Futures Fall Amid Rate Cut Uncertainty Futures tied to Canada’s main stock index slid on Monday, tracking declines in U.S. markets, as a strong U.S. jobs report erased expectations of interest rate cuts in 2025. It’s a tough morn...
Lyndsay Malchuk
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January 13, 2025
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April job report shows a terrible US labor market. Coronavirus destroyed 20.5 million jobs, pushing the unemployment rate to almost 15 percent. How far does the number reflect reality – and what does it actually mean for the gold market? Apocalypse in the US Labor Market ...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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May 13, 2020
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This company is disrupting the recruiting industry by using advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence, to connect employers to its wide network of over 10,000 independent recruiters. With a tight job market, employers can struggle to find qualified t...
Streetwise Reports
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August 20, 2019
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Make no mistake: Oil and gas companies may be doing some serious cost-cutting and slimming-and-trimming to stay competitive after the shale boom binge, but when it comes to employment, it's still one of the best industries to hit up for a job. Jobs are booming, just as m...
Julianne Geiger
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November 12, 2019
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As the third most-consumed metal on earth, behind iron and aluminum, copper is all around us. Found naturally in the earth’s crust, copper was among the first metals used by early humans, dating back to the 8th century, BC. Three thousand years later homo ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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February 12, 2020
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The recent employment report points to the continuing strength of the U.S. labor market. The earlier months’ upward revisions paint the same picture. Yet the unemployment rate ticked higher – is a recession looming, or not? And what does it all mean for gold? ...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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November 5, 2019
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The kiddie tax means that income from investments gains earned by a child from a gifted stock will be taxed at the parent’s tax rate, not the child’s tax rate. The kiddie tax applies to interest income, dividends, and capital ga...
Coreena Robertson
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January 17, 2025
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The recent job report is not reliable, but it shows recovery in the US labor market. The situation is still bad, but optimism could triumph for now, which is bad for gold. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Services released the newest edition of the Employment Situation Repo...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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June 9, 2020
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One of the most prevalent current trends concerning mined commodities is the shift, driven by the effort to reduce our carbon footprint, is towards the electrification of the global transportation system. Electrification is part of the solution to averting further glo...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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January 29, 2020
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The markets will likely take some breather in the coming week following last week’s huge economic data announcements. But that does not mean there won’t be trading opportunities coming from the data releases. Last week we asked if quarterly corp...
Paul Rejczak
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November 4, 2019
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