Peter Spina Strong Quotations

This has resulted into greater attention to the juniors and exploration equities, with a renewed flow of speculative capital entering this sector over the past several weeks where some strong gains have been seen.

Gold Fields had a stellar second-quarter earnings release Thursday, with a combination of a strong Rand gold price, slightly lower production costs and an increase in production to 1.04 million ounces (from 993,000).

Uncertainty on future FOMC interest-rate hikes, with a strong bias of at least another quarter-point increase at the next meeting, gave the U.S. dollar a lift after the FOMC decision.