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at 10:19 AM on Monday, August 19th, 2019
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After dropping below US$5 a pound at the end of 2018, metal reaches US$7.31 Friday
Worries about supply and expected demand for electric cars kept pushing up the price of nickel this week
Metal staying above US$7.31 a pound on the London Metals Exchange on Friday.
Prices are up by 50 per cent the start of the year, when nickel was
struggling to stay above US$5 a pound. Prices haven’t risen this fact in
a decade. Indonesia, one of the biggest suppliers in the world, plans
to ban exports in 2022, and rumours the ban could be imposed sooner has
accounted for some of nickel’s recent strength, analysts say.
Kieran Clancy, assistant commodities economist at UK-based Capital Economics, told Bnamericas on Friday that global supply shortages are expected to worsen since no major mines are coming into operation any time soon.
“What’s more, there are a number of tail risks, the most notable of
which being the prospect that Indonesia implements a ban on nickel ore
exports sooner than 2022, although they now have significant domestic
smelting capacity which would cushion the blow somewhat,” Clancy said.
And in a livewiremarkets.com
story Friday, Eddy Haegel of BHP said demand for high grade nickel
(which is mined in Sudbury) for electric car batteries will really take
off sometime next year.
“We do not expect to see a meaningful impact on the nickel market
from batteries until the mid – late 2020s,†Haegel said. “Only then, do
we expect to see serious industry investment by Class 1 nickel
producers.
“However, we will not rest waiting for that day to arrive. We are
actively developing options to position ourselves for this
once-in-a-generation opportunity.’’
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at 9:11 PM on Sunday, August 18th, 2019
30 days ago, American Creek Resources (AMK:TSXV) was well known only amongst investors that believe in the Golden Triangle of Northern B.C. Then, it all changed overnight when Eric Sprott stated the following on July 19, 2019 about the Company’s Treaty Creek project:
“It’s drilling a monster play just like the GT Gold play … It’s in the perfect logistical place to develop it …. what we’re shooting for is to define a 10 or 20-million-ounce discovery, so you’re paying nothing for this discovery.â€
To add further fuel to the fire, the Company’s JV partner is Tudor Gold, whose CEO (Walter Storm) startup funded Osisko to a $4.5 BILLION market cap. Drill results were so good at the end of July that Tudor Gold brought in a second drill, while Eric Sprott personally invested $1,000,000 into AMK 8 days later. If 3rd party validation is important to you in the world of gold exploration, it doesn’t get better than having Eric Sprott and Walter Storm in your corner.
Grab your favourite cold beverage and watch this interview with CEO Darren Blaney and Investor Relations officer Kelvin Burton …. the laughter and smiles on their faces are priceless.
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at 11:01 AM on Friday, August 16th, 2019
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Consumers want mobile health convenience
According to an article in HealthPayer Intelligence published on May 16, 2018, “Telehealth is a promising opportunity to increase member engagement because a greater number of individuals are open to the use of telehealth services.
Telehealth and remote care provide an exceptional customer experience opportunity for payers.
by Mike Greiwe, MD
According to an article in HealthPayer Intelligence
published on May 16, 2018, “Telehealth is a promising opportunity to
increase member engagement because a greater number of individuals are
open to the use of telehealth services. Telehealth and remote care
provide an exceptional customer experience opportunity for payers.
Consumers want telehealth as a convenient way to receive checkups,
preventive care and non-critical services without the need for travel
and wait times.â€
A study cited by mHealth Intelligence suggests patients are willing,
the technology is ready, but clinical providers and insurance payers
have lagged behind data that show patients are ready for the convenience
found in mobile health applications. Of the 400 consumers surveyed, 77%
said they would be more likely to pick a doctor who offered
telemedicine applications over one that hadn’t yet adopted the
technology. Data showed the reasons behind the interest in mobile health
virtual visits included that:
Patients want the option of skipping a time-consuming trip to the doctor for a simple recheck or non-urgent visit; and
Short wait times and the convenience of receiving a virtual house call are attractive to patients.
