Jian Ghomeshi, now infamous host of CBC’s popular radio show ‘Q’, is getting more attention than he likely ever dreamed of back when he did the weekly entertainment report on Canada Now. In case you haven’t heard, Ghomeshi was fired by the CBC last Friday, and the story that is unfolding is a real doozy.… Continue Reading

A compelling piece of research from Goldman Sachs is being passed around the street this morning. It makes the case for $75 crude oil for the next 12+ months.  Here are the key points: The 2015 global oil market will be significantly oversupplied unless US shale production growth slows, which will only happen if prices… Continue Reading

Content marketing is the prime reason that any self respecting creative talent will likely cite for choosing to work in advertising and when these creatives decide to get stuck in they often work with seo experts similar to those you’d find through seo in melbourne. It is the boxing of advertising: unfakeable and extremely ugly… Continue Reading

October has been a bad month for natural gas and there might be more to come. The breakdown from the 10-week descending triangle indicates a downside target of at least $3.40: Click to enlarge Large natural gas storage builds also present a significant headwind for the market – from Morgan Stanley: December has been the worst… Continue Reading

Nighthawk Gold (NHK.TSXV) management beleive they are developing Canada’s next gold camp at the Indin Lake property 200 km north of Yellowknife in the North West Territories. The Indin Lake camp already has an inferred resource of 2.1 million ounces of 1.64 g/t gold over a large land package. The team at Nighthawk put in a $7.5 million dollar… Continue Reading

Haywood Commodity Price Revisions: Moderating for a New Paradigm This week, Haywood released a revised commodity price forecast.  Changes to several commodity price decks are echoed in the negative performance of mining equities and commodity prices during the last quarter.  Changes include the long-term gold price, which was lowered from $1,300 to $1,250 per ounce, silver… Continue Reading

The bear market in gold stocks continues with many of the more notable names hitting 52 week lows during the past few days. Barrick, the world’s largest gold producer (Barrick Gold: ABX.T) hit a low of $14.80, down from $55 just three years ago. Gold equities have been extremely volatile in the past year, creating… Continue Reading

Many of us have heard the declaration, “If they can put a man on the moon then they can . . .”  finished with any number of wishful endings.  Well, the brilliance of mankind has once again manifested, in this case in the invention of a bidet and toilet seat in one fabulously fresh, life… Continue Reading

Here are the 5 things that you might see near a market top: 1. Commodities rolling over CRB Index   2. Deteriorating market breadth with leadership sectors (energy, financials, and technology) getting hit especially hard S&P 500 1-month heat map   3. Volatility and volume expansion S&P 500 daily with average true range below  … Continue Reading

Yoshiro Nakamatso would suffocate himself underwater in order to come up with ideas. He invented the floppy disk when he was within 1/2 second of his death, about to drown. He has 4000 patents. He also has photographed every meal he’s ever taken for the past 34 years. He claims he’s the most prolific inventor… Continue Reading

The Lundins focus on Chile is continuing today, this time with more news from portfolio company, NGEx Resources (NGQ:TSX). “Chile’s biggest new copper-gold camp” is posted all over NGEx’s website and the company believes that they not only have large deposits (3 of them to be exact), but that they are sitting on an entire… Continue Reading

The Lundin name has been synonymous with large deals in the mining space (Lundin Mining and Fortress Minerals) as well as big new oil discoveries in Norway (Lundin Petroleum) over the past few weeks, however, today that trend was bucked with their African oil explorer (aptly named Africa Oil (AOI:TSX)) trading to new 52-week lows… Continue Reading

Alamos Gold (AGI.T) just posted a small third quarter loss of $2.23 million as production was impacted by heavy rainfall. It was the company’s first quarterly loss of the year but investors can expect a stronger fourth quarter. I listened to the Q3 earnings call this morning to get the latest on the Alamos story.… Continue Reading

An especially brutal round of hedge fund/mutual fund tax loss selling this week (most fund companies have fiscal years that end on October 31st) has sent gold mining shares tumbling to levels not seen since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC): Click to enlarge NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index   Gold shares have performed poorly since… Continue Reading

The general dissatisfaction that accompanies my burning desire to be successful means I often lose sight of the fact that some pretty amazing stuff happens around me. A few weeks ago my friend, entrepreneur Frank Giustra invited me to lunch with the Dalai Lama. As a well known business leader, Frank gets roped into a… Continue Reading