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
By: Stefan Gleason, Money MetalsDuring the lackluster and otherwise unremarkable trading of 2018, a hugely important development took place in the precious metals markets. Gold production, in the estimation of some top industry insiders, peaked.Peak gold represents the point at which the total number of ounces being pulled out of the ground by miners reaches a maximum.It doesn't necessarily mean...Read More
By: Gary ChristensonGold prices (weekly chart) formed an impressive inverse head and shoulders formation during a five-year base. Gold prices, which bottomed in December 2015, should climb the wall of worry.WHAT WALL OF WORRY?Really? You have to ask? Financial, stock market, debt and political worries come to mind:Global debt is about $250 trillion. The lenders expect to be repaid plus interest....Read More
By: Richard (Rick) Mills Gold markets were rocking on Tuesday, lifted by a basket of factors that included poor stock market performance earlier in the week, slow growth in China, weak earnings reports and expectations the US Federal Reserve would strike a dovish tone at its two-day meeting starting on Tuesday afternoon. The Fed raised interest rates four times in 2018 but some officials have...Read More
By: Gary TanashianAs the stock market cracked on October 10th we noted...Looks Who's Holding Firm Amid the Carnage; the Gold MinersAnd sure enough the GDX bottoming pattern noted in that post (and before that in an NFTRH subscriber update) played out perfectly amid the stock market carnage going on all around it.Was I trying to predict something? Of course not. I was just following general rul...Read More
By: David HaggithFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell placed his put in stocks while saying there is none. When he doubled down today on a more dovish approach to the economy, Powell claimed the Fed is not designing interest rates to keep the market climbing. If that is true, recession must be near:Fed delivers a "double-barrel dovish blast" The Fed sees recession dead ahead. You have only that...Read More
Well, there you have it: the most brazenly bogus rally in the history of the world. Are these guys good, or what? The fix was in even before Powell declared Wednesday afternoon that the Fed would be "patient." (Now there's a word that will reverberate through history!) AAPL's and Boeing's handlers had already gotten the jump on the Fed chairman's latest PR mutterance, deftly engineering respec...Read More
2019 is going to be a windfall year for you.You're going to make a lot of money this year - possibly more than you ever have in your entire life.I'm not kidding. You're going take your wealth to an entirely new level this year.So... how are you going to do that?Easier than you think: You're going to change your perception about most things in your life. And it starts right here, right now...Say th...Read More
Iranian export billet prices picked up over the past week as suppliers managed to achieve higher sales prices amid the uptick in the global billet market. Several cargoes of Iranian billet for March shipment were sold to Asia in the week to Wednesday January 30 at $360-370 per tonne fob, up from $350 per tonne fob a week earlier. Iranian billet suppliers followed the trend in the global marke...Read More
It's the dumbest New Year's resolution I've ever heard."This year, I'm going to start investing and start getting rich!"You know what kind of people make New Year's resolutions like that?Poor people!Why would anyone "wait" to get rich?If it were the middle of summer and you figured out a way to more than double your money on a single stock, would you wait until the new year to buy that stock? Of...Read More
David Stockman, former congressman and budget director for President Reagan joins Sprott Media's Remy Blaire at the NASDAQ MarketSite. Stockman discusses the premise behind his book, Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp And The Fantasy Of MAGA.David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, S...Read More
Stephen Roach, former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman and Yale senior fellow, joins "Squawk Alley" to discuss potential progress on a trade deal between the U.S. and China.Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the autho...Read More
Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More
European molybdenum prices rose this trading this week, with both molybdenum oxide and ferro-molybdenum prices paring almost all losses so far this year, with higher oxide offer prices behind the rise in the alloy market.Still, there were few deals reported and industry sources said there is a disparity between oxide fundamentals and those in ferro-molybdenum, casting doubt on the sustainability o...Read More
Like millions of other people, I'm very nostalgic for Nintendo, especially at Christmas. That's because this story, or some version of it, is quite common:1986. Christmas morning. Under the tree, there was a giant wrapped box, tagged:TO: Luke and LanceFROM: SantaMy father told us we should open that one first.Tearing into it revealed a giant robot head staring back at us. And we immediately knew e...Read More
If you need a hammer for any reason, the United Kingdom's counter-terrorism policing unit will consider you a potential terrorist. Continue...Read More
"As they cannot invent that Venezuela and Maduro have weapons of mass destruction... they now invent lies every day, false news, to justify an aggression against our country."Continue...Read More
It's amazing what a few weeks of outperformance will do for an asset class.Gold and silver, after being pretty much ignored for the past few years, are now the shiny new toys of the investment world. From just the past couple of days:Continue...Read More
Thanks to those who answered my question on Monday about the tax cuts. I'll share some of those answers below, but first I've got to get something off my chest.Continue...Read More
David Morgan is a world-renown precious metals aficionado. He is the creator of the Silver-Investor.com website and The Morgan Report, a monthly report that covers economic news, overall financial health of the global economy, currency problems and the key reasons for investing in precious metals. A dynamic, much-in-demand speaker all over the globe, David's educational mission also makes him a pr...Read More