NEW YORK (LPC) - Leveraged loans are standing out as the best-performing asset class in an otherwise brutal October as rising volatility in global equities has rippled across the capital markets. While investors pulled US$7.4m from loan funds in the week ending October 24, the first week of outflows in four months, the asset class has been largely unfazed by the risk-off sentiment created by t...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Friday that Cesar Sayoc, the suspect in a raft of suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats and others, is in the custody of the FBI and has been charged with five federal crimes.Sayoc faces up to 58 years in prison if found guilty, Sessions said at a press conference announcing the charges.“We will not tolerate such la...Read More
(Kitco News)- The amount of gold transferred between accounts of London Bullion Market Association members was steady during September while the silver volume increased, the organization reported Friday.The LBMA releases clearing statistics each month showing the net volume of gold and silver transferred between accounts of members, essentially providing a snapshot of the amount of trading activit...Read More
(Adds market reaction, background)WASHINGTON/BUENOS AIRES, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Friday increased the size of a standby financing agreement for Argentina to about $56.3 billion, closing a deal the country has said would come with tougher fiscal measures.Argentina's President Mauricio Macri agreed to a $50 billion IMF deal in June, hoping it would stop a run on the c...Read More
Mineros S.A. (BVC: MINEROS) has entered into a binding agreement with Yamana Gold (TSE: YRI) to acquire the Gualcamayo gold mine in Argentina, and has an earn-in agreement for the La Pepa gold exploration project in Chile.Gualcamayo is an established producing mine with a long operating history. The mine is on track to achieve Yamana's 2018 gold production guidance of 100,000 ounces.The Gualcamayo...Read More
Gold futures climbed Friday, finding haven-related support despite some better-than-expected U.S. economic data, as equities saw renewed pressure to end a volatile week. Prices, however, finished a buck short of the roughly three-month high it settled at on Tuesday. December gold GCZ8, +0.24% rose $3.40, or 0.3%, to settle at $1,235.80 an ounce, tacking on 0.6% for the week-its fourth weekly rise...Read More
Gold futures climbed Friday, finding haven-related support despite some better-than-expected U.S. economic data, as equities saw renewed pressure to end a volatile week. Prices, however, finished a buck short of the roughly three-month high it settled at on Tuesday. December gold GCZ8, -0.03% rose $3.40, or 0.3%, to settle at $1,235.80 an ounce, tacking on 0.6% for the week-its fourth weekly rise...Read More
(Kitco News) - David Garofalo,president and chief executive officer of Goldcorp Inc. (TSX: G, NYSE: GG), says“nothing is broken” with the company and that third-quarter earnings wereweaker largely because of a decision to move processing of lower-grade oreahead by one quarter at the new Pe??asquito pyrite leach plant.The CEO spoke withKitco News on Friday a day after shares of the comp...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Worries over global oil pricing and pipeline constraints are hanging over the energy sector as U.S. companies begin to report quarterly results, with many producers’ shares trading lower on the year.Third-quarter profits for oil producers generally should be higher than a year ago, because the average price per barrel was up about 44 percent over the same period last yea...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three former London-based currency traders were found not guilty on Friday of U.S. charges that they schemed to rig benchmark exchange rates, the latest criminal convictions to emerge from a U.S. probe into the multitrillion-dollar foreign exchange market.Chris Ashton, Rohan Ramchandani and Richard Usher, who worked at Barclays Plc (BARC.L), Citigroup Inc (C.N) and JPMorgan Ch...Read More
The semiconductor name will report earnings on MondayThe shares of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:TSEM) are getting hit by broad-market headwinds today, as chip stocks sell off on a rare revenue miss for Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC). After bottoming at a 22-month low of $17.45 earlier, TSEM stock was last seen down 0.3% at $18.06.Despite this technical weakness, TSEM options traders are tar...Read More
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared himself in economic “repair mode” at a major investment conference on Friday as the country raised a total of $55 billion from investors to help haul itself out of recession.The former union leader, who inherited a mismanaged economy from the scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma earlier this year, wants $100 billion of new...Read More
Consumer sentiment for October was weaker than anticipated.The index has slumped since March when it reached its highest level since 2004 with a reading of 101.4.Michael Sheetz| @thesheetztweetz Published 11 Hours AgoUpdated10 Hours AgoCNBC.com show chapters Consumer sentiment index at 98.6 in October 10 Hours Ago |00:58 Consumer sentiment for October was weaker than anticipate...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Sacramento, California, are investigating a suspicious package sent to U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat who has criticized Republican President Donald Trump, CNN reported on Friday.The report came as law enforcement officials took a suspect into custody in connection with a series of parcel bombs sent to prominent Democrats and other critics of Trump.Rep...Read More
Disappointing results from 3M and Caterpillar weighed on the DowIt was a wild week on Wall Street, with the Dow exploring a more than 1,000-point range on both sides of breakeven, as of this writing. Most of the price action occurred to the downside, with the Dow, S&P 500 Index (SPX), and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) all pacing for weekly losses -- the latter for its fourth in a row, which would mark i...Read More
Wait, what?! Isn't the inverse head-and-shoulders a bullish pattern that was supposed to take gold miners much higher? Indeed, it is. But it didn't take gold miners much higher and all that the completion of the above-mentioned pattern generated was a corrective upswing that didn't even take gold stocks back above their December 2016 lows. And we warned that this is the likely outcome...Read More
Western Digital posted a rare miss in quarterly revenueStocks are trading lower today to put the S&P 500 Index into correction territory. Looking at individual names to watch, digital memory expert Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC), former Dow component General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and drugmaker Syndax Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:SNDX) are all making notable moves. Below is a breakdown for...Read More
(Kitco News)- It has taken a while, but gold is now doing exactly what itis supposed to do as the metal ends the week near a three-month high as U.S.equity markets continue to melt down and bond yields drop.The gold market is seeing its fourth week of consecutivegains and is on pace to end a six-month downtrend. December gold futures aretrading near a three-week high, last trading at $1,243 an oun...Read More
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The United States’ trade wars have allowed Canada’s agriculture industry to pump up sales of soybeans and wheat to China, and pork to Mexico.But the same tariff battles are undermining commodity prices and eating into Canadian farmers’ profit margins even as they grab more market share.Their struggles illustrate the complex global consequences of U....Read More
PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA) is close to naming an outsider to replace finance chief Harald Wilhelm after board moves to overhaul top management in response to a corruption probe hastened his surprise resignation in May, people close to the matter said.British and French authorities are investigating the use of middlemen in jetliner sales and the European planemaker says it is also supplying...Read More