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

As the summer winds down, investors are keeping a close eye on the precious metals market. August proved to be a stellar month for both gold and silver, with gold prices rising a solid 3.5% and silver not far behind at 3.2%.But what does the future hold? Well, according to Bank of America, the outlook is positively golden. In a recent note to clients, the bank stated, “We believe gold can hi...Read More

This gold bull’s latestupleg has proven mighty, surging to many new nominal record highs.  Amazingly gold’s massive gains have accrueddespite no demand from one of its primary drivers.  That’s differential gold-ETF-share buying byAmerican stock investors.  Enthralled bythe AI stock bubble, those guys have been missing-in-action.  When they finally return, gold...Read More

Copper is definitely the mostimportant industrial metal out there.Freeport-McMoRanReflects Market TrendsIn the entire commodity sector, onlycrude oil is more widely used. And given the increasing importance ofall-things-electronic, copper is unlikely to be forgotten anytime soon. Thisdoesn’t mean that the only way in which its price can move is up (far from it),but it does indicate that this...Read More

So, the GDXJ plunged about 5%yesterday, and it refused to get back up, even though goldprice did. Continuationof GDXJ Decline LikelyWhat a demonstration of weakness!After the vertical plunge, the GDXJsimply paused. This simply confirms what I wrote previously – that this is NOTthe end of the decline, it’s just an acceleration in it.My yesterday’s comments on the likelyh...Read More

No amount of wishful thinking and baseless proclamations will change that. Owning gold stocks (miners) instead of the actual physical metal (in other words, processed and refined with appropriate hallmarks and in tradable form) is a losing bet. Investors should ignore the siren song of gold mining shares.At their highs last week, gold stocks had increased eighty percent from their lows just two ye...Read More

As the richest nation and the world’s largest economy, it is hardly a surprise that the United States holds the most gold.What is surprising is where the gold isn’t: the United States Federal Reserve, known colloquially as the central bank.Mainstream media dutifully reports that the American central bank is number one out of the top 10 gold depositories in the world. Its 8,133 metric t...Read More

Industrial demand for silver has been surging in recent years. Solar panel manufacturers were largely behind the 11% jump in demand for 2023 versus the prior year. Forecasters predict another 9% jump this year.For silver investors, however, the future of demand from manufacturers may be even brighter than the recent past.The solar industry has been behind much of the growing appetite for silver. D...Read More

The mid-tier and juniorgold miners in this sector’s sweet spot for upside potential just finishedreporting truly-spectacular quarterly results. Fueled by dazzling record gold prices and lower mining costs, smallergold miners’ unit earnings skyrocketed to their highest levels ever.  Those incredibly-rich profits have left mid-tierseven more undervalued relative to prevailing g...Read More

The basis for analysis and forecasting at Elliott Wave International is fundamentally different from everyone else's.Here's a prime example in gold.This excerpt is from the March Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, when gold was trading below $2,050/oz. Gold's three-month implied volatility has declined to its lowest level in over four years. While low volatility is not a short term timing tool, low...Read More

The major gold minersjust reported their best quarterly results ever!  Record gold prices combined with lower miningcosts catapulted unit earnings to dazzling new records.  Yet despite exploding profitability, goldstocks continue to lag gold’s mighty upleg. This anomaly won’t last, as investors increasingly realize how seriouslyundervalued this sector remains.  Ther...Read More

Canwe save the dollar before central banking kills it?Ourdeficits are now stuck at 8% of GDP — unprecedented in peacetime. And ournational debt just hit $35 trillion — unprecedented in the history of man.Eventhe central bankers realize that this isn't sustainable. That we are coming tothe day our paper money utopia crumbles.Historically,from Song Dynasty China to Weimar Germany, when p...Read More

It’s been a volatile week in the markets.On Monday, Aug. 5, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 1,000 points, and the S&P 500 dropped 3%, resulting in the worst day for both indexes since September 2022. The sell-off was blamed on factors ranging from worries about the economy and the slow response from the Federal Reserve, regarding interest rate cuts, to the unwind of...Read More

A “Minsky Moment” refers to a point in time when a period of bullish speculation leads to a spectacular market crash.Named after economist Hyman Minsky, the theory centers around the inherent instability of stock markets. “Minsky held that, over a prolonged period of prosperity, investors take on more and more risk, until lending exceeds what borrowers can pay off from their inco...Read More

The macro setup for gold stocks is evolving into something that will surprise many after decades of poor fundamentalsI don’t make a habit of pumping the most frustrating stock sector on the planet just for the sake of it. I have made a habit of discussing why, since 2003, the macro market backdrop has been adversarial to gold stocks much more often than not. By extension, internal indicators...Read More

The gold miners willsoon report what will almost certainly prove their best quarter ever.  Mostly due to Q2’s record-shattering goldprices, gold miners’ earnings should soar off the charts.  Those will be further boosted by slightly-lowermining costs many of these companies are predicting.  With such incredibly-strong fundamentals,more professional fund managers should s...Read More

The PCE Index statisticswere released today, and you might wonder what impact they will have on theprice of gold.Let’s dig in.One might think that PCE is a criticaldriver of gold prices (and thus, you might be concerned with what the number isgoing to be), and there is some truth to it, but looking at how those reportshave indeed influenced gold price provides extra context to what...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 24 points at 8:30 AM EDT.Nucor dropped $4.41 to $151.70 after reporting lower third quarter earnings. The company also offered lower fourth quarter revenue guidance. Zion Bancorp added $2.86 to $52.30 after reporting higher than consensus third quarter results. Nike added $$0.40 to $81.77 after extending its partnersh...Read More

All eyes are on gold's record-breaking run.The gold bull is in full swing this month as the yellow metal extends to new highs... again. Gold has been on an absolute tear since breaking out above $2,500 for the first time ever back in September, jumping almost double-digits on its run above $2,700.I've recently discussed how the financial media was largely ignoring gold's impressive rally to new hi...Read More

gold #mining #preciousmetals #smallcapstocks #stockmarket In this interview with James C. Tworek, CEO of Element79 Gold ...Read More

Uranium #mining #nuclear #stockmarket #renewableenergy In this interview with Richard J. Mazur, President & CEO of Forum ...Read More