I opened my portfolio this morning already wincing, knowing an ugly number would materialize.Oof. It's a red day for those of us with beefy allocations to gold and silver miners. Game of Thrones style.Precious metal miners are correcting sharply. The SILJ junior silver miner ETF is down about 8.5% as of 12:40 PM. The GDX gold miner ETF is down about 7.8%. These are my preferred benchmarks for the...Read More
During a conference call with investors last week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon made a memorable response to a question from Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo about the collapse of a subprime auto lender called Tricolor that cost the bank $170 million. Tricolor went bankrupt due to allegations of fraud, including double-pledging of collateral, which led lenders to halt financing."Mike, you should assume t...Read More
A fascinating experiment is taking place.A startup named Nof1 gave 6 top AI models $10,000 each.They gave models access to a crypto exchange, a data feed, and let each model build its own trading and risk management strategy. The "Alpha Arena" competition started Oct 17th and the first "season" will conclude Nov 3rd.The AIs can use up to 40x leverage. With that much juice, a 2.5% move in the wrong...Read More
I was in Minnesota last week, in the storied "Iron Range" north of Duluth. In fact, I was out in the field on Friday, looking at Precambrian rocks, and missed the white-knuckle excitement of the market selloff for gold, silver, other metals, miners and more. It's amazing what happens when I leave town, eh?Good morning from northern Minnesota. BWK photo.I spent all day Saturday traveling home and m...Read More
"What do you expect when you sue the president?" Hearing that comment, some people may guess the comment was made by someone addressing one of President Trump's political opponents who has been targeted for federal prosecution.That quote, though, is much older. It is from an IRS agent addressing officials of a conservative organization that was being audited during Bill Clinton's presidency. This...Read More
Well, we finally got the mini-crash we've been expecting in precious metals and miners.On Tuesday gold plunged 5.7%, its biggest daily fall since 2013. Silver fell a whopping 8%, slipping back under the key $50 level.Miners fell harder, with the GDX gold miner ETF stumbling from $84 to $73 over the past week. The SILJ silver miner ETF fell from around $26 to $23 over the same period.But it's impor...Read More
Traditionally, the defining moment in a man's life arrives when he looks in his shaving glass and finds his father staring back at him; but there is a day so much more terrible we rarely speak of it – when he catches himself in a full-length mirror and sees his mother...Don Paterson, The Book of ShadowsI was living in London when I picked up Paterson's book of aphorisms. I remember laughing...Read More
The modern world began with a hole in the ground.Around 7,000 years ago, a few clever humans figured out how to work copper into crude, but useful tools and jewelry.Innovation really picked up 5,000 years ago with the beginning of the Bronze Age. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, and it's far stronger than either element alone.Bronze was used to make superior weapons, armor, and tools. It was...Read More
We're obviously living in tumultuous times. If investors sense they're on a financial roller coaster, they're right.Recently, I scanned my market tickers and saw that everything was up. Stocks, bonds, gold, silver, the dollar, cryptos and commodities were all advancing. Of course, that didn't last. The next day cryptos crashed and stocks were down sharply. Even gold suffered its worst day in a dec...Read More
Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares his view of the markets, taking at look at precious metals and Tesla Inc. (TSLA:NASDAQ). By the end of this week, I will have counted (and read) over 200 emails lecturing me on why my call last Tuesday on gold and silver was so drastically off base and how I am going to lead my subscribers into "certain ruin," along with a jeopardized career destined...Read More
Perpetua Resources Corp. (PPTA:TSX; PPTA:NASDAQ) has broken ground at its Stibnite Gold Project in Idaho. The move follows a US$24.8 million award earlier in the year from the U.S. Department of Defense to study antimony from the site. Perpetua Resources Corp. (PPTA:TSX; PPTA:NASDAQ) announced the commencement of early works construction at its Stibnite Gold Project in Idaho. The move followed co...Read More
Sierra Madre Gold and Silver Ltd. (SM:TSX.V; SMDRF:OTCQX) has launched a US$3.5 million exploration program in Mexico's historic Temascaltepec district. The campaign targets high-grade silver and gold zones across the underexplored East District of the Guitarra project. Sierra Madre Gold and Silver Ltd. (SM:TSX.V; SMDRF:OTCQX) has initiated a US$3.5 million exploration program at the East Distric...Read More
Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. (LVG:TSX; LVGLF:OTCQB; E1K:FSE) gives an update on the Q2 2025 exploration activities conducted on the licenses sold to Bulyanhulu Gold Mine Ltd. Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. (LVG:TSX; LVGLF:OTCQB; E1K:FSE) announced an update on the Q2 2025 exploration activities conducted on the licenses sold to Bulyanhulu Gold Mine Ltd. in a release on October 24.Bulyanhulu acquired six lic...Read More
Global Analyst Adrian Day reviews developments at several companies, including looking at preliminary third-quarter results from several. Fortuna Mining Corp. (FSM:NYSE; FVI:TSX; FVI:BVL; F4S:FSE) published a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its planned next mine, the Diamba Sud project in Senegal, that shows a payback of capital in less than one year. Using a gold price of $2,750, the IR...Read More
It has been quite a year for precious metals such as gold and silver, and Chen Lin's top stock picks for the quarter bear that out. Which companies have the most upside? It has been quite a year for precious metals such as gold and silver, and the top stock picks for the last quarter of 2025 by Chen Lin, author of the What is Chen Buying? What is Chen Selling? newsletter, bear that out.After hitt...Read More
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As we wait patiently for this correction in gold, silver, and miners to end, now is an excellent time to review the fundamentals of precious metal miners.This is especially important for those of you looking to start or add to positions during this pullback.Today we're going to explore the three types of mining stocks:ProducersDevelopersExplorers.We'll explain the risk/reward of each stage, which...Read More
I remember getting my offer letter from Lehman Brothers in early 1997, a full 11 years before they went bankrupt, I hasten to add. For a whopping $34,000, I was theirs, green as a Granny Smith apple. My job was in a division called Global Corporate Equity Derivatives, and I was going to help the traders keep their trading books reconciled with the general ledger. It was my first, and last, account...Read More
Make smarter equity portfolio investments with bottom-up analysis and daily natural gas production estimates for leading producers.Download our product summaryAccess analysis of daily throughput estimates for pipelines, gas gathering systems and processing plants of midstream companies to guide your trading decisions.Download our product summaryFor details on how your data is used and stored, see...Read More
Stijn Schmitz welcomes John Feneck to the show. John Feneck is CEO Feneck Consulting Group. The discussion centers on gold ...Read More