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Silver’s Brilliant Year Validates Longtime Bugs’ Enthusiasm

(Bloomberg) — Ned Naylor-Leyland has been all-in on silver for 18 years, earning derision along the way from fellow investors favoring the more glamorous gold. Now, with silver’s price skyrocketing 51% this year, he’s got reason to feel vindicated.The manager of the $1 billion Merian Gold and Silver Fund in London proudly calls himself a “silver bug,” a term describing an investor whose fervor for the precious metal is more extreme than the typical bullion enthusiast’s. The bugs foresee a crash of the fiat cash system in the aftermath of unprecedented monetary stimulus, putting silver back in play as a …read more […]

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Oil Prices Face a Chill Autumn Wind

(Bloomberg Opinion) — As the summer driving season fades in the rearview mirror, oil markets are taking on a distinctly chilly air.The recovery in demand has officially stalled, just as the OPEC+ countries are starting to taper their record output cuts. With spare capacity rife throughout the supply chain and huge stockpiles of crude and refined products, it may be some while yet before oil prices resume their upward path.After a strong initial rebound from the depths of the pandemic-induced slump, the comeback in demand slowed dramatically, as I’ve written here and here. This is most obvious in those countries …read more […]

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San Francisco Area Could Face Blackouts Next Week on Fire Risk

(Bloomberg) — Utility giant PG&E Corp. said it may have to cut power early next week in parts of Northern California as hot, dry winds are expected to threaten the region.PG&E warned that it could intentionally turn off electricity on Tuesday and Wednesday to residents who live in areas in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada foothills with high fire risks, according to a notice posted on its website Saturday. If carried out, the outages would be the first of its kind executed by PG&E for this fire season.The utility’s weather models show that warm, offshore winds …read more […]

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A Valuable Lesson From the Biotech Sector

In this week’s State of the Market video, Chief Income Strategist Marc Lichtenfeld shines a light on an uncomfortable truth…
The market’s brave face in recent weeks is not a sign of a rallying economy…
In fact, it’s more of a foreboding sign that reminds Marc of the calm before the storm of the 2008 financial crisis.
But no matter how much faith you have in our economy’s ability to recover, one thing’s for certain…
This market is different. Since March, we’ve witnessed ecstatic highs and heart-wrenching crashes, often within the same trading day.
We’ve watched drastic volatility become the new norm – and it’s …read more […]

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Saudis Reduce Oil Pricing in Sign Demand Recovery Is Struggling

(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia cut pricing for oil sales to Asia and the U.S. for October shipments, a sign that the world’s biggest exporter may see fuel demand wavering amid flare-ups in the coronavirus.State oil producer Saudi Aramco is cutting its benchmark Arab Light crude more than expected and lowering the grade to a discount for the first time since June for buyers in Asia. It’s the second-consecutive month of cuts for barrels to Asia. Aramco will also trim pricing for lighter barrels to northwest Europe and the Mediterranean region.Aramco is reducing pricing to Asia for October shipments of the …read more […]

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11 Largest Beer Companies in The World in 2020

With everything 2020 has thrown at us so far, starting with the death of Kobe Bryant, teasing World War III, the biggest pandemic in over a century which, as at the time of writing this article, had infected over 26 million people and killed over 850,000 people, and now the death of a cultural icon […] …read more […]