There are several "conventional" methods of trading earnings that most option traders are taught... Sponsored by TheoTradeFour times a year, publicly-listed companies are required to step up to the earnings confessional to announce revenue and earnings per share results for the prior quarter and future projections for growth going forward. These are conducted through prepared press releases and co...Read More

SHANGHAI, May 3 (SMM) – Sentiment in China’s manganese market improved following the Labour Day holiday as major steel mills issued purchase tenders.SMM assessed manganese in the domestic market at 11,900-12,000 yuan/mt ex-works on Thursday May 3, down from 11,900-12,100 yuan/mt the previous day.SMM expects a brief period of active transactions following the conclusion of ten...Read More

By Rory HallApparently there's gold in them there trash cans!! At least in South Korea.It seems a janitor was doing his daily routing when he lifted an unusually heavy bin of refuse. Upon further investigation, the janitor who wishes to remain anonymous ( can't blame him!! ), found 7 kilo bars of gold worth $325,000.A janitor in South Korea who discovered seven gold bars in a garbage bin could k...Read More

Continue...Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD in Statistics, and his career has stretched over 25 years. He aspires to thrive in the financial editor world, unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Jim operates a free website called Golden Jackass.Read More

By Nicholas LePan, GoldSeek.com As the market for base metals over the past year has improved, along with steady improvements in the price of gold, companies that have base metal production in addition to gold and silver are seeing the gains on their balance sheets. Some even where the additional base metal credits reduce the total cash cost of gold production. Gold Resource Corp. (NYSE...Read More

Ferrous futures in China were down during morning trading on Thursday May 3, with sentiment turning more cautious among market participants after a bullish start to the working week.Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange October rebar: 3,688 yuan ($579) per tonne, down 25 yuan per tonne October hot-rolled coil: 3,770 yuan per tonne, down 16 yuan per tonne Dalian Commodi...Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More

"the glee I'd derive from seeing a large piton driven into the forehead of a bullion bank behemoth after one of these episodes cannot be adequately imagined."by Michael Ballanger via Streetwise Reports"SHE-NAN-I-GANS"pronunciation: "SH?(TM)?^nan???(TM)nz/"Noun informal1. "secret or dishonest activity or maneuvering." as in "widespread financial shenanigans had ruined the fortunes of many"2. "sil...Read More

- Gold demand globally -7% in Q1, 2018 - Gold Demand Trends (WGC)- Gold ETF demand fell sharply year on year from very high levels but had 5th consecutive quarter of inflows- Investment demand was strong in the US where ETF holdings rose another 32.4 tonnes as "stock market volatility sparked US inflows"- Store of value bullion coin and bar demand fell 15% as reported Chinese, German and America...Read More

(Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes opened lower on Thursday as investors remained on edge about U.S.-China trade talks, while the latest round of earnings added little cheer.The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 88.75 points, or 0.37 percent, at the open to 23,836.23. The S&P 500 .SPX opened lower by 7.59 points, or 0.29 percent, at 2,628.08. The Nasdaq Composite .IXICdropped 35.87 point...Read More

From Amazon, CVS, and AirBnB, early investment is the key to earning big.Any investor who wants to rake in big profits only really needs to know one thing:The biggest fortunes in the world right now are being made in technology.Take the following example:Amazon is now the world's third largest retailer, just behind Wal-Mart and CVS...Airbnb now offers more rooms than Hilton, InterContinental and M...Read More

By RambusSince roughly the middle of January of this year we've seen some big changes in character taking place in many different areas of the markets. After nearly two years of low volatility, which is much easier to take, volatility has come back with a vengeance and doesn't seem to be slowing down much. Its been most obvious in the stock markets, but now the US dollar's volatility has spiked...Read More

FEASIBILITY DESIGN EXPECTATIONS BEING MET AS GOLD SALES AND SUCCESSFUL RAMP-UP CONTINUESVANCOUVER , May 3, 2018 /CNW/ - Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (NEE.V) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that we have completed five gold shipments and we continue to meet the design expectations of our NI 43-101 Feasibility Report (published in 2015) at its Moss Mine in NW Arizona .Kenneth Berry , Preside...Read More

The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the Eurozone manufacturing sector fell to a 13-month low in April this year due to a slowdown in growth across five of the eight nations covered, data supplier IHS Markit said on Wednesday May 2.The final rating for April was 56.2, down from 56.6 in March, after the sector experienced its fourth consecutive rating fall so far this year.A figure higher than...Read More

Continue...Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. Keiser invented "Virtual Specialist Technology," a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Prior to inventing this technology, he worked on Wall S...Read More

3 Things You Must Know Before the Market Opens TheStreet's Executive Editor Brian Sozzi says Tesla CEO made three glaring mistakes during his wacky earnings call.The S&P 500's forward price-to-earnings multiple, which stood at 18.6 in late January, has declined to 16.3 notes Yardeni Research. Fresh off an activist investor attack, TheStreet will sit down with Akamai's (AKAM) CEO Tom Lei...Read More

The shares hit a three-year high on April 12 before pulling back to technical supportIt's been a rough stretch for retail stocks, with the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT) currently staring at a 1.3% year-to-date deficit. Plus, according to data from Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White, roughly half of the 87 stocks we track under the "General Retailers" umbrella are trading below their 8...Read More

By David Haggith We are now well into the year when I said stocks would plunge in January and would prove to be a gaping "crack" in the economy by summer, and look at how seriously the market has fallen apart since it started to drop in the last week of January:It was just three months ago that stock-market investors were being swept up by a euphoria pinned to the idea of economic expansion taki...Read More

CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGEThe Long-Term trend for Gold is up, as it continues to remain above 17-year support line (1).The 7-year trend for Gold is down, as it continues to trade below falling resistance line (2).These two long-term support/resistance lines look to be forming a multi-year pennant pattern that is "About To End." Pennant patterns often indicate frustration for both bulls and bears...Read More

By Rachel Louise Ensign AJ Murphy, the head of Bank of America Corp.'s capital-markets business and one of the most senior women on Wall Street, is leaving the firm to join private-equity giant Silver Lake, according to people familiar with the matter. The bank announced Ms. Murphy's departure in an internal memo Thursday, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by a bank spo...Read More