STOCKHOLM, April 27 (Reuters) - Sweden's Sandvik, the world's biggest maker of metal cutting tools, has agreed to buy measurement technology company Metrologic Group for 360 million euros ($435 million) to strengthen its position in digital manufacturing.Sandvik said on Friday it was buying the French software company from private equity firm Astorg Partners.Metrologic specialises in metrology, an...Read More
Canada's largest diversified miner Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TECK.B)(NYSE:TECK) continues to perform strongly; its stock surged by 10% over the last year. That can be attributed to commodities, notably steel-making coal, copper, and zinc, breaking out of their prolonged slump at the end of 2016 and rallying strongly because of greater demand sparked by an upswing in the globally economy. Much of t...Read More
Every evening, I walk through a steep, narrow road from McLeod Ganj, where Mr. Dalai Lama lives, to my home down the hill.A large dog runs madly around his house like a wild animal, trying to jump over the fence whenever he sees me. I find this strange because I am no threat to him. If he wants to socialize with me, he could have politely negotiated with his Buddhist human. I think he is being v...Read More
Meandering PricesPrices rise and prices fall. So, too, they fall and rise. This is how the supply and demand sweet spot is continually discovered - and rediscovered. When supply exceeds demand for a good or service, prices fall. Conversely, when demand exceeds supply, prices rise. Supply and demand (the curves usually shown in such charts are unrealistic, as bids and offers in the market are...Read More
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to be joined by a man who needs little introduction,Marc Faber, editor of The Gloom, Boom andDoom Report. Dr. Faber has been a long-time guest on financial showsthroughout the world, and is a well-known Austrian economist and investmentadvisor, and it's a tremendous honor to have him on with us today.Dr. Faber, thanks so muchfor joining us again, and, how are y...Read More
The gold miners’ stockshave mostly been consolidating low this year, exacerbating bearishsentiment. Even with gold grindinghigher in a solid uptrend and nearing a major upside breakout, the gold stocksjust can’t get any love. But that may beabout to change, with gold and its miners’ stocks in the midst of their springrally. Strong seasonal tailwinds makeMay one...Read More
The search for DNA relatives is clever detective work, but it does raise issues of data protection I've been warning about.DNA info must be viewed as personal property of the most intimate and personal form. We must own itContinue...Read More
Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed first time guest, experienced stock trader and editor at the Cross Currents stock market trading newsletter http://www.cross-currents.net/, Alan Newman. Alan began professionally trading markets in 1987 and has been writing a paid newsletter for stock market traders for 28 years. Alan talks about stock market support levels to watch and he thinks tha...Read More
Continue...Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Prins is known for her books All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Po...Read More
Getting a fever is no fun. You likely get chills, you sweat, and you're just generally uncomfortable. You get tired easily and need to rest. But here's the Continue...Read More
Do you have the nagging sense that our empire is in decline?If so, don't be embarrassed by it. Historically speaking, we're in very good company. Far larger and longer-lived empires than ours have come and gone over the millennia. Continue...Read More
As the yield on the 10Y US Treasury note broke above the 3.00% Maginot Line this week (for the first time since Jan 2014), traders piled on - pushing net Continue...Read More
It was as busy a week as we've come to expect from SDX Energy Plc (LON:SDX) which made a new discovery and kicked off a new exploration well.On Friday, it announced the spudding of the LMS-1 exploration well on the Lalla Mimouna permit, onshore Morocco. It is the final well in the group's current campaign in Morocco, and the well is expected to take 15 to 20 days to drill.If it is successful, the...Read More
Gold mining earnings for Q1 remained moderate yet ETFs managed to stay in the green.Read full newsRead More
The Trump administration today announced it has completed a yearslong analysis of a massive open-pit gold mining project in Alaska's remote southwestern Kuskokwim Mountains, a move that brings two Canadian mining companies closer to accessing one of the world's largest gold deposits.Read full newsRead More
EDMONTON, Alberta, April 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Altiplano Minerals Ltd. (APN.V) (ALTPF) (9AJ1.F) (Read full newsRead More
Indigenous people warn the mine poses a serious threat to biodiversity, but their future and that of the forest lies in the hands of the French governmentRead full newsRead More
Commodities Analysis by Steve St. Angelo covering: XAU/USD, Gold Futures. Read Steve St. Angelo's latest article on Investing.comRead full newsRead More
ZUG, Switzerland, April 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Jinbi Token (https://jinbitoken.io/), a UK and Switzerland-based...Read full newsRead More
WASHINGTON, Michigan (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico.“That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion (dollars),” Trump said at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan.“We come up again on September 28th and if we don&rsquo...Read More