Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1242.90-$3.00Silver$14.77+$0.03XAU68.75+0.17%HUI156.67-0.06%GDM568.86+0.18%JSE Gold1298.65+25.20USD97.07+0.05Euro113.64-0.02Yen88.03-0.31Oil$52.58+$1.4310-Year2.909%-0.005T-Bond143.15625-0.09375Dow24597.38+0.29%Nasdaq7070.33-0.39%S&P2650.54-0.02% The Metals: Gold held near unchanged in Asia before it dipped to $1240.30 in early New York trade and then...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has refused to reply to or even to acknowledge GATA's questions about manipulation of the gold and silver futures markets that are purportedly regulated by the commission.By letters in July and September, GATA asked the commission to explain the explosion in the use of the "exchange for physicals" mechanism of settling go...Read More
Turkish steel mills continued to stay out of the deep-sea scrap markets on Thursday December 13. They are unlikely to resume buying any time soon due to the continuing lack of demand for finished steel in the country's domestic and export markets.Steel mills in Turkey have been holding back from scrap purchases for more than two weeks now, with only one cargo booked since November 2...Read More
By Dave KranzlerThe following is an excerpt from my December 6th issue of the Mining Stock Journal:Trumps Dilemma - The dollar index has been rising since Trump began his war on trade. But right now it's at the same 97 index level as when Trump was elected. Recall that Trump's administration pushed down starting in 2017 to stimulate exports and attempt to cut the trade deficit. The dollar fe...Read More
CRANBROOK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 13, 2018 / Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: "EPL") has completed a tri-party agreement with Tarku Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:TKU) and Denison Mines Corp. (TSX: DML; NYSE American: DNN) whereby Denison Mines has purchased the 1,334 hectare Virgin River property which is contiguous with Denison's South Dufferin Project located immediately south of the Athabasca...Read More
By Avi GilburtIn the past, I have outlined why fundamentals look best at market highs, and worst at market lows. And, just like we normally experience, as we were soaring over 2900, I am sure many of you were convinced that this was one of the best economies we have seen in quite some time. But, we seem to have topped on those great expectations.As the market continued to chop around near the l...Read More
Although stocks have taken an unpleasant hit since early October, the market is not exactly falling apart. Let your eyes take in the big picture shown in today's chart (inset). It wouldn't be stretching things visually to say the blue chip average has spent most of the year in a consolidation, presumably biding its time until economic news turns more favorable. In the meantime, one could reasona...Read More
Zero. The US inflation rate was unchanged in November. What does the flat CPI mean for the gold market? What Happened With Inflation? The CPI was unchanged in November, following an increase of 0.3 percent in October. It was the weakest number since March 2018, when monthly inflation fell about 0.1 percent. However, the flat reading was caused by a sharp decline in the price of gasoline - t...Read More
- 'Gigantic holes in the system' warns former Fed Head- Interest rates will remain lower than they have been in past- Leveraged loans pose risks and there is unfinished regulation- "I think things have improved, but then I think there are gigantic holes in the system"- No new financial crisis in 'our lifetimes', Yellen said only last year- Editors note: Yellen should know as she and her predece...Read More
No one in government seems to care about the country's burgeoning debt. Not the President, not Congress or anyone in the Swamp. How much longer can the party go on? Al Caceido is very concerned and believes that we will soon reach the tipping point. What will happen then is anyone's guess, but it's not going to be pleasant and a lot of promises will be broken.Read More
*This interview was recorded on November 29, 2018Full description and comments at: https://www.peakprosperity.com/podcas...Since gold topped out in 2011, the precious metals mining sector has been where investor capital goes to die.Mining stocks have performed miserably over the past seven years, missing out completely on the central bank-created liquidity-fest that has raised nearly every other e...Read More
Andrew Maguire is an Independent London Metals Trader and Analyst, internationally renowned for his unique ability to read the precious metals market with the knowledge and experience gained over 35 years trading in financial and commodity markets. Andrew sits on the advisory board of a global physical bullion exchange and is a consultant advisor to many international hedge fund managers, bullion...Read More
"Inflation rates are plunging! The bond yields are breaking down, and yield curves are flattening!"Gregory Weldon is CEO of Weldon Financial and Editor of the influential newsletters "Weldon's Money Monitor," the "Commodity and Currency Monitor," the" Metal Monitor," and the "ETF Playbook." He launched these macro-market publications, covering supply-demand fundamentals, along with technical, inte...Read More
The Yellow Vest protests in France have only received a small amount of media coverage in the U.S. and there may be good reason for it. Is the fact that these protests began over a Carbon Fuel Tax and have spread to general dissatisfaction with big government caused mainstream media to shy away from talking about it?Read More
UK ferrous scrap prices for deliveries in December have uniformly dropped by ?20 per tonne due to weaker export prices and a slowdown in domestic consumer demand, trade sources told Fastmarkets MB on Thursday December 13.The move follows a rollover on consumer delivery settlements in the past two months. UK suppliers had signaled a likely drop in December shipment prices due to a fall in European...Read More
The gilets jaunes, or "yellow vests" protests, emerged seemingly out of nowhere about a month ago and have in a few short weeks shaken the French political power Continue...Read More
This article is an overview of the principal factors likely to drive the gold price in 2019. It looks at the global factors that have developed in 2018 for both gold and Continue...Read More
On Saturday, Dec. 1, at the end of the G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires, President Trump and his team of trade and finance advisers had dinner with President Xi Jinping of China and his team.Continue...Read More
The bull market run since March 2009, when unprecedented money printing became the economic driver du jour, recently become the longest in history without a 20%-plus correction.Continue...Read More
Link to the Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/bear-...I believe that enough risk has now been transferred, to usher in the next financial crisis.Which will most likely be caused by derivative leverage explosions along with evaporating market liquidity. Weekly equity outflow reports and market trading volumes might be telling us that the selling has begun.On December 10, 2018 she...Read More