Disappointing employment numbers, declining home sales and prices in Canada, the US and Australia, among others and bad US employment numbers, it's all happening. We'll see about the stock market. Earnings are certainly declining. There will be a day of reckoning and probably sooner than later. When that day comes, there will be tons of opportunities for amazing values. The key is to be prepared f...Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More

Looking strictly at the numbers it's hard to work up much interest in whether Republicans or Democrats are in charge after 2020. Either way, trillion-dollar deficitsContinue...Read More

As hope for a U.S.-China trade deal increases, so have the prices of semiconductor stocks. Continue...Read More

In his ongoing feud with Democrats, Trump is prepared to do great harm to the economy.Continue...Read More

My grandfather was just a toddler when soldiers came home from World War One in 1918.They brought the deadly Spanish Flu with them, which killed well over 50 million worldwide.Continue...Read More

China's rebar prices moved up on Wednesday April 3 in both its domestic and export markets in response to heightened expectations of a drop in iron ore supply upstream.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,900-3,950 yuan ($580-588) per tonne, up 50 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,900-3,940 yuan per tonne, up 40 yuan per tonneFerrous futures, including the rebar contract, rose across the b...Read More

GFG Resources of Saskatoon, Sask., says its inaugural 2018 drill program discovered a new gold zone at the 100% owned Pen gold project 50 km southwest of Timmins. The new find was made at the Crawford target in hole PEN-18-016 which intersected 21.26 g/t gold over 1.7 metres at a depth of 100 metres.In its entirety, PEN-18-016 returned 0.80 g/t gold over 1.0 metre; 12.26 g/t with visible gold over...Read More

Cross-border concerns about mineral exploration and logging in British Columbia, Canada's Skagit River watershed may put a long-simmering campaign to close a hole in the middle of two provincial parks back on the front burner.Imperial Metals (TSX:III) has applied to the provincial government for an exploration permit that, if granted, could see the company building an access road and drilling test...Read More

The controlling shareholder of Polyus, Russia's largest gold producer, said on Wednesday it would sell a 3.5 percent stake in the company via an accelerated bookbuilding (ABB).The controlling shareholder is Polyus Gold International Ltd (PGIL), owned by Said Kerimov, son of Russian tycoon Suleiman Kerimov.PGIL, which currently owns 82.4 percent of Polyus, plans to sell 4.67 million shares. After t...Read More

Investors are yanking money out of gold exchange-traded funds as hints of improving global growth and surging stocks lure them into riskier assets.The largest fund in the space, the $32 billion SPDR Gold Shares fund, or GLD, lost more than $671 million of assets this week. And around $153 million was pulled out of the $10 billion VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF, ticker GDX, over the last five tradi...Read More

Saudi Arabian Mining Co. wants to more than double gold output within five years.Maaden, as the state-backed company is known, plans to boost gold output from about 415,000 ounces this year to one million by 2025, Chief Executive Officer Darren Davis said in an interview. That would catapult the oil-rich kingdom from a marginal gold producer to one of the world's top-20 suppliers.Maaden will boost...Read More

About 200 people recently took part in the International Collegiate Mining Competition, held in Virginia City, Nevada.Bryn Llewellyn, from Camborne School of Mines at the University of Exeter, hand steeling. Photo by Max Willcock.For the 41st year in a row, the three-day event gathered students from mining schools from around the world who formed 18 teams in the men's category and eight teams in t...Read More

Michael Ballanger discusses recent movements in the stock and precious metals markets. Many years ago, while attending university in Saint Louis, Missouri, I had just returned from a Florida Spring Break and had decided to have a few adult beverages with a couple of my hockey teammates to celebrate April Fools' Day, so off we went to the infamous "Thank God It's Friday!" bistro located about a fi...Read More

Import prices for stainless steel in East Asia softened slightly over the past week due to weak regional demand, despite the recovery in the London Metal Exchange nickel price.Fastmarkets' weekly import price assessment for benchmark-304 stainless 2mm trimmed cold-rolled coil (CRC) in East Asia was $2,030-2,110 per tonne cif on Wednesday April 3, down by $10-20 per tonne from a week earlier.Fastma...Read More

Barrick Gold's (TSX:ABX) (NYSE:GOLD) executive chairman, John Thornton, said Wednesday he was encouraged by the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) newly elected president Felix Tshisekedi's vision of attracting foreign investment and supporting the development of the country's mining industry.The Canadian miner, which operates the country's Kibali mine, one of the world's ten largest gold mines,...Read More

ISIS has claimed it kidnapped and killed a Canadian geologist in Burkina Faso three months ago, according to the latest issue of the propaganda newsletter Al-Naba, circulated last week.Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Kirk Woodman, vice-president of exploration for private gold explorer Progress Minerals, was found dead on Jan. 16 in rural Burkina Faso, after having been abducted a day earlier.Propagan...Read More

Chip stocks were an outperformers in today's tradingU.S. stocks finished a choppy trading day higher, with Wall Street optimistic a U.S.-China trade deal is within reach. This, alongside strength in the tech sector, had stocks brushing off a dreary update on private payrolls. By the close, the Dow had muscled higher, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq brought their daily win streak to five.Continue read...Read More

Steel H-beam prices in Southern Europe went down over the past week due to weaker demand, higher stock levels and falling feedstock costs, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday March 27.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic S235-grade, 200x200mm, category-2 H-beams in the Southern European domestic market went down by ?,?5 per tonne on Wednesday to ?,?625-640 ($700-717) per tonne deliv...Read More

ToledoTrade is offering Schaeffer's VIPs a special introductory offer. The following is a paid advertisement. ToledoTrade may compensate Schaeffer's for referring prospects over to ToledoTrade.Starting today, a special offer with the recently launched online brokerage service, ToledoTrade, is giving Schaeffer's VIPs a special offer, including trades from $1 until 2020... or even at cost!1Why...Read More