Trevor HunnicuttNEW YORK (Reuters) - Volatility in U.S. equity markets this year is pushing investors not only to invest in stocks abroad, but also to commit their money to an even more foreign place: the hands of stockpickers rather than index funds.A near decade of gains in U.S. stock prices has left investors on edge about the prospect that anything could end the party, including the prospect o...Read More
BEIJING (Reuters) - China pledged on Sunday to press ahead with market opening and reforms while reiterating that it will treat domestic and foreign firms equally and protect intellectual property rights.The pledge on reform and equal treatment came from Vice Premier Han Zheng, at a time there are increasing prospects of a trade war with the United States.Han, making his first speech since being n...Read More
Ryan Woo, Hallie GuBEIJING (Reuters) - The United States has flouted trade rules with an inquiry into intellectual property and China will defend its interests, Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a telephone call on Saturday, Chinese state media reported.The call between Mnuchin and Liu, a confidante of President Xi Jinping, was the highest-level contact between the...Read More
Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite threats of retaliation from China over U.S. plans to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese goods, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said President Donald Trump had no intention of backing down and was not worried about a trade war.“We are going to proceed with our tariffs. We’re working on that,” Mnuchin told Fox N...Read More
Lalita Shinde, a member of the trust that is in charge of managing operations at the Trimbakeshwar temple in northwestern India, approached her country's National Archives this week and presented a memorandum demanding the repatriation of the blue Nassak diamond, which reportedly once graced the crown of Lord Shiva idol.The trustee has been in this quest for a few years now. According to local med...Read More
When Britain's Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle in May he is expected to follow a royal tradition started nearly 100 years ago of using a wedding band of Welsh gold.His great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, was the first to use gold from Wales in a wedding ring when, as Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, she married the future King George VI in 1923.Her example was followed by the current Quee...Read More
When Britain's Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle in May he is expected to follow a royal tradition started nearly 100 years ago of using a wedding band of Welsh gold.His great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, was the first to use gold from Wales in a wedding ring when, as Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, she married the future King George VI in 1923.Her example was followed by the current Quee...Read More
The union representing workers at Chilean copper mine Escondida have accepted an invitation from management to "explore" early talks aimed at clinching a collective bargaining agreement, the union's President Patricio Tapia said on Saturday.Escondida, controlled by BHP, is the world's biggest copper mine.Failure to reach a labor deal caused a 44-day strike at the mine last year, which jolted the g...Read More
The union representing workers at Chilean copper mine Escondida have accepted an invitation from management to "explore" early talks aimed at clinching a collective bargaining agreement, the union's President Patricio Tapia said on Saturday.Escondida, controlled by BHP, is the world's biggest copper mine.Failure to reach a labor deal caused a 44-day strike at the mine last year, which jolted the g...Read More
Personnel from Mexico's Federal Attorney's Office for Environmental Protection visited the San Dimas mine to evaluate the extent of the damage caused by a cyanide spill that reached the nearby Piaxtla river.San Dimas, located in the northwestern Durango state, is owned by Canada's Primero Mining (TSX:P). The project consists of five ore blocks contained within a 22,500 hectares contiguous property...Read More
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By Ed Steer24 March 2018 -- SaturdayYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM The gold price began to rally as soon as trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT in New York on Thursday evening -- and most of the gains that mattered in Far East and morning trading in London, were in by shortly before 9 a.m. China Standard Time on their Friday morning. By the COMEX open, gold was up only another f...Read More
China is working a strategy with the Saudis. Since the last months of 2017, the Jackass has been firm that the ARAMCO deal for IPO stock introduction might never occur. And if it did, then Hong Kong might be the only location for the IPO launch. It seems that disclosure and transparency is non-existent to this Arab kingdom. Now the stock listing might be in Riyadh and nowhere else. Imagine the r...Read More
By John MauldinEuphoria EverywhereSquare & TowerCracks FormingRifle ShotsCharlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, and RaleighValuing a stock isn't hard. Each share is worth exactly as much as a buyer offers you when you try to sell. Quite simple. But of course, there's more to it.We heard a lot about valuations at my Strategic Investment Conference, and particularly about the "FAANG" stocks that dro...Read More