McDonald's is among the equities with an ominous-sounding chart patternThere's been some chatter recently about major European stock indexes forming a "death cross" on the charts, which occurs when a short-term moving average crosses below a longer-term moving average. This is thought to be a bearish sign, signaling an oncoming decline for an equity or index. However, amid the recent stock market...Read More

John Maynard Keynes once famously called gold the "barbarous relic". The emergence of the cryptocurrencies seems to validate that thesis. Will gold survive in the digital era?Bitcoin as Digital GoldLet's face it. Bitcoin and gold are similar. Both assets are rare and their supply is limited (it cannot be increase at will by politicians or central bankers). Actually, Bitcoin was conceived as the di...Read More

Domestic prices for heavy steel plate in Europe have been flat over the past week because buying has yet to pick up after the Easter holidays in the EU, sources told Metal Bulletin on Wednesday April 4.Metal Bulletin's assessment of prices for domestic grade-S235JR heavy steel plate in Southern Europe was ?,?570-580 ($700-713) per tonne ex-works for the week ended Wednesday, unchanged from a week...Read More

Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) has won a key battle in its ongoing row with Greece after an arbitration panel ruled in favour of the company's plans to build a plant for treating concentrates form the Olympias and Skouries projects, in the country's north.The panel rejected allegations that a technical study submitted by Eldorado was deficient and in violation of a transfer contract an...Read More

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Legal cannabis is clearly one of the most lucrative industries in the world right now for global investors. In 2017, the sales of legal marijuana jumped by 33 percent to $9.7bn in North American market alone and because of tax cuts in America, these numbers should continue to grow. Cannabis stocks or marijuana stocks stand to benefit greatly from this growing trend.According to ArcView, a cannabis...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday he expects trade actions between the United States and China will likely lead to a negotiated deal, but that it was unclear whether such talks would happen by the end of May or later.“It wouldn’t be surprising at all if the net outcome of all this is some sort of a negotiation,” Ross said in an interview...Read More

HRL shares took out a notable moving average Stocks today are trading around news China will implement tariffs on U.S. imports, resulting in heavy losses for certain agriculture names. On the flip side, meat producers are getting a boost, with traders speculating that the drop in soybean prices will benefit the group. One name in particular that's rallying and seeing unusual options trading is Hor...Read More

A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary GeologistApril 2, 2018 Junior resource sector speculators are often subjected to this or that company's insiders and promoters informing us in no uncertain terms that this or that country, department, prefecture, province, state, or territory is the "fill-in-the-blank"-best jurisdiction in the world for mining investment. Of course, the promoti...Read More

TSX Venture Symbol: COR OTCQB Symbol: CAMZF Frankfurt Symbol: XC01VANCOUVER , April 4, 2018 /CNW/ - Camino Minerals Corp. ("Camino" or the "Company") (COR:TSX-V) is pleased to announce it has completed and filed on SEDAR an updated NI 43-101 Technical Report ("the Report") for its Los Chapitos project ("Chapitos"), located in southern Peru . The Report was authored by Mr. David Burga , P.Geo. w...Read More

Metal Bulletin looks at seven key things discussed in Xi'an last month at China Iron & Steel Association's 16th International Steel Market and Trade Conference that will have a major impact on the Asian and Chinese steel markets in the coming years.China plans to cut another 30 million tonnes of steel capacity in 2018China is planning to cut another 30 million tonnes of steel capacity in 2018 as p...Read More

Stephen Roach explains why escalating trade tensions with China is not a good thing for the U.S. economy and how deals between U.S. and Chinese companies happen.?>>?Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the author, m...Read More

- Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated 50 years ago today- An anti-war campaigner, protesting against the damage inflicted by military operations- King was almost prophetic in his vision that wars would drive a bigger wedge between rich and poor- Foresaw the damage that would come to US in terms of costs to society and the economy- Fifty years on Western nations can learn from K...Read More

Plus, XLB is trading near its 320-day trendlineAgriculture stocks are taking a hit today, after China unveiled a new round of excise taxes in reaction to U.S. tariffs. Joining automobiles and airplanes on the list of U.S. imports that face tariffs of up to 25% are soybeans and chemicals, which has the Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLB) trading down 0.9% at $55.97 to test its 320-day moving av...Read More

MILAN/LONDON (Reuters) - European shares fell for a second day after China unveiled new tariffs against U.S. products, increasing concerns of an escalating trade standoff between the two countries.China hit back quickly on Wednesday against U.S. plans to impose tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods, retaliating with a list of similar duties on key American imports including soybeans, planes, car...Read More

By Graham Summers The Prices Paid Index just rose for its fourth straight month to 78.1: its highest level since April 2011.Why does this matter? Because it's a MAJOR warning that inflation is coming. You see, when inflation hits, it doesn't hit all at once. Instead it rolls out into the economy in stages. The first stage occurs at the "production" level of the economy. In this stage, manage...Read More

- Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated 50 years ago today- An anti-war campaigner, protesting against the damage inflicted by military operations- King was almost prophetic in his vision that wars would drive a bigger wedge between rich and poor- Foresaw the damage that would come to US in terms of costs to society and the economy- Fifty years on Western nations can learn from...Read More

Alasdair Macleod discusses China's plans for independence and how that may impact the well being of the western world and what to do to protect yourself.Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. Read More

Prices for rebar produced and delivered in Southern Europe widened downward by ?,?5 per tonne this week amid continued low demand, sources told Metal Bulletin on Wednesday April 4.Metal Bulletin's weekly domestic price assessment for rebar in Southern Europe widened downward to ?,?510-530 ($627-651) per tonne delivered on Wednesday, compared with ?,?515-530 per tonne delivered one week ago.The ass...Read More

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