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By analyst By Cecilia Jamasmie Nearly 20 countries and regions pledged Thursday to never use coal again as fuel for power generation from 2030 onwards, adhering to a British-Canadian initiative presented at the 2017 United Nations climate change talks in Bonn, Germany. Two nations, however, did not sign the accord — the United States and […]

By Nilus Mattive This post 5 Steps To Retiring Rich (Step 4) appeared first on Daily Reckoning. In case you’ve missed the last several issues, I’ve been going over different types of retirement accounts and some clever ways to use them for maximum wealth building. So far we’ve covered the entire world of 401(k)s, including

By Eric Fry Just like Lassie, the loveable TV canine, zinc may be trying to tell us something important. Zinc’s message probably has nothing to do with Timmy falling into a well, but it may have a lot to do with the prospect of rising commodity prices. You see, the price of zinc has been

By Rob Otman Jacobs Engineering (NYSE: JEC) is a mid cap company that operates within the construction and engineering industry. Its market cap is $7 billion today, and the total one-year return is -0.11% for shareholders. Jacobs Engineering stock is underperforming the market. It’s beaten down, but it reports earnings soon. So is it a

By James Rickards This post Gold, Interest Rates and Super Cycles appeared first on Daily Reckoning. When the Fed raised interest rates last December, many believed gold would plunge. But it didn’t happen. Gold bottomed the day after the rate hike, but then started moving higher again. Incidentally, the same thing happened after the Fed

By Brian Maher This post What History Teaches About Interest Rates, Part II appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Yesterday we presented evidence that interest rates have trended lower for the better part of 500 years. We also suggested that the high interest rates of the mid-to-late 20th century may be history’s true aberration. Let us

By analyst By Cecilia Jamasmie World’s largest miner BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) (LON:BLT) expects to fully divest its US oil and gas business, which it acquired in a $20 billion deals spree in 2011, and is also seeking a buyer for its nickel business in Australia. The announcements, made by chief executive Andrew Mackenzie during a

By Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA Jordan Roy-Byrne has found some very interesting similarities between some markets you would not expect and gold. Long term chart patterns have a history or repeating themselves even if the markets are unrelated. In this interview we look at the turn from crashes to bull markets that are similar to

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Following months of intense training to be able to do a 48-hour hike up a 2,800-metre mountain, 60 officers from the Ibagué Metropolitan Police were able to reach and dismantle Colombia’s highest illegal gold mine. The 60-hectare site, the largest found in the region to date, was located at

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Miners who have been on strike for the past 11 days at the Media Luna mine in the Mexican state of Guerrero say that they might ramp up actions and shut down two more sections of the mine if their demands keep getting ignored. Following conversations with the workers,