* Shares in U.S., Europe, Asia all higher* U.S. dollar ticks up, denting euro* Gold heading for biggest weekly drop since December (Adds settled oil prices; updates throughout)By Hilary RussNEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - World shares rose broadly on Friday, with technology stocks lifting Wall Street, while gold neared its biggest weekly loss this year as investors shrugged off concerns about interes...Read More

Interactive Investor's Richard Hunter tells Proactive's Andrew Scott Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LON:LLOY) dished out bigger returns this week to shareholders after higher profits, stronger revenues and improved capital generation in 2017 ... however he says they're not out of the woods just yet.Hunter also looks back on Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (LON:RBS) which reported its first full year p...Read More

CHICAGO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Debt sales for airports in Houston and Los Angeles are part of$5.43 billion in bonds and notes set to hit the U.S. municipal market next week, according to Thomson Reuters estimates on Friday.Houston's new and refunding subordinate lien deal includes about $135 million of bonds subject to the alternative minimum tax (AMT) with serial maturities from 2019 through 2041 an...Read More

(Adds detail)FRANKFURT, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has bought enough bonds so that it could retreat from further purchases without risking an unwarranted rise in longer-dated bond yields, ECB executive board member Benoit Coeure said on Friday.Once the bank's purchases hit a critical threshold, it needs fewer additional buys to contain yields at the longer end of the curve and t...Read More

(Adds quotes, updates prices)* Nerves about volatile stock markets seen helping bonds* Month-end demand seen boosting fixed income* Fed chief Powell's testimony in focus next week By Karen BrettellNEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury prices gained on Friday as uncertainty about recent stock market volatility helped boost demand for the bonds and as investors rebalanced portfolios ahead of m...Read More

John Peters, managing director at Strategic Minerals Plc (LON:SML), sat down in the Proactive studio with the company's  new non-executive director Jeff Harrison.Up for discussion: what's in the pipeline for Redmoor as well as the latest at Leigh Creek, Cobre and CARE.  Meet Scancell Holdings Plc, Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems Ltd and TokenCommunities Plc at our event, London, 08 Ma...Read More

(Adds hiring of investment bank for potential stake sale)SAO PAULO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian online bank Banco Intermedium has hired an investment bank to look for potential buyers for a stake while it also explores an initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said.According to the sources, Inter, as the bank is known, has hired the Brazilian subsidiary of Japan's Nomur...Read More

Gold settled lower Friday, logging its worst weekly decline so far this year as the U.S. dollar bounced back from its earlier weakness. April gold GCJ8, +0.12% fell $2.40, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,330.30 an ounce, falling 1.7% for the week. March silver SIH8, +0.13% slid 10 cents, or 0.6%, to $16.48 an ounce for a weekly drop of 0.8%. Although gold finished out the week in negative territory, th...Read More

Gold settled lower Friday, logging its worst weekly decline so far this year as the U.S. dollar bounced back from its earlier weakness. April gold GCJ8, +0.12% fell $2.40, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,330.30 an ounce, falling 1.7% for the week. March silver SIH8, +0.16% slid 10 cents, or 0.6%, to $16.48 an ounce for a weekly drop of 0.8%. Although gold finished out the week in negative territory, th...Read More

* Dollar index up nearly 1 pct this week* Buying muted in China after New Year break* GRAPHIC-2018 asset returns: (Recasts throughout; updates prices; adds comment, NEW YORK to dateline)By Renita D. Young and Jan HarveyNEW YORK/LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Gold eased on Friday, heading towards its biggest weekly decline in 2-1/2 months, as the U.S. dollar climbed from last week's three-year low on t...Read More

Despite volatility and uncertainty in global markets, the oil price is holding up well.There was a surprise draw on US stocks and in early trading on Friday, Brent crude hit a two-week high above US$66 with WTI holding around US$62 a barrel.The oil price will always be a moving target with many influences outside the market's control.A drop in the dollar also helped, but the fall in US inventories...Read More

The holiday-shortened trading week saw mixed price action on Wall Street, with a post-earnings slump for big-cap retailer Walmart (WMT) pressuring the Dow and S&P 500 Index (SPX) toward a third weekly loss out of four -- and putting the indexes comfortably on track to snap their 10-month winning streaks. And while the Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) appears ready to end the week higher as a Friday surge h...Read More

Spearmint Resources' (TSXV:SRJ) ('SRJ' or the 'Company') wishes to announce that the first drill hole has been completed, reverse circulation hole, SMR-1.Read full newsRead More

CEO Spiro Rombotis from Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CYCC) says the team is planning to initiate a translational clinical study to evaluate their drug CYC065 in combination with venetoclax in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).Rombotis says they expect to start enrolling patients in the first half and expects an output of data by the end of 2019. Rombotis says their $26 mln in cash will take t...Read More

FRANKFURT, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has bought enough bonds so that it could retreat from further purchases without risking an unwarranted rise in yields, ECB executive board member Benoit Coeure said on Friday."In the future, the Eurosystem can retreat as buyer in the market without risking an unwarranted decompression of the term premium," Coeure told a conference i...Read More

(Adds Gundlach on Mnuchin remarks)NEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of Doubleline Capital, said on Friday that while bond yields seem to "make sense" at current levels, he has a "low conviction feeling" that they could break out to the upside, representing a "clear and present danger."Gundlach, on CNBC television, said commodities are the...Read More

ImmunoGen, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMGN) shares have been on a tear in 2018, advancing more than 75% already this year. What's more, IMGN stock could have room to run, if recent history is any indicator. Meanwhile, fellow biotech Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXEL) reports earnings next week, and EXEL stock's recent pullback to a key trendline could mean now is the time to jump on the longer-term uptrend.IMGN Optio...Read More

* Fed sees no risks to change planned pace of rate hikes* Blue Buffalo soars after General Mills' $8 bln buyout* Hewlett Packard Enterprise hits record high on results* Indexes up: Dow 0.58 pct, S&P 0.8 pct, Nasdaq 0.85 pct* Dow, S&P still down for the week; Nasdaq edges higher (Updates to early afternoon)By Sruthi ShankarFeb 23 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes rose on Friday, with g...Read More

TahoeResources Inc.  (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO), which has been dealing with ashutdown of the giant Escobal silver mine in Guatemala over a mining-licenseissue, posted a loss in the fourth quarter of $18 million, or 6 cents pershare. This compares to 0.3 million, or nil, in the same period a year ago. Theadjusted loss was $17.7 million, a turnaround from an $18.4 million profit ayear ago. For ful...Read More

Editor's Note: Gold and silver has been, at best, a frustrating trade. Exclusive to Kitco News, expert trader, Todd "Bubba" Horwitz, chief market strategist and founder of 'Bubba Trading provides a strategy investors can use in a range-bound gold price environment. Sign up before March 10 for the Kitco News Weekly Rundown newsletter to receive Horwitz's exclusive report and trading strategy. (Kitc...Read More