NUM members are striking in protest at the retrenchment of 1,082...Read More
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is on a "set course" of rate hikes and will continue on it unless something very bad happens, says Axel Merk of Merk Investments.Axel Merk is the Founder, President, Portfolio Manager, and CIO at Merk Investments LLC. He is an expert on qualitative research and macroeconomic trends. Mr. Merk is also an expert on macro trends, hard money, international investi...Read More
"The balloon has already been popped. The pin has popped the bubble, and now we are just going to work its way out. The workout, by the way, is going to be a complete and utter financial collapse. It is a house of cards, and it is all going to end up flat."Bill Holter is currently a writer for Miles Franklin and Jim Sinclair's Mineset where he posts weekly commentaries on gold and financial market...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More
Should law enforcement be able to break into a college student's phone in order to use their own data against them in a criminal case?Continue...Read More
Continue...Known primarily by his nickname "Turd Ferguson," Craig Hemke is the founder and editor of the popular TF Metals Report blog and podcast, covering precious metals, the financial markets, and greater economic trends.Read More
President Trump told The Washington Post this week that he's "not even a little bit happy" with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's actions up to this point at the Federal Reserve.Continue...Read More
More and more economists, analysts and financial writers, 125 in fact, have taken the bold step of projecting the Continue...Read More
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has responded to a "totally false and deliberately libelous" report in The Guardian that he had several meetings withContinue...Read More
The charts still seem like the metals want to run higher, and especially with silver, the downside pattern is really full. Here are the details...by Avi Gilburt of Elliott Wave TraderFirst published Sat Nov 24 for members: Since I put out my last update on Thursday morning, I cannot say much has really changed. So, I am going to re-print my update here, and add a few new comments below:I am st...Read More
LONDON – Zimbabwe does not plan to change its ownership rules for diamonds and platinum, its mining minister said on Monday, denting hopes among some miners the country will open up ownership as it announces mineral frameworks in coming weeks.Zimbabwe in March changed its empowerment law limiting the rules that mandate majority state ownership to diamond and platinum mines, rather than to th...Read More
RAPAPORT... Kering, the owner of Gucci, Boucheron and Pomellato, plans to end its seven-year partnership with luxuryplatform Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP), and bring its e-commerce activitiesin-house. The Paris-based retailer, which has worked with YNAP since2013, will move all its sales to a new website in the first half of 2020, itsaid Monday. It's in the process of building that platform, it ad...Read More
The Dow Jones plunged over 1,000 harrowing points last week.And so investors entered Monday's drama with one eye on the stage… and the other on the exit.But the Big Board put them to ease with a thumping 354-point rally.The S&P worked a 41-point advance of its own. The battered Nasdaq surged 143.Stocks were mixed today before scratching out a late day gain.But what next?Will the rout res...Read More
Paul ZimniskyThis episode features an in-depth interview with independent diamond analyst and consultant Paul Zimnisky on the rise this year of laboratory-created diamonds and their effect on the retail diamond market as well as the prospects of traditional miners of natural diamonds.In the interview, Paul and Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming also take a look at some of Paul's stock-mar...Read More
Editor's Note: Azucar Minerals (TSX: AMZ.V) (OTC: AXDDF) CEO Morgan Poliquin has a track record of discoveries and, along with his father, Duane Poliquin, has pioneered exploration in Eastern Mexico.Azucar's new copper-gold discovery - El Cobre - has attracted the attention of 19.9% partner Newcrest Mining. Earlier this year, Newcrest acquired the 19.9% interest in Azucar at a price of C$1.36 a sh...Read More
The argument over whether we're in for global warming or global cooling and whether what's coming is natural or human-made is fun but totally irrelevant from a financial perspective. The fact is that for whatever reason and in whatever direction, the climate is getting more aggressive. Monster snowstorms and apocalyptic fires are clearly becoming more common: Combine the rising number of bad thing...Read More
The argument over whether we're in for global warming or global cooling and whether what's coming is natural or human-made is fun but totally irrelevant from a financial perspective. The fact is that for whatever reason and in whatever direction, the climate is getting more aggressive. Monster snowstorms and apocalyptic fires are clearly becoming more common: Combine the rising number of bad thing...Read More
In an unprecedented move long sought by mineral explorers, Canada's federal government has extended the mineral exploration tax credit (METC) for five years.The news came in November as part of the government's Fall Economic Statement, which included a $17.6 billion suite of business-friendly tax measures and investments which should benefit firms in the mineral sector.The METC allows qualifying e...Read More
2018 was a great year for tech stocks... until it wasn't.The Nasdaq 100 was up nearly 20% for the year. Now it is down 5%.The big-name stocks all climbed, then spectacularly imploded.Facebook share prices were dumped overnight in July and shares are down about 25% for the year.Apple is basically back to where it started the year. Same with Google.Amazon is still up over 30%, but that's a far cry f...Read More
"Together, AWS and Lockheed Martin are providing satellite operators increased flexibility, resiliency, and scale in a complete connectivity solution, ground architecture, and cloud Continue...Read More