31.01.2020 Fed’s Risky QE4 Stock Ramp The US stock markets dramatically surged mostly in a straight line since mid-October. This extraordinary rally started when the Federal Reserve announced it would resume expanding its balance sheet for the first time in years. The deluge of new liquidity from that quantitative-easing bond buying has again acted
09.08.2019 The US stock markets are becoming more unstable, fueling mounting anxiety about what’s likely coming. After surging to new all-time-record highs in late July, stocks plunged in a sharp pullback as the US-China trade war escalated. Stock markets’ resiliency in the face of bearish news is partially determined by how companies are faring
Marc, 18, 2019 Copper Teeters on the Totter Shy of a world economic collapse, I am a perma-bull on copper in the mid- to long-term. Despite strong supply-demand fundamentals, the short-term price outlook for copper is equivocal; it seems to be teetering on the totter. Current price uncertainty for the entire industrial metals complex is
February, 15, 2019 The world’s two biggest gold miners both announced mega-mergers over the past 5 months or so. These huge deals briefly garnered some interest in the usually-forgotten gold-stock sector, and fleeting praise from Wall Street analysts. But gold-stock mega-mergers are bad news for gold-miner shareholders on all sides. They reveal the serious struggles
February, 11, 2019 Gold Imports by India Jump as Jewelers Buy Despite High Prices Gold imports by India rose last month despite local prices trading near the highest in more than five years, as jewelers start to restock for the wedding season. Inbound shipments grew 64 percent to 46 tons in January from a year
February, 7, 2019 Our nation’s ability to power our way of life without carbon emissions is now at the top of lawmakers’ minds on Capitol Hill. A new momentum is pulsing through the District as Congress held several hearings and proposed a new resolution this week on the threat of climate change and the best
January, 21, 2019 The International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) released preliminary data for world lead and zinc supply and demand during the first eleven months of 2018. A brief summary is listed in the tables below. Full details are available in the January 2019 edition of the Group’s 77 page ‘Lead and Zinc
January, 14, 2019 Newmont and Goldcorp Combine to Create World’s Leading Gold Company World-class portfolio of assets to support sustainable, profitable gold production over long-term horizon DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) (Newmont or the Company) and Goldcorp Inc. (NYSE: GG, TSX: G) (Goldcorp) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement in
January, 7, 2019 Ringler Research wishes all readers and visitors of our uranium sector information pages best wishes for 2019 – health, optimism and satisfaction! As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words – here we have summarized the most important statistical overviews from our database of all listed companies in the
January, 4, 2019 India to bring 21 more reactors online by 2031 India currently expects to bring 21 new nuclear power reactors with a combined generating capacity of 15,700 MWe into operation by 2031, the country’s minister of state for the Department of Atomic Energy and the Prime Minister’s Office told parliament yesterday. In a