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 ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange lost 3.30 points to 826.02 Friday. Damian Kettlewell's Blissco Cannabis Corp. (BLIS) has completed its qualifying transaction. The stock, which is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange, began trading today...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 65 cents to $60.99 on the New York Merc, while Brent for May lost $1.95 to $63.83 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $28 to WTI ($32.9...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 two Florida men accused of arranging a pump-and-dump with HD View 360 Inc., a purported surveillance systems provider. The government claims that the men were plotting a $2-million scheme, and that some of the related or...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 two Florida men accused of arranging a pump-and-dump with HD View 360 Inc., a purported surveillance systems provider. The government claims that the men were plotting a $2-million scheme, and that some of the related or...Read More

Dr. 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.S. pension system...Read More

Lithium Chile (LITH.V) is now in the final stages of raising C$4M in a private placement priced at C$1 per unit which each unit consisting of one share and half a share purchase warrant. Each full warrant authorizes the warrant owner to acquire an additional share of Lithium Chile at C$1.50 within 24 months after the placement closes.Lithium Chile is also moving ahead with the creation of Kairos M...Read More

Do you think you are smart enough to know what things to ban? Can you foresee all the unintended consequences of using government might to moralize society?Some people think they are that smart. Or for some reason, they think restricting people’s freedom will have no larger effect than in the targeted area.One recent New York Times article wants a porn ban to be an option on the table. The a...Read More

Demanding More DebtConsumer debt, corporate debt, and government debt are all going up. But that's not all. Margin debt - debt that investors borrow against their portfolio to buy more stocks - has hit a record of $642.8 billion. What in the world are people thinking? A blow-off in margin debt mirroring the blow-off in stock prices. Since February of 2016 alone it has soared by ~$170 billi...Read More

Serenely Grows the DebtbergWe mentioned in a recent post that we would soon return to the topic of credit spreads and exotic structured products. One reason for doing so are the many surprises investors faced in the 2008 crisis. Readers may e.g. remember auction rate securities. These bonds were often listed as "cash equivalents" on the balance sheets of assorted companies investing in them, but i...Read More

Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD in Statistics, and his career has stretched over 25 years. He aspires to thrive in the financial editor world, unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Jim operates a free website called Golden Jackass.Read More

Whilethere is disagreement over its causes – man-made versus natural – the realityof climate change is an incontrovertible fact. The planet is warming, affectingour weather, our oceans, our growing seasons, even our food, as crops fail,causing shortages and price hikes. Storms are becoming more frequent, and moreintense, and droughts are lasting longer.Forestfires are an annual occurre...Read More

Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome back Michael Pento, president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies, and author of the book The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market.Michael is a well-known money manager and a fantastic market commentator, and over the past few years has been a wonderful guest and one of our favorite interviews here on t...Read More

Normally the action in the gold and silver futures markets tends to be pretty similar, since the same general forces affect both precious metals. When inflationContinue...Read More

Our proprietary cycle indicator is down.To public readers of our updates, our cycle indicator is one of the most effective timing tool for traders and investors. It is not perfect, because periodically the market can be more volatile and can result in short-term whipsaws. But overall, the cycle indicator provides us with a clear direction how we should be speculating.InvestorsDuring a major buy si...Read More

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss JP Morgan stacking silver in response to Max Keiser and also about the whistleblower claiming the VIX index is manipulated. In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about manipulation of the volatility index and the collapse of some of its associated derivative products. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster...Read More

US Federal District Court Judge Richard J. Leon has stayed Rusoro's $966.5-million International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes Expropriation award against Venezuela registered in the US. Following the World Bank agency's decision to grant the award on August 22, 2016, Rusoro took that judgment to the US Federal Court in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 2016. The idea was to regis...Read More

Vancouver-based Trevali Mining (TSX: TV) and Quebec-based Puma Exploration (TSX-V:PUMA) have entered into a Letter of Intent for the acquisition by the former of an option to acquire an interest in the Murray Brook Deposit and to form a proposed Strategic Exploration Alliance in the northern portion of the Bathurst Mining Camp in New Brunswick, Canada.Under the terms of the LOI, Trevali, at its op...Read More

https://uk.reuters.com/LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) – The London Metal Exchange (LME) copper price has risen 26 percent since the start of January 2016. That month saw a five-year downtrend bottom out at $4,318 per tonne. Three-month copper on Friday was trading above $6,900.The lift in price has been part of a broader revaluation of the base metals complex but also reflects specific concerns a...Read More

Normally the action in the gold and silver futures markets tends to be pretty similar, since the same general forces affect both precious metals. When inflation or some other source of anxiety is ascendant, both metals rise, and vice versa.But lately - perhaps in a sign of how confused the world is becoming - gold and silver traders have diverged. Taking gold first, the speculators - who tend to b...Read More

Normally the action in the gold and silver futures markets tends to be pretty similar, since the same general forces affect both precious metals. When inflation or some other source of anxiety is ascendant, both metals rise, and vice versa.But lately - perhaps in a sign of how confused the world is becoming - gold and silver traders have diverged. Taking gold first, the speculators - who tend to b...Read More