May 21, 2012
Investors have “defriended” gold recently in favor of the dollar, as Greek and French voters rejected austerity measures.
BioteQ, a leader in the treatment of industrial wastewater, will be presenting a short course and technical paper at the 9th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage taking place in Ottawa, ON from May 21-26, 2012.
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May 21, 2012
Even though gold prices can experience declines that appear to be unfounded, demand from various categories and parts of the world continue to provide support to prices.
May 21, 2012
Many of us in the gold bug community who have been holding on to our bullion and select stocks for at least several years now have been doing so in anticipation of a mania.
May 19, 2012
While it might not look like it now, the most investable trend over the next 20 years is going to be in the resource sector, the renewable and non-renewable resources, the minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass a wealthier and growing global population is increasingly demanding from finite supplies and already strained production capabilities.
May 18, 2012
Chinese authorities added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance this week but it is something of a meaningless exercise because during the first quarter China only exported 26.3% of the initial quota.
May 18, 2012
In an interview with Louis James, John Hathaway discusses the US's economic outlook and why he's delighted by the current bearish sentiment toward gold.
May 17, 2012
Despite paying the highest wages – average $40.42/hour vs a $25/hour across sectors – the mining industry faces an uphill struggle filling more than 100,000 new positions by 2021.
May 16, 2012
Business professor Patrick Chovanec, a firm believer that the Middle Kingdom is suffering from a real estate bubble, catalogues some of the latest economic numbers coming out of China and detects a severe contraction in the housing and commercial numbers.
May 14, 2012
Even by the not very high standards of current US political discourse, the polemic is a little thin on logic.
May 14, 2012
Today's story comes from Cory Mitchell, who explains how the charts of oil and the overall market are now hauntingly like the 2006-2008 period—but in the short term, that means now could be a good time to own stocks.
May 14, 2012
Recent news that President Obama's re-election web page on energy policy didn't include coal on the list of "all of the above" energy sources sparked outrage in coal-producing states like Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
May 13, 2012
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair recently criticized the resource sector for driving up the Canadian dollar and hurting manufacturing in Ontario, a Canadian Dutch disease.
Copper saw a strong start to the trading week adding 1.8% following pro-growth comments by the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao over the weekend.
Traders said support given to Greece to stay in the Eurozone at the weekend's G8 meeting and a stronger dollar hurt the yellow metal.