Gold's short-term prospects have diminished, but all is not lost.Even as the dollar strengthens, gold's 2-year recovery remains intact.CRB raw industrials index holds the key to gold's longer-term future.After an impressive upside run over the last several weeks, the price of gold is showing weakness once again. This has caused participants to wonder how much lower the gold price must...Read More

* Higher U.S. Treasury yields underpin dollar* Dollar rebound likely unsustainable this year - poll* Dollar likely in bear market correction-analysts* Graphic: World FX rates in 2018 (Recasts, updates prices, adds comment, FX table, changes byline, dateline; previous LONDON)By Gertrude Chavez-DreyfussNEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The dollar hit two-week highs against a basket of currencies in choppy...Read More

U.S. stocks have shed early gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) down nearly 400 points at midday. Rising Treasury yields are once again in focus, with Caterpillar (CAT) and Intel (INTC) stocks weighing the most on the Dow, and Apple (AAPL) the only blue chip in the black. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) are also sharply lower, in yet another volatile day of trad...Read More

Exchange operator Cboe Global Markets Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE) was one of the biggest losers in the recent market pullback, with J.P. Morgan Securities yesterday suggesting the historic drop in leveraged volatility ETNs will hurt trading volumes going forward. The brokerage firm cited a similar development in 2011 when volatility spiked and VIX trading volumes declined substantially afterward. As such, t...Read More

The price of copper regained its footing and iron ore prices continued the climb on Thursday after customs data showed imports of raw materials by China stayed robust in January after a strong 2017.In brisk trading New York Comex copper for delivery in March were flat compared to Wednesday settlement price trading at $3.0855 a pound ($6,802 per tonne). Copper is still down sharply for the week aft...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold and silver prices are holding modest gains inlate-morning action Thursday. The metals are seeing a bit of benefit from U.S.stock indexes that are trading solidly lower on the day, in still-volatileconditions. Still, gains in the metals are being limited by a stableU.S. dollar index after its good gains scored earlier this week. April gold waslast up $2.80 at $1,317.40. March si...Read More

DENVER, /CSRwire/ - Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) (Newmont or the Company) has been recognized for top performance in the mining sector in The Sustainability Yearbook 2018. The Yearbook is published by RobecoSAM, a sustainability investment firm that manages one of the most comprehensive databases of financially material sustainability information in the world. RobecoSAM's assessment...Read More

DENVER, /CSRwire/ - Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) (Newmont or the Company) has been recognized for top performance in the mining sector in The Sustainability Yearbook 2018. The Yearbook is published by RobecoSAM, a sustainability investment firm that manages one of the most comprehensive databases of financially material sustainability information in the world. RobecoSAM's assessment...Read More

* ECB calls for broad regulation of virtual currencies* Initial Coin Offerings also need to be controlled* Momentum for global coordination building ahead of G20 (Adds detail, quotes, background)By Marc Jones and Alasdair PalLONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and the banks and financial firms that trade them need to be more closely regulated, one of the ECB's top policymakers...Read More

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's Gold Fields said on Thursday it expects full-year profit to fall as much as 12 percent due to impairments and increased amortisation cost at its mines.The bullion miner flagged headline earnings per share - the main gauge of profit in South Africa - of $0.23 to $0.26 per share for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, or between unchanged and up to 12 percent...Read More

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's Gold Fields said on Thursday it expects full-year profit to fall as much as 12 percent due to impairments and increased amortisation cost at its mines.The bullion miner flagged headline earnings per share - the main gauge of profit in South Africa - of $0.23 to $0.26 per share for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, or between unchanged and up to 12 percent...Read More

SAO PAULO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Latin American equities fell on Thursday, as local markets continued to mirror global caution following a sell-off in North America and Europe, while fears of more restrictive regional monetary policy also took a toll.Mexico's IPC was the region's biggest loser, falling 0.84 percent, while Chile's blue-chip IPSA index and Colombia's IGBC both fell 0.4 percent. Brazil's...Read More

Trade data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released this week has again confirmed the importance of the mining industry to the Australian economy and the continuing benefits of the mining boom.In 2017 Australia's resources exports, including minerals, metals and petroleum, posted a new record high value of $207 billion and accounted for 53 per cent of Australia's total goods and services...Read More

Healthcare company athenahealth, Inc (NASDAQ:ATHN) and industrial conglomerate General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) are in the news today, after former GE CEO Jeff Immelt was named chair of athenahealth's board of directors. Immet also purchased $1 million in ATHN common stock at the open. Below, we'll take a closer look at how ATHN and GE stocks are reacting.ATHN Stock Lower After Board Shake-UpA...Read More

(Kitco News) - Kitco aficionados, it isnow time to have your say in where you think gold prices are heading in theshort-term.Will gold prices go higher, lower or remain unchanged nextweek? Kitco readers will have until 9 a.m. EDT, Friday to cast their vote. The results will be tabulated and released after noon (12PM EDT) along with the results fromour market professional survey.Readers can also se...Read More

(Kitco News) - Kitco aficionados, it is now time to have your say in where you think gold prices are heading in the short-term.Will gold prices go higher, lower or remain unchanged next week? Kitco readers will have until 9 a.m. EDT, Friday to cast their vote. The results will be tabulated and released after noon (12 PM EDT) along with the results from our market professional survey.Readers can al...Read More

JAKARTA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Buyers of Indonesian coal are holding back orders of the fuel after the government issued new shipping rules for coal and crude palm oil that would restrict exports to Indonesian vessels, an industry association said on Thursday.Jakarta issued rules in October requiring coal and palm oil exporters to use Indonesian-flagged vessels and Indonesian insurance companies, to b...Read More

Shares in Vedanta, the London-listed natural resources company controlled by one of India's richest men, fell as much as 5.5% on Thursday on the news that the Indian Supreme Court had cancelled all the 88 existing iron ore mining licences in Goa.According to the ruling, the process of renewing the cancelled permits in 2015 was against the law. As a consequence, the country's top court said that no...Read More

* Both exports and imports hit all-time highs in 2017* Vibrant domestic demand sucks in more imports* Shrinking trade surplus good news for Merkel* Data helps defuse criticism from Trump and others (Adds deputy economy minister, paragraph 14)By Michael NienaberBERLIN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Germany's trade surplus fell last year for the first time since 2009, data showed on Thursday - a further sign th...Read More

(Kitco News)- Renewed growth in emergingmarkets (EM) will help drive gold prices higher, according to commodityanalysts from Goldman Sachs, who have significantly increased their forecastfor the yellow metal.In a report Thursday, the globalinvestment bank said that in three months, it see gold prices pushing to $1,350an ounce, in six month rallying to $1,375, and by next year it sees gold pricesat...Read More