikes, while technology shares pulled back after an initial surge.U.S. gross domestic product increased at a 2.3 percent annualized pace in the first quarter, slower than the prior quarter but stronger than the expected 2-percen...Read More

SASKATOON - Uranium miner Cameco Corp. reported a profit in its latest quarter compared with a loss a year ago as it was helped by a restructuring of its Kazakh joint venture and higher uranium prices and sales.The Saskatoon-based company says it earned $55 million, or 14 cents per share, for the quarter ended March 31 compared with a loss of $14 million, or five cents per share a year ago.Revenu...Read More

Organigram Holdings Inc. (TSXV:OGI) swung to a profit in its second quarter 2018 on record net salesSmallCapPower | April 27, 2018: Organigram Holdings Inc. (TSXV:OGI), a producer of medical marijuana, posted healthy growth for Q2 2018. The Company's net sales for the three months ended February 28, 2018 were $3.69 million (from 237,650 grams of dried flower and 552,250 ml of oil sold), versus neg...Read More

* Gold on track for second weekly fall * Silver set for biggest weekly fall in nearly three months * Platinum hits four-month low (Recasts throughout, updates prices; adds comment, secondbyline NEW YORK to dateline)By Renita D. Young and Eric OnstadNEW YORK/LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Gold edged higher onFriday after the dollar and U.S. Treasury yields backed offhighs, but the prospect of a Korea...Read More

Get ready for a big price hike at the pump this summer. One that could shatter records... and your checking account.The price of oil is on the rise, nearing a three-year high. And if OPEC gets its way, the price of crude will reach $100 per barrel soon.Oil prices are now over $68 a barrel - that's up 30% in the past six months alone. And after breezing over the $66 level earlier this month, they l...Read More

Benchmark Treasury 10-year yields extend retreat from 3%Dollar touches another three-month high before pulling backU.S. Economy Expanded at 2.3% Pace in First QuarterMost U.S. stocks edged higher as the debate continued over whether better-than-forecast corporate earnings are enough to offset signs the economy may be cooling. Yields on benchmark Treasuries declined for a second day after reaching...Read More

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The Canada-listed marijuana stocks on our list have experienced strong recent returns, defying the sluggish sector performance so far this yearSmallCapPower | April 27, 2018: Most Canadian marijuana stocks have been weak YTD. The Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences index has declined 11% M/M and 24% YTD, and has underperformed the TSX-V, which declined 4% and 10% over the same periods. However, some...Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar held steady on Friday despite a government report showing slower U.S. first-quarter economic growth, with the currency on track to end its strongest week since November 2016, having gained 1.4 percent.On Tuesday, the U.S. benchmark government bond yield broke through the psychologically significant 3 percent level for the first time in more than four years as invest...Read More