Gain in payrolls is less than median projection of 190,000Unemployment rate holds at 4.1%, lowest level since 2000Bloomberg's Julie Hyman breaks down the December U.S. jobs report.U.S. payroll gains slowed by more than forecast in December, wages picked up slightly and the jobless rate held at the lowest level since 2000, adding to signs of a full-employment economy.Employers added 148,000 workers...Read More

Adam HamiltonArchivesJan 05, 2018 The gold miners' stocks have huge upside potential in 2018, likely the best among stock-market sectors. They really lagged gold last year, so a major mean-reversion catch-up rally is coming. The gold miners are universally ignored and deeply undervalued relative to the metal which drives their profits. And gold itself is likely to power dramatically higher this ye...Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq pushed further into record territory on Friday, Jan. 5, following a U.S. jobs report for December that came in weaker than expected. The U.S. created 148,000 jobs in December, the slowest pace in three months. Economists surveyed by FactSet expected 189,000 jobs to have been created. The unemployment rate in December held stea...Read More

Participants in a new Kitco News gold survey look for the precious metal to build on its gains next week, citing the soft U.S. jobs report released Friday and technical-chart momentum. Comex February gold topped the $1,300-an-ounce level on the final day of 2017 and has remained above this so far in 2018. The metal, helped by a soft U.S. dollar much of this week, temporarily bounced from overnig...Read More

There's more to come for 2018.Pot stocks enjoyed a nice rally to close out the year. Many of the stocks in the U.S. Marijuana Index charged higher in trading sessions through December.Overall, the U.S. pot index was up 13.15% the first few days of 2018.The bull run showed no signs of stopping.Then a bombshell dropped Thursday.The People Have Spoken - The Government Won't ListenTwenty-nine U.S. sta...Read More

While most investors remain fixated on the tech sector and the cryptocurrency boom, energy is looking like strong bet in 2018.Oil quietly topped $62 a barrel this week, posting new three year highs. This week's move caps off an impressive four-month comeback that has shot crude to gains of more than 32%. Sure, the days of $100 oil are long gone. But as this furious energy rally proves, the oil age...Read More

I’ve got one teenager with an active driver’s license and two teenagers in the “learning stage.”Sometimes I think I’m going to lose my sanity!The other day I was trying to give my son directions and I mentioned a major intersection near our house. It turned out, he didn’t even know the names of the streets!It’s not because he’s a bad driver. Quite th...Read More

Comstock Metals (CSL.V) has completed a flow-through offering raising a gross amount of C$535,000 by issuing 5.95 million flow-through units priced at C$0.09 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and half a warrant whereby a full warrant entitles a warrant owner to purchase an additional share in Comstock Metals at C$0.15 for a period of 18 months. The funds will have to be spent on exp...Read More

Moving is one of the easiest ways to slash your tax bill.In the modern economy, freelancing, and running a home business are growing trends. If you run a largely internet based business or service, then all you need is an internet connection and you can work.This opens up the opportunity to move wherever you want.Florida, Texas, Washington, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Alaska have no state...Read More

The gold miners’ stockshave huge upside potential in 2018, likely the best among stock-marketsectors.  They really lagged gold lastyear, so a major mean-reversion catch-up rally is coming.  The gold miners are universally ignored anddeeply undervalued relative to the metal which drives their profits.  And gold itself is likely to powerdramatically higher this year as euphoric...Read More

I keep reading articles claiming that inflation is nowhere to be found.If that is true, explain the following four charts.Copper has broken out of a 10-year downtrend. This chart suggests that Copper will be retesting its 2011 highs.Another inflationary industrial metal (steel) is posting a similar pattern.There is literally NOTHING bearish in that chart. The bear market in steel from 2010 onwards...Read More

The first trading days of2018 are confirming signs of renewed investor interest in the precious metalssector after a long period of malaise.Gold and silver markets entered theyear with some stealth momentum after quietly posting gains late in 2017. Goldfinished the year above $1,300/oz. – its best yearly close since 2012. Over the past five years,the yellow metal has been basing out in a ran...Read More

Big cap diversified miners are riding a wave of optimism as global growth prospects - especially in manufacturing - continues to strengthen. Global economic activity as measured by the JP Morgan global manufacturing and services index showed output rising at the fastest pace since March 2015.The manufacturing index has now signalled expansion for a record 82 months in a row and the investment...Read More

While the moniker for this missive is "Gold and Gold Miners", I just sit back in absolute AWE as the global equity investors (otherwise known as "Stock jockeys") have decided that "cash is TRASH!" and despite a massive "miss" in the employment numbers this morning, within seconds of the release, the spin doctors manning the equity trading desks deemed that number "bullish" because it is less infla...Read More

Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.To public readers of our updates, our cycle indicator is one of the most effective timing tool for traders and investors. It is not perfect, because periodically the market can be more volatile and can result in short term whipsaws. But overall, the cycle indicator provides us with a clear direction how we should be speculating.InvestorsDuring a major buy sign...Read More

The Peruvian government might have to deal with more mining-related social protests in 2018, says a risk brief published today by Verisk Maplecroft.According to the firm, if 2017 saw several projects slowing down or stopping due to the 171 formally registered conflicts that took place throughout the country, the approval of the supreme decree 042-2017 in December, which relaxes the environmental p...Read More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has accepted Pebble Limited Partnership's wetlands-fill permit, which is required under the Clean Water Act and which is also a key authorization in the permitting process for the controversial Pebble project in Alaska.Pebble Limited Partnership is a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM). For over a decade now, the company has been...Read More

What is believed to be the world's most expensive bottle of vodka has been stolen from a Copenhagen bar.The $1.3-million container was made of yellow gold and silver and had a diamond-encrusted replica of the Russian Imperial Eagle on its cap. On season three of the political thriller House of Cards, it was served to US President Frank Underwood, played by the now-beleaguered Kevin Spacey.Followi...Read More

VANCOUVER (miningweekly.com) – The value per carat realised at the tenth tender sale of diamonds produced at Mountain Province Diamonds’ 49%-owned Gahcho Kué mine, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, has fallen to the lowest level since sales started 12 months ago.The TSX- and Nasdaq-listed company recorded sale proceeds of $19.1-million for the tenth tender sale, from the...Read More

"Trading events in the early to mid morning Friday made it plain to me an intermediate top is in silver and probably gold..."by Marshall Swing via The Church Of ActsTrading events in the early to mid morning Friday made it plain to me an intermediate top is in silver and probably gold with silver standing to lose more.Contracts were sold for a nice gain.That provided enough capital for enlarging t...Read More