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

E-commerce powerhouse Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) will begin to deliver Whole Foods groceries to Amazon Prime Now members in select cities. The service is expected to expand across the U.S. later this year. In response, AMZN stock is up 1.1% at $1,433 in early trading.Looking broader, Amazon stock has gained more than 74% over the past year, and most recently touched a fresh record high of $1,4...Read More

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) reported its first profit ever in the fourth quarter, with adjusted earnings of 19 cents per share beating the average analyst estimate of 14 cents per share, while revenue of $731.6 million also topped expectations. Twitter also forecast a GAAP profit for all of 2018. Against this backdrop, TWTR shares are up 25.8% out of the gate to trade at $33.87 -- their highest level...Read More

The renewedweakness in equities has enabled gold to stabilize, says INTL FCStone. With theDow Jones Industrial Average down nearly 300 points in early trading, Comex April gold was up $2.20 to $1,316.80 as of 10:42 a.m. EST. INTL FCStone says“gold prices are up right now as weakness in the Dow seems to be steadying thecomplex somewhat,” adding that silver has also ticked higher. March...Read More

NEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said on Thursday he is open to the U.S. central bank raising key borrowing costs at its March policy meeting, in the wake ofmarket turmoil stemming from worries about rising inflation and interest rates."I'm open to a March rate increase," he told reporters after a speech delivered at a meeting of the Natio...Read More

Stock futures are higher this morning, after yet another volatile session yesterday. Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are up over 100 points ahead of the bell, suggesting the index could retake the 25,000 level for the first time this week. S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) futures are also higher ahead of the open,with help from earnings winners like Twitter (TWTR) and...Read More

Shares of robotic vacuum cleaner manufacturer iRobot Corporation (NASDAQ:IRBT) are about to get crushed when the market opens, with the stock already down 19.4% in electronic trading, likely due to the company's lower-than-expected full-year earnings outlook. On an adjusted basis, however, the company topped earnings estimates for the fourth quarter and revenue was well above analysts' forecasts....Read More

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari told a town hall in Pierre, South Dakota that he does not think the Federal Reserve should raise rates unless wages and inflation start to take off, and the U.S. economy is a "long way" from that. With wage growth slow and inflation below the Fed's 2-percent target, "Why cool the economy down?" asked Kas...Read More

Royal Gold, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGLD)reports a net loss of $15 million, or 23 cents per share, despite increasedrevenue of $114 million in its fiscal second quarter that ended Dec. 31.“Second-quarter reported earnings reflected the impact of recently enacted U.S.tax legislation and a non-cash functional currency election,” the company says.Excluding these impacts, adjusted net income was $28...Read More

Goldman Sachs raised its gold price forecasts this Thursday. The investment firm now anticipates the price of precious metal at $1,350, $1,375, and $1,450/oz over the three, six and twelve months period respectively as against previous forecast of $1,225, $1,200, and $1,225/oz. The reason for the revision was more towards stronger emerging market growth, with more upward pressure also seen from st...Read More

Mr. John Burzynski reports OSISKO MINING PROVIDES QUEBEC EXPLORATION UPDATE Osisko Mining Inc. has provided an update on the progress of exploration at its 100-per-cent-owned Windfall Lake, Urban Barry and Quevillon gold projects located in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec.Osisko has been conducting new exploration and definition drilling at Windfall for 26 months, sinc...Read More

Mr. John Burzynski reports OSISKO MINING PROVIDES QUEBEC EXPLORATION UPDATE Osisko Mining Inc. has provided an update on the progress of exploration at its 100-per-cent-owned Windfall Lake, Urban Barry and Quevillon gold projects located in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec.Osisko has been conducting new exploration and definition drilling at Windfall for 26 months, sinc...Read More

* Higher U.S. Treasury yields underpin dollar* Dollar rebound likely unsustainable this year - poll* New Zealand dollar skids as RBNZ holds steady* Graphic: World FX rates in 2018 By Jemima KellyLONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The dollar edged higher to a two-week high against a basket of major currencies on Thursday as investors covered some short positions against the greenback on a growing view that...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold prices did not move much after a Labor Department report Thursday showing that initialweekly U.S. jobless claims declined by 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 221,000in the week to Saturday.Consensusexpectations were for initial claims to be around 235,000. The government left theprior week’s tally unrevised at the previously reported 230,000.As of 8:38 a.m. EST, Comex April...Read More

(Kitco News) - Goldprices are slightly down in early morning trading Thursday, and dropped to afive-week low overnight. A rallying U.S. dollar index this week is puttingsignificant downside price pressure on the precious metals markets. Still,selling interest in safe-haven gold and silver is being mitigated by verywobbly U.S. stock indexes that have suffered major chart damage this week. April Com...Read More

(Kitco News) - Coeur Mining, Inc. (NYSE: CDE) wasprofitable in the fourth quarter and for full-year 2017 as the company hitrecord production for both periods.The company late Wednesday listed fourth-quarter income of $14.3million, or 8 cents per share, a turnaround from a loss of $10.3 million, or 6cents, in the same period a year ago. Excluding special items, adjusted incomewas $14.1 million, or...Read More

Last week, we remarked on a bullish extreme in the weekly Investors Intelligence (II) sentiment survey, in which the "bulls minus bears" line jumped to the 99th percentile of its annual range. However, in light of the recent stock market sell-off, II respondents abandoned the bullish camp at a rate seen just one other time since the Black Monday crash, sending up a sentiment signal not seen in dec...Read More

Editor's Note: Welcome to Kitco's new Bitcoin Daily Technical Alert. Every trading day veteran Kitco technical analyst Jim Wyckoff will provide you with a concise and easy-to-understand near-term technical brief on Bitcoin. Importantly, Jim will glean the short-term charts and technical studies, and then alert you to the signals he sees regarding upcoming potential bigger price moves or price tren...Read More

The equity markets continue theirhighly volatile trade, as Wednesday saw over a 500-point swing. The VIX indexhad a 12-point intraday trading range. Oil got clobbered again along with thebonds, gold, euro currency and the Canadian dollar.The U.S. dollar has bottomed andcould be the “black swan’ in the Fed’s grand scheme of things. The dollar wasthe last chance for the Fed to try...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold held by globalexchange-traded funds increased by 27.6 tonnes during the first month of theyear, a gain of 5%, according to the World Gold Council (WGC).January's rise was largely drivenby North American ETFs, which added 21.5 tonnes ($940 million), representing73% of all global inflows, the WGC said in its monthly report on Thursday. Incomparison, European funds added only 7.6...Read More