When combined with data showing that telehealth reduces costs in the
medical practice, it seems clear there are new options in health care
that may improve the bottom line.
Keep the customer satisfied — Mobile health in the orthopedic practice
According to a Beckers Hospital CFO Report, “This direct link between
patient satisfaction and revenue will likely become stronger because
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has set a goal of
linking 90% of Medicare payments to quality or value by 2018.â€
Although many orthopedic providers continue to express their concern
that patients will not be willing to evolve from traditional visits, the
most recent research does not hold up this assumption. A 2017 Advisory
Board study of patients’ attitudes toward the virtual visits shows 77%
would be willing to at least try the model.
The Accenture study highlighted what patients say are the primary benefits of telehealth:
• faster diagnosis and treatment;
• reduced costs;
• providing and receiving high-quality care;
• more flexibility in scheduling; and
• time savings for physicians and doctors.
A 2018 article in The New England Journal of Medicine
suggests the current model of traditional in-patient visits will
eventually be flipped to the visit of last resort over mobile health or
telehealth options. The authors suggested, “Face-to-face interactions
will certainly always have a central role in health care, and many
patients prefer to see their physician in person. However, a system
focused on high-quality non-visit care would work better for many others
— and quite possibly for physicians as well.â€
Some of the systems leading the way are Kaiser Permanente, with 52%
of their 100 million-plus patient encounters each year conducted as
virtual visits. However, a large health system has the budget to
establish telehealth applications while retraining clinical providers
and their patients on best practices for using the service. How can a
small medical practice find the time and energy to reinvent itself under
a mobile health framework?
The answer may lie in the individual practice seeking innovative ways
to obtain a competitive advantage. An article by a solo orthopedist in AAOS Now
recounted his experience in using telehealth applications to treat
postoperative patients. His decision to use the technology was tied to
improved patient experience, lower overheads and higher quality of care.
Is it time for your practice to discuss the opportunities to offer
mobile health as an option for your patients? OrthoLive has developed a
cloud-based affordable telehealth model designed specifically for the
orthopedic practitioner. Contact us to find out more.
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at 2:23 PM on Monday, August 12th, 2019
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Goldman Sachs Analysts Say that It’s Time to Buy Bitcoin
In short – the experts are quite bullish for Bitcoin to go up.
Basically, they have set up a short-term price target of $13,971 – yes, specifically this one.
Recently, Three Arrows Capital CEO Su Zhu has shared the Goldman Sachs
note which was sent out to investors. In the note, Goldman Sachs
analysts suggest that buying this Bitcoin dip is a prime opportunity.
The note itself consisted of a Bitcoin CMI futures chart and a comment from the analysts.
First of all, the fact that Goldman Sachs is sending out crypto, in
this particular case, Bitcoin advice to their investors is mind-blowing.
Also, the fact that they are seeing it as a bullish pattern and they
are using the Elliot Wave Theory indicators on their Bitcoin chart is
also a big surprise.
Experts point out that the fact that the Bitcoin CMI futures chart is
used means that this note is being sent out only to institutional
investors. You can see this by the little gaps in the chart which are
weekends. That is the time when CMI Bitcoin Futures markets are closed.
What does the Note Say?
In short – the experts are quite bullish for Bitcoin to go up.
Basically, they have set up a short-term price target of $13,971 – yes,
specifically this one.
In detail – they believe that Bitcoin will find a support level near
$11,094 and $10,791. Once it does that, the analysts say that the chart
has plenty of room to break out at least to $12,916, and possibly to a
new 2019 ATH – $13,971.
“Reaching these levels could mean completing a v wave count from
July. Bottom line, watch for a short-term top/consolidation once
satisfied,†says the note.
But this is a short-term prediction. What about long-term? Well,
according to Goldman Sachs analysts, anything below $13,000 is an
indication to accumulate. They believe that we are in for a similar
run-up like we saw recently this year when Bitcoin went from $7,600 to
around $11,900 in a matter of a couple of weeks.
“In the bigger scheme of things, this might still be the first leg of
another 5-wave count similar to the trend that lasted from Dec ‘18
through Jun ’19,†reads the note.
