(Adds futures, company news items)Feb 13 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 17 points at 7,275 on Monday, according to financial bookmakers, with futures FFIc1 up 0.2 percent ahead of the cash market open.* The UK blue-chip FTSE 100 .FTSE index ended 0.4 percent higher at 7,258.75 points on Friday, after hitting an intra-day peak of 7,274.80, the highest since Jan. 17 as a ral...Read More
Feb 13 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening up 17 points at 7,275 on Monday, according to financial bookmakers.* The commodity-heavy UK blue-chip FTSE 100 .FTSE index ended 0.4 percent higher at 7,258.75 points on Friday, after hitting an intra-day peak of 7,274.80, the highest since Jan. 17 as a rally in metals prices on soothing Chinese data and supply concerns boosted shar...Read More
The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.FUNDAMENTALS* Malaysian palm oil futures fell on Friday, ending three sessions of gains and dragged down by higher than forecast inventory data from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB). POI/* U.S. wheat Wc1 and corn Cc1 futures extended gains to set multi-month highs on Friday on follow-through...Read More
CENTENNIAL, Colo., February 13, 2017 - Uranium Resources, Inc. (Nasdaq: URRE; ASX: URI), an energy metals exploration and development company, announced today its preliminary unaudited fiscal year end operating results for 2016 and key business highlights for 2016 and to date.Christopher M. Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We continue to make our business leaner and lower cost,...Read More
Watch our latest video on Lithium Investing here: https://secure.wealthdaily.com/o/web/...Monica Savaglia of Wealth Daily explains the 3 reasons why you should start investing in Lithium! If you want to learn how to invest in lithium, turn to the experts that investors trust, Wealth Daily.Today's oil is lithium, and its universal application is the rechargeable battery. But how does its effect on...Read More
TISA's Worse Than TPP-Kiss Internet privacy and national sovereignty goodbye – National EconomicsWe got rid of TPP and now they’re bringing it back with TISA. In some ways it’s even worse that TPP.TPP was killed because Congress wasn’t going to go along with it and US President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as soon as he got i...Read More
Long before the Egyptians saw the light of day, an advanced civilisation of humans lived in southern Africa mining gold. These were also the people who carved the first Horus bird, the first Sphinx, built the first Pyramids and built an accurate stone calendar right in the heart of it all. Adam's Calendar is the flagship among millions of circular stone ruins, ancient roads, agricultural terraces...Read More
TISA's Worse Than TPP-Kiss Internet privacy and national sovereignty goodbye – National EconomicsWe got rid of TPP and now they’re bringing it back with TISA. In some ways it’s even worse that TPP.TPP was killed because Congress wasn’t going to go along with it and US President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as soon as he got i...Read More
Long before the Egyptians saw the light of day, an advanced civilisation of humans lived in southern Africa mining gold. These were also the people who carved the first Horus bird, the first Sphinx, built the first Pyramids and built an accurate stone calendar right in the heart of it all. Adam's Calendar is the flagship among millions of circular stone ruins, ancient roads, agricultural terraces...Read More
SHANGHAI, Feb 13 (SMM) – Base metals futures on the SHFE performed strongly today with nickel leading the gains with some 2% rise. Copper was up 1.5% while aluminium and zinc climbed close to 1%. Lead, however, edged down slightly.Ferrous metals prices rose across the board as iron ore increased by over 1% and coking coal went up 0.6%. Hot-rolled coil was up 0.53% while rebar and coke inched...Read More
SHANGHAI, Feb 13 (SMM) – Strikes are expected to be the biggest factor affecting copper ore supply in 2018, with 30 labour negotiations already planned this year in Chile alone.In addition, such negotiation at Escondida scheduled in August and a share transfer programme at Grasberg would also create uncertainties over output at the world’s two largest copper mines.Following a decrease...Read More
SHANGHAI, Feb 13 (SMM) –Copper: Copper prices rebounded following the global stock market rally and further upward room remains. We see SHFE copper trading at 51,300-51,900 yuan/mt with LME copper at $6,850-6,900/mt today. In the physical market, thin trading liquidity may see spot discounts widen to 300-250 yuan/mt.Aluminium: The increase in LME aluminium inventory reflected growing Chinese...Read More
SHANGHAI, Feb 12 (SMM) – Only SHFE aluminium resisted a drop among nonferrous metals today with a rise of close to 1%. SHFE tin lost 1.5% while zinc was down over 1%.In the ferrous complex, coking coal and rebar edged up when iron ore was down around 1% and coke was down 0.73%. Hot-rolled coil also slipped.Copper: The SHFE 1804 copper contract was trading below all moving averages as the mar...Read More
SHANGHAI, Feb 12 (SMM) –Copper: As investors grew cautious against the backdrop of falling global stock market and sluggish physical demand ahead of Chinese New Year, we see copper prices staying weak in the short term. However, we also see limited downward room with support level at 50,500-51,000 yuan/mt for SHFE copper. LME copper is expected to trade at $6,710-6,780/mt today.Aluminium: Ch...Read More
Investing.com - Gold prices steadied on Friday, but remained below the week's three-month highs as the dollar pared back some of the gains made in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's promise of a major tax announcement.Gold for February delivery settled down 0.15% at $1,235.0 on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The precious metal was still 1.3% higher for the week.On W...Read More
Booth says many books about the Fed's actions following the financial crisis have been written to make Fed officials look as good as possible because they are often written by the principals themselves.A former Fed adviser in Dallas has criticized central bank economists for not understanding economics. Danielle DiMartino Booth was a financial journalist who warned about a real estate crash due t...Read More
Booth says many books about the Fed's actions following the financial crisis have been written to make Fed officials look as good as possible because they are often written by the principals themselves.A former Fed adviser in Dallas has criticized central bank economists for not understanding economics. Danielle DiMartino Booth was a financial journalist who warned about a real estate crash due t...Read More
Business Arrow Policy Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies ... Proposals in the UK for a swingeing new Espionage Act that could jail journalists as spies have been developed in haste by legal advisors, The Register has learned. The proposed law update is an attempt to ban reporting of future big data leaks. The British government has received recommendations...Read More