India Moves Silver Imports to Restricted Category Days After Raising Duties to 15 Percent
India has placed imports of high purity silver bars and most semi-manufactured silver under a restricted category that requires a government license, effective immediately. The move comes days after New Delhi raised the import duty on precious metals from 6% to 15% on May 13. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade issued the notification on […]
Toronto Star Faces Heat Over Alleged Spiked Carney Critic Column
Supriya Dwivedi, a political commentator and former Liberal staffer, said on X that an editor at the Star told her the paper was pulling her column for the week. In a later post, she said the column had been approved and then “spiked” because of a tweet criticizing what she described as wrong reporting by […]
Citadel’s Ken Griffin Recasts AI Risk Inside High Finance: “Fairly Depressed”
Ken Griffin’s latest AI comments suggest the first serious labor shock in high finance may arrive before the industry proves that artificial intelligence can reliably beat markets. The Citadel founder, in his recent remarks at the Stanford Leadership Forum, moved the debate away from the clean but narrow question of hedge-fund alpha. Griffin’s new concern […]
Investigators Probe Double Killing In Colombia Presidential Race
Colombia’s presidential race has been forced back to its hardest security question: not which candidate can sound toughest on armed groups, but whether campaigns can safely organize votes in territory where violence still decides who gets to participate. AP reported that Rogers Devia, a former mayor of Cubarral in Meta department and local campaign coordinator […]
Fire Erupts at Pemex’s Olmeca Refinery During Maintenance
A fire broke out shortly after midnight on May 16 at Pemex’s Olmeca refinery in Dos Bocas, Tabasco. Local reports suggested it was a large fire, however Pemex, the operator of the refinery, stated that the fire occurred during scheduled maintenance that involved steam-emptying and controlled venting. The blaze appeared outside a vacuum residue storage […]
Gold and Silver May Be Ready for Another Run | Shawn Khunkhun – Contango Silver & Gold
In this conversation with Shawn Khunkhun, President of Contango Silver & Gold Inc. (TSX: CTGO), we discuss why he sees the recent pullback in gold and silver as healthy, what technical levels he is watching next, and why he thinks another leg higher in precious metals could come sooner than many investors expect. Shawn explains […]
Brexit to Breturn? Labour’s PM Contender Calls Leaving EU A “Mistake”
UK’s ruling party may be seeing a turnaround on what is considered the biggest geopolitical move in the continent. Labour’s Europe problem is no longer just how much friction it can remove from trade with the EU, but whether its growth pitch can survive while the party refuses to revisit the larger Brexit settlement. Labour […]
How To Be Conservative After Carney’s Pipeline Deal With Alberta
The hardest job in Canadian energy politics may now be explaining how a Conservative opposition should attack a Liberal prime minister for moving toward a pipeline. That was the problem Conservative pundit Fred DeLorey put on the table after Ottawa and Alberta signed an implementation agreement that gives the province a formal path to submit […]
Silver Is Strong Again, and This Producer Is Ramping Up | Arturo Prestamo – Santacruz Silver
In this conversation with Arturo Préstamo, Chairman and CEO of Santacruz Silver Mining (TSXV: SCZ), we discuss why he remains bullish on silver, why another year of market deficit matters, and how Santacruz is positioning itself after a difficult 2025. Arturo explains why Bolivar is recovering from the flooding issues, why Q2 and Q3 should […]
Gold Giant Agnico Eagle Makes a Critical Minerals Bet | Avenir Minerals x Fox River
Agnico Eagle Gold (TSX: AEM) has quietly made one of the most surprising moves in the critical minerals space, stepping into the igneous phosphate sector through Avenir Minerals’ acquisition of Fox River Resources. At a time when Western governments are scrambling to secure supply chains for strategic materials, this deal signals that majors are starting […]