Also, another thing which recently was highlighted – Bitcoin loves
30% pullbacks. Some experts and analysts have noticed that after a
healthy 30% pullback, Bitcoin always have recovered and this is even
considered as a normal investment strategy. Hence, it is 100% sure that
Bitcoin will have a run-up if it has fallen by approx. 30%.
So in short – Goldman Sachs says that we all need to buy Bitcoin.
But, as usual, only the time will show whether this advice was
definitely the one that investors should have followed.
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at 10:50 AM on Thursday, August 8th, 2019
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Kenbridge Property has a measured and indicated resource of 7.14
million tonnes at 0.62% nickel, 0.33% copper. Tartisan also has
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Nickel prices shot up on Thursday, with London nickel set for its biggest one-day gain in a decade
Three-month nickel on the London Metal Exchange rallied as much as 12.7%
SINGAPORE — Nickel prices shot up on Thursday, with London nickel set for its biggest one-day gain in a decade and Shanghai nickel touching a record high amid worries that major supplier Indonesia could soon ban exports of ore.
Three-month nickel on the London Metal Exchange rallied as much as
12.7%, its strongest one-day jump since 2009, while the most-traded
nickel contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rallied to 124,890 yuan
($17,736.53) a tonne, its highest on record.
Traders and analysts cited market chatter that major nickel ore
supplier Indonesia, which also supplies tin, would soon ban exports of
some ores.
“I just heard that there will be a regulation released in the near future, but details are unclear,†said a nickel analyst.
London tin rallied 2.3% and Shanghai tin jumped 2.1% by 0200 GMT.
“People believe the ban is coming,†said an executive at a major nickel producer in Indonesia.
10% of
all the Silver ever produced on earth came within a 100km diameter of its past
producing Tabasquena Mine.
What
makes Advance Gold even more exciting is the fact they’ve found just as much
gold as silver since they started drilling Tabasquena over the past couple of
years.
After
discovering a cluster of epithermal veins in the “first layer of their
cake”, CEO Allan Barry Laboucan thinks he’ll find the massive source in the
second layer…. Because that’s where mines all around him have found their
source.
Watch
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at 9:00 PM on Sunday, August 4th, 2019
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Kenbridge Property has a measured and indicated resource of 7.14
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BHP confident nickel will surf EV wave better than lithium
BHP is optimistic about the decision to keep its Nickel West
division and lean into the commodity to get a slice of the impending
battery boom.
Speaking at the company’s nickel refinery in Kwinana on Friday
Nickel West asset president Eddy Haegel said the company reviewed
battery materials such as lithium and cobalt but they weren’t as
attractive as nickel.
BHP Nickel West assett president Eddy Haegel.Credit:Hamish Hastie
“I think it would come as no great surprise that we didn’t think that
was attractive … because 70 per cent of it comes out of
Democratic Republic of Congo and we’re not in a hurry to go and invest
into DRC,” he said.
“In the case of lithium, there’s a lot of lithium in the world, it’s a very widely available mineral.
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“There will be periods of time when supply and demand don’t naturally
match but we anticipate that there will be no sustainable premium in
the lithium sector.
“Whereas we think that’s not the case with nickel.
“We think that in the medium to longer term that there will be a
margin that will be sticky for nickel, so we think that’s an attractive
commodity.”
The sale or shutdown of Nickel West has been on the cards for nearly a
decade but in May its future seemed secure within BHP after chief
executive Andrew Mackenzie indicated it was a valuable asset with high
growth potential.
In 2015 none of Nickel West’s product went to the battery sector, now those customers gobble up 80 per cent of its output.
Nickel West is hedging its success on nickel sulphate, a crystalised version of nickel favoured by battery makers.
It is currently building a 100,000 tonnes per annum nickel sulphate
plant in Kwinana, when it starts production next year it will be one of
the biggest in the world.
The new nickel sulphate plant.Credit:Hamish Hastie
The original cost of the plant was $62 million but Mr Haegel confirmed it was tracking above that.
He would not reveal how much the plant will cost now.
Nickel West is a major partner of the $135 million battery materials research centre based in Perth.
