Prosecutors said in court on Tuesday that some students also lied about their ethnicity on applications to take advantage of affirmative action. This charge byContinue...Read More

Spend a little time researching gold mining stocks and you'll notice that once you get past a handful of familiar names there's a long list of companies you've never heard of. Continue...Read More

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Art Berman back to MacroVoices. Erik and Art ask the question was the oil price collapse more than just a correction? The look at world production surplus for 2019-2020, U.S. oil production and ask if OPEC matters anymore. The further look at trends in world liquid production, perspectives on the Brent and WTI curves and ask why is Brent trading at a premi...Read More

*If the volume isn't working, click the volume icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the video playerOn the heels of the latest scandal involving college admission fraud, Harry takes a look at how education affects demographics and how education has become a liability in the U.S. See Less*If the volume isn't working, click the volume icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the vi...Read More

Pentagon officials "failed to implement procedures, and failed to appoint and hold officials responsible, to account for and manage government Continue...Read More

The strategy seems to be the expectation that with the passing of time, people will simply grow used to genetically-modified foodsContinue...Read More

After a bruising end to 2018, the major indices caught fire at the turn of the New Year as the world's central banking cartel leapt into action. Here's how the US Federal Reserve reacted:Continue...Read More

I'd love to see gold get down to $1250 and shake the tree a bit more. A little bit more of a correction Continue...Read More

By the early summer of 1940, Belgium and the Netherlands were defeated.France was on the brink of surrender. Continue...Read More

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger riffs on St. Patrick's Day, COT reports, quad-witching weeks and gold. I was sitting in our local Port Perry pub this week when I overheard a couple of the local senior citizens discussing the upcoming arrival of the Saint Patrick's Day celebration where everybody dons a green shirt or a green tie or a green glass of beer and announces to the world that th...Read More

The Critical Investor discusses insights management has gleaned from recent drilling and why they have the potential to cause a share re-rating. Sesmarias project; Alvalade licenseIt took Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (AVU:TSX.V; AVPMF:OTC; 8AM:FSE) a few weeks longer than anticipated to release the first drill results of the Q4 2018 program on the Sesmarias project, part of its Alvalade license located i...Read More

The next step for the Canadian company is a mineral resource update for this asset. SRG Graphite Inc. (SRG:TSX.V) announced in a news release the final results from its 2018 drilling campaign at its Lola graphite deposit in Guinea, West Africa.These results are from 71 boreholes, ten of which were drilled at depth to confirm the presence of graphitic carbon (Cg) within the rock assemblage below t...Read More

This Canadian company intends to build upon these initial positive results. Defense Metals Corp. (DEFN:TSX.V; DFMTF:OTCQB) announced in a news release the initial composite head assay results of the 30-ton bulk sample taken from its Wicheeda property in British Columbia.Highlight assay results, determined by the firm SGS Canada Inc., included 1.77% lanthanum oxide, 2.34% cerium oxide, 0.52% neod...Read More

Goldhas turned vigorously lower yesterday. And not only gold at that. Red, red,everywhere in precious metals you looked. The silent scream we wrote about inthe Wednesday’s Alert for our subscribers brought serious repercussions.Immediately and just in time to reap the benefits. Today, we will devoteextraordinary attention to the long-term view of the PMs complex. In yesterday’s Part I,...Read More

Import tariffs on steel products in the United States created under Section 232 are likely to remain in place at least until the end of 2019, the chief executive officer of Gerdau, Gustavo Werneck, said during an event at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday March 13.The move from Donald Trump's administration boosted metal spread margins for steel producers in the US. This spread - calculated...Read More

Fastmarkets AMM attended the annual convention of the National Association of Steel Pipe Distributors (NASPD) on Thursday March 7 and Friday March 8 in New Orleans. Here are five themes gleaned in the sessions, on the sidelines and at the soirees.The US Gulf Coast is excited about China LNG import rumors. Reports that China may agree to buy an immense amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exp...Read More

Chinese finished steel exports decreased in February on both a yearly and a month-on-month basis amid uncompetitive prices and fewer working days as a result of the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday.The country shipped 4.51 million tonnes of finished steel out of the country last month, down 7% from the 4.85 million tonnes exported in February 2018, according to preliminary Chinese customs data...Read More

When the London Metal Exchange amended its policies related to its physical delivery network a few years ago, it overlooked one key thing. The issue centers on LME's linked load-in/load-out (LILO) rule, which operates by linking the amount of metal a warehouse loads in to the amount it is obligated to load out for warehouses that have queues of over 50 days.The rule changes were part of package of...Read More

Ahead of Fastmarkets' Battery Materials 2019 conference in Shanghai, Fastmarkets looks at use of lithium in next-generation vehicles and other battery uses, as well as soaring prices, which have spurred interest in lithium and boosted its importance in recent years as a battery material. In June 2016, the spot price in China peaked at $27 per kg, more than three times the global contract price, ac...Read More

In contrast to the clear skies outside, a cloud hung over discussions among Indian scrap traders attending the opening session of the annual conference of the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) earlier this month in Kochi, southern India.Secretary-general Amar Singh praised the superior air quality in the host city, compared with the metropolises of New Delhi and Mumbai. But delegates...Read More