RAPAPORT... De Grisogono has appointed C?(C)line Assimon as CEO, taskingher with international brand development and product expansion. Assimon will succeed John Leitao, who has been with the Swissluxury jeweler since May 2013. She was previously the director of high jewelryand exceptional pieces at Piaget, and worldwide head of jewelry and watch salesat Louis Vuitton. "With [C?(C)line's] ex...Read More
This episode features a round-table discussion on clean mining recorded live at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2018.The panelists are: Jason Goodhand, vice-president of business development at e-Zn Inc.; Cory McPhee, vice-president of corporate affairs, communications and sustainability at Vale Canada; John Mullally, vice-presi...Read More
RAPAPORT... TrueFacet, a platform for pre-owned luxury watches andjewelry, is offering nearly $10 million in shares in its latest fundinground. The New York-based marketplace has raised $7.1 million of thetarget so far, according to a December 26 filing with the US Securities and ExchangeCommission. Including that amount, it has procured $21.8 million oversix rounds, according to investment s...Read More
LONDON, 30 December 2018 - Comment from BullionVault today leads a tip to consider investing in gold from The Observer, Sunday newspaper of the UK's Guardian group."In the last four months the FTSE All-Share index has lost 12% of its value and the gold price has jumped 10%," writes economics editor Philip Inman, saying that these two figures "really show how nervous traders have become about" New...Read More
It's the dumbest New Year's resolution I've ever heard."This year, I'm going to start investing and start getting rich!"You know what kind of people make New Year's resolutions like that?Poor people!Why would anyone "wait" to get rich?If it were the middle of summer and you figured out a way to more than double your money on a single stock, would you wait until the new year to buy that stock? Of...Read More
Small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years, according to new research.Read full newsRead More
An Australian mining company wants to expand its mine in South Carolina because they have found more gold.Read full newsRead More
"Gold had a tumultuous year, with the metal finding its highest level in January, when it hit US$1,357.70 per ounce, but slipping to lows of US$1,182.40 in September. https://t.co/riVb933r44 #Investing #Resource #Gold"Read full newsRead More
Goldman Sachs shaved its growth forecast for the first half of next year, from 2.4 percent to 2 percent, and said growth would slow to a virtual crawl below 2 percent in the second half.Nevertheless, the bank declared it was "still not particularly worried about a recession."Javier E. David| @TeflonGeekPublished 11:35AM ET Sat, 29 Dec 2018CNBC.com Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA JetBlue A...Read More
"Check whos ready for the #Drink #Market!! CROP Corp is developing Cannadrink with Naturally Splendid! https://t.co/ZxSd8x5npD And who'd they bring on?? Former Coca-Cola branding executive Arashdeep Singh! $NSP #Marijuana #Cannabis #edibles #weed $WEED $ACB $CROP #cola"Read full newsRead More
"The gold price made gains in the wake of one of the most economically challenging weeks this year for the US. https://t.co/uX7J4QTSnG #Investing #Gold #Resource"Read full newsRead More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed at the close of trading on Friday December 28, with most of the complex trading in narrow ranges while both lead and tin futures climbed more than 1% over the afternoon.Lead's three-month price was the best performer over the afternoon, climbing 1.5% and trading at its highest level since October 17. By contrast, zinc's three-month pr...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
Glencore-owned Access World has delisted eight of its LME-registered warehouses this week, according to a notice to members on Friday December 28, continuing its move beyond LME storage amid its company-wide diversification strategy. Access World delisted four of its warehouses in Chicago yesterday, leaving just one remaining in the region, and has since delisted two sheds in Singapore and two mor...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesDec 28, 2018 Stock markets are forever cyclical, an endless series of alternating bulls and bears. And after one of the greatest bulls in US history, odds are a young bear is now gathering steam. It is being fueled by record Fed tightening, bubble valuations, trade wars, and mounting political turmoil. Bears are dangerous events driving catastrophic losses for buy-and-hold inv...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
The Chinese Smelters Purchase Team (CSPT) is to raise its treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) purchase price for the first quarter of 2019 to $92 per tonne and 9.2 cents per lb, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Fastmarkets MB. This represents an $2 rise on the fourth quarter rate of this year and was set by CSPT in Shanghai on Thursday December 27."Demand is expected to be...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
An overview of the Chinese minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves. See also:2018 REVIEW: Eight things that changed in the minor...Read More
Global ferrous scrap prices were mostly little-changed during the week ended Friday December 28 due to illiquid spot trading. The thin liquidity was caused by the year-end holiday season, when most market participants had already left the spot market for their vacations. Key import markets such as Turkey, Taiwan and Vietnam did not see many negotiations for ferrous scrap. Demand is expected t...Read More