"The #lithium market will be tighter than forecast by many in the medium-term, says @sdmoores, because Chilean brine ramp-ups are already falling behind schedule ($) | https://t.co/mPC14iy2t4"Read full newsRead More
Gold's breakout moment is fast approaching.Lifting of one of market's biggest worries should encourage demand.Short interest continues to build, making short-covering rally likely.After being relegated to a narrow trading range for the last few months, gold now has its best chance in a while at decisively breaking out of this range. As I've emphasized in recent reports, gold's safety facto...Read More
U.S. stock markets are closed to honor President George H.W. BushU.S. stock markets are shuttered for a national day of mourning for President George H.W. Bush, who last week passed away at the age of 94. The last time Wall Street was shut down to honor someone was Jan. 2, 2007, after President Gerald Ford died. So, do these planned, non-holiday respites tend to invigorate stock market bulls, or j...Read More
The options market is pricing in a larger-than-usual post-earnings move for ULTA stockIt's been a pretty quiet stretch for Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) stock, per its 60-day historical volatility of 26.7% -- in the 22nd annual percentile. The options market is bracing for big swing on Friday, after the cosmetics retailer takes its turn in the earnings confessional after the market closes tomorrow...Read More
Kroger will report earnings before tomorrow's openAlthough the stock market is closed today, things will pick back up tomorrow. Kicking things off bright and early will be Kroger Co (NYSE:KR), set to release its third-quarter report before the market opens Thursday, Dec. 6. Ahead of the event, options traders have been targeting calls, and anticipating another big post-earnings move.Looking at K...Read More
BENGALURU - Palladium is more valuable than gold for the first time since 2002, with prices soaring by around 50 percent in less than four months to record levels - just as gold failed to capitalize on some seemingly bullish scenarios.A sustained supply deficit coupled with robust demand and rising interest from speculators have pushed prices of palladium - used mainly in emissions-reducing cataly...Read More
Australia's Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has begun commercial production at its 70%-owned Mothae mine in Lesotho, which it acquired in early 2017.The operation will add to the Perth-based company annual output, until now on depending on just one mine - Lulo, in Angola.The commercial recoveries are being processed through a 1.1 million tonne-per-year plant, which is a key milestone in Lucapa's develo...Read More
Australia's Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has begun commercial production at its 70%-owned Mothae mine in Lesotho, which it acquired in early 2017.The operation will add to the Perth-based company annual output, until now on depending on just one mine - Lulo, in Angola.The commercial recoveries are being processed through a 1.1 million tonne-per-year plant, which is a key milestone in Lucapa's develo...Read More
Zimbabwe's government is letting two new private companies mine diamonds in the country and may even allow foreign investors to hold majority stakes in local operations on condition that part of their output is reserved for domestic downstream industries.Mines minister Winston Chitando said any company or person with title for diamonds would have to go into partnership with the four companies allo...Read More
Altamira Gold Corp. (TSXV: ALTA) reported that it has submitted an application to expand to 300,000 hectares its land position at the Firminho project, located within the Alta Floresta Belt in Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil.Such expansion would be reached by adding new claims that occupy over 70,000 hectares and lie on the northern margin of the belt close to the contact with the sediments of th...Read More
Altamira Gold Corp. (TSXV: ALTA) reported that it has submitted an application to expand to 300,000 hectares its land position at the Firminho project, located within the Alta Floresta Belt in Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil.Such expansion would be reached by adding new claims that occupy over 70,000 hectares and lie on the northern margin of the belt close to the contact with the sediments of th...Read More
Altamira Gold Corp. (TSXV: ALTA) reported that it has submitted an application to expand to 300,000 hectares its land position at the Firminho project, located within the Alta Floresta Belt in Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil.Such expansion would be reached by adding new claims that occupy over 70,000 hectares and lie on the northern margin of the belt close to the contact with the sediments of th...Read More
How you can transform lagging indicators into leading indicators. From Bollinger bands to momentum oscillators, technical indicators have been at the forefront of the trading world's constant need to stay ahead of the curve since the first exchange opened its door over 200 years ago.After all, every trader is always looking for an edge... Some way to predict what will happen next... And hopefully...Read More
(Updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Copper fell to its lowest level ina week on Wednesday after comments by U.S. President DonaldTrump stoked more worries about trade tensions with top metalsconsumer China.Most other industrial metals were in the red due to concernabout growth in China and after the country's currency slipped.Markets were unconvinced when China exp...Read More
Based on a 2012 exploration program that identified high-grade cobalt and vanadium at the Duddridge Lake project in Saskatchewan, Searchlight Resources (TSX-V: SRCH) decided to acquire the property located some 75 kilometers northwest of the town of La Ronge."With the increasing interest in battery technology utilizing both vanadium and cobalt, the Duddridge project represents an excellent project...Read More
Based on a 2012 exploration program that identified high-grade cobalt and vanadium at the Duddridge Lake project in Saskatchewan, Searchlight Resources (TSX-V: SRCH) decided to acquire the property located some 75 kilometers northwest of the town of La Ronge."With the increasing interest in battery technology utilizing both vanadium and cobalt, the Duddridge project represents an excellent project...Read More
Based on a 2012 exploration program that identified high-grade cobalt and vanadium at the Duddridge Lake project in Saskatchewan, Searchlight Resources (TSX-V: SRCH) decided to acquire the property located some 75 kilometers northwest of the town of La Ronge."With the increasing interest in battery technology utilizing both vanadium and cobalt, the Duddridge project represents an excellent project...Read More
Gold enters December in reasonable shape.The price holds $1200 despite new highs in the dollar index.The Fed Chairman gives a speech that is bullish for the yellow metal.The low came early in 2018; open interest tells us no one expects a significant move.Golden prospects for 2018 - NUGT will magnify results on a rally.Nearby February gold futures on the COMEX division of the CME settled at the $12...Read More
"Vale reduces 2019 #nickel production guidance and announces investments to sustain its Sudbury and New Caledoniaoperations https://t.co/jdgEeJ8mYY"Read full newsRead More
Brazil's outgoing President Michel Temer launched Wednesday a new regulatory agency for the mining sector, linked to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, aimed at making the country's industry more competitive and sustainable.The National Mining Agency (ANM), which replaces the previous National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM), has been tasked with "promoting the management of the mineral res...Read More