Why Barrick’s “Strong” Quarter Wasn’t So Strong | Q1 2026 Earnings
Barrick Mining’s (TSX: ABX) first quarter looked strong at first glance, especially compared to a year ago. Revenue jumped, earnings climbed, free cash flow stayed strong, and the company kept building its cash position. But the real story changes when you compare these results to the previous quarter, where production, sales, and several key financial […]
Why Copper Could Be Heading to a Price No One Is Ready For | Craig Parry – Vizsla Copper
In this conversation with Craig Parry, Co-Founder & Chairman of Inventa Capital, we discuss why he believes copper could still be heading dramatically higher, what the market is missing about long-term supply, and why years of underinvestment, permitting delays, and aging mines may be setting up a much bigger price response than most investors expect. […]
SpaceX Targets June 11 Pricing For $75 Billion IPO
SpaceX expects to price its IPO as soon as June 11, with shares set to begin trading the next day on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. The company could file its S-1 registration statement with the SEC as early as this week and start the roadshow on June 4. The offering seeks to raise as […]
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 […]