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January pay gain that spooked markets revised down to 2.8%Hiring strongest since mid-2016 as participation rate surgesThe U.S. added 313,000 jobs in January beating the estimate of 205,000. Bloomberg's Mike McKee reports.The U.S. economy enjoyed the biggest hiring spree since mid-2016 in February as workers streamed in from the sidelines of the labor force, but inflation pressures remained muted a...Read More

3 Hot Things to Know About Markets Right Now Netflix (NFLX) shares pop on news of a potential deal with former President Obama. Netflix shares year to date: +58%.Happy 9-year birthday to the bull market! This is the second largest and second longest bull market ever, with only the '90s bull standing in the way of the record books points out LPL Financial.  Market Snapshot U.S. stocks surge...Read More

Adam HamiltonArchivesMar 09, 2018 The small contrarian gold-mining sector remains deeply out of favor, universally ignored. Thus the gold stocks are largely drifting listlessly, totally devoid of excitement. But that's the best time to buy low, when few others care. The gold stocks continue to form strong technical bases, paving the way for massive mean-reversion uplegs. And they remain exceedingl...Read More

Easing geopolitical concerns offset trade worries, for nowGreenback falls versus most majors; gold erases lossU.S. payrolls beat expectations in February with an increase of 313,000, Bloomberg's Michael McKee reports.U.S. stocks rose while Treasuries fell as the latest labor report showed the American economy continued to strengthen without the prior month’s rapid wage gains that stoked inf...Read More

U.S. employers likely added 200,000 new jobs to the economy last month, according to the consensus forecast for Friday's non-farm payroll report, but investors are likely to once again focus on the pace of hour wage growth in order to gauge how the Federal Reserve will react to faster inflation in the world's biggest economy. Average hourly wages are expected to have risen by 0.2% last month, ec...Read More

We all know the stock market's been on a wild ride lately.You may find this shocking, but I believe the Dow could drop to 12,000. And, as a consequence, bitcoin could rally to $30,000.You read that right. How?The writing is on the proverbial wall and the panic is setting in on Wall Street. And in markets around the world, for that matter. Don't think for a minute that the one- or two-day rallies w...Read More

Cryptocurrencies took a hit this week when the SEC announced that bitcoin and many other cryptos meet the government's definitions of securities and are therefore subject to regulation. Cryptocurrency exchanges will be required to register with the SEC.Most people automatically assume this is terrible news for cryptocurrencies. But I don't. I actually think it's good for cryptos.Why?Because it sho...Read More

The legal marijuana market is on fire…Thirty U.S. states have already legalized cannabis in some form, turning marijuana into what The New York Times calls the "fastest-growing industry in America."That's why People magazine is writing stories about "Marijuana Millionaires"...And that's why USA Today is calling this a "gold rush."But we believe the growth we've seen so far is just the tip of...Read More

Over the next couple days this story will break in almost every major news outlet.It's from MIT:Three MIT researchers just finished the biggest "Fake News" study to date.Their findings: humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for the spread of fake news.Yesterday, The Atlantic wrote this:The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter's exi...Read More

Trump and Kim Jong Un agree to meet, tariffs might not be as bad as the experts predicted, and the stock market is sneaking back toward its highs as we wrap up the trading week.What's not to love?Unfortunately, some investors are missing the ride. The average stock-watcher has become more bearish on the market since the low-volatility melt up disintegrated last month.Today, we're on the hunt for s...Read More

For months I watched the prices slowly tick higher.$100... $115... $130... $145...$30... $40... $50... $60...And then I gave up... “Forget it. I missed this one.”These were the prices over the last year of Albemarle (ALB) and Sociedad Qu?-mica y Minera (SQM), respectively - two of the largest lithium producers in the world during a period when the price of lithium doubled.Up until this...Read More

Newmont Mining is one of the rare gold stocks that is up year to date.There are a number of positive factors that favor Newmont Mining.The stock is a good "sleep well at night" way to get gold exposure. For outsized returns, search elsewhere.Recently, I've been searching for opportunities in the gold space. The reason for this is the major difference in price dynamics between gold (GLD)...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested Brian Robert Sodi, a penny stock tout also known as "Mailman," for a $1.1-million scheme to boost two OTC Markets companies. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) The government claims that Mr. Sodi, with the help of an uni...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business Reporter West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery lost $1.03 to $60.12 on the New York Merc, while Brent for May lost 73 cents to $63.61 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $24.30 to WTI ($3...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Thursday was a ho-hum 82-85-123. The TSX Venture Exchange fell two points to 829 while rough diamond prices were flat. Chris Taylor's Dunnedin Ventures Inc. (DVI) dropped two cents to 30.5 cents...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested Brian Robert Sodi, a penny stock tout also known as "Mailman," for a $1.1-million scheme to boost two OTC Markets companies. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) The government claims that Mr. Sodi, with the help of an uni...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested Brian Robert Sodi, a penny stock tout also known as "Mailman," for a $1.1-million scheme to boost two OTC Markets companies. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) The government claims that Mr. Sodi, with the help of an uni...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested Brian Robert Sodi, a penny stock tout also known as "Mailman," for a $1.1-million scheme to boost two OTC Markets companies. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) The government claims that Mr. Sodi, with the help of an uni...Read More

A multidisciplinary and multiethnic team of scientists just published a paper in Nature where they explain the implications of having found calcium silicate perovskites contained within a tiny South African diamond.The gem was dug from the Cullinan mine, located 40 kilometres east of Pretoria, where the world's largest rough diamond was found in 1905. The mine was also the source of two of the lar...Read More