Antonio De la JaraSANTIAGO (Reuters) - Workers at Antofagasta PLC’s (ANTO.L) Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile reached agreement on a new labour contract, defusing the risk of a strike, the union said on Monday.Workers in the mine’s largest union had last week rejected an offer for a new labour contract, triggering a period of government mediation and raising the spectre of the first-...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Canadian-based mining company Kinross Gold agreed to pay $950,000 to settle civil charges that it failed to ensure its payments in Africa were not being used to bribe government officials.The SEC said in a statement Monday the company did little to verify payments to politically connected consultants and vendors - often made i...Read More

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PRINCETON, N.J. - The Federal Reserve should continue raising interest rates this year and next so that it can avoid an overheating that cuts short the economic expansion that is already picking up steam, a policymaker of the U.S. central bank said on Monday.Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, who votes on policy this year and leans somewhat hawkish, said the central bank can speed or slow its...Read More

David Lawder, Ryan WooWASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - Top Trump administration officials are asking China to cut tariffs on imported cars, allow foreign majority ownership of financial services firms and buy more U.S.-made semiconductors in negotiations to avoid U.S. tariffs and a potential trade war.A person familiar with the discussions said these were among the asks from Treasury Secretary Steve...Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street’s three major indexes jumped to their greatest one-day gain in two-and-a-half years on Monday, led by the tech sector, as trade war fears eased on reports that the United States and China were willing to renegotiate tariffs and trade imbalances.The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 669.4 points, or 2.84 percent, to 24,202.6, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 7...Read More

Newcrest Mining, Australia's largest independent gold miner, said it will recommence mining operations at its flagship Cadia mine which was closed following damages to a tailings dam wall.Mining operations will restart at Cadia East, in accordance with predefined test and response program, the company said in a statement."Mining will initially be from Panel Cave 1 and then progressively recommence...Read More

Newcrest Mining, Australia's largest independent gold miner, said it will recommence mining operations at its flagship Cadia mine which was closed following damages to a tailings dam wall.Mining operations will restart at Cadia East, in accordance with predefined test and response program, the company said in a statement."Mining will initially be from Panel Cave 1 and then progressively recommence...Read More

Microsoft was the best Dow stock todayThe Dow started the holiday-shortened week off with a bang -- logging its biggest one-day percentage gain since Aug. 26, 2015, as trade war concerns died down on reports of tariff talks between the U.S. and China. Leading the charge among blue chips today was Microsoft (MSFT), which had its best day since October 2015, thanks to a bold price target from Morga...Read More

Scientists from Imperial College London and UCL used a synthetic diamond grown in a nitrogen-rich atmosphere to create a new maser that operates continuously.A maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) is the older, microwave frequency sibling of the laser. It was invented in 1954 and has traditionally been used in deep space communication and radio astronomy.However, ear...Read More

Scientists from Imperial College London and UCL used a synthetic diamond grown in a nitrogen-rich atmosphere to create a new maser that operates continuously.A maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) is the older, microwave frequency sibling of the laser. It was invented in 1954 and has traditionally been used in deep space communication and radio astronomy.However, ear...Read More

Tim Livesey, chief executive of Stratex International plc (LON:STI), tells Proactive they've received approval from the Senegalese government regarding the Dalafin gold project.The approval relates to its Option Agreement with AGEM Senegal Exploration Suarl (AGEM), a subsidiary of IAMGOLD Corp (IAMGOLD).With the approval now in the bag, Livesey says they can begin fast-tracking exploration at the...Read More

Gold is sought as a store of value during times of political and financial uncertainty Gold prices inched lower on Monday, from a 5-week high hit earlier in the session, on profit-taking and as fears of a US-China trade war eased following reports of negotiations among two of the world's leading economies.Spot gold was down 0.1 per cent at $1,346.01 per ounce, as of 0836 GMT. Earlier in the sessio...Read More

Milestone Group PLC (LON:MSG) saw its share jump 14.3% higher to 0.16p in late afternoon trading as the digital media company entered a blockchain joint venture agreement.Milestone said the joint venture with Martin Heath, founder and chief executive of Seed Media Ltd, will trade under the name Trust In Media Ltd and will "produce payment processing, copyright and intellectual property solutions,...Read More

Vast Resources has boosted the resource at its 100%-owned Manaila mine by 78% to 4.6mln tonnes of ore grading 0.97% copper, 0.32% lead, 0.68%zinc, 25.8 grams per tonne silver, and 0.23% gold.Chief executive Andrew Prelea says, as promised, the updated resource has been delivered before the end of March ... ''which is basically ten times greater in indicated than the initial pit acquisition''.''We'...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States would like to have a cooperative relationship with Russia but actions like Moscow’s “brazen” attack on a former Russian spy in Britain prevented that, the White House said on Monday.“Our relationship with Russia is frankly up to the Russian government and up to Vladimir Putin and others in senior leadership in Russia,” White Ho...Read More

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360 Blockchain Inc (CSE:CODE, OTCMKTS:BKLLF) CEO Jeff Koyen tells Proactive Investors one of their holdings, SV Crypto Lab is launching a hedging program that makes use of processes to hedge against the ups and downs in cryptocurrency prices to maintain their revenue streams.Koyen says this was the first phase to lay the foundation of how the company will make use of financial products and other t...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Banks should adopt compensation plans that discourage excessive risk-taking and place greater onus on senior managers for wrongdoing, the outgoing head of the New York Federal Reserve said on Monday.William Dudley, who plans to step down later this year, said regulators should encourage banks to overhaul their corporate cultures to reduce risk and bad behavior, even as regul...Read More

AOBC stock is nearing oversold territoryShares of American Outdoor Brands Corp (NASDAQ:AOBC), formerly known as Smith & Wesson, are trading down 4.3% at $9.42 following a bankruptcy filing by gun maker Remington and Saturday's March for Our Lives protests for gun control. AOBC options traders are targeting a quick bounce, with call volume running at three times what's typically seen at this point...Read More