Editor's Note: Welcome to Kitco's new Bitcoin Daily Technical Alert. Every trading day veteran Kitco technical analyst Jim Wyckoff will provide you with a concise and easy-to-understand near-term technical brief on Bitcoin. Importantly, Jim will glean the short-term charts and technical studies, and then alert you to the signals he sees regarding upcoming potential bigger price moves or price tren...Read More

Here we go again. After two weeksof consolidation, gold is trying to break out to the upside, $13 higher and sittingat resistance. This action was expected; big breakouts are typical out of thecongestion pattern.The bigger question is where doesgold from here? The key level is now $1,240, as a break above brings $1,275into play. With the global tension and markets selling off, money is lookingfor...Read More

Here we go again. After two weeks of consolidation, gold is trying to break out to the upside, $13 higher and sitting at resistance. This action was expected; big breakouts are typical out of the congestion pattern. The bigger question is where does gold from here? The key level is now $1,240, as a break above brings $1,275 into play. With the global tension and markets selling off, money is looki...Read More

(Kitco News)- Just returned from an investment conference in Bermuda,where the mood among some of the biggest names in the industry was definitelybullish. To be taken in context, most players in the metals space are generallyneutral in a worst-case scenario but almost always bullish albeit sometimeswith the caveat “if you are a long-term investor”. Metals dealers do not makemoney telli...Read More

(Kitco News) - Just returned from an investment conference in Bermuda, where the mood among some of the biggest names in the industry was definitely bullish. To be taken in context, most players in the metals space are generally neutral in a worst-case scenario but almost always bullish albeit sometimes with the caveat “if you are a long-term investor”. Metals dealers do not make money...Read More

Worries about trade wars, Brexit, Italy's budget, China's economy and Saudi Arabia all blamed as shares declineRead full newsRead More

Under-the-radar moving averages can provide unexpected support on pullbacksThe disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has cast a distinctly unwelcome spotlight onto the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as the international community grapples with the political, economic, and moral implications of Khashoggi's fateful Oct. 2 visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. While the U.S. has yet to respond fo...Read More

Shares in Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), the world's no.1 heavy machinery maker, fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Tuesday, despite the company beating earnings estimates for the tenth time in a row.The stock lost as much as $9.76 by 8:48 a.m. EST, dropping to $118.95, after closing at $128.71 on Monday, the lowest so far this year. The drop followed the mining and construction equipment manufact...Read More

Shares in Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), the world's no.1 heavy machinery maker, fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Tuesday, despite the company beating earnings estimates for the tenth time in a row.The stock lost as much as $9.76 by 8:48 a.m. EST, dropping to $118.95, after closing at $128.71 on Monday, the lowest so far this year. The drop followed the mining and construction equipment manufact...Read More

Shares in Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), the world's no.1 heavy machinery maker, fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Tuesday, despite the company beating earnings estimates for the tenth time in a row.The stock lost as much as $9.76 by 8:48 a.m. EST, dropping to $118.95, after closing at $128.71 on Monday, the lowest so far this year. The drop followed the mining and construction equipment manufact...Read More

Shares in Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), the world's no.1 heavy machinery maker, fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Tuesday, despite the company beating earnings estimates for the tenth time in a row.The stock lost as much as $9.76 by 8:48 a.m. EST, dropping to $118.95, after closing at $128.71 on Monday, the lowest so far this year. The drop followed the mining and construction equipment manufact...Read More

Shares in Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), the world's no.1 heavy machinery maker, fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Tuesday, despite the company beating earnings estimates for the tenth time in a row.The stock lost as much as $9.76 by 8:48 a.m. EST, dropping to $118.95, after closing at $128.71 on Monday, the lowest so far this year. The drop followed the mining and construction equipment manufact...Read More

(Adds shares, details, background)STOCKHOLM, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Sweden's Sandvik said on Tuesday order intake had improved significantly andbroadly with stable activity also seen in an automotive industryhit by recent wobbles as it posted quarterly core earnings justahead of forecast.Worries over slowing global growth has hit the industrialstocks in recent months in the wake of weakening purchasin...Read More

ANKARA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party will notform an alliance with the nationalist party for the 2019 localelections, but cooperation between the two parties willcontinue, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, after thenationalists pulled out of the alliance earlier.Erdogan's AK Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)formed an alliance ahead of June elections, but have si...Read More

* Gold hits highest since July 17 * Palladium hits record high * EU executive rejects Italian 2019 draft budget(Updates throughout, adds quotes, prices, details)By Swati VermaBENGALURU, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Gold jumped 1 percent to amore than three-month peak on Tuesday, with investors spurred onby a slide in global equities and rising political and economicuncertainty, including concerns over Italy...Read More

$200 million revolving line of credit is undrawn at quarter endCompany Website: http://www.hecla-mining.comCOEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- (Business Wire)Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) today announced certain preliminary results ? for the third quarter of 2018.HIGHLIGHTSSilver production of 2.5 million ounces, and gold production of 72,995 ounces.Silver equivalent production of 10.9 million ounces or gold...Read More

$200 million revolving line of credit is undrawn at quarter endCompany Website: http://www.hecla-mining.comCOEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- (Business Wire)Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) today announced certain preliminary results ? for the third quarter of 2018.HIGHLIGHTSSilver production of 2.5 million ounces, and gold production of 72,995 ounces.Silver equivalent production of 10.9 million ounces or gold...Read More

Anglo American's De Beers, the world's top diamond producer by value, saw rough diamond production decrease by 5% to 8.7-million carats in the quarter ended Sept. 30, mainly due to planned volume reductions in Botswana and South Africa.Output fell by 6% to 5.7 million carats in Botswana as a result of the planned processing of lower-grade material at the Jwaneng mine. Production at Orapa re...Read More

Gold is trapped in a narrow range of $1,220 to $1,230, as the bulls are likely having a breather, having pushed the metal to a 2.5-month high of $1,233 last week. Also, the consolidation is happening in the positive zone above the six-month-long falling trendline. It is worth noting that the trendline hurdle was breached last week. A break above $1,230 (upper edge of the range) would signal a rev...Read More

Canada's IAMGOLD Corp. (TSX IMG), (NYSE: IAG) plans to apply for a mining concession before year-end after releasing a robust feasibility study for its near-2 million ounce Boto gold exploration project in Senegal.President and CEO Steve Letwin said while a final investment decision on the $254-million project was yet to be made, Boto represented a "high-value" one, which would add to the company'...Read More