North American stocks have had a strong week. Markets on both sides of the border responded well to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s vote to hold interest rates between 5.25 per cent and 5.50 per cent for a fifth straight meeting. The central bank has kept r...
Jonathon Brown
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March 21, 2024
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Despite evidence of a slowing economy, shipments of raw materials are gliding across Chinese docks at a torrid pace, especially metals, which form the backbone of China’s industrial supply chain. In fact a recent report shows that, while Chinese imports are...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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September 27, 2019
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Ticker Trax subscribers received this free Thom Calandra article first. The other day, with most metals equities neutralized, I said to our Ticker Trax audience: what’s working? As it turns out, mostly themes I rarely key into: silver in Slo...
Thom Calandra
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October 28, 2012
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(Click image above to play video) Savvy investors and smart consumers can usually detect quality. And, a company’s commitment and passion for attaining it. Sugarbud Craft Growers Corp. ( TSX-V: SUGR , OTC: RLLRF , Forum ) is a Calgary-based...
Dave Jackson
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March 13, 2021
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Recently, the Transportation Index and the S&P SPDR ETF setup topping patterns near the end of April 2020. In terms of technical triggers, these patterns need to see additional downside price confirmation before we can confirm the true potential for these setups. If they do ...
Chris Vermeulen
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May 4, 2020
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West of Glen Canyon, Utah, a 90-million-year-old secret is hidden beneath the dry, desolate landscape. What is now one of the largest sand-dune deserts in the world, was once the middle of a vast inland ocean. Plying the waters of the Western Inland Seaway , a human transpo...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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November 5, 2019
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People eating fish are advised to watch carefully for bones, but how about tiny pieces of plastic? For years it has been known that plastic breaks down into microscopic particles that are consumed by shellfish, fish and mammals higher up the food chain, presentin...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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August 21, 2019
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Silver is expected to begin the next decade newly burnished, through a combination of higher industrial and investment demand, and tightened supply owing to mine production issues and output cuts. As December winds down and precious metals trade volumes dwindle, market an...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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December 27, 2019
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Graphite has been around for what it seems to be forever. I’m sure we all remember using a form of this naturally-occurring crystalline carbon as kids in our yellow No. 2 pencils. The popularity of this highly versatile mineral with other uses incl...
Dr. Kal Kotecha
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April 22, 2021
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Arizona may be famous for its gems, but it was silver that put the southwestern state on the mining map. Most visitors who flock to jewelry stores in Scottsdale and Sedona, searching for vibrantly-colored stones like turquoise and malachite, are likely unaware of the fact...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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January 15, 2020
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