Silver Viper Minerals Corp. (the 'Company' or 'Silver Viper') (TSX-V: VIPR) is pleased to announce that Carla Hartzenberg, CPA, CA, has been appointed by the Company as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.Read full newsRead More

It's been a volatile week on Wall Street, and today is no different. The Dow was last seen up around 50 points -- after being down 500 points earlier -- and on pace for its worst week since the financial crisis. This whipsaw price action is being mirrored in the drug sector, too, with Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:AQXP) and Pieris Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:PIRS) soaring, while Sarepta Th...Read More

Source: Clive Maund for Streetwise Reports 02/09/2018Technical analyst Clive Maund reviews the charts of two urban miners that he views as strong buys.We took profits or partial profits in related stocks Enviroleach Technologies Inc. (ETI:CSE) and Mineworx Technologies Ltd. (MWX:TSX.V; MWXRF:OTCQB) about three weeks ago, in the full knowledge that theirs is a great story, because they were bot...Read More

Source: Clive Maund for Streetwise Reports 02/09/2018Technical analyst Clive Maund reviews the charts of two urban miners that he views as strong buys.We took profits or partial profits in related stocks Enviroleach Technologies Inc. (ETI:CSE) and Mineworx Technologies Ltd. (MWX:TSX.V; MWXRF:OTCQB) about three weeks ago, in the full knowledge that theirs is a great story, because they were bot...Read More

Gold futures declined on Friday to suffer from their largest weekly loss in two months, as investors eyed volatility in global stocks and a leading dollar index aimed for its best weekly performance in more than a year. April gold GCJ8, +0.47% gave up $3.30, or 0.3%, to settle at $1,315.70 an ounce after tapping a high of $1,325. It finished Thursday in the green, halting a four-session skid as in...Read More

(Recasts with price gains, adds quotes)* Stock weakness adds bid for bonds* U.S. budget seen increasing debt issuance* CPI data in focus next week for inflation clues By Karen BrettellNEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury prices gained on Friday after renewed weakness in equity markets increased demand for the low-risk debt.Bond yields have jumped in the past two weeks as rising inflation and...Read More

* Gold on track for second straight weekly drop* Palladium heads for worst week since October 2016* GRAPHIC-Platinum/palladium ratio: (Updates prices; adds comments, second byline, NEW YORK dateline)By Marcy Nicholson and Maytaal AngelNEW YORK/LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Gold slipped on Friday, under pressure from a firmer dollar and worries about rising global interest rates, but still found some s...Read More

* Indian exchanges to stop licensing deals with overseas bourses* Will stop providing data, terminate current contracts* Singapore is popular offshore market for Indian derivatives* Whether foreign investors will now come to India uncertain (Adds statement from Singapore Exchange)By Abhirup Roy and Savio ShettyMUMBAI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - India's three main stocks exchanges said on Friday they would...Read More

It was another volatile week of trading on Wall Street, withthe Dow trading in a more than 2,160-point range as of this writing, and sinking into correction territory. The bulk ofthe price action occurred to the downside -- a possible self-fulfilling prophecy, and marking the fastest S&P pullback from record highs in decades -- with the major benchmarksslumping to their biggest weekly losses in ye...Read More

(Kitco News) - Goldprices have erased early losses and are trading nearsteady as of this writing early Friday afternoon. Another big sell-off in theU.S. stock market is prompting safe-haven demand for gold. Look for the goldand silver markets to at least hold their own early next week, due to the keenuncertainty and anxiety that will be present on Monday morning. Bearish outsidemarkets Friday afte...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold prices have erased early losses and are trading near steady as of this writing early Friday afternoon. Another big sell-off in the U.S. stock market is prompting safe-haven demand for gold. Look for the gold and silver markets to at least hold their own early next week, due to the keen uncertainty and anxiety that will be present on Monday morning. Bearish outside markets Frida...Read More

SAO PAULO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Stocks in Brazilian retailers with strong e-commerce revenue hit session lows on Friday after Reuters reported that Amazon.com Inc was looking to lease a major new warehouse in Brazil. Units, a blend of shares in appliance retailer Via Varejo SA , extended their fall to 6 percent and reached a session low of 23.72 reais. Shares in Magazine Luiza SA touched 72.32 reais,...Read More

Panicking that the bitcoin bubble has finally burst? The popular cryptocurrency actually has a history of surviving crashes, and in its short life has already been through 13 major corrections or crashes. That's according to an analysis by data visualization site HowMuch, which compiled all of bitcoin's crashes, beginning in 2012, in one chart. Get more cryptocurrency updates from MarketWatch: Ch...Read More

The U.S. dollar has been bleeding recently, despite all the Fed’s tightening efforts and the passage of Trump’s tax cuts. An accelerating economy, rising interest rates and pro-growth reforms should logically drive the value of the American currency. But they didn’t. Given the strong negative correlation between the greenback and gold, finding the cause behind the dollar’s...Read More

(Bloomberg Prophets) -The 10-year Treasury yield is one of the best metrics for predicting the direction of commodity prices. Its increase in recent months indicates that commodities have more room on the upside. The correlation between commodity price and the 10-year has been strong over time, for a number of reasons.Interest rates are one of three elements that help determine the intrinsic price...Read More

(Bloomberg Prophets) -The 10-year Treasury yield is one of the best metrics for predicting the direction of commodity prices. Its increase in recent months indicates that commodities have more room on the upside. The correlation between commodity price and the 10-year has been strong over time, for a number of reasons.Interest rates are one of three elements that help determine the intrinsic price...Read More

The stock market tailspin of late has triggered the fastest exodus of bulls in decades. However, the recent correction could present buying opportunities for speculators who believe past is prologue. In fact, Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ:DLTR) stock tends to be among the best to buy after sharp S&P 500 Index (SPX) drops from record highs. Below, we take a look at why the discount retailer could be a...Read More

(Recasts headline and updates story throughout)By Kristen HaunssNEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) -A US court ruled on Friday that a key lender to some of the largest companies should be exempt from a Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation requirement that investment firms hold some of their funds' risk.The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the Loan Syndications...Read More

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The London Metal Exchange (LME) was likely to make fee cuts permanent on short- and medium-dated carry trades after volumes on those trades rose in January, despite slightly weaker overall turnover, it said on Friday.The LME cut fees on short-dated carries in October and on medium-dated carries in November in a bid to revive volumes after total turnover on the exchange fe...Read More

* Says 2017 fee and interest income 4 pct below plan's forecast* Working on 500 mln euro sale after 2.2 bln euro sales in 2017* Italian banks stepping up targets for bad loan sales (Adds comment on business plan)MILAN, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Banca Carige pledged on Friday to sell up to an extra 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in bad debts this year, joining the ranks of Italian banks that have bowed to...Read More