PRIVATE BLOG - Gold for Nov 8th, 2019Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please visit Ask-Socrates.com.https://ask-socrates.com/Read More
Alasdair Macleod, Head of Research at GoldMoney returns to Finance & Liberty to declare that THE FED IS STUCK ACCELERATING MONETARY INFLATION, due to an ACUTE FAILURE OF THE MONETARY SYSTEM. Alasdair also gives us a report on the UK situation on the ground with the Brexit from the EU, and what it means for the Euro and the USD. He further answers YOUR viewer questions about BOND REPOS, "Not QE," t...Read More
Former Treasury Dept. official Dr. Nouriel Roubini has warned central banks around the world they will be unable to fix the world's economy by simply printing more and more money. Former presidential candidate and US Representative Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas) joins Rick Sanchez to weigh in. He argues that "when you destroy the currency you destroy the middle class" and that overdependence on government...Read More
About 45% of the movie's budget was provided by foreign distribution deals, Starlight Media Chief Executive Peter Luo said. Continue...Read More
The United States has both a debt and deficit problem, driven by years of overspending and unfunded promises made by politicians of both parties to pay for war, health care and retirement benefits to current and future seniors. Their solution to the problem is simply going more into debt. There is only one way this kind of thinking ends. Are you prepared?David Morgan is a world-renown precious met...Read More
"If anyone-we work to ensure that... no one approaches or has-shows hostile intent to our forces, and if they do, our commanders maintain the right of self-defense."Continue...Read More
"I think it was generally believed that the access point or potential access point to WikiLeaks was Roger Stone...I was led to believe he had a relationship with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange."Continue...Read More
Should real rates rise, then gold's fair value would fall. That would boost the premium for the wrong Continue...Read More
Nov 11, 2019 Guest(s): Peter Hug Global Trading Director, Kitco Metals From a macroeconomic perspective, several of the longer-term problems that would be bullish for gold will likely manifest in 2020, including a recession and an escalation of the trade wars tensions with China, this according to Peter Hug, global trading director of Kitco Metals. "From a physical perspective, if you're an inve...Read More
Silverplunged on Tuesday, just as it was likely to afterthe triple reversal that we’ve been writing about, and it was decliningstrongly during Wednesday’s pre-market trading. And then it all changed. Silversoared before the U.S. markets opened and the white metal ended the session inthe green. We definitely saw a silver reversal. But, was it significant and canit be trusted?Wedoubt tha...Read More
This morning in pre-market the Amigos’ futures charts update the macro story……which goes something like this… Copper, the cyclical Amigo (weekly chart) has furthered the intermediate trend line break we noted on October 25th. This is in line with the rally in US and global stock markets and even more so, the global macro reflation theme. It does not look so impressive ye...Read More
As it has done with cobalt, graphite and rare earths, China appears to be locking up the nickel market. Nickel’s top producer, Indonesia, in early September decided to accelerate a scheduled ban on ore export shipments, from 2022 to January 1, 2020. The ban which instead took immediate effect on Oct. 28, is to encourage the building of domestic smelters instead of exporting raw nic...Read More
BAR has remained resilient since the Fed pushed the "easing pause" button on October 30.This is principally because the market was not convinced that this rate cut would be the last. Our "buy on the dips" strategy was therefore not deployed.Although we contend that gold's spec positioning looks stretched on the long side, there are other offsetting buying forces in the gold market, which should pu...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold support just below, swinglines bearish:Read More
It often seem as though trade-deal news drives the markets, but how could this be so when we all know that China will never, ever change its crooked ways? Not that it matters. If Trump hadn't started a tariff war, it would have made little difference in the way a bull market now in its eleventh year behaves; stocks would still be trading about where they are. The only difference is that the con-...Read More
Postponement of US-China trade deal to December should be bullish for gold and silver. I will prefer a buy on dips strategy as long as gold trades over $1475 for intraday. Use sharp dips to invest in silver for month end with a stop loss below $1660. Copper and crude oil should fall on speculation of trade talk. U.S. lawmakers seek to ban federal pension fund from investing in China: This is the...Read More
Earnings season has kicked off for the gold miners, with about one third of the index reporting thus far.Early results aren't terribly encouraging, with mixed results across most of the group.Most of the big names are still left to report, but investors will want to see more traction from the majors.It's been a busy couple of weeks for investors in the metals markets, with the second last Fed...Read More
Trade buzz boosted stocks todayThe Dow surged higher today, on news the U.S. and China plan to begin rolling back tariffs to increase the chances of a trade deal. The blue-chip index recorded another all-time high, as did the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq. Two of the best sectors were tech and financials, while investors also watched the 10-year Treasury yield rise the most since the last presidential...Read More
ARLO calls are crossing at 45 times the average intraday pace todayHome automation company Arlo Technologies Inc (NYSE:ARLO) is slated to report third-quarter earnings after tonight's close. ARLO stock has a dismal history of earnings reactions -- having closed down double-digit percentage points following three of the firm's last four reports -- but one options trader today is betting on a major...Read More
Options volume has ramped up on EXPE and TRIP today in responseThe U.S. stock market is continuing its torrid pace, soaring this time thanks to optimistic trade buzz. However, three stocks stocks sitting out the surge today are travel names Expedia Group Inc (NASDAQ:EXPE) and TripAdvisor Inc (NASDAQ:TRIP), as well as biotech concern ObsEva SA (NASDAQ:OBSV). Here's a quick look at what's moving the...Read More