Gold continues to make headway in herky-jerky fashion, failing to satisfy bulls but also denying bears something to cheer about. On Monday, the February Comex contract rallied to within a millimeter of the 1240.20 Hidden Pivot target shown. The pullback so far has been mild, encouraging the thought that the next pop will be good for a ride to 1259.80. Another encouraging sign is that some recent...Read More
President Trump and President Xi Jinping agreed to halt escalation in their trade conflict. At the same time, the Fed officials became more cautious about the pace of future interest rate hikes. How will the softening of the US trade and monetary policies affect the gold market? Trade Truce and Gold Have you heard about the Christmas truce? It was a series of unofficial ceasefires across the W...Read More
By Avi GilburtI wonder how many of you had your brains in gear when following the action in the market this past week. For those that did not, let's review what happened.First, the market broke out "bigly" on Wednesday, and every media source and investor was absolutely certain that it was due to the Fed chairman's speech (even though he really said nothing new, as future rate decisions were alw...Read More
- "Time is running out" - Sir David Attenborough- "Continuation of civilisation is in your hands," Attenborough warns world leaders- Mass extinction is "on the horizon"- Failure to 'join the dots' between environmental risks and significant economic challenges(Editors note: The world faces some very serious ecological challenges due to the pollution, destruction and over consumption of our natur...Read More
My rich dad said, “The average person is 95 percent eyes and only five mind when they invest. If you want to become a professional in the B and I quadrants (see below), you need to train your eyes to be only five percent and train your mind to be the other 95 percent.”Every day trillions of dollars are moved around the planet electronically. There is more money being created and availa...Read More
Dec 05, 2018 Guest(s): E.B. Tucker Director, Metalla Royalty & Streaming 2019 will see the start of a new bull cycle for gold and push the metal up to $1,500 an ounce, said E.B. Tucker, director of Metalla Royalty & Streaming. "To make big money in this market, you have to see the cycles. Nothing changes. We've had three big cycles in gold since 2000 and we're about to have another one," Tuc...Read More
Bubbles burst from the "outside in," Chris Martenson says. And that's what we're seeing right now. Cracks are appearing on the outside. Many junk rated debt and periphery country's stock markets are in bear markets. Watch out for the crisis to seek into the bigger sectors. The economy cannot grow exponentially in a finite world. An infinite model cannot run on a finite sphere. By 2020 - 2022, a ma...Read More
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Chris McFadden, CEO of NxGold, sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss his company's exploration efforts on two continents.Proven and Probable: Joining us today is Chris McFadden, the president, CEO, and director of NxGold Ltd. (NXN:TSX.V), where the focus is on high-grade gold in world-class districts. Mr. McFadden, in our previous interview, we conducted a thorough, comp...Read More
Thibaut Lepouttre of Caesars Report profiles a company active in Portugal that uses the prospect generator model.Explaining the prospect generator modelAvrupa Minerals Ltd.'s (AVU:TSX.V; AVPMF:OTC: 8AM:FSE) business model is quite simple: after adding projects to its portfolio, it tries to get them to a drill-ready stage where after it starts looking for a joint venture partner to do the heavy lif...Read More
High-end homebuilder Toll Brothers, when it announced earnings this morning, made some peculiar comments. Not so peculiar was the plunge in new orders in its fourth quarterContinue...Read More
In 2017, the financial world was filled with talk of synchronized sustainable growth in major economies for the first time since before the 2008 global financial crisis. This was being proclaimed by global financial elites including Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF.Now that vision is in ashes. Synchronized global growth has turned into a synchronized global slowdown. Growth has already turned ne...Read More
Today Trump reminded markets that truce is not peace."Remember, I am a Tariff Man," the president huffed this morning.Meantime, Trump's senior economic adviser Larry Kudlow acknowledged that a trade deal with China "may not get done."If the 90-day truce fails, expect the swords to leap from their scabbards... and the cannons to be readied.Trump may impose 25% tariffs on all Chinese goods - if he i...Read More
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December 4, 2018 The double bottom is the world's most stressful chart pattern. It forms after a significant price decline. The first low in the pattern creates substantial panic and fear in most investors.The second low in the pattern is "softer", but no less dangerous to emotionally vulnerable investors. The volume is generally weak and the price action makes investors feel like they are in so...Read More
Gold has picked up a tailwind in recent trading and that has investors kicking the tires on some of the top stocks in the industry.Let's take a look at Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) (NYSE:ABX) to see if it deserves to be in your portfolio.Gold marketAt the time of writing gold trades for US$1,239 per ounce. That's the best price since July and pundits are wondering if it could be the start of a rally bac...Read More
As with last Wednesday's investor excitement over suggestions of a looming pause in Fed tightening, the risk is the cheer over a trade-war ceasefire becomes a one-day wonder, Bloomberg noted.US and UK indices had closed higher yesterday while Asian markets were lower in afternoon trade today.Australia's metals and mining stocks on the benchmark S&P/ASX200 were down 0.86% overall but the gold s...Read More
Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala signed the decree, dated November 24, the wire service reported.The change had been flagged earlier this year, with cobalt royalties already increased from 2% to 3.5% under the country's new mining code which came into effect mid-year, despite strong opposition by mining companies including Glencore (LSE: GLEN). The global miner and commodities trader has indicat...Read More