Investors are increasingly seeking safe-haven in hard assets like gold, silver, copper and platinum, historically viewed as stores of value in times of financial uncertainty, Saxo Bank’s Ole Hansen says in a note.
Source – Wall Street Journal
Futures (in finance) – Are contracts to buy or sell a specific underlying asset at a future date.
Sandstorm Gold (NYSE:SAND) +9.5% pre-market Monday after saying Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) agreed to acquire the company in an all-stock transaction with an implied value of ~$3.5B.
Under the deal terms, Sandstorm (NYSE:SAND) shareholders will receive 0.0625 of a share of Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) common stock for each Sandstorm share held, a 17% premium to Sandstorm’s closing price on July 3; upon closing, existing Royal Gold and Sandstorm shareholders will own ~77% and 23%, of Royal Gold’s issued and outstanding shares on a fully diluted basis.
Source – Seeking Alpha
Spot gold was down 1.2% at $2,882.49 an ounce as of 09:42 a.m. ET (1442 GMT), after hitting its lowest level since February 12 earlier in the session. Prices hit a record high of $2,956.15 on Monday, driven by safe-haven flows.
“The direction of gold is very evident, and these short-term bumps and some profit taking is just a normal part of the cycle,” said Alex Ebkarian, chief operating officer at Allegiance Gold.
Spot silver retreated 0.5% to $31.67 an ounce, platinum fell 0.9% to $957.10 and palladium dropped 0.9% to $917.96.
Source – Reuters
First, I had no idea that Arizona has a couple of nicknames one of them being “Copper State”. Pretty interesting fact.
I wanted to share this article because there are mining companies here in the United States that are not talked about enough or just don’t get attention. Being interested in precious metals myself, I’d like to know what’s going on with this particular interest and certain information whether it pertains to me or not, but I felt this was interesting because the locals of this area in Arizona are having to deal with certain changes.
I would like to include more of these types of articles in the future if anyone is interested but all things precious metals deserve to be know, I feel.
One of North America’s largest known undeveloped copper deposits, with visions of multiple open pits and a tailings dump stretching down from the mountains toward the narrow Sycamore Canyon’s far rim.
“You come here for some peace and quiet,” Corona de Tucson resident Kevin Kennedy said, “and a mine is anything but.” reported Brandon Loomis
The neighbors and regional environmental groups all make the case that the Sky Islands in general and the Santa Ritas in particular are no place for a massive new mine with multiple open pits. The mountains are home to rare birds and occasionally rarer mammals, like the jaguar, and are considered one of the nation’s most biologically diverse mixing zones of tropical, desert and Rocky Mountain species.
“There are places that are so precious that they shouldn’t be mined,” said Rob Peters, who directs the local advocacy group Save the Scenic Santa Ritas.
Source – Arizona Republic
I will soon do an article on copper and it’s investing benefits, pros and cons in the near future but please let me know if this is something you would like to see or if you like the news style.
It’s been quite fun posting updates on the precious metals world, and I’d like to know your point of view, likes or dislikes. I would like to hear from you!
Source – MSN
“Over the last 12 months, the value of their reserves or the value of the gold in their reserves was five times the amount by which their reserves increased,” Thompson stated, emphasizing the significant shift in China’s gold holdings.
Thompson also highlighted the unique dynamics of the silver market. “We’ve seen year after year the volume of silver… being produced by the mines going down,” he explained.
Source – The Jerusalem Post
The silver market has plunged during trading on Friday in the early hours, but it looks like the $35.50 region is in fact going to continue to offer support, as it was previous resistance, so you would anticipate a little bit of market memory here.
Source – FX EMPIRE
