Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock JournalGold and silver are set up potentially for an explosive move, fueled by the inevitable escalation of Central Bank money printing. The Federal Reserve has led the charge on this account over the last three months as the financial system has begun to veer off the rails.Currently, the Fed is printing money at the fastest rate in its history. The brown stuff is hit...Read More
RambusTonight I would like to update some commodities charts we haven't looked at in a while. There have been some subtle changes taking place that need to be addressed. Just like the PM complex that topped out in 2011 many commodities also topped out that same year and have been correcting ever since. With the US dollar at an important inflection point it may be time for commodities in general...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold weekly chart just below the resistance area, what to look out this week:Read More
Global political weather is such that financial markets will not sleep during Christmas and New Year weeks. Do not sleep in the next three weeks on your short term investment. Still anything can happen. If you are on a vacation or plan to go on a vacation for the next three weeks, then close very short term open positions in any future and options and ETF. If you are holding physical gold, any p...Read More
French ConnectionSuppressed CompetitionDo Hard ThingsReach Out & ListenVIP AccessChristmas in Puerto Rico, Pat Cox, and MoreWe choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, o...Read More
Turkish steel producers continued to raise their domestic scrap purchase prices over the past week amid higher imported scrap values, sources said on Monday December 16.The price of scrap imported into Turkey has risen over the past week due to tightening supply and firm demand.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), Northern Europe origin, cfr Turkey, was $296.06 per tonne...Read More
Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) is no longer a niche concern in the natural resources sector.Corporate governance and community issues have typically dominated the sustainability and ethical criteria of mining companies and their investors. But more recently, the focus has shifted.Environmental factors, particularly decarbonization, have come to the fore amid increasingly stri...Read More
***This webcast originally aired live on Hedgeye.com on Nov. 21, 2019.***Join us for an exclusive, pro-to-pro conversation featuring renowned short seller Jim Chanos and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.No commercial interruptions. No clueless pundits. Just two sharp investors discussing the art of short selling. You don't want to miss this.Mr. Keith R. McCullough is the Founder and CEO of Hedgeye Ris...Read More
Something to consider before you buy that WiFi enabled camera for your child or grandchild this Christmas...those cameras are all hackable!"I'm Santa Claus. Don't you wanna be my best friend?"Read More
The New York Times last week published shocking drawings by Guantanamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah showing in graphic detail the types of tortures he endured at the hands of CIA officers and Continue...Read More
Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to com...Read More
Asset bubbles are brutal. The most difficult time to remain centered and focused is during their last stages as everyone around you is going nuts. Logic has been tossed out the window, sentiment is manicContinue...Read More
Mohamed El-Erian discusses how the U.S.-China phase one trade deal may impact the markets.Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard...Read More
China is positioning itself to be a world leader in blockchain technology after it was given strong backing by the country's ruler, President Xi. Xi said in a recent speech that blockchain is an "important breakthrough in independent innovation of core technologies."Continue...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices moved down slightly on Monday December 16 amid falling futures.Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,860-3,890 yuan ($553-558) per tonne, down 10 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,550-3,570 yuan per tonne, down 20 yuan per tonneThe losses in the futures market led to a deterioration of sentiment in the spot market. In the northern region, end-user demand dropped sharply...Read More
"We identified multiple instances in which factual assertions relied upon in the first FISA application were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation, based upon information the Continue...Read More
A supply crunch is coming and this will cause commodities to skyrocket in 2020, this according to Frank Holmes, CEO of U.S. Global Investors."This theme of ESG, environmental, social governance, is driving everything and it's going to harm exploration. We're going to see a supply-side restriction but people are going to have babies and the world is going to chug along and grow, but the commodities...Read More
As the Fed expands their balance sheet in the form of "unofficial" quantitative easing, inflation will rise, which will push gold prices up said Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital."I think the price of gold is going up next year, so I want to own it, but I don't know how much is going to go up, but I do believe that once we really start to take off, gold can go to $1,500 to $2,000 very quic...Read More
Major steel billet prices around the world continued to strengthen last week with suppliers securing higher prices for their materials amid increasingly costlier ferrous scrap.Scrap prices in Turkey, the world's largest importer of the steelmaking raw material, breached the psychological $300-per-tonne level for the first time in five months last Friday December 13, though limited demand for Turki...Read More
Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable speaks with Dr. John-Mark Staude, CEO of Riverside Resources, about his company's recent exploration efforts at its Oakes gold project in Ontario and what lies ahead in the new year. Maurice Jackson: Welcome to Proven and Probable. I'm Maurice Jackson. Joining us for conversation is Dr. John-Mark Staude, the president and CEO of Riverside Resources Inc. (RRI...Read More