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) - Charles Michel, President of the European Council, said the G7 and EU were committed to taking coordinated action to curb Russia's earnings from the diamond trade.He told 450 delegates at the FACETS 2023 Diamonds For Change conference in Botswana yesterday (25 October): "Natural resources should never finance war or human rights abuses. Rather they should breathe life into pea...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Fancy color diamonds saw a second quarter of slower growth, according to the Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) but remained well ahead of colorless diamonds, which are in long-term decline. The FCRF Index, which tracks prices across all colors, sizes and intensities, rose by 0.4 per cent during Q3, compared with increases of 0.5 per cent in Q2 and 1.3 per cent in Q...Read More
(In association with Quantumrock) Professional investors are being offered a new and lucrative opportunity to put their capital into rough emeralds and ultra-rare alexandrite.Quantumrock, an pioneering investment solutions company, says it aims to achieve value increases in excess of 25 per cent a year, over a two-year term.It has launched what it describes as the first structured, professional in...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) has halted all rough sales as global demand remains at record low levels.It says it has cancelled its November auction and may do likewise in December."For the first time, we have had to build up inventory as we do not want to just irresponsibly release goods into a market which is already oversupplied," managing director Mmetla Masire said in an inte...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A man spent the night locked inside a jewelry vault at the World Diamond Tower, at 580 Fifth Avenue, New York.An employee is understood to have closed the doors at around 8.45pm on Tuesday night (24 October), unaware the man was inside accessing his safety deposit box.Firefighters spent 10 hours trying to penetrate the 30-inch steel-reinforced concrete walls, in the basement of the...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 18 points at 8:35 AM EDT.Index futures recovered 10 points following release of preliminary third quarter GDP at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an annualized increase of 4.7% .Actual was an increase of 4.9%.IBM gained $1.62 to 138.70 after reporting higher than consensus third quarter revenues and earnings. Hasbro dropped...Read More
I must disclose this immediately: I utterly loathe the World Economic Forum. To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi, "You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."From Jacinda Ardern, the Woman Who Would Be Queen (of New Zealand), to Chrystia Freeland, granddaughter of one Nazi and chief cheerleader for another, to Justin Trudeau, the chip off the old block, all who associate with the World Econo...Read More
"Luxurious languor"…We hazard the epoch of luxurious languor 18th-century philosopher David Hume's delicious expression is closing.It acquired its existence through the post-2008 imposition of artificially reduced interest rates.Rates at or near zero reigned for an entire decade and longer. Credit was essentially... costless.The United States economy got accustomed to it even dependent...Read More
Dave Iben, CIO of Kopernik Global, provides an overview of why he likes gold royalties. Waiver & Disclaimer If you register for this ...Read More
Dave Iben, CIO of Kopernik Global, provides an overview of why he likes gold and where he sees value in the gold sector. Waiver ...Read More
Sun Summit has announced an initial MRE for the Buck Main! Since 2020, they've drilled 98 holes, covering 34500+ meters.Read More
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Uber Technologies wants to cut emissions to zero by converting its entire fleet of cars to electric by 2040. But to do so, the ...Read More