Now that equities are behaving the way they should have since, oh, 2013 - volatile with a pronounced down bias - everyone is wondering how far the crazy will go before the Fed starts buying the S&P 500.Short sellers, of course, want to know when to close out their at-long-last-profitable bets (see David Einhorn). Cautious investors (see Warren Buffett) with money on the sidelines want to know wh...Read More

The United States Army M1 Abrams tank, an American third-generation main battle tank, is being upgraded with an invisible shield that will destroy all chemical Continue...Read More

Goldmoney's Head of Research, Alasdair Macleod, shares his thoughts on the Oil-Yuan Futures and the implications for gold. Read More

By Dave KranzlerDr. Paul Craig Roberts sent me an article by Catherine Austin Fitts and asked if I had read it. The article is titled, "The State of America's Pension Funds." The article is worth reading, though I believe Ms. Fitts underestimates significantly the degree to which political and Wall Street criminality - along with money management incompetence - has infected and destroyed the U...Read More

By Gary SavageThis video details my longer term projections for numerous markets including the Nasdaq Index, Semiconductor Index, SPX 500, Commodities Index and Gold.https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More

David Morgan of The Morgan Report spoke to INN at PDAC 2018 and discussed why Silver is going to outperform Gold this year. David Morgan is a world-renown precious metals aficionado. He is the creator of TheMorganReport.com, a monthly report that covers economic news, overall financial health of the global economy, currency problems and the key reasons for investing in precious metals. A dynamic,...Read More

RAPAPORT...Firestar Diamond and its affiliates, following their bankruptcy filing in the wake of fraud allegations against their ultimate owner Nirav Modi, have reportedsignificant interest from companies looking to buy their operations.The three jewelers - Firestar, A. Jaffe and Fantasy - are seeking an infusion of capital or a sale, and intendto continue business as normal in the meantime,their...Read More

RAPAPORT... J.C. Penney's comparable-store jewelry sales jumped by atleast 10% in the fourth fiscal quarter, rounding off a strong year of growth,CEO Marvin Ellison said. Jewelry sales increased by that key measure in every quarterof the fiscal year ending February 3, including by a "double-digit" percentage inthe final three months, the executive noted. Jewelry was one of a handful of department...Read More

RAPAPORT... Helzberg Diamonds has appointed Ellen Junger as chief marketingofficer, and named Carmichael Lynch as its new ad agency of record. Junger was previously chief customer and marketing officerfor Payless ShoeSource. She has also worked for Hallmark Cards, including as chief marketing officer of Hallmark Canada, according to a statement on Carmichael's website. "Ellen brings a wealth of ex...Read More

RAPAPORT...The Civil Society Coalition (CSC) of the Kimberley Process(KP) has appointed the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) as its leader, according to a statement on the KP website. ZELA will take over the leadership from Impact - formerly Partnership AfricaCanada -which left the Kimberley Process in December, claiming the organization wasineffective in policing the diamond supply c...Read More

Altamira Gold Corp. (TSXV: ALTA) has begun exploring for copper on its more than 200 sq. km land package in the Juruena Mineral Belt of eastern Brazil's Para and Mato Grosso states. The initiative marks an expanded vision for the Vancouver-based company, which had previously focused solely on gold exploration on that same land.Several of Altamira's properties have tested positive for copper gradin...Read More

Golden Arrow Resources Corp. (TSXV: GRG) - a member of the Gross Group of companies - is placing its precious and base metal exploration assets in Argentina into a new, 100%-owned subsidiary called New Golden Exploration, now that its more advanced Chinchillas silver project headed towards production under a new joint venture agreement with SSR Mining Inc. (TSX: SSRM; NASDAQ: SSRM).Chinchillas is...Read More

Victoria Gold Corp. (TSXV: VIT; US-OTC: VITFF) has completed its Phase 1 Construction de-risking program at its 2.7 million oz. Eagle Gold Project in central Yukon and is now preparing to launch its Phase 2 Construction Program for 2018."The Eagle Gold Project is unique amongst development projects because it is fully permitted, almost fully financed and in a safe political jurisdiction," says Vic...Read More

Commander Resources (TSX-V: CMD) announced today that Fjordland Exploration (TSX.V: FEX) will fund a $1.2 million exploration program on the company's South Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt project, located in northeastern Canada.The 29,400-hectare property is located in central Labrador, 80 kilometres south of Vale's Voisey's Bay Nickel mine. It covers parts of the Pants Lake Gabbro Complex.In a...Read More

After spending almost an entire day at underground refuge stations, 55 workers at The Mosaic Company's (NYSE:MOS) K2 potash facility in Saskatchewan made it safely to surface. Following a small underground fire, the workers were asked to stay at the safe spaces where they had access to drinking water and food items. In the meantime, staff just outside of the mine were running air monitoring tests....Read More

New research published in Nature Communications reveals that manganese has a novel chemical state. According to the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this new state enables a high-performance, low-cost sodium-ion battery that could quickly and efficiently store and distribute energy produced by solar panels and wind turbines across the electrical grid.The idea of t...Read More

One year ago Vancouver-based Northern Empire (TSXV:NM) paid Imperial Metals Corporation US$10 million to acquire a 100% interest in the Sterling Gold Property.Due to Imperial Metals coping with Mount Polley tailings spill and ramping up Red Chris Mine, the non-core project didn't receive much attention over nearly two decades of ownership by the BC copper company.Work has now begun in earnest at S...Read More

Mar 05, 2018 Guest(s): Byron King Editor, Agora Financial The imminent collapse of modern currencies will push gold up to $10,000 an ounce, assuming central banks resort back to a gold-backed monetary system, said Byron King, editor of Jim Rickards' Gold Speculator."If you take the global money supply, back it with 40% gold, you need $10,000 gold to make the math work, and that's just using a 40...Read More

Mar 05, 2018 Guest(s): Amir Adnani, Chairman, Goldmining Inc. Relative to physical gold, gold stocks are severely undervalued, said Amir Adnani, Chairman of GoldMining Inc."Gold prices are the same level they were at in 2016, but the equities are maybe 50% lower than that," Adnani told Kitco News on the sidelines of the PDAC 2018. "From my perspective, in terms of store of value, I think the go...Read More

Mar 05, 2018 Guest(s): Adrian Day Gold stocks are inherently volatile, and we are currently at a phase of undervaluations that presents a significant buying opportunity, said Adrian Day of Adrian Day Asset Management."If you're losing interest in gold, you don't want to get out at the low point, you want to at least wait until we have a high point and get out," ay told Kitco News on the sidelin...Read More