The major gold miners’stocks remain mired in universal bearishness, largely left for dead. They are just wrapping up their third-quarterearnings season, which proved challenging. Lower gold prices cut deeply into cash flows and profits, andproduction-growth struggles persisted. But these elite companies did hold the line on costs, portending soaringearnings as gold recovers.&...Read More
Have you heard about the Everything Bubble? Some analysts believe that after the dot-com bubble of the 1990s and the housing bubble of the 2000s, we are in the middle of a price bubble in virtually all asset classes simultaneously caused by the Fed’s unusually easy monetary policy with ultra low interest rates. Although we agree that the US central bank maintained federal funds rate too low...Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort168,416177,663122,818201,354203,177492,588503,658Change from Prior Reporting Period -72527,54819,56027,457-8,85646,29238,252Traders16895886253273202 Small Speculators (C) GoldSeek.com LongShortOpen Interest 46,93235,862539,520 -1,6836,35744,609 non reportable positionsChange f...Read More
Key Gold and Precious Metals News, Commentary and Charts This WeekGold and silver have eked out slight gains this week as stock markets came under pressure due to concerns about tech and oil sector valuations, Italian banks and political and financial turmoil due to Brexit.Gold is 0.65% higher for the week in dollars and has seen greater gains in euro (+0.8%) and the pound (+2.17%). The latter h...Read More
Gold defended a key trendline support this week. The bearish-to-bullish trend change, however, is still not confirmed. The safe-haven metal fell below $1,200 in the first half of the week, as expected. The drop below the psychological support was short-lived, possibly due to the pullback in the dollar index from 97.69 to levels below 97.00. Notably, the yellow metal defended the support of the tre...Read More
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Oil finished flat but logged another weekly lossThe Dow traded in a range of over 360 points today, eventually closing higher, as trade comments from President Donald Trump tipped the scales in the bulls' favor. Trump said he is optimistic that the U.S. and China will eventually broker a trade deal, with the two expected to meet at the G-20 Summit later this month. However, while the Dow and S&P e...Read More
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers on Friday signaled further interest rate increases ahead, but raised relatively muted concerns over a potential global slowdown that has markets betting heavily that the Fed’s rate hike cycle will soon peter out.The widening chasm between market expectations and the rate path the Fed laid out just two months ago underscores the biggest question in fro...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Home-renting company Airbnb Inc said on Friday it had “substantially more” than $1 billion in revenue for the third quarter, marking its strongest quarter yet ahead of a widely anticipated initial public offering next year.The quarter was the first time it “substantially” exceeded $1 billion in revenue, Airbnb said in a statement, citing growth in...Read More
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would nominate the acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, to take on the position permanently.Wheeler, a long-time Washington insider known to shun the spotlight, took the reins at the EPA in July after former Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned. Pruitt faced a slew of ethics controversies that includ...Read More
In a letter to shareholders, McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) updated its progress at the Gold Bar project in central Nevada and confirmed commercial production is expected to begin in the first quarter of next year.The company completed the heap leach pad and installed crushing, conveying and agglomeration systems this month. For the rest of the year, its focus will be on finishing the proce...Read More
Plus, an FDA nod has SGEN shares higherIt's been another volatile session for stocks today, with the Dow swinging higher in afternoon trading. Among individual names making notable moves today are Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), healthcare issue Acadia Healthcare Company Inc (NASDAQ:ACHC), and drugmaker Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGEN). Here's a quick roundup of what's moving the sh...Read More
(Kitco News)- Palladium and rhodium continue to be the two shining startsin the precious metals sector, both seeing surging momentum this week due to agrowing imbalance in their supply and demand fundamentals.Palladium is closing out the week at a new record high;December palladium futures last traded at $1157.90 an ounce, up 5.5% from theprevious week. Meanwhile, rhodium is currently trading at i...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former Oracle Corp product chief Thomas Kurian will replace Diane Greene as head of the cloud division at Alphabet Inc’s Google in the coming weeks, Greene announced in a blog post on Friday, after a tumultuous year for the business.Greene said she had joined Google three years ago with plans to leave after two years and will move into investing and philanthropy in...Read More
Several Apple suppliers offered up weak forecastsIt was a dreary week on Wall Street, with Apple (AAPL) driving most of the price action early on. And while a positive earnings reaction for Cisco Systems (CSCO) and a Buffett-inspired surge for JPMorgan Chase (JPM) on Thursday helped the Dow snap its longest daily losing streak since August, sharp declines in the semiconductor space today have the...Read More
CHEMNITZ, Germany (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday urged people to stand up against hatred and reject “lies” about a U.N. migration accord during her first visit to the city of Chemnitz since a spate of far-right violence that tarnished Germany’s image abroad.Germans were shocked by images of skinheads chasing migrants in the eastern city after the fatal stabbing of...Read More
Gold futures ended higher Friday for a third consecutive session to book a weekly advance of more than 1%, with geopolitical turmoil and broader equity market weakness helping to underpin gains. The yellow metal found a haven-related lift from geopolitical worries surrounding Britain's planned exit from the European Union. Read: Here's how Brexit turmoil could become a problems for U.S. and globa...Read More
• A fresh wave of global risk-aversion trade benefits traditional safe-haven assets. • Fresh USD selling pressure provided an additional boost and remains supportive. • Technical buying above $1217 hurdle further accelerates the positive momentum. Gold finally broke out of its European session consolidation phase and surged to f...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The total debt shouldered by Americans has hit another record high, rising to $13.5 trillion in the last quarter, while an unusual jump in student-loan delinquencies could provide another signal that the U.S. economic expansion is growing old.Flows of student debt into serious delinquency - of 90 or more days - rose to 9.1 percent in the third quarter from 8.6 percent in the p...Read More