U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 4 points in pre-opening trade. U.S. equity index futures moved lower following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus for Weekly Jobless Claims was 215,000 versus 214,000 last week. Actual was 216,000. Consensus for October Retail Sales was a gain of 0.4% versus an increase of 0.1% in September. Actual was...Read More
The tax law is a series of stimulus packages for business owners and investors. Nowhere is this truer than for real estate investors. I'm not talking about people who fix and flip real estate. They are not investors. I'm talking about those who buy, improve, and hold on to real estate for long-term investment.As an incentive for investors to buy, improve, and hold real estate, the government gives...Read More
Last month I warned you that we were entering this winter facing a very real chance of a spike in natural gas prices.Here we are just a couple of weeks later and that natural gas price spike has already taken a pretty major first leg up.Since the start of November, the commodity has already skyrocketed 25 percent higher than when I wrote to you.That is a big move in such a short period of time, ev...Read More
A Colorado School of Mines graduate student will get to pitch his space startup at a major international conference for satellite and aerospace professionals this spring - his team's prize for winning the Techstars Startup Weekend in Boulder last month. James Kiousis, a master's student in the Engineering and Technology Management program, was the leader of Gold Orbit, the top-scoring team in the...Read More
DR Congo: Is government intervention the real risk to watch?SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftKyzyl ramp-up signals new growth path at buoyant PolymetalSPONSOREDpolymetal internationalNew Energy brings experience to new dawnSPONSOREDnew energy mineralsBezant's Mankayan back in copper-gold spotlightSPONSOREDbezant resourcesMining executives have been stung by the industry's critics who paint them as ca...Read More
Nov 16, 2018 Guest(s): Cal Everett President, CEO & Director, Liberty Gold When it comes to whether or not the mining industry has reached peak gold, the numbers speak for themselves, said Cal Everett, President, CEO and Director of Liberty Gold. "The declining production curves of the intermediate-major producers are rolling over right now. You can see that on a quarter by quarter basis every t...Read More
Nov 16, 2018 Guest(s): Jim Rogers Famed investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told Kitco News that while he is not yet buying gold at current levels, a rebound in the yellow metal could cause it to overheat. "Before this is over, gold could turn into a very overpriced asset, it might even turn into a bubble," he said.Rogers noted that while he holds physical gold, he would not buy m...Read More
"He [Powell] could have leeway with inflation falling back underneath the Fed's 2% target, so that he actually has formal cover to pause."Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author...Read More
The Dow and the S&P 500 could be cut in half and they would still be overvalued, Fund Manager Dave Kranzler tells Silver Doctors. Kranzler thinks the fundamentals are showing the economy is headed south more quickly than many people are expecting. Kranzler estimates that the 2019 fiscal deficit could end up as high as $1.8 trillion, the largest in history. In that case, interest rates would need t...Read More
According to a new report from the U.K.'s Children's Commissioner's Office, by the time a kid becomes a teen in today's world, their parents will have uploaded an average of 1300 photos and videos of them. Add in any media kids post of themselves, and by the time they're 18, they'll have about 70,000 photos and videos of themselves online. And the implications are massive. The Resident breaks it d...Read More
You may have heard that the near-record stock market internals have turned ghastly, where most companies are lagging, leaving only a few standard-bearers to prop up the nameplate DJIA index (which gets all the news coverage, in the name of our "strong" economy.) But what you aren't being told is that the pool of buyers who are actually purchasing stocks and keeping even the few market leaders prop...Read More
The Bank of England claims to be one of the largest physical gold custodians in the world, holding gold Continue...Read More
The recent upswing in NG prices has been an incredible trade for many, yet we believe a top is now forming in Natural Gas that could catch many traders by surprise. The recent upside gap in price and upward price volatility would normally not concern long traders. They would likely view this as a tremendous success for their long NG positions, yet we believe this move is about to come...Read More
People say that speech is silver, silence is golden. Well, not always. The recent FOMC monetary policystatement is the best example. Lets’ read out today’s article and find out why.Nothing Changes in NovemberOn Thursday, the FOMC published the monetary policy statement from its latest meeting that took place onNovember 7-8. In linewith the expectations, the US central bank kept the fed...Read More
Two miles below Earth's surface, scientists found animal life in a South African gold mine. They wonder: If life can exist there, could it exist on Mars?Read full newsRead More
The World Diamond Council (WDC) and the Civil Society Coalition (CSC) have called for an expanded definition of conflict diamonds at the launch of the 2018 Plenary Session of the Kimberley Process (KP) in Brussels, Belgium. The proposal, put forward by the government of Canada, looks to strengthen the scope by expanding the KP's official definition of what constitutes conflict diamonds.The propose...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1211.90+$10.20Silver$14.15+$0.16XAU63.53+2.74%HUI143.45+3.61%GDM522.86+1.78%JSE Gold1080.74-2.00USD96.92-0.27Euro113.20+0.31Yen88.15+0.29Oil$56.25+$0.5610-Year3.122%-0.018T-Bond138.96875+0.375Dow25080.50-0.81%Nasdaq7136.39-0.90%S&P2701.58-0.76% The Metals: Gold traded mostly higher in Asia before it dropped back to $1197.80 in London, but it then shot back up in New Yor...Read More
Crude oil can rise anytime. Momentum can reverse on value-based buying. I am satisfied with the gold price performance yesterday. It did not nosedive. If gold and silver do not fall today, then there will be short covering and a rise. Any reconciliation between China-USA on the trade war issue will be bullish for copper and industrial metals. Right now everything is mere speculation. Next week...Read More
Crude oil can rise anytime. Momentum can reverse on value-based buying. I am satisfied with the gold price performance yesterday. It did not nosedive. If gold and silver do not fall today, then there will be short covering and a rise. Any reconciliation between China-USA on the trade war issue will be bullish for copper and industrial metals. Right now everything is mere speculation. Next week...Read More
"#Cannabis may have gone legal recreationally, but the real prize could be medical advances in #cancertreatment #medicalmarijuana #breastcancerRead full newsRead More