Continue...Axel Merk is the Founder, President, Portfolio Manager, and CIO at Merk Investments LLC. He is an expert on qualitative research and macroeconomic trends. Mr. Merk is also an expert on macro trends, hard money, international investing, and on building sustainable wealth, and he is a pioneer in the use of strategic currency investing to seek diversification. He is a speaker and author on...Read More

The news Tuesday night that China slapped a $50B tariff on important trade goods found the S&P 500 futures down almost 2% at one point. The market has been in rally mode ever since it opened - only down 1.2%. The cause of that rally was a very strong ADP private payrolls print (241k versus 203k consensus) intimating we may get another strong month o...Read More

BHP said in December it would quit the group but gave it a few months to respond.Now the miner has confirmed its exit."In light of the material difference identified by the review and the narrow range of activities of benefit to BHP from membership, BHP has reached a final view that it will cease membership of the WCA," it said in a statement.Advocacy group the Australasian Centre for Corporate Re...Read More

The IPP procurement is the largest by the Department of Energy to date, representing R56 billion (US$4.7 billion) of investment and adding about 2,300MW of mostly wind- and solar-generation capacity to the country's grid over the next five years.The agreements were meant to be signed on March 13, but were delayed after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and Transform RSA tr...Read More

The stock market has begun to exhibit the classic symptoms of what professional men call manic depression.Its emotional swings are many... and its emotional swings are extreme.The Dow Jones industrial average was down 510 depressed points to start yesterday morning.Then a pendulum swing to the other extreme sent it 720 manic points higher.Meantime, yesterday was the 26th occasion this year that th...Read More

Botswana's Debswana Diamond Mining, a joint venture between De Beers and the southern Africa country's government, is seeking permission to extend the lifespan of its Jwaneng mine again by digging deeper.Jwaneng, which began operations in 1982, is currently 650 metres deep, but its owners want to deepen the pit to 830 meters (2,700 feet), which will allow continuing operations for another 11 year...Read More

The faith of a controversial potash project in the state of Michigan may soon be defined, as regulators are considering a fresh proposal submitted by Michigan Potash Co.The Colorado-based company's plan includes the construction of a plant in central Michigan where the commodity, used as crop nutrient, will be treated.Michigan Potash seeks to extract the fertilizer ingredient through solution mi...Read More

Solar power last year attracted far more investment than any other technology, reaching almost $161 billion, a 18% increase when compared to 2016, a new study backed by the United Nations shows.According to the report, released Tuesday by the UN Environment's Economy Division, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, solar made up 57% of last year's to...Read More

World's number one miner BHP (ASX:BHP) confirmed Thursday it has decided to leave the World Coal Association (WCA) over differences on climate change, but said it will keep its affiliation to the US Chamber of Commerce, which was also under review.The miner, which publicly supports the Paris climate accord, first signalled its intent to potentially leave the global coal-lobbying group last year, a...Read More

Janet Yellen cashed in big with her first paid speech to Wall Street since leaving the the Fed, discussing rate hikes and President Trump's policiesContinue...Read More

Our pal Mickey Fulp, the "mercenary geologist", stopped by this morning for a discussion of trade, tariffs, the metals and mining companies.Continue...Read More

The shift from low to high volatility in the markets is on. And almost by default, that’ll include gold and silver, since they’re inversely correlated to stock markets most of the time.We’ve already seen this at work. The S&P 500 fell 2.2% on April 2, and in response, gold rose 1.2% and silver 1.6%. It’s more than just a daily phenomenon, though; any prolonged wave of u...Read More

LatestPrice – $1340.20Pattern – price looks to have been consolidating these pastfew months and as price rose into this consolidation pattern it should leavethe same way – up. Breaking below the low of this consolidation phase at $1303could be one area to place stops.BollingerBands – price found support three separate times at the lower band. I doubtthere will be a fourth t...Read More

The shift from low to high volatility in the markets is on. And almost by default, that’ll include gold and silver, since they’re inversely correlated to stock markets most of the time.We’ve already seen this at work. The S&P 500 fell 2.2% on April 2, and in response, gold rose 1.2% and silver 1.6%. It’s more than just a daily phenomenon, though; any prolonged wave of u...Read More

LatestPrice – $1340.20Pattern – price looks to have been consolidating these pastfew months and as price rose into this consolidation pattern it should leavethe same way – up. Breaking below the low of this consolidation phase at $1303could be one area to place stops.BollingerBands – price found support three separate times at the lower band. I doubtthere will be a fourth t...Read More

South Hampton, NJ - One of the most disturbing videos illustrating the horrors of marijuana prohibition was released this week showing police officers handcuff an innocent man and publicly grope his genitals and probe his anus. The lengths the police state will go to prosecute otherwise innocent people for this plant were on full display as two New Jersey state troopers detained a man then humil...Read More

Editor’s Note: The Daily Bell shares John W. Whitehead’s columns because we believe he presents an important perspective. However, certain elements of his style do not reflect the broader philosophy of The Daily Bell. For instance, Whitehead’s frequent use of the word “we” is not reflective of individuality, and blames all members of a group for the sins of certain in...Read More

Rick answers viewer questions from the Money, Metals & Mining webinar.Read More

South Hampton, NJ - One of the most disturbing videos illustrating the horrors of marijuana prohibition was released this week showing police officers handcuff an innocent man and publicly grope his genitals and probe his anus. The lengths the police state will go to prosecute otherwise innocent people for this plant were on full display as two New Jersey state troopers detained a man then humil...Read More

Editor’s Note: The Daily Bell shares John W. Whitehead’s columns because we believe he presents an important perspective. However, certain elements of his style do not reflect the broader philosophy of The Daily Bell. For instance, Whitehead’s frequent use of the word “we” is not reflective of individuality, and blames all members of a group for the sins of certain in...Read More