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Precious metal shave been one of the market’s hottest sectors the past year. The iShares Silver Trust (SLV 8.08%) provides direct exposure to silver prices, whereas Sprott Gold Miners ETF (SGDM 8.23%) targets the equity of companies mining gold, leading to different risk-return profiles and income potential.Investors looking for precious metals exposure can choose between owning the physical commodity and the companies that extract it. While both can serve as inflation hedges, investing in the metals directly often exhibits volatility patterns different from those of metal mining stocks, which are influenced by corporate balance sheets and operational costs.Snapshot (cost &…

The largest banks in the United States are working on a tokenized deposit network that is intended to launch in the first half of next year through their co-owned payment network company Clearing House, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Specific banks involved in the project include JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. The move is seen as a response from the banking industry over the growth in stablecoins in recent years, which are the specific kind of dollar-pegged crypto token that has been at the center of a feud between the crypto and…

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission and Women in Law and Development (WiLDAF) Train Women Cross-Border Traders in The Gambia Africa24 TV Source link

There’s no doubt that money can be made by owning shares of unprofitable businesses. For example, although software-as-a-service business Salesforce.com lost money for years while it grew recurring revenue, if you held shares since 2005, you’d have done very well indeed. But while history lauds those rare successes, those that fail are often forgotten; who remembers Pets.com? So should Rua Gold (TSE:RUA) shareholders be worried about its cash burn? In this report, we will consider the company’s annual negative free cash flow, henceforth referring to it as the ‘cash burn’. The first step is to compare its cash burn with…

5 equity mutual funds deliver over 20% CAGR in 5 years. Do you have any? The Economic Times Source link

The General Office of the State Council on Friday released a document outlining measures to strengthen supervision, prevent risks and promote the high-quality development of private investment funds. The guidelines deliver a systematic upgrade of supervision by improving mechanisms, addressing regulatory shortcomings and enhancing cross-department coordination. According to the guidelines, authorities will crack down on major illegal and non-compliant activities to foster a good environment for standardized, healthy and stable development of the private investment fund industry. The guidelines lay out specific arrangements in improving the private investment fund rule system and strengthening supervision over government investment funds and state-owned…

Village Farms (NASDAQ: VFF) entered securities purchase agreements for a registered direct equity offering of 7,500,000 common shares to leading U.S. institutional investors, expected to raise approximately $15 million in gross proceeds.The financing will support working capital, general corporate purposes and further strengthen liquidity after ending Q1 2026 with $55 million in cash. Post-closing, expected June 8, 2026, total shares outstanding should be 121,811,130. Loading… Loading translation… AI-generated analysis. Not financial advice. Positive Approximately $15 million in gross proceeds to strengthen liquidity Equity investment from new leading U.S. institutional investors …

The Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) has awarded the 2025 Best Research Article honor to University of Vermont faculty member Dr. Qingbin Wang, a professor in the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE), and his coauthors, Mark Cannella of UVM Extension and Yang Zou at Nankai University in China, for their paper “China’s Emerging Market for Maple Syrup: Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Exports,” published in the Journal of Food Distribution Research.Supported by significant grants from the USDA and UVM Food Systems Research Institute (FSRI), Wang and Cannella’s projects move beyond production to examine market, economic, and policy…

“Affirm has established a leading position in a large and growing segment of consumer finance by offering transparent payment solutions that resonate with both consumers and merchants,” said Paras Vira, managing director and head of Americas structured credit at CPP Investments, in the release. Read: CPP Investments joining €400M co-investment in French logistics firm, selling European non-performing loan portfolio CPP Investments is also investing $474 million in South Korea’s hospitality sector through a new partnership with BlueCove Investment. The deal will result in the investment organization holding 95 per cent of the venture, which will focus on acquiring and repositioning…

Bank of Russia limits unqualified investors to BTC, ETH, and USDT. The Bank of Russia does not intend to expand the list of cryptocurrencies available to unqualified investors or increase investment limits in such assets after the new regulations take effect. This was stated by the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, Vladimir Chistyukhin, to RBC. According to him, initially, unqualified investors will have access only to the three most liquid assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT. Chistyukhin noted that a provision was added to the bill for the second reading, granting the Bank of Russia the right to expand…