The U.S. tobacco giant has many ways to profit in the year ahead and beyond.Read full newsRead More

LOVELOCK - An agency that encourages stewardship over prohibition is the Environmental Protection Agency that Administrator Scott Pruitt represented to the Nevada mining industry on Feb. 5.Read full newsRead More

SHANGHAI, Feb 9 (SMM) –Copper: Stock market slump, lower crude oil prices, and a surge in LME copper inventory gave shorts more confidence overnight. We expect LME copper to trade at $6,810-6,880/mt today and SHFE copper at 51,700-52,200 yuan/mt. Weak fundamentals may lead spot premiums lower to 30-40 yuan/mt today.Aluminium: We expect LME aluminium to trade rangebound at $2,158-2,193/mt wit...Read More

SHANGHAI, Feb 9 (SMM) –Copper: Stock market slump, lower crude oil prices, and a surge in LME copper inventory gave shorts more confidence overnight. We expect LME copper to trade at $6,810-6,880/mt today and SHFE copper at 51,700-52,200 yuan/mt. Weak fundamentals may lead spot premiums lower to 30-40 yuan/mt today.Aluminium: We expect LME aluminium to trade rangebound at $2,158-2,193/mt wit...Read More

SHANGHAI, Feb 9 (SMM) –Copper: Stock market slump, lower crude oil prices, and a surge in LME copper inventory gave shorts more confidence overnight. We expect LME copper to trade at $6,810-6,880/mt today and SHFE copper at 51,700-52,200 yuan/mt. Weak fundamentals may lead spot premiums lower to 30-40 yuan/mt today.Aluminium: We expect LME aluminium to trade rangebound at $2,158-2,193/mt wit...Read More

09 February 2018 - Cape Town: The digital age holds out great opportunities for mining companies to reduce risk and improve safety and profitability; SRK Consulting (SA) chairman William Joughin gave delegates at the Investing in African Mining Indaba a taste of what is already being achieved.Speaking as part of the Indaba's Mining 2050 (Technology & Innovation) stream, Joughin highlighted the gro...Read More

All of the nearly 1000 miners trapped in the Sibanye-Stillwater's Beatrix gold mine in South Africa due to a power outage were brought back to the surface.Read full newsRead More

Total gold ETF holdings are at their highest level since May, 2013, and this could be due to a growing interest in commodities in general. Will Rhind, CEO of GraniteShares, told Kitco News that growing interest in gold is driven by two main factors: "weaker U.S. dollar, and more volatility and increasing fears of inflation in the market." Rhind compares gold's recent failure to rally in response...Read More

Here are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now Sectors leading the sharp declines Thursday included industrials, financials and technology.The Dow finished lower for the fourth time in five days, and is down more than 2,700 points from its record high of 26,616.71 on Jan. 26.The Nasdaq finished lower for the ninth time in 11 sessions; the S&P 500 has fallen for the seventh time in the...Read More

Wall Street futures weakened again Thursday, as bond yields rose and the dollar strengthened, in a cautious session for global stocks that saw markets fall in Europe and Asia that suggests investors aren't quite ready to return to equities following three days of intense volatility that has rocked markets around the world. Contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were marked 79 po...Read More

SHANGHAI, Feb 9 (SMM) –Copper: Stock market slump, lower crude oil prices, and a surge in LME copper inventory gave shorts more confidence overnight. We expect LME copper to trade at $6,810-6,880/mt today and SHFE copper at 51,700-52,200 yuan/mt. Weak fundamentals may lead spot premiums lower to 30-40 yuan/mt today.Aluminium: We expect LME aluminium to trade rangebound at $2,158-2,193/mt wit...Read More

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday February 9.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange mostly recovered from early morning lows at the close on Thursday February 8, but copper prices remained downbeat. Read more in our live futures report.Here are how LME prices looked at Thursday's close:Consumers of cobalt and lithium are expecting strong demand from the...Read More

Where are crypto cannabis CEOs investing their money?There's a rapidly emerging opportunity at the intersection of cryptocurrency and cannabis. At CryptoCann?,,? Capital Forum, CEOs of publicly traded crypto/cannabis companies discuss tangible and measurable investment opportunities in this innovative and stimulating business ecosystem. Proactive Investors is proud to bring together companies with...Read More

He has risen from the grave... with a thirst for blood.The scourge of Washington, the fiend of Wall Street, this boogeyman's return has markets wriggling in exquisite torture...Rumors of his return were at least partly responsible for Monday's record 1,175 point bloodletting.His stomping footsteps were heard again yesterday afternoon... and stocks sold off violently.The footsteps grew louder today...Read More

The crypto market took some massive hits this week, mirroring action we've seen in the stock market.On Tuesday 99% of the top 100 coins by market cap were in the red.Stories about banks cutting off services to companies and individuals who work with crypto, shutting down their bank accounts, turning off their crypto-loaded credit cards, shutting down their merchant accounts and even freezing their...Read More

The stock market has settled down after Monday's big drop.The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished Wednesday trading just in the red after a volatile start to the week. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite was yesterday's biggest loser. The tech-heavy index slipped late in Wednesday's session to finish the day down almost 1%.We have a chance to take a step back and survey the damage now that stocks ha...Read More

Do you have a brain?If so, then I am very confident you are going to have a major edge investing over the next five years.I know that sounds like a ridiculous thing to say. You're thinking that it's obvious having a brain is a requirement for successful investing.But for the past five years it hasn't been. In fact, thinking has been quite detrimental to stock market performance.But that's going to...Read More

Gold does not capture any safe-haven bids.Speculators turn bearish on gold for the first time in seven weeks, the CFTC shows.ETF investors cut their gold holdings for the first time in three weeks, according to FastMarkets' estimates.Gold is not dead, but its macro backdrop is not as friendly as one would expect, for now.I am long IAU over the long term (12m). I am sorry, but I don't pay attention...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 MikeCaswellThe Alberta Securities Commission has filed an administrative action against wanted Calgarian Jim Can and others, claiming that they were behind the 2013 pump-and-dump of a company called Bluforest Inc. The ASC says that the men manipulated the company...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 Thursday was a bleak 47-102-141. The TSX Venture Exchange dropped 11 points to 819 while polished diamond prices edged higher. Guy Bourassa's Nemaska Lithium Inc. (NMX) dropped 12 cents to $1.58...Read More