Shares of Tilray and Canopy Growth are in the red after earningsWall Street today is reacting to quarterly results from Canadian marijuana firms Tilray Inc (NASDAQ:TLRY) and Canopy Growth Corp (NYSE:CGC). Both stocks are set for sharp declines at the open, after the companies each posted larger-than-expected losses for the third quarter. Also in focus is cannabinoid therapeutics expert GW Pharmace...Read More
An anonymous director reportsTRIMETALS MINING INC. FILES THIRD QUARTER 2018 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, MD&A AND ARBITRATION UPDATETrimetals Mining Inc. has released its condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended Sept. 30, 2018, and the related management's discussion and analysis of financial position and results of operations. In this press release, all...Read More
An anonymous director reportsTRIMETALS MINING INC. FILES THIRD QUARTER 2018 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, MD&A AND ARBITRATION UPDATETrimetals Mining Inc. has released its condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended Sept. 30, 2018, and the related management's discussion and analysis of financial position and results of operations. In this press release, all...Read More
(Reuters) - Shares of utility PG&E Corp (PCG.N) fell 18 percent on Wednesday after the company warned of liquidity concerns if its equipment was found responsible for starting the Camp wildfire currently raging in California.The company said liabilities related to the wildfires could exceed its recently renewed insurance cover, adding to the severe financial pressure it is already facing.The u...Read More
Oil futures are on track to snap their 12-day skidFutures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are pointing to a strong open, vaulting higher after the consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.3% in October, on par with analyst expectations. The core CPI rose at an annual rate of 2.1%, compared to last month's 2.2% growth. Even plummeting oil pricesappear ready to rebound. At last check, December-d...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in nine months in October amid gains in the cost of gasoline and rents, pointing to steadily rising inflation that likely will keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates again next month.The Labor Department said on Wednesday its Consumer Price Index rose 0.3 percent last month after edging up 0.1 percent in September...Read More
Shares in Canada's Stornoway Diamond Corp. (TSX:SWY) plummeted Wednesday after the miner reported a net loss of $37.6 million for the three months ended Sept. 30 and announced that chief executive officer Matt Manson will leave at the end of the year.Mason will be replaced by chief operating officer Patrick Godin, who joined Stornoway in 2010 and was appointed to the board of directors in 2011....Read More
Shares in Canada's Stornoway Diamond Corp. (TSX:SWY) plummeted Wednesday after the miner reported a net loss of $37.6 million for the three months ended Sept. 30 and announced that chief executive officer Matt Manson will leave at the end of the year.Mason will be replaced by chief operating officer Patrick Godin, who joined Stornoway in 2010 and was appointed to the board of directors in 2011....Read More
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union will respond with countermeasures if the United States imposes tariffs on its cars, the bloc’s trade commissioner told Germany’s Die Zeit weekly on Wednesday.“Then we will hit back, we can very quickly put together a long list of countermeasures that conform to World Trade Organisation rules,” Cecilia Malmstrom told the paper, adding th...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil rose on Wednesday, recouping some of the previous session’s slide, on the growing prospect of OPEC and allied producers cutting output at a meeting next month to prop up the market.Prices rallied toward $67 earlier in the session after Reuters reported OPEC and its partners are discussing a proposal to cut output by up to 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd), a larger fig...Read More
DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC and its partners are discussing a proposal to cut oil output by up to 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) for 2019, three sources familiar with the issue said, a larger reduction than previously thought to avert a price-sapping oversupply.Worried by a drop in oil prices due to record supply from Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United States, the Organization of the Petrole...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold pricesare near unchanged and hovering just above $1,200.00 in early U.S. trading Wednesday.The silver market is slightly down and dipped to a nearly three-year lowovernight. Both metals showed minimal price reactions to just-released U.S.inflation data. December gold futures were last up $0.70 an ounce at $1,202.10.December Comex silver was last down $0.017 at $13.96 an ounce....Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Pfizer lost the final round in a long-running patent battle in Britain on Wednesday after the country’s highest court ruled against it in a case involving its $5 billion-a-year pain drug Lyrica.The Supreme Court decision is a blow for the U.S. drugmaker - which had sought to affirm a secondary medical use patent for the product - and a win for generic drug companies Actavi...Read More
* Italian bond yields at three-week highs* Italy sticks to growth, deficit plans in revamped budget* Sets stage for EU showdown* Core euro zone bond yields down (Adds Italian CDS, updates prices)By Dhara RanasingheLONDON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Italian bond yields hit three-week highs on Wednesday, widening the gap over top-rated German peers, after Italy re-submitted its 2019 budget to the European C...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will try to convince senior ministers on Wednesday to accept a draft European Union divorce deal that opponents say threatens both her government and the unity of the United Kingdom.The weakest British leader in a generation, she has to try to get the deal approved by parliament before exiting the bloc on March 29, 2019.Brexit campaigners in May’...Read More
(Kitco News) -Pan American SilverCorp. (Nasdaq, TSX: PAAS), the world’s second-largest primary silver producer,will acquire Tahoe Resources Inc. (NYSE: TAHO;TSX: THO) in a $1.07 billionstock-cash deal announced by the two companies Wednesday.Officials said themerger will create the world’s largest publicly traded silver-mining companyand will have the world’s largest silver reser...Read More
(Kitco News) - Pan American Silver Corp. (Nasdaq, TSX: PAAS), the world’s second-largest primary silver producer, will acquire Tahoe Resources Inc. (NYSE: TAHO; TSX: THO) in a $1.07 billion stock-cash deal announced by the two companies Wednesday.Officials said the merger will create the world’s largest publicly traded silver-mining company and will have the world’s largest silve...Read More
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The head of the International Monetary Fund believes it's time for global central banks to explore the idea of a state-backed digital currency. "I believe we should consider the possibility to issue digital currency. There may be a role for the state to supply money to the digital economy," said Christine Lagarde in prepared remarks for delivery Wednesday local time at the Singapore Fintech Festi...Read More
Vancouver-based Xiana Mining (TSXV: XIA), formerly Dorato Resources, paid $25 million and a 1.5% net smelter royalty to acquire Glencore's (LON:GLEN) Minera Altos De Punitaqui in Chile.Minera Altos De Punitaqui (MAP) is a copper-gold producing company that currently holds three operating mines, additional exploration licenses, a concentrator, and associated infrastructure. All these elements are c...Read More