Trends Research Institute's Gerald Celente returns with ebullient comments on the gold sector.Now that the US Fed has officially announced the end of the rate-hike cycle, the die is case.The next leg of the gold bull market may be inevitable. Although domestic home prices have declined amid the 3 year rate hike cycle, now that rates could soon decline.Amid robust new home starts figures, the econo...Read More

Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) will sell a portfolio of 18 royalties on assets not owned by Alamos to Metalla Royalty and Streaming (TSXV: MTA; MTAFF) for $8 million in Metalla shares.The portfolio includes a 2% net smelter returns royalty (NSR) on Agnico Eagle Mine's El Realito gold deposit, adjacent to its La India mine in Sonora, Mexico, plus 1.5% and 1% NSRs on Monarch Gold's Wasamac gold p...Read More

This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. Asked why he intervened to block a new round of sanctions on North Korea, he told the media that he believes the people of North Korea have suffered enough. "They are suffering greatly in North Korea...And I just didn't think additional sanctions at this time were necessary," he...Read More

Ed Steer is the founder of Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest and a director at GATA.org.Read More

Iron ore prices continued to strengthen on Monday April 1 on more news about supply disruptions.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $88.69 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $1.88 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $87.81 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $1.88 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $90.23 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $1.41 per tonne. MB 58% Fe Premium Index: $79.86 per tonne cfr Qingdao...Read More

Commodities had their best quarter in almost three years, driven by supply concerns and optimism over demand. Investors, though, might not want to get too cocky.The outlook for demand is running into troubling signs in the U.S. and China, the two biggest consumers. In early March, China cut its goal for economic expansion, while a report last week showed U.S. growth cooled more than forecast.In th...Read More

U.S. retail sales fell unexpectedly in February in what economists are saying is another sign the U.S. economy is slowing down after the tax-cut surge seen in 2018Continue...Read More

The leader of the world's largest bond fund says we shouldn't be too worried about the recessionary signal coming from the U.S. Treasury market.Continue...Read More

Eight men suffocated in an unauthorized gold mine in Peru after a tunnel they dug began spewing noxious fumes, local media reported on Sunday.Cesar Rondo, the only miner who survived the disaster, told local broadcaster RPP that the group became dizzy and suffered headaches in the tunnel. Rondo managed to drag himself out, but he lost his brother and colleagues inside.It was not clear who, if anyo...Read More

America's richest families are hoarding their cash at record levels. The top one percent have three times more in cash than the bottom halfContinue...Read More

ArcWest Exploration (TSXV: AWX) closed today the 100% acquisition of the Sparrowhawk property near Smithers, in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner explained that it decided to go ahead with the purchase because the property is adjacent to two significant porphyry copper-gold deposits, including Glencore Canada's Bell and Granisle mines a...Read More

Stop me if you've heard this before. Precious Metals disappointed again.Continue...Read More

SBTV had a great conversation with Professor William L. Silber, a Professor of Finance and Economics at the Stern School of Business at the New York University. Tune in for an inside look into the speculative silver trades of the Hunt brothers and Warren Buffet and why they did it!Discussed in this interview:05:03 The story of the Hunt brothers and their silver07:55 Why the price of silver rose to...Read More

Canada's Pure Gold Mining (TSX-V: PGM) expects to begin trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange this quarter and so lift its international profile ahead of its transition to producer from developer.The Vancouver-based company said it doesn't intend raising capital in conjunction with the admission of its shares.Listing seeks lifting Pure Gold's international profile ahead of its tr...Read More

Condor Gold (LON:CNR) said Monday that recent metallurgical test work on samples taken from its 100%-owned La India gold project in Nicaragua had confirmed 95.4% gold recovery in laboratory conditions.The gold recoveries, said the miner, are far better than the ones found during tests carried out in 2014, for preliminary feasibility study, which used material from drill core from the La India and...Read More

A sale of CIS-origin slab to Italy was heard agreed last week at a price lower than in other recent deals, sending the CIS export slab price assessment downward on Monday April 1.A cargo containing 25,000-30,000 tonnes of Ukrainian slab was reported sold to Italy at $510-512 per tonne cfr, equivalent to around $490 per tonne fob Black Sea. But market participants had expected such a development.Th...Read More

Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) has kicked off commercial production at its Lamaque mine located in Quebec, the company's first operation in the home country, expected to produce between 100,000-110,000 ounces of gold this year.Lamaque underground gold mine in Val d'Or, Quebec, is expected to produce up to 135,000 ounces of the precious metal a year in 2020 and 2021.Lamaque, which the Vancouver-...Read More

Sector expert Michael Ballanger discusses the pitfalls of market reversals and forecasting. As I reach end-of-week, end-of-month book-squaring, where all of my urgent e-mails and all of my myopic missives and all of my topical tweets are summarized in once terse and quite concise "Monthly P&L," I am astounded at the most recent example of how masterfully the Gold Cartel works in suckering invest...Read More

Monthly European alloy surcharges for stainless steel products have increased for April because of higher component costs, including those for nickel, molybdenum and ferro-chrome, Fastmarkets heard on Monday April 1.April surcharges for grade-304 cold-rolled (CR) stainless sheets - according to data released by Outokumpu, Acerinox and Aperam - have increased to ?,?1,423-1,430 ($1,596-1,604) per to...Read More

South Korea's government and major steelmaker Posco both oppose China's ongoing stainless steel anti-dumping investigation and claim that no trade measures should be imposed because Korean exports do not damage the Chinese domestic industry.Hot-rolled stainless steel produced in South Korea has significantly different applications, materials and prices from those of Chinese products, thus there is...Read More