While it is common knowledge that the US budget deficit is soaring even though the US economy is allegedly growing at a brisk, mid-2% pace, resulting in recurring bond Continue...Read More
A U.S. trade deal with China is "possible" by next Friday, according to sources who spoke to CNBC on Wednesday. Continue...Read More
After spending more than $700 billion and losing thousands of lives, the U.S. military has stopped releasing information about its progress in Afghanistan Continue...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger reviews recent movements in precious metals and discusses how he is playing the market. Last week I sent out my uber-bullish call on the metals and miners at the conclusion of a period fraught with doom and despair for all things gold and silver. The criminality of the interventionists was in full bloom as they bombed gold down through that critical "Line in the San...Read More
Platinum, after making what appears to be a wash-out low in August 2018, now looks poised to be a precious metal leader, writes fund manager John Newell at Fieldhouse Capital Management. What is Platinum: Platinum is a precious transition metal that has the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78 on the periodic table. Platinum is grayish white in color and is often mistaken for silver. Plat...Read More
As we know, Gold and the US Dollar have an inverse relationship. Gold is priced in US Dollars and the drivers of each are similar (from an inverse point of view). Over long-term periods both trend in the same direction but the magnitude of the moves can vary and be quite different. The standard inverse relationship has not been a perfect one in recent months or years. In the chart below we plot Go...Read More
The silver market appears to be setting up for a big move. After spending this spring stair-stepping lower in a narrowingrange, silver prices have formed a falling wedge pattern. That pattern usuallyresolves in a powerful directional breakout. The good news for bulls is thatfalling wedges usually break out to the upside. Commercial hedgers and bullion banks (i.e., “smart money&rdqu...Read More
By: Keith Weiner The bid-ask spread of both (spot) gold and silver has blown out. Both, on March 1.In gold, the spread had been humming along around 13 cents gold is the most marketable commodity, and this is the proof, a bid-ask spread around 1bps until... *BAM!* It explodes to around 35 cents, or two and half times as wide. On the same day, silver went from half a cent to 1.5 cents, or about...Read More
Bob Hoye & Chris Waltzek Ph.D. - April 30th, 2019. * .Mp3HighlightsBob Hoye, Editor & Chief Investment Strategist of Charts and Markets.com rejoins the show with must-hear commentary. FOMC policymakers set the overnight lending rate this week. The current FFF at the CME which indicates the Fed could begin a new round of QE within a year. There are strong probabilities of a rate cut by Dec. / J...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerThe semiconductor stocks continued melting up last week until Intel threw some cold water on the Dutch tulip bulb price-chasing party. TXN reported Tuesday after the close. Revenues declined 5% from the year-earlier quarter. The management stated that "demand continued to slow across most markets. TXN then said Q2 revenues would drop 10% from Q2 2018. It said earnings would be d...Read More
By: Richard (Rick) Mills, Ahead of the herd "Whoever has an army has power." - Mao Zedong In March Italy broke ranks with its EU partners in joining China's Belt and Road Initiative, known also as One Belt, One Road or the New Silk Road. Students of history know the original "Silk Road" refers to the ancient network of trading routes between China and Europe, which served as both a conduit fo...Read More
By: Gary ChristensonI'll show you real money. It looks like this: Those circulating dollar bills, euros, pounds, and yen are DEBTS (notes) issued by central banks to extract wealth from citizens and the economy, dilute the purchasing power of the currency, and nourish the banking cartel.From Graham Summers:"The problem of course is once it has done this [created the 'everything bubble'], the F...Read More
By: IRA EPSTEINGold at an important point, $1,300 resistance - gold at an important juncture:Read More
Google was down a hellacious 112 points, or 9%, at Tuesday's low, but the plunge did little damage to the bullish look of the weekly chart:The fact that this occurred after the stock had pushed above last July's record high makes the selloff merely corrective rather than impulsive. It was attributable to a dour earnings report which suggested Google is losing ground in advertising to Amazon and...Read More
Think about the last five years...Can you recall an unexpected event that led to financial stress? Maybe a health crisis, layoff, leaky roof, or unexpected car repair.You're not alone. Approximately two-thirds of U.S. households experience an unexpected event that negatively impacts their financial wellbeing, according to Pew research.So it's no wonder the most common cause of money stress is the...Read More
May 02, 2019 Guest(s): Andrew O'Donnell Managing Director, Super Charged Stocks Mining holds the key to the future of renewable energy, and investors should look to buy metals aligned with this thesis, this according to Andrew O'Donnell, managing director of Super Charged Stocks. "I'm a big fan of vanadium. First Vanadium is, right off the bat, a company I like," O'Donnell told Kitco News on the...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More
Wall Street legend and former special adviser to President Donald Trump, billionaire Carl Icahn, is out starkly warning against the idea of modern monetary theory, accordingContinue...Read More
THIS NEWS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TOU.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATESVancouver, B.C., May 1, 2019 - PRIZE MINING CORPORATION (TSX-V: PRZ, Frankfurt: MQSP, OTCQB: PRZFF) (the "Company" or "Prize"), announces that it intends to raise up to $1,500,000 by way of a non- brokered private placement (the "Offering") of up to 60,000,000 common shares (each, a "Share"...Read More
May 03, 2019 Guest(s): Jorge Ramiro Monroy Managing Director, Emerging Markets Capital Gold has already peaked in terms of production, but it may be years before prices reflect this reality, this according to Jorge Ramiro Monroy, managing director of Emerging Markets Capital. "We're all waiting for that scenario to really unfold," Monroy told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Mines and Money Ne...Read More