After declining by more than 20 percent from the October peak, oil prices are showing some signs that they have now bottomed out.WTI hit a low point at $56 per barrel on Wednesday and Brent hit a low just below $65 per barrel. Both crude benchmarks regained some ground at the end of the week, despite the huge increase in U.S. crude oil inventories. In fact, rising prices in the face of the 10-mill...Read More

When dealing with the buying and selling ofcommodities, there are things which you need to know. It can be a complicatedbusiness, and this means that people who buy and sell products can fall intosome of the common pitfalls and experience issues. However, commodities can cover a wide range ofdifferent goods and services, so there are things that you're going to need toknow. To try and make sure th...Read More

Are the metals markets ending a price correction in unison and preparing for a massive price advance?  This is the question we asked our research team to investigate and their findings may help skilled traders identify great opportunities in the future.  This multi-part research article will share our most recent opinion about the metals markets as well as share some critical new data th...Read More

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses the recent rise in precious metals prices and what he sees ahead for the metals. As many of us have grown to appreciate over the years, forecasts tend to be nothing more than "educated guesses" and no matter what methods one uses, predicting directional and amplitudinal movements in economics or finance or asset prices is analogous to standing in...Read More

RAPAPORT... Gemfields has sold a 5,655-carat emerald to Indian gemstonespecialist Dia-Color for an undisclosed amount, the miner said Tuesday. Gemfields extracted the Inkalamu, or Lion Emerald, at itsKagem mine in Zambia last month. It was one of 26 lots it offered at its auction inSingapore last week, which fetched a combined $28.4 million from the sale of 420,000carats of rough Kagem emeral...Read More

RAPAPORT... A fancy-vivid-blue diamond with an estimate of $20 millionto $30 million will head up Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels auction in NewYork next month. The pear-shaped, 10.62-carat, VVS1-clarity stone from aprivate European collection will go under the hammer at the December 4 sale,Sotheby's said Monday. Other notable pieces include a Harry Winston diamond ringwith a cushion-cut center...Read More

Click Here to Listen to the Interview As tensions between the US and China ratchet up, what next for the global economy as the world's biggest debtor nation takes on the world's largest creditor nation for primacy in the hearts and minds of Asia-Pacific nations. With its huge war chest of cash, China is forcing America to cough up more credit to maintain its military supremacy in the...Read More

If corporate earnings rise in 2019 like Wall Street analysts expect, stocks are a screaming buy at these bear-market levels. But earnings won't rise and stocks are not a buy, says money manager Michael Pento: Earnings Recession of 2019President Trump’s plan to stimulate the economy, known as The Tax Cut and Jobs Act, was signed into law at the end of 2017. It ushered in a massive and permane...Read More

If corporate earnings rise in 2019 like Wall Street analysts expect, stocks are a screaming buy at these bear-market levels. But earnings won't rise and stocks are not a buy, says money manager Michael Pento: Earnings Recession of 2019President Trump’s plan to stimulate the economy, known as The Tax Cut and Jobs Act, was signed into law at the end of 2017. It ushered in a massive and permane...Read More

Why This Week Was FAANG's Turn to Suffer As the selloff continues, a lot of familiar names are making history in the worst kind of way.Facebook is on track to post its longest losing streak ever, with its third straight month in the red. And while a recent New York Times report savaging its top management won't help any, Dan Ferris notes that value investors still like the company - if they're wil...Read More

In 2013, De Beers Canada turned down a chance to own a majority stake in Peregrine Diamonds' Chidliak project in Nunavut.Five years later, it now owns the project outright.What changed in that time period? De Beers Canada CEO Kim Truter says that the timing just wasn't quite right the first time around."I always say to people that to develop a mining business, you need a few stars to line up and o...Read More

Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) announced in October that its new sales platform Clara Diamond Solutions, is ready for its first sale of diamonds in November.The platform is meant to modernize the diamond selling process and improve margins for both buyers and sellers. Sales through Clara will be stone by stone rather than by assortments, which the company says will achieve the best possible price for p...Read More

Pan American Silver's (TSX: PAAS; NASDAQ: PAAS) friendly acquisition of Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO) in a cash-and-share deal valued at US$1.07 billion will double the company's silver reserves and create the largest publicly traded silver mining company by free float.Tahoe Resources owns and operates the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala (now on care and maintenance), the La Arena and Sh...Read More

Gold rose 0.9% to close the trading week at US$1,221.10. The Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index rose 2.9% to 66.08, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.2% to 25,413.22. The S&P 500 Index fell 1.6% to 2,736.27.Shares of Sibanye-Stillwater rose 12.2% to US$2.67, after the company signed a three-year wage agreement with three unions. The company failed, however, to reach an agreement with...Read More

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 4.13% to finish the trading week at 624.50.White Gold posted the largest value gain with a 27 ? jump to $1.44 on the back of drill results from its JP Ross property in Canada's Yukon. The junior released results from three rotary air-blast (RAB) holes and 11 reverse-circulation holes drilled at the property's Vertigo target. The most significant hole, 18-6,...Read More

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A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 21, 2018, on Page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: 17 Years After 9/11, Militants Have Steadily Multiplied, Study Says. Continue...Read More

In today's episode, we tackle an esoteric topic but one that has the most real world impact on your life today than just about anything else - inflation vs. deflation. Doug lays out the differences, what causes them and what is likely to happen as the Greater Depression kicks into high gear. Doug Casey is an American-born libertarian economist and advocate of the free market. He is a bestselling f...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne, Founder of The Daily Gold joins me to first focus on the continued downtrend in precious metals stocks. As close as this correction could be to being over this week is reminding us that the stocks have yet to bottom. We also compare the weakness in the US dollar and bond market to the metals and overall mentality of investors.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician...Read More

The 100-day and 50-day moving averages for gold have just crossed following months of a consistent differential, and this pattern is indicative of a "sharp drop" down in the gold price, said Gary Wagner, editor of the GoldForecast.com.0:00 - Death Cross5:13 - Gold vs VIX7:04 - Gold vs U.S. dollar8:45 - Gold vs inflation13:03 - TradesGary Wagner has been a technical market analyst for 25 years. A f...Read More