Charles Benavidez

Staff Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 27 Feb 2018

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• Mining Giant Hit Hard In $3 Billion Royalties Scandal

  Published 30 April 2018 | viewed 2,235 times

  Stocks of Glencore lost 3 percent in trading today after reports that a company affiliated with sanctioned Israeli businessman Dan Gertler have issued a $3-billion…

• What Sparked Russia’s Gold Buying Spree?

  Published 25 April 2018 | viewed 14,034 times

  Russia has scooped up another 300,000 ounces of gold the past month, according to Gold Seek, boosting is ever-growing reserves to 1,890 tonnes and coming…

• The $200 Million ‘Golden Parachute’ For Rupert Murdoch

  Published 20 April 2018 | viewed 2,572 times

  The $52.4-billion Disney-Fox mega merger represents one of the biggest deals in history and the Murdoch family of 21st Century Fox fame will be compensated…

• The Next Housing Crisis Could Be Right Around The Corner

  Published 19 April 2018 | viewed 4,089 times

  Things might look good now for Western housing markets, but some are calling for a painful correction thanks to monetary tightening that’s leading to higher…

• Oligarch Risk: The New Red Flag For Investors

  Published 18 April 2018 | viewed 2,496 times

  Even before the latest round of sanctions against Russia and the specific targeting of metals giant Rusal last week, a key due diligence question American…

• Is The Global Economy Growing Or Slowing?

  Published 16 April 2018 | viewed 2,654 times

  Everything from flu-sick workers in Germany to trade war tensions the world over are sending mixed signals about global economic growth, which some say has…

• Mexico Auto Exports Surge Amid NAFTA Talks

  Published 11 April 2018 | viewed 1,932 times

  The Mexican auto industry is exporting vehicles to the U.S. at a record pace amid ongoing negotiations over changes to the North American Free Trade…

• $66B Bayer-Monsanto Merger Sparks Monopoly Fears

  Published 10 April 2018 | viewed 6,738 times

  The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly agreed, in principal, to allow the $66-billion merger of Bayer and Monsanto to go through, with expectations that…

• Japan Looks To Break Its Addiction To Cash

  Published 09 April 2018 | viewed 6,302 times

  Despite being a global leader in technology and innovation, Japan is a country full of consumers who are famously risk-averse, which is probably to be…

• Is The U.S. Stock Market Overvalued?

  Published 05 April 2018 | viewed 3,611 times

  The U.S. market has been on one of the longest bull runs in stocks history. The 9-year old Dow bull has already quadrupled, setting a…

• India’s Banking Disaster Could Impact The Entire Region

  Published 04 April 2018 | viewed 5,048 times

  The Indian banking sector is a ticking time bomb that no one can defuse at this point. Weighed down by a massive pile-up of bad…

• U.S. IPOs See Booming First Quarter

  Published 03 April 2018 | viewed 2,449 times

  After struggling for years, the U.S. initial public offering market finally appears to be hitting its stride, with a total of 43 IPOs fetching $15.6…

• China Returns Fire In Escalating Trade War

  Published 02 April 2018 | viewed 2,630 times

  Monday, April 2, 2018 China slaps tariffs on U.S. goods. China retaliated against the U.S., announcing tariffs on $3 billion worth of food imports on…

• Four Reasons China Will Win The Tech Race

  Published 29 March 2018 | viewed 3,005 times

  Global tech stocks are already losing big in a massive sell-off as the first unintended consequence of Trump’s trade war with China, and it’s about…

• Silicon Valley’s Billion Dollar IPOs

  Published 27 March 2018 | viewed 3,095 times

  Tech IPOs have changed the way we think about going public: To hit the billion-dollar mark today, there’s no need to have assets, and value…

• The World’s Biggest Investors Have Lost $436 Billion In 2018

  Published 26 March 2018 | viewed 10,119 times

  Wall Street is shocked, but it shouldn’t be: Tariffs targeting China should have been a given, and now the market’s tanking on trade war fears…

• A ‘Geopolitical Mega Storm’ Looms Over Markets

  Published 26 March 2018 | viewed 2,938 times

  Monday, March 26, 2018 Financial markets rebound. Global equities rebounded at the start of trading on Monday, after a steep selloff last week. The Trump…

• Investors Up the Ante In $1.5B Uber Loan Deal

  Published 23 March 2018 | viewed 2,286 times

  Uber may be operating at a loss, and it may be facing the consequences of a tragic self-driving fatality, but that’s done nothing to sway…

• Russian Gold Reserves Hit Record High Amid Rising Tensions With West

  Published 22 March 2018 | viewed 3,361 times

  When bars of gold came flying out of a cargo plane taking off from a Siberian airport earlier this month, littering the run-way with precious…

• Tesla Tumbles As Investors Lose Patience

  Published 20 March 2018 | viewed 2,540 times

  Forgiveness is a precious gift from investors—for as long as it lasts, but with Tesla shares down almost 7 percent over the past week and…