Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers today announced 4th cycle rough sales of $604m, a year-on-year increase of 56 per cent.The UK-based miner said demand remained strong, but faced possible threats from Covid lockdowns in China, and sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.It was De Beers' second full sales cycle since the US and EU sanctioned Alrosa, part-owned by the Russian government, and its...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 28 points in pre-opening trade.Equity index futures were virtually unchanged following release of U.S. April Housing Starts at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a slip to 1.783 million units from 1.793 million units in March. Actual was a drop to 1.72 million units.The Canadian Dollar was virtually unchanged at US78.04 cents...Read More

I don't believe many people grasp the enormity of the global food crisis we'll be facing in the months ahead. But the world could be on the verge of a massive humanitarian crisis. Let's dive in...The supply chain collapse preceded the war in Ukraine, but the war has only intensified the problems. You can see it with your own eyes when you walk into a supermarket and find long stretches of empty sh...Read More

Banyan Gold (TSXV: BYN) has delivered a mineral resource update on its flagship AurMac property nestled in an emerging mining district of the Yukon between Alexco Resource Corp's (TSX: AXU) Keno Hill mine and Victoria Gold's (TSX: VGCX) Eagle gold mine.CEO Tara Christie tells The Northern Miner on the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC) sidelines that the project is living up to expect...Read More

TDG Gold (TSXV: TDG) has published an initial resource estimate for the former producing Shasta gold-silver mine in north-central B.C. following the conclusion of its 2021 drill program, which confirmed the historic drilling results on the property since 1983. The resource amounted to 22 million tonnes averaging 0.79 g/t gold and 26.7 g/t silver in the inferred category.The resource is restricted...Read More

Trevali Mining (TSX: TV) said the eight missing miners, for whom rescuers have been searching since the company's Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso was hit by flash floods last month, have failed to reach the mine's refuge chamber situated more than 500 metres below the surface. "This is devastating news," the company's CEO Ricus Grimbeek said in a press release on May 17. "We would like to offer our...Read More

BHP's (NYSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) chief executive Mike Henry wants to gear up on the company's US$5.7 billion Jansen potash project in Canada as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has caused major disruptions to global fertilizer supplies.The ongoing war in Ukraine has left the world not only short of important grains but also fertilizers since neighbours Russia and Belarus account for almost 40% of global pr...Read More

Here's a list of countries that have banned food exports in the months after the Russia-Ukraine war started, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute.Read full newsRead More

In my line of work, we tend to fixate on numbers, line charts, and tables.So much so that it often distracts from the life around us. That's made this past week pretty difficult. Stocks have been getting hammered, and crypto is taking it even harder. But last night, when I got off work, I went axe-throwing. I'm in a league and it was the playoffs. (This is a real thing, I swear.) I lost, but i...Read More

The revised credit facility also includes "sustainability-linked metrics".Read More

ESG.It means environmental, social, and corporate governance, and it's something we've been using to identify companies that are incorporating such things into their operations.This, of course, is something I've been covering since before "ESG" even became a thing, ultimately becoming hijacked by corporate bullies with Ivy League degrees and those so far to the left they'll attempt to shut do...Read More

Joe Biden's follower count on Twitter is about as reliable as Chinese drywall.And we now have the numbers to prove it.Following a Twitter spam audit, software firm SparkToro found that nearly 50% of Biden's total Twitter following consists of spam or fake Twitter accounts.In other words, of the 22 million followers on the president's account, only about 11 million are real.Now, I'm not sharing thi...Read More

Kitco News, Released on 5/19/22The U.S. Federal Reserve is to blame for inflation and rising housing prices, said Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO of Quill Intelligence, who said that 2023 is the year a housing crash could start. Speaking to Michelle Makori, Editor-in-Chief of Kitco News at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, Booth, a former Fed insider, suggested that Powell could have tac...Read More

Liberty and Finance, Released on 5/19/22"This is a bear market. Inflation is destroying the profit margins of corporations," says David Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics, "[stocks are] going to get a lot cheaper." He sees the real estate market has topped out as well. He expects investors will be much better off holding mining stocks and physical precious metals than traditional financial a...Read More

Peak Prosperity, Released on 5/19/22Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Ch...Read More

Fat Tail Investment Research, Released on 5/19/22Jim Rickards is a lawyer, investment banker and economist with over thirty years' experience in capital markets. He is currently Chief Global Strategist at Meraglim. He advises the Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, and major hedge funds on global finance, and served as a facilitator of the first ever financial war games conduct...Read More

David Rosenberg - Twitter, Released on 5/19/22In the past 50 years, every 18% slump in the stock market over a four-month-or-longer period foreshadowed a recession. And recessions, on average, see the market slide 30%. So, no - we're not "there" yet. #RosenbergResearch- David Rosenberg (@EconguyRosie) May 19, 2022 David Rosenberg is the chief economist & strategist of Rosenberg Research & Asso...Read More

CNBC, Released on 5/19/22Peter Boockvar, Bleakley Advisory Group, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss the drivers of equity markets, what a reduction in earnings estimates would do to markets and his thoughts on how investors should enter the commodity space.Peter Boockvar is the Chief Investment Officer of Bleakley Financial Group and Editor of The Boock Report newsletter https://boockreport.com/....Read More

Philip Soos - Twitter, Released on 5/13/22This is horrific...Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA tech, says that subclinical myocarditis may be occurring in a majority of the vaccinated.Source: Del Bigtree (HighWire), 13-May-2022.@Jikkyleaks @fynn_fan @KathMLee1 @ichudov pic.twitter.com/UwuzT6mjPV- Philip Soos (@PhilipSoos) May 15, 2022 Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA tech, says subclinical my...Read More

CNBC, Released on 5/18/22Jeremy Grantham, GMO co-founder, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss historical bubbles and how he sees today in comparison to 2000. Jeremy Grantham is a billionaire investor and the co-founder and long-term investment strategist at GMO, one of the world's most well-respected asset management firms. Jeremy is an investing legend and studied market historian, who successfully i...Read More