U.S. stocks on pace for fourth week of gains; Dow up almost 17% so far this year

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  Fri 1:40 pm

  Gold seen to grind even lower with consequences: Sharps Pixley

  Gold prices on the Comex continued to slide Friday, with the yellow metal trading down for the seventh consecutive session, the commodity’s most protracted series of losses since early 2009. The most active market, gold for June delivery, dropped as low as $1357.60 per ounce in intraday trading, from an open of $1385.20, shedding almost two per cent.

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  Fri 1:23 pm

  Investors look back on Facebook's timeline one year after IPO

  Notwithstanding the controversy, the IPO was the biggest in Internet history. Facebook raised $16 billion, also ranking it as the third highest IPO in U.S. history.  It's a feat beyond what Zuckerberg, who claims he never wanted to actually run a company in the first place, ever dreamed.

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  Fri 12:45 pm

  Canadian shares rise as upbeat U.S. data lifts energy producers

  Canadian shares gained a second day as energy producers climbed after positive economic reports from the U.S., the country's largest trading partner, indicated economic growth is gaining momentum, outweighing declines in mining stocks. The resource-heavy benchmark Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index (TSE:OSPTX) added 0.4 percent to 12,557.31 at 12:33 p.m. in Toronto on Friday. Nine of ten groups gained.

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  Fri 10:17 am

  Massive physical buying not enough to compensate for sizable net outflows from gold ETFs

  The World Gold Council says in its most recent report that a global spike in gold jewelry buying over the first three months of the year was insufficient to compensate for sizable net outflows from gold exchange traded funds in the same period.

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  Fri 9:02 am

  Sacre-Coeur Minerals' constant work to refine procedures pays off with low cash costs

  Amid declining gold prices, several miners are struggling to keep costs down, but Sacre-Coeur Minerals (CVE:SCM) (OTC:SCRMF) is not one of them. The company boasts all-in cash production costs of less than $500 an ounce at its alluvial/elluvial operations in Guyana. 

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  Thu 6:02 pm

  Bargains are on the way, says Rick Rule

  If you think the pain in the resource sector is over, Rick Rule will gladly give you a reality check. But, the chairman of Sprott U.S. Holdings says being brash in a bear market where there is no competition will pay off.

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  Thu 1:56 pm

  Pressure BioSciences rallies on potential new method for screening GI system using core PCT technology

  Pressure BioSciences, (OTCQB: PBIO), a company focused on developing its pressure cycling technology (PCT), says that researchers at Harvard Medical School have published a scientific paper describing a non-invasive method that could potentially screen for multiple diseases by gaining information about the gastrointestinal (GI) system using PCT and certain chemicals. 

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  Thu 11:52 am

  Sunridge Gold succeeds in lowering capex at Asmara project, production fast-tracked by almost a year

  Sunridge Gold Corp. (CVE:SGC)(OTCQX:SGCNF) has done exactly what it set out to do last year in releasing a feasibility study for its Asmara project in Eritrea that minimizes the capital exposure in a challenging time for Canadian juniors, with the company now having a plan to start initial production almost one year earlier than the preliminary report.