Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort234,67768,08852,011162,608351,473449,296471,572Change from Prior Reporting Period -24,35512,410-11,3855,165-32,330-30,575-31,305Traders18068734757261168 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 43,84521,569493,141 -5,974-5,244-36,549 non reportable positionsChange from the previo...Read More

- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees 'chance of market panic'- In annual letter to shareholders Dimon warns of increased inflation and interest rates- Concerned QE unwinding could cause chaos as 'markets will get more volatile'- Hard to look at the last 20 years in America "and not think that it has been getting increasingly worse."- Positive about US economy over next year, but ignores record...Read More

Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort234,67768,08852,011162,608351,473449,296471,572Change from Prior Reporting Period -24,35512,410-11,3855,165-32,330-30,575-31,305Traders18068734757261168 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 43,84521,569493,141 -5,974-5,244-36,549 non reportable positionsChange from the previo...Read More

- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees 'chance of market panic'- In annual letter to shareholders Dimon warns of increased inflation and interest rates- Concerned QE unwinding could cause chaos as 'markets will get more volatile'- Hard to look at the last 20 years in America "and not think that it has been getting increasingly worse."- Positive about US economy over next year, but ignores record...Read More

After several years of unprecedented low volatility and with most markets trending upward, global markets have been behaving in a precisely opposite manner in recent weeks. Volatility is back. Markets around the world have been see-sawing erratically.Not only does this imply the need for greater c...Read full newsRead More

In his latest action, President Trump fired his next shot today by ordering a review of additional tariffs. This action prompted an immediate and strong response from China. As reported in Bloomberg Politics, "At almost the same time as Trump spoke, a senior Chinese government official in Beijing repeated a vow from earlier that day that the country would 'retaliate immediately, intensively, witho...Read More

In his latest action, President Trump fired his next shot today by ordering a review of additional tariffs. This action prompted an immediate and strong response from China. As reported in Bloomberg Politics, "At almost the same time as Trump spoke, a senior Chinese government official in Beijing repeated a vow from earlier that day that the country would 'retaliate immediately, intensively, witho...Read More

During a legislative forum organized by the Dominican Republic's Lower Chamber in the city of Cotu?-, which is located in the central province of S??nchez Ram?-rez, residents, community members and activist groups said that the federal government should transfer the province 5 per cent of the royalties it receives from Barrick Gold and that MPs should push for this to happen.Barrick (NYSE, TSX:ABX...Read More

During a legislative forum organized by the Dominican Republic's Lower Chamber in the city of Cotu?-, which is located in the central province of S??nchez Ram?-rez, residents, community members and activist groups said that the federal government should transfer the province 5 per cent of the royalties it receives from Barrick Gold and that MPs should push for this to happen.Barrick (NYSE, TSX:ABX...Read More

FTSE 100 down around 16 at 7,183US jobs report weaker than expectedTrade war rhetoric keeps investors in a nervous stateMining stocks weak after Trump proposes more trade tariffs against ChinaLondon's top-shares index faded in the final furlong to close in the red.The FTSE 100 closed at 7,183, down 16 points, weighed down by weak mining stocks."The calmer reaction to escalating trade tensions on F...Read More

Gold futures on Friday logged a daily and weekly advance on the back of U.S.-China trade-war jitters, which flared up late Thursday and roiled global stocks, driving investors into assets perceived as havens. A mostly lackluster U.S. employment reading for the March, which nicked the dollar index and buttressed already deep losses for stocks, also helped lift gold. The White House said in a stat...Read More

Wall Street also digested weaker-than-expected jobs dataU.S. stocks lost any lingering momentum they had coming into today's trading, and ended the day in the red, as renewed trade war concerns and disappointing jobs data caught up to the three major indexes. More specifically, the Dow was down 767 points at its intraday low, with all 30 of its components closing in negative territory. The Nasdaq...Read More

CBLT Inc. (TSXV: CBLT) announced that it will sell two claims in the historic Cobalt-Gowganda silver-cobalt mining district of Ontario to Australian miner Krakatoa Resources (ASE:KTA).In a press release, the Burlington-based company explained that the claims are located peripheral to a cluster of former silver-cobalt mines at Gowganda, 85 kilometres northwest of the town of Cobalt, whose mines ope...Read More

CBLT Inc. (TSXV: CBLT) announced that it will sell two claims in the historic Cobalt-Gowganda silver-cobalt mining district of Ontario to Australian miner Krakatoa Resources (ASE:KTA).In a press release, the Burlington-based company explained that the claims are located peripheral to a cluster of former silver-cobalt mines at Gowganda, 85 kilometres northwest of the town of Cobalt, whose mines ope...Read More

AIM Journal's Andrew Hore discusses the luxury interior furnishings group Walker Greenbank plc's (LON:WGB) results for the year to the end of January 2018.Hore also talks through AdEPT Telecom plc's (LON:ADT) trading statement released yesterday, AppScatter Group PLC's (LON:APPS) acquisition of German firm Priori Data for ?13.5mln, the recent management changes at ECSC Group PLC (LON:ECSC) as wel...Read More

In a new report, Metals Focus says it sees the gold price hitting $1,450 per ounce before the end of 2018, spurred upward by a number of key factors.Read full newsRead More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks extended losses and the S&P 500 hit a session low in Friday afternoon trading after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank will likely need to keep raising interest rates to keep inflation under control.In a speech in Chicago on the U.S. economic outlook, Powell said the labor market appeared close to full employment. It was his first...Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell on Friday, undermined by the ongoing trade dispute between China and the United States and a report showing the U.S. economy in March created the fewest jobs in six months.The greenback slid against the safe-haven yen and Swiss franc in the wake of new comments from China.China on Friday warned it would fight back “at any cost,” hours after U.S. Pre...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration wants to require imported automobiles to meet stricter environmental standards in order to protect U.S. carmakers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Citing unnamed senior administration and industry officials, the Journal said President Donald Trump had asked several agencies to pursue plans to use existing laws to subject foreign-made cars...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Friday endorsed U.S. legislation to regulate political ads across the internet, a concession to lawmakers days before he is scheduled to testify in two U.S. congressional hearings.Zuckerberg also said Facebook would begin requiring people who want to run ads on the social network addressing political issues to ver...Read More