This Valentine's Day might best be remembered for two things in particular. One, for the first time in 153 years, candy lovers won't be able to pick up a box of Sweethearts, those classic heart-shaped candies bearing sweet nothings like "BE MINE" and "CRAZY 4 U." And two, consumers are set to spend more than $20 billion on Valentine's gifts for the first time ever, thanks in part to a surge in...Read More
By: Craig Hemke With our initial price goals for 2019 having been achieved, COMEX gold and silver are now in their first pullback phase of the year. How long will it last and what are the next upside price targets?If you've been following along every week, then you'll recall that we were quite adamant regarding a year-end 2018 and Q1 2019 price rally for both gold and silver. From the November...Read More
From Dr. Maya Shetreat, MD:"Don't blame a clown for acting like a clown. Ask yourself why you keep going to the circus."THE WALL STREET CIRCUS DISTRACTS PEOPLE.Wall Street cheerleaders assure everyone stocks go up in the long term. Yes, they rise because the dollar is devalued every year, which they seldom discuss. Their cheerleaders avoid stating that corrections and crashes occur every five to...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold (and silver) continues to hold in key support zone of 18-Day Moving Average of Closes. China buying more gold again. Supportive of the gold market. Gold drifting sideways..Read More
By: Stefan Gleason, Money MetalsSocialist Venezuela's economic collapse and hyperinflationary spiral serves as a warning for American investors. It's what can happen when a government spends perpetually beyond its means and refuses to face reality.Despite a U.S. economy that appears relatively strong and stable on the surface, its foundation is beginning to crack under the pressure of a $22 tril...Read More
By: Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAGold stocks have to do more to confirm they are in a new bull market.Sure, they've surged above key moving average resistance and breadth has improved.However, the gold stocks have not yet broken the pattern of lower highs and breadth, while improved, is not at bull market levels yet. Let's review where things currently stand.In recent weeks GDX and GDXJ surged abov...Read More
By: Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates: 1. Is the latest tiny price correction in gold already done? 2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this daily gold chart. The uptrend looks majestic, and especially so in the face of the dollar's strength against the euro and the yen.3. Whether gold rallies from the current $1306 support zone or from $1280 is not imp...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:GATA's old friend B.L. has forwarded the text of an excellent letter he has e-mailed to a monetary metals mining company in which he long has been invested, asking whether the company will ever respond to the growing number of disclosures of manipulation of the gold and silver markets.The letter easily could be adapted by any monetary metals mining company investor f...Read More
The Indoos stalled Monday almost precisely at the 25,440 midpoint Hidden Pivot shown. Buyers subsequently gave up almost no ground, setting up a likely move past the resistance on Wednesday. If it's decisively exceeded, that would all but clinch more upside to the 25,998 target. This was already no worse than an even-odds bet because the initial thrust, labeled A-B in the chart, exceeded two...Read More
Chemesis International Inc. (CSE: CSI) (OTC: CADMF) (FRA: CWAA) is on the move again with plans to add another 25,000 sq.ft. of manufacturing space in Cathedral City, California. It is anticipated that this new facility will be up and running by Q2 2019. NEWSThe additional space will allow for expansion of the company's finished goods which currently include beverages, edibles and other consu...Read More
“FORE!!!”My friend Chris had just hit another golf ball out of bounds. Only this time, it sailed into the adjacent fairway and nearly took the head off some guy lining up his pitch shot.Chris was NOT a good golfer. In fact, he was undeniably the worst player in our group last spring.And yet, despite hitting every other shot off-course, Chris still managed to beat me, my brothers, and o...Read More
Feb 14, 2019 Guest(s): Frank Holmes CEO, U.S. Global Investors When it comes to gold, prices are driven by either love or fear, said Frank Holmes, CEO of U.S. Global Investors. "There's two drivers to the price of gold: the fear trade, which dominates the psychic of North Americans, and the love trade, which is China, India, known as 'Chindia,' the Middle East; 60% to 70% of all gold demand is b...Read More
Engineers at the lender have created the "JPM Coin," a digital token that will be used to instantly settle transactions between clients of its wholesale payments business.Continue...Read More
Now that it's a widely accepted "conspiracy theory" that the next time markets crash, the blame will Continue...Read More
In the land of the Federal Reserve and its market-manipulating mechanisms, there's now an unofficial market term called the “Powell Put” or the “Powell Pivot.”It is in direct reference to Fed chairman Jerome Powell. Before he became chairman, Wall Street referred to prior heads' policies with terms like the "Greenspan Put" the "Bernanke Put" and the "Yellen Put."In layman's...Read More
From valley to peak in the space of one month...The bears were poised to claim final victory in late December... and black crepe was unfurling over Wall Street.The major averages lost nearly 20% from their early October highs. The Nasdaq in fact tumbled into an official bear market.Who could say where it would stop?All things good must end - unlike some things bad - and 10 years is a plenty handso...Read More
In the land of the Federal Reserve and its market-manipulating mechanisms, there's now an unofficial market term called the "Powell Put" or the "Powell Pivot."Continue...Read More
The dollar's best performance in two years is an obstacle for gold.Global trade worries and interest rate factors should mitigate this.Continued strength in gold stocks supports gold's rising interim trend.Even as the dollar strengthens, gold has retained its buoyancy thanks to the high levels of fear and uncertainty surrounding the upcoming U.S.-China trade deadline. In today's report I'l...Read More
COT SPECIAL PUBLICATION SCHEDULE Reminder -- Due to the U.S. Government Shutdown (February 1 Announcement) The last COT report was published on December 21, 2018. Reports going forward from that date will be published in chronological order beginning with the report previously scheduled for release on Friday, December 28, 2018 (based on data from Monday, December 24, 2018). The CFTC publ...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold down into important support zone -- Hope for the gold bears ..."April Gold Chart, lower highs and lower lows, down towards the support: $1306.50 area"Read More