(Kitco News) - Gold is due for a comeback even if the global equities space rallies following a recent correction, according to Wells Fargo, which projects to see the precious metal rise another 7% from current levels.“We suspect that gold could very well continue to rally as we exit 2018 and enter 2019, even if stocks do too. Our rolling 12-month gold target is $1,300—roughly 7% highe...Read More

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - In one of the biggest challenges for his party in Tuesday’s elections, Beto O’Rourke hoped to oust Republican Ted Cruz and become the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from the deeply conservative state of Texas in three decades.The 46-year-old former punk rocker and three-term U.S. congressman captured the national spotlight and smashed an 18-year-ol...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc blocked about 115 user accounts after U.S. authorities tipped it off to suspicious behavior that may be linked to a foreign entity, the company said in a blog post on Monday, hours before U.S. voters head to the polls.The social network said it needed to do further analysis to decide if the accounts are linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency or ano...Read More

Groupon has been struggling on the charts for monthsShares of Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) are trading slightly higher this afternoon, last seen up 0.9% at $3.30. The coupon concern is expected to report its third-quarter earnings before the market opens tomorrow, Nov. 7. Below, we will take a look at what the options market has priced in for the stock's post-earnings moves, and dive into the shares'...Read More

The outcome of today's US midterm elections will have a significant impact on US politics over the next two years, while it could also have implications for the economy and, in turn, stocks and the dollar, as the ease with which Donald Trump will be able to pass meaningful economic policies in the remaining two years of his first term as President is at stake. By extension, gold, which is pric...Read More

(Kitco News)- Although silver prices have significantly disappointingexpectations this past year, one precious metals specialist said that growingindustrial demand will continue to support the market and eventually attractinvestors.David Holmes, senior vice president at Heraeus, said in apresentation at the London Bullion Market Association’s 2018 precious metalsconference that the silver ma...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - European shares ended a choppy session in negative territory on Tuesday as investors punished companies like Zalando that missed expectations and remained cautious while waiting for the results of U.S. mid-term elections.The pan-European STOXX 600 and the euro zone's leading index .STOXX50E both dipped 0.3 percent.“Global stocks are in wait and see mode today, with losse...Read More

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Prosecutors searched the Munich offices of BlackRock (BLK.N) on Tuesday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, as part of the country’s largest post-war fraud investigation.The practice being investigated, known as cum-ex, typically involved trading company shares rapidly around a syndicate of banks, investors and hedge funds to create the impression of numerous o...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s information watchdog has asked Facebook’s lead European regulator to investigate how the company targets, monitors and shows adverts to users, saying it was concerned about some practices at the world’s biggest social network.Britain’s Information Commissioner has been investigating the use of data analytics to influence politics after consultan...Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Tuesday, with U.S. crude futures sliding to a seven-month low a day after Washington granted sanction waivers to top buyers of Iranian oil, as Iran said it had so far been able to sell as much oil as it needs to sell.Brent crude LCOc1 futures dropped 96 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $72.21 a barrel, by 11:03 a.m. EST (1603 GMT). The global benchmark hit a sessio...Read More

The stock tends to struggle in the last two months of the yearThe holidays will be here before you know it, and that means retail stocks take center stage. However, GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) is one retailer to avoid in the coming months, if history is any guide. Below, we outlined 25 stocks that tend to struggle during the holiday season.According to Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky...Read More

Bearish sentiment and recent buybacks could make RH a strong buy in NovemberIt's shaping up to be a great time to go long on home furnishings retailer Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc (NYSE:RH). While the shares have pulled back in recent months from their highs near $160 from early September, they're bouncing from the site of their 2015 and 2017 highs, hinting at double-barreled support going f...Read More

Oil prices are lower againStocks are modestly higher at midday, with traders keeping a close eye on midterm election updates. The technology sector is seeing some of the biggest gains today, with a sharp push higher for IBM (IBM) helping boost the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) to a triple-digit lead. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) are up, as well, as the latter seeks to s...Read More

Gold enjoyed a 2% rally last month amid a pretty volatile October.Speculators hold a very small net long position in Comex gold, CFTC data shows. ETF investors boosted their gold holdings, albeit at a moderate pace, according to FastMarkets.Although October lived up to its reputation for risk assets, investors did not rush into gold.Given the Fed's determination to tighten its policy, investors ar...Read More

(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) said on Tuesday an internal underwriting error had caused it to reject home loan modifications, resulting in the bank foreclosing more homes than expected.The bank said in a filing with regulators that an expanded review found that 870 customers were incorrectly denied mortgage changes, leading to 545 of them losing their homes.This comes after the bank in...Read More

Looking at oil prices, sanctions on Iran haven't so much kicked in as shuffled onto the stage. Waivers granted to eight countries by the Trump Administration should mitigate the drop in Iranian oil exports to a large degree (and could even herald a near-term increase).With midterm elections on Tuesday, the White House had good reason to go with hem-and-haw rather than shock-and-awe. Higher oil pri...Read More

After a few months threatening to break the all-time record (102,635 units, set last December), the Chinese plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market finally hit a new high, with some 104,900 plug-in vehicles being registered in September, up 66% and in line with previous months' growth ratesRead full newsRead More

(Kitco News)- The gold market could struggle through the rest of the year asthere is a lack of fundamental reasons to push prices higher, according to oneAustralian Bank.It is difficult to be overly bullish on gold as there is no newcatalyst that could dramatically drive prices higher, Macquarie precious metals analyst MatthewTurner told Kitco News on the sidelines of the London Bullion MarketAsso...Read More

(Kitco News) - The gold market could struggle through the rest of the year as there is a lack of fundamental reasons to push prices higher, according to one Australian Bank.It is difficult to be overly bullish on gold as there is no new catalyst that could dramatically drive prices higher, Macquarie precious metals analyst Matthew Turner told Kitco News on the sidelines of the London Bullion Marke...Read More

Canadian miners' performance slipped in the three months leading to the end of September, due mostly to weaker gold, nickel, copper and zinc prices, the latest report by consultancy Ernst & Young (EY) reveals.Following a 5% drop between April and June this year, gold prices decreased by another 5% in the third quarter, mainly due to the strong US dollar and the recent Federal Reserve rate hike of...Read More