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 $1283.00-$1.60Silver$15.36+$0.03XAU68.86+0.18%HUI151.86-0.22%GDM573.37+0.13%JSE Gold1350.79+8.99USD96.12-0.24Euro113.83+0.20Yen91.47-0.18Oil$52.62-$0.3910-Year2.746%+0.007T-Bond145.00-0.40625Dow24575.62+0.70%Nasdaq7025.77+0.08%S&P2638.70+0.22% The Metals: Gold edged up to $1286.50 in Asia before it dropped back to $1278.70 in early New York trade and th...Read More
By Craig HemkeLast week, we discussed our outlook for 2019 and the factors that will soon drive price to multi-year highs, and eventually, new all-time highs. This week, let's take stock of the current situation and attempt to discern the direction of price in the near term. If you missed last week's column, you should be sure to read it now. The months ahead will unfold in a manner eerily remin...Read More
Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson, the Deviant Investor.From Bill Holter "Crash Alert." "For the last 6 months we have responded 'it is happening right before your very eyes!'" "The coming crash is a mathematical certainty and one that historians will ask in the future, 'what were they thinking.' While CNBC parades clown after clown to tell you this is a buying opportunit...Read More
By Frank HolmesPalladium might not fill headlines the way gold does, but it's been on fire lately. Not only has the precious metal been the best performing commodity for two years straight, but its price also just shot past gold for the first time since 2001. For the first time ever, it broke through $1,400 an ounce last week before pulling back somewhat. From its 52-week low set in August, pall...Read More
I've bent over backwards lately second-guessing my permabear side, on a hair-trigger as I wait for the short squeeze from hell to begin. Instead, the Masters of the Universe who supposedly control the stock market like it's a PlayStation game can barely muster a decent rally other than fleeting ones on the opening bar. Have I perhaps overestimated the sleazeballs? Probably. Regardless, it all co...Read More
- David Attenborough warns Davos summit - 'The Garden of Eden is no more'- "If we wreck the natural world, we wreck ourselves" warns Attenborough- If we destroy our environment, it will badly impact our economies and markets- We must put the environment at the heart of our financial and monetary systems- "Future proof" our economies, our currencies, our finances & our pensions with gold- Hop...Read More
Gold and silver are steady. Trump's top economic advisor is looking for commitments from China for a trade deal. Uncertainties over a trade deal will prevent gold from a big sell off. Right now the trend in gold is neutral. Silver needs to trade over $1500 to be in a bullish zone. Day traders are on the sidelines. Long term investors are using sharp dips to invest in gold. Some large fund manage...Read More
Corporate earnings reports have been almost uniformly positive this morningDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are trading above fair value this morning, with stocks set to jump thanks to strong corporate earnings. Most notably, Dow components Procter & Gamble (PG), United Technologies (UTX), and IBM (IBM) are all on pace for strong gains after their quarterly reports. The results are helpi...Read More
Traders can still take something away from the random indicatorThe Super Bowl teams are set and based on the Super Bowl Indicator, investors should be rooting for the Los Angeles Rams. The table below shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) has outperformed in years that the NFC team defeated the AFC team in the Super Bowl. I doubt, however, there's anyone that takes the Super Bowl Indicator...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1283.00-$1.60Silver$15.36+$0.03XAU68.86+0.18%HUI151.86-0.22%GDM573.37+0.13%JSE Gold1350.79+8.99USD96.12-0.24Euro113.83+0.20Yen91.47-0.18Oil$52.62-$0.3910-Year2.746%+0.007T-Bond145.00-0.40625Dow24575.62+0.70%Nasdaq7025.77+0.08%S&P2638.70+0.22% The Metals: Gold edged up to $1286.50 in Asia before it dropped back to $1278.70 in early New York trade and th...Read More
Bob Pisani| @BobPisaniPublished 7 Hours AgoUpdated7 Hours AgoCNBC.com [The stream is slated to start at 1:00 PM ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.]Host Bob Pisani and guests Tim Seymour of Seymour Asset Management and Andrew McOrmond of WallachBeth discuss the best way to get in the global rally and whether a bitcoin ETF is off the table.CNBC's ETF Edge is...Read More
• Gold met with some aggressive selling in the last hour and has now eroded a major part of the previous session's goodish bounce from closer to over two-week lows. • The intraday uptick failed to sustain above 100-hour SMA and quickly ran out of steam near an important horizontal support break-point now turned resistance. &bul...Read More
On November 14, 2018, CME bitcoin futures broke through the important $6,000 support level and lost more than 40 percent of their value in the next 12 days.On that same day, gold futures accelerated off their lows and began an explosive 9 percent rally higher.Bitcoin's sentiment-shift most probably fueled and accelerated the opposing move in gold.By Jim Iuorio At a Glance Among the two major...Read More
• Optimism over US-China trade talks weighs on traditional safe-haven assets. • The positive tone around the US bond yields further collaborates towards capping. • A subdued USD demand turns out to be the only factor lending some support. Gold struggled to build on the overnight goodish up-move from closer to two-week lows and s...Read More
Former BHP Billiton director John Crofts has joined Ocean Partners in Australia to help develop new opportunities in the base and precious metals concentrate market, Fastmarkets learned on Wednesday January 23.Crofts, who will be based in Melbourne, will focus on the regions of Australia and Southeast Asia.He worked at BHP Billiton for 23 years until June 2010, when he joined copper and gold...Read More
Russia not only books a Surplus, but also reduces its debt! Currencies are stuck in the mud... Good Day… And a Wonderful Wednesday to you! It was a long day yesterday for yours truly, that began with a trip to Roger Dean Stadium for an exchange of tickets that they gave me in error… I made the person at the window pull out my order sheet, to confirm that they made the err...Read More
Published 23 Hours AgoUpdated5 Hours AgoReuters Getty ImagesGold bullion bars and coins.Gold prices steadied on Wednesday, clawing back from losses made earlier in the session, as a recovery in stock markets fizzled out on concerns over geopolitical and economic uncertainty, triggering investors to seek safety in the metal.Spot gold fell 0.12 percent to $1,283.11 an ounce by 3:05 p.m. ET, havin...Read More
Delays began to form at the London Metal Exchange's warrant depository this week after large amounts of warrants were being cancelled, sources told Fastmarkets MB.There were delays of up to five hours at the depository on Tuesday January 22, market sources said. As a result, the LME closed the depository early due to a backlog and stopped accepting further cancellations, a second source said.The L...Read More
Zinc futures on the London Metal Exchange led gains at the close of trading on Wednesday January 23 with its three-month price continuing to trade above $2,600 per tonne, while the rest of the complex trends higher against a softer dollar index. After a fresh cancelation of more than 22,000 tonnes resulted in most of European LME zinc's stock - principally held in LME-listed warehouses in Rotterda...Read More
What will it take for gold & silver to start moving higher in price again? Here's Steve St. Angelo with the answer...by Steve St. Angelo of SRSrocco ReportThe silver price trended lower last week after hitting a high of nearly $16 the prior week. So, what's in store for silver and the broader markets this week? If we look at the moving averages and what is taking place in the broader markets...Read More