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By Big Al Chris and LPG talk markets and European elections Chris Temple is joined by Laurent-Patrick Gally this afternoon. Chris wraps up an ugly day for crude oil and a couple small cracks appearing in the Trump trade in stocks. Then the two of them provide an update on how things look for the […]

By James Rickards Chart 2 is the U.S. stock bubble of the “Roaring Twenties” as shown in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. That crash began on October 24, 1929 (“Black Thursday”) and reached a crescendo on October 29, 1929 (“Black Tuesday”). The 1929 crash ushered in the Great Depression, which persisted until 1940. At the

By analyst By Andrew Topf The intentions of Indian Prime Minister Modi’s government were noble: crack down on tax evasion/ the black market, and move India from a cash-based economy to one based more on digital transactions, like other modern economies. But Modi’s surprising move last November to “demonetize” the equivalent of US$220 billion in

By analyst By Frik Els Nickel fell to a 13-year low of $7,725 a tonne ($3.50 a pound) in February last year; then rallied to more than $11,700 by mid-November only to end the year barely above $10,000. This year the rollercoaster continued as news from top suppliers Indonesia and Philippines pull the metal in

click to enlarge In addition, global manufacturing activity has expanded for the past six straight months, a good sign for commodities demand going forward. As I shared with you earlier in the week, the global purchasing managers’ index (PMI) advanced to a After finishing 2016 up 25 percent, commodities are getting another boost from bullish

By Samuel Taube Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP), the parent company of social media app Snapchat, went public last week. The much-anticipated Snap IPO was a positive note on an otherwise gloomy day in the stock market. Most major indexes declined on the news of IRS raids at Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) offices. But Snap stock shot

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Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger reflects on the cause of this week’s decline in precious metals markets, and contemplates the factors that will help him determine a bottom. Given the big down move this week in the precious metals, it would certainly follow that the activities of the Commercials would be no surprise. They matched

By Nick Giambruno It has has more upside and less downside than any other commodity right now. …read more Source:: Casey Research The post This Sector Is Set to Deliver 20-to-1 Returns… and That’s Just From the “Bad” Companies appeared first on Junior Mining Analyst.

By analyst By Andrew Topf One of the effects of the hit the gold price took after soaring to $1,900 an ounce in September 2011, was a concentrated effort on the part of producers to cut costs. For years big gold mining companies kept on spending, on exploration, salaries, and big acquisitions, confident that the