Month: November 2019

Spot gold was up 0.3% at $1,462.83 per ounce at 0614 GMT, while U.S. gold futures were flat at $1,462.90 per ounce. “Gold prices are pretty low now and investors are taking this opportunity to take positions in the safe-haven metal as there is still an upside to it, considering the concerns over the trade war and global economy,” said Brian Lan of Singapore dealer GoldSilver Central. Gold buying by central banks, especially in China, is also boosting prices, Lan added. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. unveiled its first vehicles built in China, a milestone for Elon Musk’s company as it prepares to start sales of domestically-made electric sedans in the world’s largest auto market.Assembled in Tesla’s new Shanghai Gigafactory, which only broke ground in January, the first Model 3 sedans came in blue and were emblazoned with the brand name in Chinese characters. Selected local media were invited late last week to test drive the vehicles, which start at about $50,000.China’s first plant wholly owned by a foreign carmaker — and Tesla’s first outside the U.S. — is a crucial test …read more […]

Shares declined Monday in Asia as investors watched for the latest developments in the China-U.S. trade war saga. Hong Kong led the retreat, with the Hang Seng falling 2.7% to 26,902.36 after a police officer wounded a protester in a shooting. Australia’s S&P ASX/200 was the sole major index to advance, gaining 0.7% to 6,772.50. …read more […]

Asian shares sank on Monday, the safe haven yen rose and gold jumped following a fresh escalation of violence in Hong Kong while uncertainty still remained over whether the United States and China could end their damaging trade war. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index led the losses in Asia, down 2.4%, after police fired live rounds at protestors on the eastern side of Hong Kong island. …read more […]

Chinese retailer Alibaba on Monday said sales for its annual Singles’ Day shopping blitz jumped 25% in the first nine hours to $23 billion, nearly two thirds of U.S. rival Amazon.com Inc’s online store sales in the latest quarter. Sales growth for the full 24-hour event, however, is likely to fall short of the year earlier, analysts said, at a time when China’s economic expansion heads toward a historic low. The event, a gauge of Chinese consumer sentiment, has also become a shop window this year for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd as the firm plans to …read more […]

The first South African project to bring illegal miners into the formal fold has been plagued by violence in diamond capital Kimberley, dealing a major blow to national efforts to stem a booming illicit trade. The project was launched 18 months ago in Kimberley, the site of a 19th-century diamond rush that lured fortune-seekers from the world over. The aim of the government-backed scheme was to curb illegal mining and black-market trade of diamonds, and serve as a blueprint for future attempts elsewhere in the country, not only in the diamond sector, but also potentially manganese, gold and …read more […]

Walgreens, Kohl’s and Amazon are offering special Veterans Day discounts and businesses are offering free haircuts, car washes, flu shots and more. …read more […]

Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com reported a total of more than $50 billion in sales on Monday in the first half of Singles Day, an annual marketing event that is the world’s busiest online shopping day. Singles Day began as a joke holiday created by university students in the 1990s as an alternative to Valentine’s Day for people without romantic partners. Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce brand by total sales volume, adopted the day as a sales tool a decade ago. …read more […]

A whopping number of 13F filings filed with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been processed by Insider Monkey so that individual investors can look at the overall hedge fund sentiment towards the stocks included in their watchlists. These freshly-submitted public filings disclose money managers’ equity positions as of the end of the three-month period […] …read more […]