Mr Haegal said they would probably provide nickel sulphate to
researchers for free so they can test how capable Australia is of making
high value battery prescursor materials.
“We’re really excited about the work that will get conducted in that space,” he said.
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Bitcoin Suddenly Back Above $10,000 As Crypto Markets Gain Billions
The bitcoin price is up 10% over the last three days, with traders and investors pointing to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s first rate cut in bitcoin’s ten-year history as one of the prime catalysts for the sudden recovery.
Bitcoin had been trading under the psychological $10,000 mark since
the end of last week but the bitcoin price has now bounced back.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the
first time in more than a decade and signaled its readiness to provide
more support as growth slows in the world’s largest economy.
The bitcoin price climbed to highs of $10,500 on the Luxembourg-based
Bitstamp exchange last night, while the wider bitcoin and
cryptocurrency market has added around $10 billion to its overall value
over the last few days.
“Given the connection that crypto influencers have been making
between economic stimulus and crypto lately, we will probably see a much
swifter reaction in bitcoin’s price than we usually do,” Mati
Greenspan, senior market analyst at brokerage eToro, wrote in a note
clients.
“We can see that bitcoin did have a nice run-up the entire morning
ahead of the [Fed’s decision]. At the exact time of the cut, there was a
notable step down, which was quite in line with what happened in the
stock market.”
Just after the Fed revealed it was to reduce the cost of borrowing,
bitcoin investors learned supplies of the digital token are almost
exhausted, despite new coins still due to come into the market for the
next 120 years.
Bitcoin now has 85% of its supply in circulation as of August 1,
leaving just 3.15 million to be mined, according to data from monitoring
resource Blockchain.
The bitcoin price fell sharply at the end of last week, sparking fears the latest bitcoin bull run could be over.
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Meanwhile, the markets were further emboldened by news Jack Dorsey’s
payments company Square revealed it made $125 million in bitcoin sales
through its Cash App, nearly doubling a record first quarter.
“During the quarter, bitcoin revenue benefited from increased volume
as a result of the increase in the price of bitcoin, and generated $2
million of gross profit,” the company wrote in its second quarter earnings report.
Elsewhere, the chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE),
the parent company of the closely-watched bitcoin futures platform
Bakkt, yesterday said the bitcoin and cryptocurrency platform will be
launching soon, without fixing a firm date.
“Subject to final regulatory approvals, we plan to launch our
physically settled bitcoin futures in the very near future,” ICE CEO
Jeffrey Sprecher said during a quarterly earnings call.
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mHealth Apps Market Size Worth $236.0 Billion by 2026
Global mHealth apps market size is expected to reach USD 236.0 billion by 2026
According to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. It is projected to expand at a CAGR of44.7% during the forecast period
The global mHealth apps market size is expected to reach USD 236.0 billion by 2026, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. It is projected to expand at a CAGR of44.7% during the forecast period. The market is majorly driven by increasing adoption of advanced technologies in healthcare facilities and the need to reduce long waiting periods to access healthcare facilities from specialists. Availability of mobile applications for users is witnessing a rapid growth, especially healthcare apps that assist consumers in self-management of disease, wellness, and chronic conditions. This increased role of patients coupled with the rising importance in staying updated and informed about their own healthcare decisions, contributing to the rise in adoption of mHealth apps globally.
Key suggestions from the report:
Rapid growth in chronic diseases along with the rise in the number
of app users is accountable for the mHealth apps market growth
The types of mHealth apps include fitness, lifestyle management,
nutrition and diet, women’s health, medication adherence, healthcare
providers, and disease management. Of these, the fitness category
accounted for the majority of segment share in 2018
mHealth app vendors are focusing their attention on women’s health,
diet, and medication reminders. According to Wired, a mobile advertising
and analytics platform, women are more inclined toward tracking their
health than men
Physicians are increasingly recommending the use of mHealth apps to
their patients, which is likely to increase the adoption rate of mHealth
apps
North America led the mhealth applications market in 2018
in terms of revenue share pertaining to the technological advancements
and presence of major players in the region
