Miners have big gaps in their computer networks that would be easily found by motivated hackers, according to an EY report.Staff reporterThis looks like helpful software26 MARCH 201826/03/2018commentsshareEY said the move to more technologically advanced mine operating systems had been good for productivity but suggested some networks and even workstations were openly accessible online, with gaps...Read More
Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (15,298.56, up 74.82 points)Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB). Healthcare. Down 21 cents, or 2.08 per cent, to $9.90 on 7.8 million shares.Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TSX:TRQ). Miner. Down six cents, or 1.43 per cent, to $4.14 on 7.3 million shares.Trevali Mining Corp. (TSX:TV). Miner. Up thr...Read More
Antimony prices fell last week in Europe after more material reached warehouses in Rotterdam while demand remained weak; the Chinese market continued to be subdued lacking further direction.Metal Bulletin assessed MMTA standard grade II antimony in-warehouse Rotterdam prices at $8,500-8,675 per tonne, down 0.7% from Wednesday's assessment and down from $8,600-8,800 per tonne level the week before....Read More
Gold futures rose for a fourth straight session Monday, marking their highest settlement in just over five weeks as investors eyed trade tensions between the U.S. and China and their impact on the U.S. dollar and stock market. Prices for the metal found support as the dollar declined, but a rebound in U.S. stocks on the back of easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China kept a cap on the met...Read More
(Kitco News)- Largespeculators slashed their bullish exposure to gold by 18% in the latest weeklydata compiled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but the next roundof figures is likely to show that bulls have regained their footing after thelate-week price rally.Thedata showed a record level of bearish positioning in silver, although this isalso likely to have been scaled back by short c...Read More
The Chinese silicon export market continued to weaken over the past week due to soft demand, while prices in the European market were unchanged.Metal Bulletin assessed the Chinese grade 553 silicon export price at $1,960-2,000 per tonne on Friday March 23, down from $1,980-2,030 per tonne in the prior week, with sellers lowering their offer prices to entice business from otherwise uninterested buy...Read More
BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has visited China, Bloomberg reported on Monday citing three unnamed sources, in what would be his first known overseas trip since taking power in 2011 and ahead of a potential summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.Details of his visit including its purpose and itinerary were not yet known, Bloomberg said. Japanese media reported earlier on Mond...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCrypto CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Commander Resources Ltd. (TSXV: CMD) South Voiseys Bay Project Expands as Fjordland Options Claims from Vulcan Minerals in Labrador Vancouver, British Columbia - March 26, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Commander Resources L...Read More
Losses in Chinese tech stocks outpaced their U.S. counterparts on Thursday, with those losses holding into the close after President Donald Trump announced tariffs on tens of billions of dollars' worth of goods from China. On Thursday, Trump said he instructed the office of the U.S. Trade Representative to draw up a list of tariffs on Chinese products totaling at least $50 billion with an emphasis...Read More
Turkish steel producers have entered a third week with no deep-sea trading, while offers and bids in the market kept the daily scrap indices largely flat, sources said on Monday March 26.Metal Bulletin's daily index for Northern European HMS 1&2 (80:20) closed the day at $368.10 per tonne cfr, up by only $0.41 per tonne day-on-day.The daily index for similar US-origin scrap closed at $378.08 per t...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCrypto CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop 92 Resources Corp. (TSXV: NTY) (OTCQB: RGDCF) (FSE: R9G2) Announces Mobilization for a High-resolution Airborne Magnetic Survey at the Pontax Property, Quebec Vancouver, British Columbia - March 26, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com News...Read More
You can see the solutions brewing.Some industries have already been upended by stealthy tech-age competitors. I save so much money traveling by using Airbnb to rent rooms instead of hotels. Airbnb finds me cheaper accommodations that are usually better than hotels. You can usually get a better location, with a full kitchen for half the price of a basic hotel room in the same area.Because of Airbnb...Read More
Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. The INK CIN began last week with a spirited run and indeed broke higher as I posited in my prior blog. However, the Index hit a solid wall of resistance at 1294.31, (a mere two points above the upper Bollinger band) and cascaded downwards just as US markets went into correction mode. The...Read More
Last week gold and silver heldthe bottoms, and both had big rallies. Gold rallied from $1,306, gaining almost$40, and silver rallied from $16.10, gaining 55 cents. The real question: canthese rallies hold and go higher or are they just testing the upper end of theranges they have been in for the last couple of months.The answer is complicated. Theycertainly can break out to the upside, but based o...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCrypto CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Fjordland (TSXV: FEX) Options Claims from Vulcan Minerals in Labrador Vancouver, British Columbia - March 26, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Fjordland Exploration Inc. (TSXV: FEX) ("Fjordland") announces a Letter of Intent h...Read More
Turkish domestic auto bundle scrap prices remained largely steady over the past week, with most steel mills in the country keeping their buying prices unchanged, while ship scrap prices dipped slightly, sources said on Monday March 26.Metal Bulletin's weekly price assessment for domestic auto bundle (DKP grade) scrap in Turkey was unchanged at TRY1,300-1,520 ($327-382) per tonne delivered on...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street’s three major indexes jumped to their greatest one-day gain in two-and-a-half years on Monday, led by the tech sector, as trade war fears eased on reports that the United States and China were willing to renegotiate tariffs and trade imbalances.The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 669.4 points, or 2.84 percent, to 24,202.6, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 7...Read More
Son of the Imperial CityWhat are the chances of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell being wrong? The chances he'll be wrong on the economy's growth prospects, the direction of the federal funds rate, and inflation itself? Our guess is his chances of being wrong are quite high. The new central planner-in-chief. Central banks are facing a special case of the socialist calculation problem per...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1352.90+$7.20Silver$16.69+$0.16XAU82.50+1.22%HUI178.97+1.19%GDM626.21+1.46%JSE Gold1129.86-1.40USD89.05-0.40Euro124.54+0.98Yen95.00-0.70Oil$65.55-$0.3310-Year2.846%+0.034T-Bond144.5625-0.15625Dow24202.60+2.84%Nasdaq7220.54+3.26%S&P2658.55+2.72% The Metals: Gold climbed $10.10 to $1355.80 in late morning New York trade before it edged back lower into th...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Banks should adopt compensation plans that discourage excessive risk-taking and place greater onus on senior managers for wrongdoing, the outgoing head of the New York Federal Reserve said on Monday.William Dudley, who plans to step down later this year, said regulators should encourage banks to overhaul their corporate cultures to reduce risk and bad behavior, even as regul...Read More