VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 09, 2018-- Sabina Gold & Silver Corp, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Leo Zhao to the Company' s Board of Directors. Zhao joins the Board as Zhaojin International ...Read full newsRead More
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BEIJING, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has started checks on how major shareholders of listed firms are using stock as collateral, part of a broader effort to limit the risks of equity pledges, state-owned Securities Times reported on Sunday.Local CSRC offices in the provinces of Hubei, Sichuan, Anhui and Henan have undertaken checks, the report said, in orde...Read More
DUBAI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The volatility of global stock markets and oil looks likely to weigh on Gulf bourses on Sunday, with the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Egypt at risk of foreign fund outflows.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4 percent on Friday, but that did not come close to regaining all of Thursday's sharp losses.Meanwhile, Brent oil , which two weeks ago was trading around $70...Read More
To understand the risk of contagion, you can think of the marlin in Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea. The marlin started out as a prize catch lashed to the side of the fisherman Santiago's boat.But, once there was blood in the water, every shark within miles descended on the marlin and devoured it. By the time Santiago got to shore, there was nothing left of the marlin but the bill, the tail and so...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 Friday was a disappointing 54-105-131. The TSX Venture Exchange fell five points to 813 while polished diamond prices jumped 0.5 per cent. Tim Fernback's Lico Energy Metals Inc. (LIC) dropped one...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 March delivery lost $1.95 to $59.20 on the New York Merc, while Brent for April lost $2.02 to $62.79 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $30.70 to WTI ($28...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 ReporterNew York spot gold fell $2.60 to $1,315.70 on Friday. The TSX Venture Exchange slid 5.80 points to 813.38 while the TSX Gold Index dropped 3.38 points to 178.36. Most Canadian gold miners lost ground today. Eldorado Gold Corp. (ELD), n...Read More
Jim Rogers stated in an interview with Bloomberg that "the next bear market will be worst in my lifetime," adding that he didn't know when that bear market would occur. The stock market has become insanely overvalued. Before last week, several market-top "bells" were ringing loudly. The stock market could easily drop 50% and, by historical metrics, still be overvalued.Gold, silver and the mining s...Read More
Critics of "New Age" monetary policy have been predicting that central banks would eventually run out of ways to trick people into borrowing money. There are at least three reasons to wonder if that time has finally come: Wage inflation is acceleratingNormally, towards the end of a cycle companies have trouble finding enough workers to keep up with their rising sales. So they start paying new hire...Read More
Critics of "New Age" monetary policy have been predicting that central banks would eventually run out of ways to trick people into borrowing money. There are at least three reasons to wonder if that time has finally come: Wage inflation is acceleratingNormally, towards the end of a cycle companies have trouble finding enough workers to keep up with their rising sales. So they start paying new hire...Read More
Every decision humans make is colored by their past. Despite vast progress, we are still prey to the oldest tool of learning: social conditioning and the pressure of the group.What was once a key to survival follows us into the modern age. It shapes our decisions, the careers we choose, and at times even forces us to act against our better judgment. But we can break free and shape our own decisi...Read More
By Ed Steer10 February 2018 -- SaturdayYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM The gold price didn't do much of anything anywhere on Planet Earth on Friday, but I suppose the reality of the situation was that it wasn't allowed that luxury. The gold price traded in a ten dollar price range yesterday -- and the high and low ticks aren't worth looking up. Gold was closed in New York on...Read More
By John MauldinBurn RateOff-Budget Game0% Financing EndsLender SearchCoup de GraceSonoma, San Diego and SIC, and ElsewhereLast week's turbulence shined a harsh spotlight on the stock market. Appropriately so, if that's where your investments are. But in the hubbub many investors are missing the deeper and far more urgent bond market issues.We already knew interest rates were rising. Recent data...Read More
By Michael J. KosaresCan we use volatility to diagnose financial bubbles? Lessons from 40 historical bubblesSwiss Finance Institute/Didier Sornette, Peter Cauwels and Georgi Smilyan, ETH Zurich/7-24-2018"We inspect the price volatility before, during, and after financial asset bubbles in order to uncover possible commonalities and check empirically whether volatility might be used as an indicat...Read More
By Gary TanashianUS Stock MarketWe will update global markets as well as the macro situation in NFTRH 486, but for this article I'd like to focus on the US stock market.Let's cut to the chase; the markets have finally fallen in line for those of us who manage markets, as opposed to dollar cost average into them through a money manager and then go about life, blissfully unaware. Much like during...Read More
By Steve St. AngeloAs the Dow Jones Index continues to drop like a rock, the worst is yet to come. Today, investors once again plowed into the markets because they are following the Mainstream Financial advice of BUYING THE DIP. Unfortunately, those who bought the dip before yesterday's 1,032 point drop and the 400+ point drop this afternoon, have thrown good money after bad.Of course, we co...Read More
Can we use volatility to diagnose financial bubbles? Lessons from 40 historical bubbles"We inspect the price volatility before, during, and after financial asset bubbles in order to uncover possible commonalities and check empirically whether volatility might be used as an indicator or an early warning signal of an unsustainable price increase and the associated crash. Some researchers and finance...Read More
Consider the hypothesis that, all things being equal, a price will maintain its ruling trend indefinitely. This is irrespective whether the trend is up or down or sideways, or steep or shallow. Since we know prices changes are determined by the ratio of supply to demand, it implies the ratio tends to remain relatively constant over time, as real and potential buyers and sellers continue to react a...Read More