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Chinese military denies role in reported U.S. hacking

China’s Defense Ministry on Friday denied that it had anything to do with a cyber attack on Register.com, a unit of Web.com, following a report in the Financial Times that the FBI was looking into the Chinese military’s involvement. “The relevant criticism that China’s military participated in Internet hacking is to play the same old tune, and is totally baseless,” the ministry said in a fax to Reuters in response

Friday, March 20: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — It was a pretty quiet trading day for gold on Thursday, as there was almost no follow-through price action in the Far East market—and the spike high at 9 a.m. Hong Kong time got capped immediately.  Once London opened, the gold price got sold down to its ‘low’ of the day around 8:45 a.m. in New York.  It recovered somewhat by 12:10 p.m. in New York—and

Midday Glance: Silver companies

[AP] – Shares of some top silver companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Hecla Mining Co. fell $.01 or .4 percent, to $2.72. Pan American Silver Corp. rose $.12 or 1.1 percent, to $11.26. Silver Standard Resources Inc. …