Assets under management among gold-backed exchange-traded funds in June saw their biggest monthly percentage climb since 2012, as prices for the yellow metal touched their highest levels in six years, according to a report from the World Gold Council released Tuesday. Global assets under management (AUM) rose 15% to $115 billion last month as "all regions experienced inflows," the report said. Nor...Read More
(Repeats item issued earlier. The opinions expressed here arethose of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) * GRAPHIC: Gold price vs. SPDR holdings: By Clyde RussellLAUNCESTON, Australia, July 9 (Reuters) - Gold's recentrally to a six-year high is suddenly looking a little morefragile after India, the world's number two buyer, unexpectedlyhiked import duties.The increase in the duty to 12.5% from...Read More
The problematic $30 level could keep the cooler stock frozen until after the early August reportIn the perpetually expanding universe of hipster-friendly initial public offerings (IPOs) -- Uber (UBER), Lyft (LYFT), Beyond Meat (BYND), Slack (WORK) -- the producer of intentionally homely coolers known as Yeti Holdings Inc (NYSE:YETI) is remarkable for any number of reasons. Yeti hasn't been at the...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended lower Monday, pulled down by bad news on Boeing (BA - Get Report) and Apple (AAPL - Get Report) and a strong U.S. jobs report that trimmed hopes for near-term interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Apple fell after analysts at Rosenblatt Securities downgraded the stock over concern...Read More
The Monday Market Minute Global stocks retreat as investors pare bets on aggressive Fed rate cuts following Friday's stronger-than-expected jobs report while continuing to question the near-term strength of the world economy.Futures traders are pricing in only a 6% chance of a 50 basis point reduction in the Fed's key interest rate later this month, pushing the dollar index to a three-week high...Read More
Investing.com - Gold prices were near flat on Monday in Asia as traders remained cautious ahead of a congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell later this week.Gold futures for August delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange were up 0.02% at $1,401.25 a troy ounce by 12:16 AM ET (04:16 GMT).On Friday, the U.S. reported a higher-than-expected rise in...Read More
Stewart Thomsonemail: stewart@gracelandupdates.comemail: stewart@gracelandjuniors.comemail:admin@guswinger.comJuly 9, 2019 While some gold stocks (the South Africans in particular) continue to rally, bullion and most miners are staging a classic pullback after a major upside breakout. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this important monthly gold chart.The bottom line:Breakouts are fu...Read More
NEWS &VIEWSForecasts, Commentary & Analysis on the Economy and Precious MetalsCelebrating our 46th year in the gold businessJuly 2019"There has been a dramatic change in sentiment." - Adrian Day - Michael J. Kosares, USA GoldThe summer months historically present a buying opportunity in precious metals as illustrated in the charts shown below. In the past, there has been a clear change of di...Read More
- David HaggithStock market investors, hungry for more pork, are demanding Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, land on their table on a silver platter with an apple in his mouth at this week's congressional testimony. Will he deliver? Powell has a thin red line to talk, or this overFed market, which he and is cronies have nurtured, dies this week from its own morbid obesity. On the other hand, if he does...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinThis week is focused on 2-day testimony by Fed Chairman Powell. We will get his views on interest rates. Gold market still in an uptrend, but nearing 18-DMA at $1386.70Read More
- Clint SiegnerGold and silver bugs are well aware that JPMorgan Chase dominates precious metals futures trading. Russ and Pam Martens of the financial blog Wall Street on Parade just identified how much control they have.There are more than 5,300 FDIC insured banks in the U.S. Just two of them, JPMorgan and Citibank, hold 75.7% of all precious metals derivative contracts (primarily futures)...Read More
There is now a very small section of traders and investors who believe that interest rates may not be cut in end July FOMC meet. Federal Reserve chairman's testimony will clarify on the interest rate cycle. In my view interest rates will be cut this month by 0.25% or something lower as a token and thereafter it can be long pause. Incoming US economic data releases will also determine the interes...Read More
Today's guest, Rob Kirby, joins us to share his thoughts on the economy and why he believes that the financial books of the Federal Reserve are a lie. During the interview he shares why he believes the fiat system hasn't come to an end and it has a lot to do with trillions of dollars missing off the books. Rob Kirby is a financial commentator and former broker who worked on an institutional tradin...Read More
Links to slides and sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/post-...Question 1. David M: How exactly would you buy a house or pay off a mortgage post-reset with gold or silver? Presumably you would have to at least briefly convert it to some sort of currency?Question 2. Les M: If we are going into hyperinflation can you tell me why real estate is going to go down and become a good investment?Ques...Read More
In this episode of the Summer Solutions 2019 for the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy are joined by Nomi Prins, author of 'Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World', to discuss the 'solutions' that central banks have forced upon the world for the past ten years in response to their own problem of too much bad bankers' debt: quantitative easing and zero percent interest rates (Zirp). As this sol...Read More
Corruption is threatening to upend many countries around the globe. But perhaps we've reached Peak Corruption. There's a new sheriff in British Columbia Canada who's threatening to upset the apple cart. Does government always have the unrestricted right to know where your money came from, how much of it you have and where it's kept? A difficult question, on the one hand we want our institutions to...Read More
After a long hiatus, fellow transplanted NY'er and now Floridian, Andrew Horowitz joined us. When it comes to markets, Andrew has long believed that following the Fed can reap large rewards. Even though as Andrew has stated, the real economy hasn't really been doing much for over a decade. But stock buybacks, Wall Street alchemy and government interventions have reaped mighty fortunes for some. Bu...Read More
Max Keiser asks Charles Hugh Smith if the body politic can take much more of the wealth inequality that follows this money printing for the wealthy?Continue...Read More
"You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it."Continue...Read More
"India has long had a field day putting Tariffs on American products. No longer acceptable!"Continue...Read More