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By Rob Otman First Republic Bank (NYSE: FRC) is a $15 billion company today. Investors that bought shares one year ago are sitting on a -0.58% total return. That’s below the S&P 500’s return of 13.99%. First Republic Bank stock is underperforming the market. It’s beaten down, but it reports earnings soon. So is it […]

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud A community group from New Zealand’s Waihi town, in the North Island’s Hauraki district, is expressing concerns over plans announced by OceanaGold Corporation (TSX/ASX: OGC) to mine for gold under the nearby open Martha pit. This week, the Melbourne-based company presented its project to the District Council. The Martha

By Cory It’s Time To Be Defensive With Your Portfolio Fund Manager Dana Lyons joins me today to share his thoughts on the US equity markets. The markets inability to climb back to all time highs has Dana thinking the top might be in already this year. Download audio file (2018_03_30-Dana-Lyons.mp3) Here are a couple

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud About 400 illegal gold miners invaded a farm that belongs to former Zimbabwean first lady, Grace Mugabe. Local newspaper Newsday reports that Mugabe was touring the farm, located in the northern village of Mazowe which is some 40 kilometres north of Harare, when she ran into the miners. They

By Alexander Green On the last day of our 2018 Investment U Conference at the beautiful Four Seasons in Las Vegas earlier this month, my friend and colleague Mark Skousen – economist, author, editor of Forecasts & Strategies, and fellow Investment U contributor – squared off against me for what was promoted as “The Ultimate

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Vancouver-based East Africa Metals (TSX-V:EAM) revealed that its previously announced Ethiopian Project Financing Memorandum of Understanding with Luck Winner Investment Limited failed to materialize. In a press release, East Africa said that “despite the best efforts of both parties, negotiations failed to define a viable transaction that would be

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud U.S.-based online activist network Avaaz launched a campaign to gather signatures to oppose the construction of the Volta Grande project, expected to become Brazil’s largest gold mine. Canada’s Belo Sun Mining Company (TSX:BSX) is behind the project, which is located in the Amazonic state of Pará. Even though it

By Zach Scheidt This post This “Obscure News” Just Made Pipelines A Buy… appeared first on Daily Reckoning. We’ve been dealing with a little bit of “drama” here at the Scheidt house lately. My 5-year-old, Caleb, has started testing his limits by throwing the occasional temper tantrum. The other day I heard him yelling at

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Randgold Resources’ Chief Financial Officer, Graham Shuttleworth, announced today that since the company declared its maiden dividend for the 2006 financial year, its dividends have increased by 1,900%. “Randgold Resources had one of the best years in its history of achievement and delivery in 2017, posting another production record

By analyst By Frik Els Cobalt’s rise to six-digit territory seems inexorable as the hype around electric vehicle demand for battery materials shows no signs of cooling. Despite a pullback this week, at $95,000 a tonne cobalt is up another 24% in 2018 as it builds on a more than fourfold increase in value from