Continue...Egon von Greyerz is founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG & GoldSwitzerland. Since the 1990s Egon von Greyerz has been actively involved with financial investment activities including mergers and acquisitions and asset allocation consultancy for private family funds. This led to the creation of Matterhorn Asset Management, an asset management company based on we...Read More
Michael Pento is a specialist in Austrian economics and is the President of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Prior to starting Pento Portfolio Strategies he served as a senior economist and VP of the managed products division of another well known financial firm. Michael has also created ETFs and UITs that were sold throughout Wall Street. Earlier in his career, he worked on the floor of the NYSE. He i...Read More
Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Prins is known for her books All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power and Col...Read More
"This idea that the Fed can just keep doing what they are doing and things can just keep marching along-no. We are finally at the end of the charade. It's lasted a lot longer than I thought it could. . . . Now, in 2019, we are right back to where we were in 2010."Known primarily by his nickname "Turd Ferguson," Craig Hemke is the founder and editor of the popular TF Metals Report blog and podcast,...Read More
Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiaries. Read More
In my latest conversation with 321gold founder Bob Moriarty we discussed a wide range of topics including President Trump and his trade wars to some of Bob's favorite junior miners.Continue...Read More
I read headlines all day and focus extensively, if not exclusively, on gold. If gold is the best form of money (it is), and if gold had unique properties as money (it does; it's the only form of money that is not also debt), then gold is well worth the focus.With that said, it's hard to surprise me on the subject. After a while, you think you've seen it all. Yet, there are exceptions. This headlin...Read More
There's nothing new about the Russian accumulation of gold bullion in their reserve position. It began in a material way in 2009 when Russia had about 600 metric tonnes of gold.Today, Russia has 2,183 metric tonnes, a stunning 264% increase in less than 10 years. Russia is the sixth-largest gold power in the world after the U.S., Germany, IMF, Italy and France.Russia's gold hoard is over 25% of th...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 240,47784,36256,898132,517305,093429,892446,353 Change from Prior Reporting Period 46,014-23,413-5,308-58,7733,849-18,067-24,872 Traders 19872675054278168 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 51,60335,142481,495 -5,5641,241-23,631 non reportable posit...Read More
- Dave Kranzler"Shanghai Gold will change the current gold market with its 'consumed in the East but priced in the West' arrangement. When China has the right to speak in the international gold market, the true price of gold will be revealed." - Xu Luode, Chairman, Shanghai Gold Exchange, 15 May 2014The quote above is for the benefit of anyone who refuses to acknowledge or accpet that the price...Read More
Gold surged sharply over this past week or so, nearing a major bull-market breakout! Nearly everyone was surprised by this violent awakening, which erupted suddenly as gold languished around year-to-date lows. If this dramatic rally has staying power, gold has good odds of achieving decisive new bull-market highs. That would change everything psychologically, ushering gold and its miners...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinFriday in Gold is notorious for giving back gains. Gold in bullish mode:Read More
- Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAIn recent days the market has moved from expecting a rate cut by January 2020 to now expecting as much as three rate cuts by then. As a result both Gold and gold stocks launched higher, forming a "three white soldiers" bullish reversal pattern. Last week and in previous writings, we noted the importance of the actual rate cut for Gold and gold stocks. Their perform...Read More
By Avi GilburtIn my last article, I outlined how the same news event can "cause" the market to rally 9% at one time, and drop 5% another time. And, then I noted how I am quite certain there will be some of you that will try to explain away this clear lack of consistency with some form of convoluted "logic."And, true to form, some of you did. One such commenter noted:For about eight months, the m...Read More
Trump needn't have wheedled the Fed about juicing the money supply, since the banksters, ever eager to ride to the rescue -- of themselves -- would have done it anyway. The alchemists at the central bank have once again begun to "manage" our "expectations" with all the subtlety of a carnival barker about to spin a Big Six wheel. Their loyal spinmeisters at The Wall Street Journal gave this lat...Read More
- Hubert MoolmanPreviously, I have shown how we could be close to major financial/monetary crisis. The following chart that shows the ratio of gold to the monetary base was used:The chart shows the ratio of the gold price to the St. Louis Adjusted Monetary Base back to 1918. That is the gold price in US dollars divided by the St. Louis Adjusted Monetary Base in billions of US dollars. (from...Read More
This was the Dow's fourth straight triple-digit gain and longest win streak since JanuaryThe Dow scored a 264-point win today to close out a perfect week, with its five-day winning streak marking the longest January. This was the blue-chip index's fourth-straight triple-digit gain, as weak jobs data fueled speculation that a Fed rate cut is imminent. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump earlier twee...Read More
US stock markets just enjoyed their best week of the year on speculation that the Federal Reserve would once again ride to the rescue of equities and inflate asset prices by cutting rates.The S&P 500 index is sporting double digit percentage gains so far this year. Meanwhile, the S&P GSCI All Commodities index is down 14% over the past year.Apart from all things gold, Incrementum's 13th annual In...Read More
Goldspot Discoveries (TSXV: SPOT) announced Friday a signed service agreement with Pacton Gold (CVE: PAC) to use Goldspot's A.I. and machine learning tools to evaluate and identify possible mineral and drill targets on Pacton's Red Lake, Ontario property. "We believe Red Lake's ground is ripe for a technological revolution" - Goldspot CEOGoldspot has been granted a 0.5% smelter roy...Read More
Stock market bulls can thank Fed Chair Jerome PowellFollowing a brutal May, stocks kicked off June on a high note, with the major market indexes set for their best week of the year. What's more, the Dow is set for a five-day winning streak, which would mark its longest since January. Stock market bulls have Fed Chair Jerome Powell to thank, after the central bank chief said the Fed will "act as ap...Read More