"The best is yet to come."- Frank Sinatra, American singer, actor, producer, 1915-1998 "You are never too old to reinvent yourself."- Steve Harvey, American comedian, businessman, entertainer, b. 1957 "It is never too late to be what you might have been."- George Eliot, (Mary Ann Evens), English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, a leading writer...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold weekly swingline in bullish posture. Upside bias. $1491 area 18-week moving average at end of last week, support. Weekly gold chart over Bollinger band:Read More
Crisis DelayedCircling the DrainTax and SpendGet ReadyWriting, SIC Planning, and More WritingWelcome to the 2020s. Some weren't sure we would make it this far, but we did. Now we face a new decade and new challenges. How we handle them will determine what kind of conversation we have in 2030.This concern for the future is one of the things that separates humans from animals. Dogs don't worry abo...Read More
Strengths? The top performing precious metal for 2019 was palladium, gaining 54.20 percent. In a weekly Bloomberg survey of analysts and traders, gold sentiment remained marginally bullish the first days of the New Year. The survey showed eight bullish, two bearish and seven neutral. At week-end, gold advanced toward a six-year high, climbing 1.5 percent to $1,551 an ounce in Lon...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend B.A. tonight challenges optimism among gold and silver investors that the latest crisis in the Middle East will explode Western central banking's longstanding gold price suppression policy.Ordinarily your secretary/treasurer would agree with him and change the channel from news to anything promising comic relief. After all, these geopolitical crises never...Read More
Gold faces big resistance between $1590-$1610 zone. Only a break of this zone will result in $1707.50 and $1822 in the near term. Short term hot money will flow into gold if it rises this week. Gold could be a Las Vegas if it rises this week. The quicker the pace of rise, the more will be short term volatility in gold. I will be closely watching the pace of rise and not the actual rise. Silver i...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses the effects of geopolitics on the price of gold. Gold barsIn this update I am not going to repeat the points made in the last fairly comprehensive update, instead we are going to focus on the importance of the resistance level just above where the price is now, and impact of the killing of the Iranian general and its potential implications for the gold pric...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321gold discusses the highly anticipated drill program at the Pueblo Grande property. We are in the best time of the year to be invested in resource stocks. That is from late December into perhaps March. Add to that a quite insane U.S. President eager to accelerate the start of World War III for Israel and you have what at least will be an interesting environment until the U.S. ei...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses recent movements in the price of silver. Unlike gold, which has forged ahead, there has been very little change in silver since the last update. This is not surprising because gold is stronger than silver during the earliest stages of a new bull market, while silver performs the strongest during the late stages of a bull market as investors "throw caution t...Read More
Another year of covering commodities and select junior mining stocks is all but done and dusted. We’ve seen palladium prices more than double those of platinum, its sister metal, on tight supply and high demand for catalytic converters in gas-powered vehicles, as smog-belching diesel cars and trucks get phased out to meet tighter air emissions standards particularly in Europe...Read More
We often cover the ongoing JPMorgan silver bullion saga here. It seems we have a new twist in the ongoing story since JPMorgan's takeover of the bankrupt Bear Sterns short silver position in early 2008.Late last year, in early November 2019, CBS’ 60 Minutes show did a puff Public Relations piece for the CEO of the world’s largest and Global Systematic Important Bank.Here we see 60 Minu...Read More
Gold miners’ stocksblasted higher this past week, breaking out of their correction downtrend. Rapidly-improving psychology fueled suchstrong upside momentum that sector benchmarks are challenging months-old upleg highs. Most traders assume this is righteous, that goldstocks’ next upleg is starting to accelerate. But key indicators argue the contrarian side, that this b...Read More
Strengths? The top performing precious metal for 2019 was palladium, gaining 54.20 percent. In a weekly Bloomberg survey of analysts and traders, gold sentiment remained marginally bullish the first days of the New Year. The survey showed eight bullish, two bearish and seven neutral. At week-end, gold advanced toward a six-year high, climbing 1.5 percent to $1,551 an ounce in Lon...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend B.A. tonight challenges optimism among gold and silver investors that the latest crisis in the Middle East will explode Western central banking's longstanding gold price suppression policy.Ordinarily your secretary/treasurer would agree with him and change the channel from news to anything promising comic relief. After all, these geopolitical crises never...Read More
Gold faces big resistance between $1590-$1610 zone. Only a break of this zone will result in $1707.50 and $1822 in the near term. Short term hot money will flow into gold if it rises this week. Gold could be a Las Vegas if it rises this week. The quicker the pace of rise, the more will be short term volatility in gold. I will be closely watching the pace of rise and not the actual rise. Silver i...Read More
Dear Reader,Stocks ran red this morning… stained crimson by the blood of Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani.A Reaper drone of the United States Air Force sent this hellcat over the rainbow early Friday.The late departed was no second-rater, no minion. Explains Matthew Hoh of the Center for International Policy:The equivalent of the killing of Gen. Soleimani would be as if the Iranians assassinate...Read More
QUESTION: Marty, Do you think it will be time to short the bonds with the ECM? Gold had bounced off the Downtrend line instead of electing the bearish reversals and it rallied after the Pi turning point. You said if gold peaked with the bottom of the ECM it could then fall back to retest support. It looks as if that happens, the Fed will lose the battle and interest rates will rise after the ECM....Read More
GOLD COT REPORTS WERE DELAYED (JAN. 3), DUE TO THE HOLIDAYS: Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 381,62053,695140,611202,925569,416725,156763,722 Change from Prior Reporting Period 17,310-4,96318,589-27925,81635,62039,442 Traders 23351765558312164 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 61,01022,444786,1...Read More
GOLD COT REPORTS WERE DELAYED (JAN. 3), DUE TO THE HOLIDAYS: Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 381,62053,695140,611202,925569,416725,156763,722 Change from Prior Reporting Period 17,310-4,96318,589-27925,81635,62039,442 Traders 23351765558312164 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 61,01022,444786,1...Read More
Another year of covering commodities and select junior mining stocks is all but done and dusted. We’ve seen palladium prices more than double those of platinum, its sister metal, on tight supply and high demand for catalytic converters in gas-powered vehicles, as smog-belching diesel cars and trucks get phased out to meet tighter air emissions standards particularly in Europe...Read More