SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg returns to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for more questioning by lawmakers who have a rare chance to air grievances about the company directly to the head of the world’s largest social media network.The internet magnate is scheduled to testify at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) before the U.S. House of Representatives Energ...Read More

BOAO/BEIJING, China (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday to open the country’s economy further and lower import tariffs on products like cars, in a speech seen as an attempt to defuse an escalating trade dispute with the United States.While much of his pledges were reiterations of previously announced reforms that foreign businesses say are long overdue, Xi’s co...Read More

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia on Wednesday of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack, declaring that missiles “will be coming” and lambasting Moscow for standing by Syrian President Bashar Assad.Trump was responding to a Russian warning on Tuesday that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over the assault on a rebel en...Read More

Silver appears to be in thetwilight zone, stuck in a very tight range. The commercials are buying silver,selling gold and yet the ratio continues to expand, with gold now 82 times oversilver.On the surface, the silverCommitment of Traders report appears to be bullish. However, the charts are notplaying out that way. Silver is in an extraordinarily tight range, keeping thesilver bulls at bay.The si...Read More

(Kitco News) - Hecla Mining Co. (NYSE:HL) reported Wednesday that silver output in the first quarter fell from thesame period a year ago as the Lucky Friday Mine strike continues, but goldproduction increased slightly.Silverproduction for the January-March quarter was 2.5 million ounces, down from 3.4million in the same period of 2017.Unionizedworkers at Lucky Friday have been on strike since Marc...Read More

The golden cross doesn't shine as bright as some quants may expectAny basic stock charting software comes with some standard technical analysis indicators including the RSI, MACD, moving averages, etc. I rarely see anyone try to measure their results, though. Which one works best? This week I'm going to try to answer that question. I've done this study in the past, but environments change, and ind...Read More

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By Zandi ShabalalaLONDON, April 11 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto defended its executive salary policy on Wednesday after proxy adviser Glass Lewis urged shareholders to vote against it and criticised the firm for paying out bonuses in 2017, a year when two employees died at work.Glass Lewis said any payout in a year when employees had died - one in Australia and one in the United States - was "considered...Read More

Robbers accessed heavily-guarded facilities at mine TuesdayNobody was hurt in the incident, Harmony spokeswoman saysThieves broke into Harmony Gold Mining Co.’s Kalgold mine Tuesday morning and stole 12 kilograms (386 ounces) of the precious metal, according to spokeswoman Lauren Fourie.The robbers accessed “heavily guarded” gold storage facilities in a significant security br...Read More

While congresscritters expressed outrage at Facebook's intrusive data grabs during Capitol Hill hearings with Mark Zuckerberg this week, not a peep was heard about the Silicon Valley-Beltway theft ring purloining the personal information and browsing habits of millions of American schoolchildren.It doesn't take undercover investigative journalists to unmask the massive privacy invasion enabled by...Read More

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Recovering gold, copper and other metals from electronic waste - a practice called "urban mining" - is not only more environmentally friendly than extracting virgin materials, but can also be more cost effective. Newly published research shows that the revenue from selling metals recovered through recycling television sets far outweighs the recyclers' expenses. With these offsets, it costs 13 time...Read More

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Jose Alberto Gamboa,whose smile flashes the gold he has spent his life digging fromColombia's frosty Andean mountains, says he will do whatever ittakes to protect his town's only industry: mining.Read full newsRead More

Cash in on firmer gold by investing in Continental Gold Inc. (TSX:CNL).Read full newsRead More

The world's biggest mining companies must improve their human rights record and step up efforts to curb environmental damage, the Responsible Mining Foundation said in its first review of global mining practices.The Responsible Mining Index, launched in Geneva on Wednesday, assesses the policies and practices of 30 large companies that produce 25 percent of mined commodities, from gold to copper a...Read More

The world's biggest mining companies must improve their human rights record and step up efforts to curb environmental damage, the Responsible Mining Foundation said in its first review of global mining practices.The Responsible Mining Index, launched in Geneva on Wednesday, assesses the policies and practices of 30 large companies that produce 25 percent of mined commodities, from gold to copper a...Read More

The world's biggest mining companies must improve their human rights record and step up efforts to curb environmental damage, the Responsible Mining Foundation said in its first review of global mining practices.The Responsible Mining Index, launched in Geneva on Wednesday, assesses the policies and practices of 30 large companies that produce 25 percent of mined commodities, from gold to copper a...Read More

By Carolynn Look(Bloomberg) - If Germans have any doubts about the authenticity of their gold - and some of them really do - their central bank is doing all it can to qualm their concerns.Germany's Bundesbank this week launches a nearly six-month exhibition on gold, which will showcase the most interesting gold bars and coins in the central bank's collection. That follows its release earlier this...Read More

Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq all jumped on Tuesday, rising 1.79%, 1.67% and 2.07%, respectively.Shares of Facebook Inc. (FB)  rose 4.5% as CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Senate committees.Shares of other leading tech companies also jumped. Apple (AAPL) gained 1.8%, Alphabet (GOOGL) jumped 1.6...Read More