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By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud A clash between locals and outsiders searching for gold in the Tibesti Mountains ended up with 10 people dead and rising tensions. The fight started when residents of the central Sahara mountain region felt disturbed by the artisanal miners who had flocked the area from other parts of Chad […]

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud In order to store new quantum data that can be processed by quantum computers, scientists from Boston College and Harvard are exploring the possibilities that copper offers. In a new report published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, physicist Fazel Tafti explains how he and his team

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Copper prices fell 0.71 per cent to $6,993 a tonne during Wednesday’s midmorning trade. Analysts say they were expecting such a dip following Tuesday’s rally when the red metal touched one-week highs and rose above $7,000 a tonne based on bullish Chinese import data. In fact, SHFE copper, the

By Big Al The latest news on “Uranium Gate” Depending on how strong the Clinton Family is, this could be one of the biggest stories, once resolved of the last few years. Download audio file (josh-use.mp3) …read more Source:: The Korelin Economics Report The post KER Politics – Wed 25 Oct, 2017 appeared first on

By analyst By Frik Els Shares in Goldcorp Inc (NYSE:GG)(TSX:G) turned higher Wednesday after the company reported third quarter results that showed huge jump in profitability despite a sharp decline in gold production. Vancouver-based Goldcorp more than erased its losses during regular trading after hours for a market capitalization of $11.2 billion in New York

By analyst By Frik Els Shares in Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX)(TSX:ABX) retreated nearly 1% in after hours trade on Wednesday after the company reported a small loss in its third quarter, and lowered its production guidance and upped its expected costs for the full year. Barrick is now down 5.5% over the past week as

By James Rickards This post Markets Await Trump’s Decision on Fed Chair appeared first on Daily Reckoning. President Trump is expected to nominate the next Federal Reserve chair within a matter of days. As I’ve explained before, Donald Trump has the opportunity to appoint a higher percentage of the Board of Governors of the Federal

By Brian Maher This post Next Week Could Decide Trump’s Presidency appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Donald Trump says he’s “very, very close” to making a decision… The president is expected to nominate the next Federal Reserve chairman before winging off to Asia next week. Could his selection determine the outcome of his presidency? And

By Matthew Carr A friend of mine told me they were starting their diet as soon as Halloween was over. I stifled a laugh. This is not the time of year for dieting! After Halloween, it’s only a few weeks until Thanksgiving… then Christmas… then New Year’s… then the Super Bowl… then Valentine’s Day. The

By Keith Weiner Amassing Unproductive Debt Last week, we discussed the marginal productivity of debt. This is how much each newly-borrowed dollar adds to GDP. And ever since the interest rate began its falling trend in 1981, marginal productivity of debt has tightly correlated with interest. The lower the interest rate, the less productive additional