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

A copper band found in Coastal Georgia revealed that ancient Native Americans engaged in extensive trade networks spanning far greater distances than what has been previously thought.Discovered by a group of anthropologists, the band is slightly wider than a bracelet. It was located alongside the cremated remains of at least seven individuals at a burial site. According to the researchers, this is...Read More

It's the question that some investors have been asking all year: is the market in the late stage of the economic cycle? Pimco's analysts say there are "ample signs of change in the wind for investors," including trade disruptions and both rising inflation and interest rates. Don't miss: There are signs the U.S. economy is approaching its speed limit "At this stage in the cycle, investors should...Read More

Bozorgmehr SharafedinLONDON (Reuters) - Iran told OPEC on Sunday no member country should be allowed to take over another member’s share of oil exports, expressing Tehran’s concern about Saudi Arabia’s offer to pump more oil in the face of U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil sales.In a meeting with OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, a senior Iranian diplomat urged him to keep th...Read More

Sharay AnguloMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States has dropped a contentious demand from the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to impose restrictions on Mexican agricultural exports, Mexico’s top farm lobby said on Sunday.Talks to rework the 24-year-old pact are entering a crucial phase and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said outstanding bilateral issu...Read More

Samantha Vadas, Adam Jourdan, Anne Marie RoantreeSHENZHEN, China/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Larry Sloven arrived in southern China three decades ago, just as the region was taking off as the low-cost manufacturing center of the world. Since then, he has exported millions of dollars of goods, ranging from power tools to LED lights, to some of America’s biggest retailers.That era may now be coming t...Read More

Noel RandewichSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A steep downturn in heavyweight Chinese internet stocks and recent weakness in half of the so-called FANG group have some investors worried that a key component of Wall Street’s near-decade long rally may be low on fuel.Outstanding gains in Facebook (FB.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Netflix (NFLX.O) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) have underpinned much of the U.S. stock...Read More

ANKARA (Reuters) - A day after two major ratings agencies downgraded Turkey closer to junk status amid a currency crisis, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would challenge those playing “games” on the economy.Both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s ratings agencies cut Turkey’s sovereign credit ratings deeper into “junk” territory late on Friday.Stan...Read More

I felt compelled to clarify the commentary out "there" discussing the non-commercial short position in gold. An interviewee on one of the widely viewed precious metals and economic websites referenced the record "speculator" short position in Comex gold futures.In my opinion this is misleading because it is the "managed money" segment of the non-commercial "speculator" trader category in the CFT...Read More

Local media are reporting that one person died and three were injured after a wall collapsed at the community-operated Gaika Mine in Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe.The miners were digging for gold and allegedly were using explosives, which weakened the shaft where they were working.Three of them ended up trapped for a few hours but were rescued by colleagues working nearby while the fatal victim, identi...Read More

SSR Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRM, TSX: SSRM) is a Canadian-based, intermediate, diversified, precious metals producer, with capacity to grow in favorable jurisdictions. The Company has three operations, including the Marigold gold mine in Nevada, U.S., the Seabee Gold Operation in Saskatchewan, Canada and the 75%-owned and operated Puna Operations joint venture in Jujuy, Argentina. We learned from Da...Read More

By Michael J. KosaresThe Fourth Turning - the influential work by William Strauss and Neil Howe published in 1997 - uncannily predicted much of what has happened in America over the past twenty years. "The next Fourth Turning," the authors predicted, "is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis...Read More

By Ryan Wilday If you have tracked me at all since January, I had stated that if bitcoin (BTC-USD) is in a wave iv of the degree that I believed, support for this corrective wave, that started in January is in the $3000-$4700 zone. $4700 is an ideal landing spot for this wave iv as it is the .382 retrace of the third wave that began in July 2016.Further, if you tracked my writing, I saw many s...Read More

By John MauldinAnimal SpiritsBack to WorkCranking UpWhat Could Go Wrong?And the Really Good NewsBeaver Creek and Making My Own ChangesIn my business, there is a fine line between standing by your conclusions and being unwisely stubborn. But no matter what I say, people will still label me a perma-bear or perma-bull often at the same time. It's an occupational hazard to which I am accustomed.It's...Read More

Google "yield curve inversion" and you'll see that analysts have been waiting for this indicator to send its big signal for years. It's getting close, so expect a flood of breathless/ominous headlines when it finally happens.The precious metals market has a similarly rare and portentous indicator: "net short speculators." But today this one actually happened. In the latest commitment of traders...Read More

By Steve St. AngeloBig trouble is brewing in the mighty North Dakota Bakken Oil Field. While oil production in the Bakken has reversed since it bottomed in 2016 and increased over the past few years, so has the amount of by-product wastewater. Now, it's not an issue if water production increases along with oil. However, it's a serious RED FLAG if by-product wastewater rises a great deal mo...Read More

Nine years. Is it short or long? It depends on what we are talking about. In the geological time scale, it's a blink of an eye. But in the business cycle time scale, nine years is a really long time. The current economic expansion has recently turned 9 years old, as the Great Recession ended in June 2009, according to the NBER. With 109 months of economic prosperity (as of July 2018), the curren...Read More

Nomi Prins, journalist and author of Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, talks to journalist Chris Hedges about how central bankers "overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks and balances."Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sach...Read More

"The good news is we do have a president like President Trump that is laser focused on the issue, and he is informing quite a few people. . . . The sanctity and security of our elections is absolutely a national security issue."Read More

Local media are reporting that one person died and three were injured after a wall collapsed at the community-operated Gaika Mine in Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe.The miners were digging for gold and allegedly were using explosives, which weakened the shaft where they were working.Three of them ended up trapped for a few hours but were rescued by colleagues working nearby while the fatal victim, identi...Read More

Commodity markets have gone haywire - and hedge funds with picture-perfect timing are set to rake in stellar profits.As U.S.-China trade tensions escalated mid-June, fast-money traders flipped to a short position in metals overall, subsequently extending bearish wagers to a record coming into the maelstrom of the past few days.Hedge funds' net position stood at a negative 51 percent in precious me...Read More