It was not a great day to be a Russian billionaire...Read full newsRead More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Quirks in the new U.S. tax code are sowing doubts over how much big banks can boost dividends and stock buybacks this year, threatening to take the shine off what are likely to be strong quarterly profits.Changes in how companies can measure and apply past losses to tax bills, coupled with more extreme scenarios in the Federal Reserve’s annual bank stress tests, could ma...Read More

BEIJING (Reuters) - Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said on Tuesday that he is still optimistic that very few if any of the proposed tariffs by the United States and China announced in recent weeks will actually be implemeneted.Kaplan told reporters at an event in Beijing that it is in the interests of both countries to have a constructive trade relationship.Reporting by Elias...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could stagger the process of raising euro zone interest rates by first lifting its sub-zero deposit rate back toward positive territory, one of its longest-standing policymakers, Ewald Nowotny, said on Tuesday.Nowotny told Reuters in an interview that its 2.55 trillion euro ($3.1 trillion) bond buying program would be wound down by the end of this year,...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The massive tax cuts signed into law in December, which Republicans said would pay for themselves, will balloon the U.S. deficit in years ahead, the Congressional Budget Office said on Monday, possibly hobbling President Donald Trump’s future agenda.The deficit - the amount that Washington’s spending exceeds its revenues - will expand to $804 billion in fiscal 20...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday welcomed a push by some EU states to impose new sanctions on Iran and warned firms considering doing business with the Islamic Republic that they could be funding militant groups and regional instability.U.S. President Donald Trump has set European allies a May 12 deadline to revamp an international deal agreed with Tehran in 2015 that lifted interna...Read More

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with his North Korean counterpart, Ri Yong Ho, on Tuesday, and said afterwards that Moscow supported contacts between North Korea and the United States.Lavrov told reporters he had accepted an invitation to visit Pyongyang, and that he and Ri had discussed the situation around North Korea’s nuclear and missile programme, an...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 including cars, in a speech seen as an attempt to defuse an escalating trade dispute with the United States.While most of the pledges were reiterations of previously announced reforms, which foreign businesses complain are long overdue, X...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday raided the offices and home of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, law enforcement sources said, in a dramatic new development in a series of probes involving close Trump associates.Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen M. Ryan, said that U.S. prosecutors conducted a search that was partly a referral by the...Read More

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

The big move is coming. We knowthat markets don't announce themselves, but they do leave footprints. Thefootprints being left in metals are telling us that the tug-of-war between thebulls and the bears can only lead to a major breakout.Monday's action proved thatsomeone is going to take control of this market and break it out either up ordown. We don't know when and we don't know which way, but ou...Read More

The next crisis is just a couple of years away, and Germany will be its largest victim.Read full newsRead More

Mr. Mark Kolebaba reportsADAMERA INTERSECTS GOLD ZONES AT THE KEY WEST TARGETZones with gold were intersected by Adamera Minerals Corp. at the Key West target located one kilometre north of the Overlook gold mine in Washington State. The first drill hole,hole KWN18-01, whichis located 300 metres north of the past-producing Key West mineintersected an upper and lower gold-bearing zone. The upper zo...Read More

Mr. Mark Kolebaba reportsADAMERA INTERSECTS GOLD ZONES AT THE KEY WEST TARGETZones with gold were intersected by Adamera Minerals Corp. at the Key West target located one kilometre north of the Overlook gold mine in Washington State. The first drill hole,hole KWN18-01, whichis located 300 metres north of the past-producing Key West mineintersected an upper and lower gold-bearing zone. The upper zo...Read More

Mr. John Burzynski reportsOSISKO INTERSECTS 40.8 G/T AU OVER 4.1 METRES AT WINDFALLOsisko Mining Inc. has provided new results from the continuing drill program at its 100-per-cent-owned Windfall Lake gold project located in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Urban township, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec. The 800,000-metre drill program combines definition, expansion and exploration drilling in and ar...Read More

Mr. John Burzynski reportsOSISKO INTERSECTS 40.8 G/T AU OVER 4.1 METRES AT WINDFALLOsisko Mining Inc. has provided new results from the continuing drill program at its 100-per-cent-owned Windfall Lake gold project located in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Urban township, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec. The 800,000-metre drill program combines definition, expansion and exploration drilling in and ar...Read More

* LME/ShFE arb:* GRAPHIC-2018 asset returns: (Updates prices, U.S. premiums)By Zandi ShabalalaLONDON, April 10 (Reuters) - Aluminium prices rallied to amore than six-week high on Tuesday in their longest winningstreak since December as U.S. sanctions on Russian producerUnited Company Rusal fuelled concerns over supply.Benchmark aluminium on the London Metal Exchange wasbid 1.6 percent higher at $2...Read More

The accident happened in the Brong Ahafo region, some 430 kilometres from the capital Accra, he said.Read full newsRead More

* Dollar dips to two-week lows * Rising stock markets limit gold's gains * Platinum retreats back to discount to palladium (New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments;adds second byline and NEW YORK dateline)By Renita D. Young and Eric OnstadNEW YORK/LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) - Gold prices rose onTuesday, hitting their highest in nearly a week as the U.S.dollar weakened and inve...Read More

*Ecuador riskier than Chile, much less explored. SANTIAGO, April 9- SolGold has received advances from a dozen big miners, including BHP and Vale, for its copper and gold discovery in Ecuador, an executive said on Monday, but has rejected them to develop the project alone. SolGold bucked a trend of a lack of new discoveries following a fall-off in investment during the...Read full newsRead More