Diamond market sentiment improved in January, with firm prices after retailers reported a better-than-expected holiday season. Suppliers are gaining confidence about first-quarter orders as jewelers start to replenish stock after holiday sales.The RapNet Diamond Index (RAPI?,,?) for 1-carat diamonds rose 2.2% during January. RAPI for 0.30-carat diamonds increased 2.3%, while 0.50-carat stones gain...Read More

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb.05, 2018(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Mining Gold Corp. ("First Mining" or the "Company") (TSX:FF) (OTCQX:FFMGF) (Frankfur...Read full newsRead More

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Stocks tanked on Monday, Feb. 5, following a selloff last week that led Wall Street to its worst weekly performance in two years on Friday, Feb. 2. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,175 points, or 4.6%, in its largest single-day point drop ever. The S&P 500 declined 4.1% . The Nasdaq tumbled 3.8%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq had traded in the green earlier Monday. The Dow dropped by...Read More

Jerome Powell starts his tenure as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve this week amid one of the biggest routs for domestic stocks in at least two years and increasing concern that he'll need to act more aggressively than his predecessor to tame inflation pressures in the world's biggest economy.  It's likely to be a raucous first week for Powell, a former Fed Governor and Wall Street vete...Read More

In the next downturn (which may have started last week, yee-haw), the world's central banks will face a bit of poetic justice: To keep their previous policy mistakesContinue...Read More

Global stocks extended their slide into a second week Monday, with markets in Japan recording the biggest single-day decline in more than fifteen months and U.S. equity futures looking at another round of opening bell losses as investors dump shares in the face of rising bond yields fed by faster inflation.  On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is lookin...Read More

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Tuesday February 6.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly higher at the 5pm close on Monday February 5, although lead again bucked the trend. Read more in our live futures report.Here are how LME prices looked at Monday's close:Peru's copper production grew nearly 4% in 2017 thanks to higher output at the MMG's Las Bamb...Read More

During her last news conference in December, Janet Yellen stood firm on her record stating, "The global economy is doing well. We're in a synchronized expansion. This is the first time in many years that we've seen this."While attempting to lock in her record, Yellen urged, "There's less to lose sleep about now than has been true for quite some time."Well, a lot of people lost sleep these past few...Read More

We hope Mr. Jerome Hayden Powell enjoyed his first day on the job…After the Dow plunged an ominous 666 points Friday - and over 1,000 for the week - the Dow ended today 1,175 points lower.It was down 1,500 at one point.The S&P also plunged 113 crimson points today.The Nasdaq, 273.For these past boozy years investors have "bought the dip" after every substantial sell-off.Today... they did...Read More

It's been a rough ride recently for crypto traders.As of this morning, 49 out the largest 50 cryptocurrencies by market cap were in the red over the past 24 hours, according to Coinmarketcap.com.The No. 1 crypto, bitcoin, has dropped over 60% since its meteoric rise to $19,343 in mid-December.As I write, the coin is sitting at $7,360.Fast action, speculation and the dream of striking it rich spurr...Read More

“It's not real money!”My coach was now yelling over the sound of the wind through my helmet and our bike wheels humming on the road...“Can you buy Dunkin Donuts with Bitcoin? How about a new tire for your bike? If you can't buy stuff with it, it's not real money!”For the last two weeks, our triathlon team has had a spirited debate over Bitcoin and whether it's a fad or here...Read More

We have a stock market bubble.That's what former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan told Bloomberg TV last Wednesday during a second day of what turned out to be the beginning of a jarring market pullback.Jim Paulsen sees the possibility of a 15 percent correction. Goldman Sachs said conditions point to a correction of 10% to 20% in the next few months. After Friday's big drop, I suspect more prognosticator...Read More

Exiting 2016, GORO's most promising deposit, the Switchback, had a strike length of 300m and P&P reserves of 203,500 tonnes.Drilling through 2017 and into January of 2018 has tripled the strike length and greatly increased confidence in the continuity and commercial value of the deposit.The idea that the Switchback may be a larger deposit than GORO's cash cow Arista deposit is now very...Read More

Exiting 2016, GORO's most promising deposit, the Switchback, had a strike length of 300m and P&P reserves of 203,500 tonnes.Drilling through 2017 and into January of 2018 has tripled the strike length and greatly increased confidence in the continuity and commercial value of the deposit.The idea that the Switchback may be a larger deposit than GORO's cash cow Arista deposit is now very...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 ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange dropped 8.45 points to 803.23 Monday, comparatively a stellar performance. Jeffrey Sharpe's NEX-shell Movit Media Corp. (MV: $0.15) has a new deal. The company is planning to roll back 1 for 12.5, and then issu...Read More

Lloyds joins U.S. banks in prohibiting purchases with cardsValue of the biggest cryptocurrency drops by as much as $1,990Bloomberg's Ed Robinson reports on crashing Bitcoin prices.Bitcoin tumbled for a fifth day, dropping below $7,000 for the first time since November and leading other digital tokens lower, as a backlash by banks and government regulators against the speculative frenzy that drove...Read More