The news headlines explained the sudden jump in the S&P futures this morning by stating that "recession fears had faded." Just like that. Overnight. I guess the fact that the housing starts report showed a 9% sequential drop in housing starts last month and and a year-over-year 10% plunge means that the housing market is no longer considered part of the economy.That report was followed by a hi...Read More

This is the second major Kazakh listing of the past five months, after Kazatomprom joined the LSE with a 15% float in November.Read More

Vancouver, BC - Graphite One Inc. (TSX-V:GPH | OTCQX:GPHOF) ("Graphite One" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the completion of an updated mineral resource estimate for its Graphite Creek Project of 1.69 million tonnes ("Mt") Measured, grading 8.0% graphitic carbon ("Cg"); 9.26 Mt Indicated, grading 7.7% Cg; and, 91.89 Mt Inferred, with 8.0% Cg, all using a 5% Cg cut?EUR?off grade....Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Tuesday March 26 that are worth another look.The London Metal Exchange has announced a six-month suspension of listing fees for new cobalt brands on the exchange in a note to members on Tuesday March 26 amid emerging liquidity concerns from producers. There are no concerns surrounding the availability of bauxite to meet ongoin...Read More

The Tuesday Market Minute Global stocks edge higher, with Asia rising for the first session in three, while investors continue to take cues on risk from movements in fixed income markets.U.S. Treasury curve remains inverted between 3-month bills and 10-year notes after tipping for the first time since 2007 last week, ahead of a key $40 billion auction of 2-year notes later in the session.U.K. Pr...Read More

Norsk Hydro's Alunorte alumina refinery, located in Brazil's northern state of Par??, is expected to operate at 75-80% of its capacity two months after the receipt of approval from the Brazilian federal court in Bel?(C)m, Norsk Hydro Brazil's executive vice president of bauxite and alumina said.According to John Thuestad, this approval, which will be debated at an April 4 meeting between Hydro and...Read More

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By: DAVID Chapman "Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state." Carl Menger, economist, founder of the Austrian School of Economics, 1...Read More

Buy Gold, Sell Stocks Is the Trade of Century is our latest weekly perspective. Watch this video on Buy Gold, Sell Stocks Is the Trade of CenturyThe "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks as risk assets are due for another meltdown.It's only a matter of time until the bearish bet pays off big, according to Crescat Capital LLC. While the Denver-based firm has only about $50 million...Read More

Fed "policy," such as it is, went all silly Monday when a little-known spokesman for the central bank said he expects one more rate hike in 2019 and perhaps another in 2020. Didn't Chairman Powell just finish saying that there would be no tightening this year? And weren't we reading the other day that the yield curve had inverted, raising the risk of a U.S./global recession? In any event, a Ph...Read More

Mar. 22nd, 2019(S14-E688)Featured GuestsDr. Charles Nenner MD& Bill MurphyScheduled: Sun. 3/24Please Listen HereHailing from sunny Miami Florida, home of the exotic Miami beach, Charles Nenner rejoins the show. Our guest outlines proprietary market model entries / exits including gold that could eventually ascend to $2,500 Adding support for the bullish case for PMs / commodities, the Euro coul...Read More

Severe Tropical Cyclone Veronica, a category 4 system, is moving slowly towards the Pilbara coast, and is expected to strengthen to a category 5 system by tomorrow morning.It is the first major cyclone threat for the Pilbara this season.According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the cyclone should track south to south-west during Friday before taking a more south to south-east track on Saturday and S...Read More

The government of Guinea is seeking to develop and integrate its mining sector in order to use the country's mineral resources to secure diversified domestic economic growth, according to the west African country's minister of mines and geology.Abdoulaye Magassouba told delegates to Fastmarkets' 25th annual bauxite and alumina conference in Miami, on Tuesday March 26, that a key driver for his gov...Read More

The London Metal Exchange has announced a six-month suspension of listing fees for new cobalt brands on the exchange in a note to members on Tuesday March 26, amid emerging liquidity concerns from producers."[A] number of cobalt producers have indicated a desire to list their brand on the LME," the exchange said in the note, "but have expressed concerns that, in the event that the 'user choice' mo...Read More

Haven gold pushed higher again Monday to tally its best finish in about a month, as financial markets kept attention fixed on global growth fears and as a recessionary alarm persisted in the bond market. Bonds rose on Monday after Friday's action marked the first U.S. Treasury yield curve inversion since 2007, feeding concerns around this oft-referenced recession signal. As such, U.S. stocks moved...Read More

A 76-kg gold-rich specimen from the Beta Hunt mine in Western Australia. Source: RNC Minerals.RNC Minerals [RNX-TSX; RNKLF-OTCQX], aka Royal Nickel Corp., shares were active Tuesday March 26 after the company announced a $12 million bought deal financing, and a purchase option on a gold processing facility in Australia.RNC said the potential purchase of the Higginsville mill and mining operation...Read More

Underground test mining at the Fortune Minerals NICO Project, Northwest Territories. Photo courtesy Fortune Minerals Ltd.Fortune Minerals Ltd.'s [FT-TSX; FTMDF-OTCQX] previously announced plan to build a metals processing facility in Saskatchewan has been hit with a setback after the company's application to change the zoning on the project site was rejected by the local municipality.The rezoning...Read More

Fastmarkets has extended the consultation period for a proposed change to the specification of its domestic Chinese indium price assessment until Tuesday April 23.On February 25, Fastmarkets proposed to increase the minimum tonnage of its domestic Chinese indium price assessment to 50 kilograms to better reflect the dynamics of the market.The goal of a minimum tonnage is to exclude any deal that,...Read More

Steelmakers in Turkey continued to stay out of the deep-sea scrap market on Tuesday, March 26, due to the volatile Turkish lira, sources told Fastmarkets.Having slumped to TRY100 to $17.41 on Monday - compared with TRY100 to $18.31 on March 18 - the lira regained some ground following an intervention by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (TCMB). The currency had been de...Read More

[Editor’s note: This story was previously published in February 2019. It has since been updated and republished.]Penny stocks are often dangerous for individual investors. Generally described as stocks with a price under $5, the group usually consists of quite a few fallen angels and growth stocks that haven’t reached, and may never reach, their potential.But there are diamonds in the...Read More