Last Friday saw the lowest gold price of the year in US Dollar terms, with the yellow metal trading below $1310 USD/oz before recovering by a few dollars at the close of trade for the week. There hasn't been any sold catalyst for a big move in gold, though the upcoming FED meeting seems to...

The poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, appears to be the catalyst for a new round of diplomatic actions against Russia. Mr. Skripal is a Russian national who was imprisoned in Russia because of his connections to MI6, which is the UK's equivalent of the...

One of President Putin's advisers has called a newly signed partnership between Russia and China a “breakthrough”. Earlier this week a string of reports from news agencies across Eurasia announced that the governments of Russia and China had signed an agreement that will allow...

Saudi Arabia is in the market for a slew of nuclear reactors, and President Trump may be willing to bend existing regulations that govern the sale of nuclear technology and material to the Middle Eastern nation. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has bold plans to replace existing power generation...

December of 2017 saw the Russian Central Bank amass another 300,000 ounces of gold, bringing their total purchases for 2017 to 223 tonnes. The last few years have seen Russia add hundreds of tonnes of gold to their official reserves, and with December's purchases, they may be in a position...

There was continued talk of a new market for physical gold sales at this year's Russian Bullion Market Conference in Moscow. First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Sergey Shvetsov, delivered a speech that reaffirmed Russia's commitment to create a new settlement system for gold sales...

The gold price took a shot last week, and closed the week below $1280 USD/oz. This marks a weekly close below the 200 Day MA, which currently sits $1286 USD/oz, and according to chartists, this could mark the beginnings of further declines for the yellow metal. The move downward began after the...

According to reports from the Nikkei Asian Review, the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (SIEE) is in the last stages of preparation before launching a crude oil futures contract that will be both open to international entities, and priced in Chinese Yuan. China recently overtook the United...

In the Western world, gold just isn't very interesting. Central banks were sellers of the yellow metal for a long time, but now, the gold reserves for countries like the United States, England, France and Germany are basically stable. There have been some squabbles recently about where...

The details are sparse, but according to Russian Minister of Communications, Nikolay Nikiforov, Russia will be the first country to have a cyber currency that is convertible to the Ruble. The idea has been outlined with broad strokes, but Mr. Nikiforov was present at a closed door meeting in Moscow...

The US Dollar has been on a wild ride over the last year. It appeared to rally on the presidential victory of Donald Trump, only to have the worst year since at least the 1980's afterward. But it is important to realize that when we talk about the strength of the dollar, we are talking about...

Peter Spina, the entrepreneurial leader behind GoldSeek.com and SilverSeek.com, chats with Vanessa Collette at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium in Vancouver. They discuss several pressing issues: Russia's ongoing dispute with The West, where values can be found in the stock market and the...

Marin Katusa, the Chief Energy Investment Strategist for Casey Research chats with Cambridge House Live anchor Bridgitte Anderson about the recent earth-shaking Russia-China gas deal and how it is changing the geopolitical landscape of the world. An absolute must-watch for investors and political...

By Thom Calandra @ Large www.babybulls.com CAPE TOWN -- A large Russian gold project, kissing cousin to Kinross' Kupol Mine in Chukotka, this week made its deal-flow debut. Geologist Andy Smith and negotiator and Sharprock Resources CEO Harp Sangha "put it out there" to minerals bankers...