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

Yesterday’s FOMC and the following press conference were groundbreaking. Rates stayed, but Fedsaid about raising them twice this year = no U-turn!This is a game-changer because so manyinvestors were still believing in a quick, dovish U-turn. And those dreams werejust dispelled. The fact that rates were not hiked yesterday doesn’t matter asmuch as the fact that their expected future pat...Read More

Approximately 12 years ago, I wrote my first public market prognostication and it was focused on gold.At the time, gold was enjoying a parabolic rally, and the discussion amongst the general public was how far past the $2,000 mark gold was going to strike during that rally. So, on Aug. 11, 2011, I concluded my first gold articleas follows:"Again, since we are most probably in the final stages...Read More

What if bitcoin just topped? What doesit change for the price of gold going forward, if anything?Many years ago, people wanted to buy goldbut didn’t really want to store it in their homes, pay for safekeeping andinsurance during transport, and so on. The demand gap was filled by all sortsof e-gold, e-bullion, and overall pooled accounts. This idea might seem odd tothose, who are new to the p...Read More

While callingthe top is a process that plays out over time, silver’smomentum has fizzled, and the next major move should be to the downside. Toexplain, we wrote on Apr. 21: Theblue line above shows how silver often peaks in mid-to-late April, withsubstantial weakness following until the end of June. In a nutshell: May and June are when the white metal hassuffered its worst his...Read More

While the 2011 analog paints anoptimistic portrait for gold, silver and mining stocks, a re-enactment of thelast debacle is unlikely to unfold this time around. Back then, gold soaredamid the debtceiling chaos, while the USD Index was a major casualty. And whileit’s possible lawmakers could ignite a similar event, most learn from theirpast mistakes.For example, while bloated stockvaluat...Read More

April had started with gold at $1,990,then gold moved as high as $2,063.40, and yesterday, it closed at $1,999. Atthe moment of writing these words, gold futures (because that’s what you see onthe above chart) are trading at $1,993. Monthly Reversal CandlestickThis means that gold formed a hugemonthly reversal candlestick. Since the opening and closing (assuming that thecurrent price will be...Read More

As the gold market marches toward new records, it is proving the naysayers wrong and vindicating longtime bulls. Gold posted a record high close on a quarterly basis at the end of March. Now the monetary metal has its sights set on setting a new all-time high here in the coming days.That’ll have to wait until next week though as global markets are closed here on this Good Friday. Gold will f...Read More

If the decades old bubble in paper assets is ending, that's why gold!Various promotions along the way of the Continuum have distilled the case for gold down to handy buzz phrases like “got Gold?” as if it were a carton of milk. Other promotions have presented gold as the go-to asset through all types of macro phases, from “fiat is gonna blow up any day now” to “inflat...Read More

SVB failed in March. Oil was destined to fall as early as February - here's why; The failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank have prompted a lot of discussion about the potential of a domino effect. People are wondering "what's next?"The financial press is linking just about every downward price move in just about every financial market to the woes in the banking secto...Read More

By Jon Forrest Little, Unless you live under a rock (and some days I wish I did), all eyes are on which bank will fail next.We knew this was coming. Decades of Zero Interest Rate Policy, QE, and risky fractional reserve practices have consequences.Superpowers like Russia and China are eyeing America’s financial vulnerabilities while the Fed, Congress, Treasury, and Wall Street play musical c...Read More

Justin Spittler : 615% gains the last timethis was triggered… “This is incredibly bullish”… “Someone big” is loading up…I’m no gold bug, but…Gold is closing in on its all-time highs.OnMonday, gold broke above $2,000 per ounce—the highest it’s been in over a year: Itsall-time high of $2,074 is now within reach.Andif history repea...Read More

Gold prices surged to test the $2,000/oz level early this week before retreating ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision.Fed policymakers opted for another 25 basis-point hike -- disappointing investors who had hoped for a pause in the wake of high-profile bank runs.Stocks sold off in post-Fed trading on Wednesday afternoon. Precious metals markets, however, managed to record gains f...Read More

Namely, while the GDXJ (upper part of thechart) moved only a little above its recent high, silver has pretty muchdoubled its previous short-term upswing. WhatAre the Suggestions? To be clear, neither of those moveshigher was substantial. However, it is the relative performance that mattersfrom an analytical point of view.As I have emphasized many times before, miners tend to underperform gold clos...Read More

Enough is enough. No market can decline without correcting every nowand then. And both gold and the USDX point to an upcoming reversal.Let’s start with gold.IsIt Over? Looking at its price from ashort-term point of view, we see that it paused for a brief moment at its 38.2%Fibonacci retracement level. And then – after the pause – golddeclined.Not only that – it declined bel...Read More

The two global crude benchmarks are stillenjoying momentum that began on Thursday – despite larger-than-expected UScrude inventories – following reports from the financial press that Russia willcut oil exports from its western ports by 25% per month in March compared toFebruary in response to Western sanctions.These claims, however, have not yet beenconfirmed by the Russian Ministry of...Read More

"Central banks are so confident that gold prices will continue rising that they are..."Central banks have been scooping up gold with a vengeance.Here's a Jan. 31 Financial Times headline:'Colossal' central bank buying drives gold demand to decade highInterestingly, just a few days later on Feb. 3, the precious metal dropped by more than 2%. But setting aside near-term price moves in gold, what yo...Read More

The news is full of articles now discussing how food (Staples) producer prices are going to continue rising, how warehouse and distribution channels are pushing “inflation” higher, how charges to use cargo containers and transportation are all pushing “inflation” higher.The inflationary acts were committed in 2020 and 2021. The inflation was inflicted then and is now histor...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The pearl necklace worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 movie Roman Holiday has been pulled from auction, without explanation, by Christie's Geneva.It follows another unexplained withdrawal, that of the Blue Lagoon tourmaline (estimate $1.44m to $2.44m) from a Sotheby's Geneva auction earlier this month.The Hepburn choker-style pearl necklace, set with cabochon sapphires, w...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Debswana, the joint venture between De Beers and the Botswana government, has started using solar power at its diamond mines as part of a pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.President Mokgweetsi Masisi said solar energy and biodiesel were now being used at the Jwaneng, Orapa, Letlhakane and Damtshaa mines.A grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) plant has already been providing...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lucapa today (20 November) said it was pausing plans to revive the Merlin mine in Australia, amid the ongoing decline in diamond prices.The Perth-based miner bought the mothballed deposit (pictured), in a remote part of Northern Territory, Australia, for $6m in December 2021.At the time it estimated annual production at 153,000 carats, generating a total projected revenue of $1.14b...Read More