By David HaggithUntil you got to this tax and spending deal a year ago, it was one of the most hated bull markets. The markets steadily climbed one wall of worry after another, and the problem was that the economic data did not confirm it.BloombergThat's right. The market was not rising for the past ten years due to a healthy underlying economy. On the contrary, the market was rising due to the...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Thanks to GATA's old friend, gold market analyst John Brimelow, publisher of Brimelow's Gold Jottings letter, for calling attention to Dennis Gartman's comments about GATA in today's edition of The Gartman Letter:"The major news over the weekend is from GATA, a group that in the past has found fault with The Gartman Letter on an all-too-regular basis over the years f...Read More
Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson.The economic world is always changing, but the 2018-2019 period will mark an important transition. Consider credit market debt, interest rates, stock indices, individual stocks, and several ratios.TOTAL CREDIT MARKET DEBT per the St. Louis Fed.That measure of U.S. debt increased exponentially from 1951 to 2007 at a rate of 8.8% per year....Read More
Listen to the Podcast Audio: Click HereMike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at US Global Investors. Mr. Holmes has received various honors over the years, including being named America's best fund manager by the Mining Journal. He's also the co-author of the book The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing and is a regular guest on CN...Read More
By Steve St. AngeloThe much awaited and hoped for Santa Claus Rally turned into a complete rout today as the broader markets continued to sell-off to new lows this month. The Dow Jones plunged a stunning 653 points today, the worst in the in the 122-year-old history of the index. Furthermore, the Dow is on track for its biggest December loss since the Great Depression.The Dow Jones was trad...Read More
California Governor Jerry Brown inherited a $27 billion deficit from Arnold Schwarzenegger eight years ago. This month he's leaving his successor a $13.8 billion surplus and a $14.5 billion rainy day fund balance. Pretty good right? Approximately 48 other governors would kill for those numbers. Unfortunately it's all a mirage. California, as home to Silicon Valley and Hollywood, lives and dies w...Read More
Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. Weary investors who endured the September and October stock market "crash season" felt they should be richly rewarded for their incredible patience... with a wondrous Santa Claus rally. 2. Please click here now. The traditional Santa Claus rally has morphed into a hideous Santa Claws mauling of millions of US stock market price chasers.3....Read More
It's hard to imagine AAPL not bouncing from the 145.66 target shown. (It was proffered here earlier as a minimum downside objective.) Monday's plunge came within 45 cents of this Hidden Pivot support during the holiday-shortened session close enough for us to infer that a bottom of at least short-term importance is in. If so, expect the stock to lead the broad averages higher when trading resu...Read More
Charles Nenner founded, and is president of, the Charles Nenner Research Center. Mr. Nenner has provided his independent market research to the following entities all over the world: hedge funds, banks, brokerage firms, family offices, and individual clients. Mr. Nenner worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co in NY, from 2001 to 2008. Before that time, Mr. Nenner worked exclusively for Goldman, Sachs & Co....Read More
John and I have been warning you for years that the 2008-09 crash never really ended. While the stock market and asset prices went into a major bull market when the Fed started quantitative easing, this was never a pathway to long term success. We sacrificed major profits along the way. But the debt kept increasing at an increasing rate. Here we are at the end of 2018 and things appear to be comin...Read More
Gregory Weldon offers insights on Trump, the Fed, the complete DE-PRICING of future rate hikes by the FF futures market, the action in Stocks, particularly versus US Treasuries, the USDX ... Gregory Weldon is CEO of Weldon Financial and Editor of the influential newsletters "Weldon's Money Monitor," the "Commodity and Currency Monitor," the" Metal Monitor," and the "ETF Playbook." He launched thes...Read More
MarketWatch article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the...Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Mo...Read More
A number of people have asked me to explain what's now going on in the markets and economy. As you probably know by now, I believe that everything (i.e., all reality) works likeContinue...Read More
The total global debt hit a record $184 trillion, which is the equivalent to more than $86,000 per person. That is actually more than double the average per-capita income. Continue...Read More
Tax expert Jeff Socha says make sure you get a head start on preparing your taxes this month. The new year is upon us. Make it a good one and spend the rest of this year preparing for tax time. 2018 was the first year under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the largest revamping of tax law in decades, which was passed last December. The new rules stressed out many Americans, some of whom did not know if...Read More
"Unfortunately, in a deeply dissatisfying and disappointing turn of events, every country decided reform was good and right for the UN, but not for how it is financed," Continue...Read More
"The copper nano particles achieved catalytic performance extremely similar to that of gold or silver," Continue...Read More
"As for Russia's participation in gold-mining or other mining projects, Venezuela has made a wide range of interesting proposals that are Continue...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1266.20-$2.80Silver$15.03+$0.26XAU69.98-0.81%HUI159.81-1.23%GDM580.69-0.94%JSE Gold1359.59+42.78USD97.04+0.55Euro113.52-0.69Yen89.97-0.71Oil$46.22+$4.6910-Year2.770%+0.036T-Bond144.53125-0.90625Dow22878.45+4.98%Nasdaq6554.36+5.84%S&P2467.70+4.96% The Metals: Gold gained $10 to a new 6-month high at $1279.00 by late morning in New York before it sold of...Read More
Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.Coming up Frank Holmes of U.S. Global Investors joins me and shares why he believes this past quarter has been a very constructive and encouraging one for gold -- and he also gives us his outlook for the equity and metals markets in 2019. Don’t miss another great interview with Frank Holmes, coming up after this week&rs...Read More