Newmont gains with gold

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NEWMONT CORP. $70.25, remains a buy. The stock (New York symbol NEM; Shares outstanding: 802.6 million; Market cap: $56.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.4%; www.newmont.com) gives investors exposure to the world’s largest gold miner following its purchase of Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. last year for $10 billion. Newmont continues to streamline its operations in the wake of the Goldcorp purchase: it has now sold $1.4 billion of its less-important assets. As a result, the company produced 1.25 million ounces of gold in the three months ended June 30, 2020. That’s down 20.9% from 1.59 million ounces a year earlier. However, massive government spending in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic slowdowns have sent gold prices soaring 25% since the start of 2020. In fact, gold recently broke through its previous record of $1,918 an ounce in 2011 to hit a new all-time high of $2,056. Newmont Corp. is a buy. buy…