Richard Mills

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• The Uranium Sector Can’t Catch A Break

  Published 14 September 2019 | viewed 5,405 times

  One week ago Cameco announced it will maintain low output levels until uranium prices recover. The Canadian uranium miner also said it might cut production further,…

• Are Investors Being Lulled Into A False Sense Of Security?

  Published 06 September 2019 | viewed 4,043 times

  US stock markets on Tuesday were like a teenager forced back to school after a summer of fast cars and girls - insolent and bad-tempered.…

• The Problem With Trump’s Low-Dollar Plan

  Published 31 July 2019 | viewed 3,530 times

  The slowdown in the United States, and throughout the world, has led many to speculate that the time has come for an intervention in the…

• What Is Africa’s Role In The New Silk Road?

  Published 19 July 2019 | viewed 9,098 times

  A lot of resource investors stop listening to corporate presentations when they learn the company’s project is in Africa.  More often than not the country…

• A Currency War Is Brewing

  Published 28 June 2019 | viewed 12,203 times

  The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis serves as a reminder of what happens when competing economies engage in a round of competitive currency devaluations. The crisis…

• What Does The Gold Rally Mean For Bonds And Equities?

  Published 26 June 2019 | viewed 3,358 times

  North American stock markets continued to rise on Friday, as more investors took the opportunity to jump into equities on the back of a clear…

• Why Central Banks Are Dumping The Dollar

  Published 21 June 2019 | viewed 9,480 times

  The US Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, did what many expected on Wednesday, and held interest rates steady, while signaling that a rate cut…

• Why Now May Be The Best Time Ever To Hold Gold

  Published 17 May 2019 | viewed 7,528 times

  “It’s the tail that wags the dog” is defined by Urban Dictionary as a way of persuading a large group of people. The phrase is…

• U.S.-China Impasse Threatens Rare Earth Trade

  Published 15 May 2019 | viewed 11,173 times

  On Friday the United States made good on its threat to ratchet up the trade war against China, after the two parties failed, after weeks…

• Is Zinc Heading Towards A Supply Squeeze?

  Published 09 May 2019 | viewed 8,013 times

  Zinc and lead prices are movin’ on up again, following a two-week hiatus in the long-term trend of diminishing inventories in London Metal Exchange warehouses. Zinc…

• Congress Agrees On $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

  Published 04 May 2019 | viewed 3,268 times

  The White House and Congress finally agreed to put their significant differences aside and work together on something constructive, no pun intended. On Wednesday it…

• Is China’s New Silk Road A Trojan Horse?

  Published 01 May 2019 | viewed 5,938 times

  In March Italy broke ranks with its EU partners in joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative, known also as One Belt, One Road or the…

• Electric Vehicles Are Reshaping The Mining Industry

  Published 20 April 2019 | viewed 6,908 times

  Is the age of the gas-powered automobile coming to an end? Doubtful. In the US, electric vehicles (EVs) only make up about 1% of the…

• Central Bank Gold-Buying Is Chipping Away At The Dollar

  Published 16 April 2019 | viewed 4,046 times

  Ahead of the Herd has been digging into why central banks are buying a lot of gold recently. What we’ve found is eyebrow-raising, to say…

• The Uranium Alternative Flying Under Investors' Radar

  Published 03 October 2018 | viewed 14,321 times

  Most junior resource investors know uranium, and many got in on the action when NexGen Energy and Fission Uranium made their discoveries in the Athabasca…

• How Infrastructure Is Driving A Commodity Boom

  Published 23 February 2018 | viewed 5,955 times

  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information The global economy is booming again after…

• Resurgent US oil industry priming the economic pump

  Published 26 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  Crude oil prices dropped from $110 a barrel in the summer of 2014 to about $30 in January 2016. The effect on oil producers and…

• Bond Market Bear Creating Gold Bull

  Published 19 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  Gold is climbing as bond yields rise and the dollar falls, over speculation that China is pulling back on buying US Treasuries and Japan signals…

• How China Is Locking Up Critical Resources In The US' Own Backyard

  Published 12 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  In the 1800’s the United States under President James Monroe invoked the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that any effort by European nations to control any…

• Weapon of Mass Disruption

  Published 26 December 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The ever-increasing digitalization of our world has meant advances in technology that would have been unimaginable 30 years ago when the Internet first entered the…