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
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 22 points in pre-opening trade.Barrick Gold slipped $0.12 to US$20.17 after reporting less than consensus second quarter revenues and earnings. Pfizer was unchanged at $49.27 following news of its acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics for $68.50 per share cask. Value of the offer is estimated at $5.4 billion. Global...Read More
Though it’s difficult to be confident of anything in the current flux we're experiencing, I am pretty confident of three things:1) Price is set on the margins.2) Currencies are the foundation of every economy.3) The financial forecasts issued to calm the public do not reflect operative geopolitical goals.Let's break this down. Every national government has “global interests.” Gov...Read More
When inflation started clobbering producers and consumers last year, the general feeling in the air was: This won't last long. After all, everyone in a position to know promised it was all transitory. Just one of those things that comes and goes before life gets back to normal.Gradually, we've come to see the light. There will be no rolling back those price increases in general. There will be decl...Read More
The Federal Reserve believes it hangs from the hooks of a horrendous dilemma.To cage the inflationary tiger presently amok, it would likely plunge the economy into severe recession...Yet if it navigates a wallowing economy away from recession, inflation will run and run and run.But is it a false choice? Must the Federal Reserve bludgeon the economy to cripple inflation?Consider: It believes it mus...Read More
You may liken today's economy to an overswollen tick, obese with blood.Rather than blood, the economy is obese with debt.Like our ludicrously engorged arachnid, the economy cannot much expand. It is impossibly loaded down... groaning under the burden... horribly swaybacked.The economy will continue to wallow - unless it can shake off the weight. But how can it?Today we blow the dust off an ancient...Read More
It is (un)official - the United States economy has descended into recession.Government data, this morning released, revealed that second-quarter GDP contracted at a 0.9% annualized pace.This, after first-quarter GDP contracted at a 1.6% annualized pace.A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. And so there you are.Experts being experts, most polled econo...Read More
Consensus opinion projected the Federal Reserve would elevate its target rate 75 basis points today.The monetary authority greeted expectations, precisely - 75 basis points it was, announced at 2 p.m. Eastern.Thus the federal funds rate presently ranges between 2.25-2.50%.This rate of course falls miles and miles beneath the 9.1% (official) consumer price inflation currently going.Assume today's b...Read More
All the talk right now is about recession. Are we in one right now? (We'll have the technical answer on Thursday.)The spinmeisters in the Biden administration and the media are of course trying to redefine a recession in an attempt to get ahead of the news cycle.But today, I want to take the longer view and see the bigger picture. What is it? Here it is:The economy remains stuck in the New Great D...Read More
We caught up with Kerem Usenmez, CEO of Volta Metals Ltd. (CSE: VLTA | FSE: D0W | OTC Pink: VOLMF). With China tightening ...Read More
Crypto analyst and trader Scott Melker explains why the classic 4-year Bitcoin cycle may no longer apply. Once thought to revolve ...Read More
Early 2022 has brought the most traumatic events in Kazakhstan’s 30 years of modern independence. Widespread protests and civil unrest led to unprecedented scenes of violence on the country’s streets. Especially in Almaty, the largest city. More than 225 lives have been lost.What began as peaceful demonstrations against a sharp increase in the price of LPG fuel in resource-ri...Read More
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Silver Crown Royalties Inc. (SCRI:CBOE; SLCRF:OTCQX; QS0:FSE) confirmed early and partial royalty payments from two producing assets, including the Elk Gold Project. With silver output falling below delivery thresholds, see how the company's terms are designed to bridge the gap.Silver Crown Royalties Inc. (SCRI:CBOE; SLCRF:OTCQX; QS0:FSE) announced the receipt of royalty payments from two of its p...Read More
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London stocks had extended losses by midday on Monday as Donald Trump rattled markets yet again, threatening to impose ...Read More