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
The trendline emerged as support late last weekCaterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) stock is down 3.6% in electronic trading, after UBS double downgraded the blue chip to "sell" from "buy, and slashed its price target to $125 from $154 -- an 11.6% discount to last night's close at $141.41. The brokerage firm said slowing global construction sales will likely pressure CAT's revenue and margins, and spark an...Read More
SPOT has gained 44.5% since its Christmas Eve bottomThe shares of Spotify Technology SA (NYSE:SPOT) are down 2% in electronic trading, after a Wall Street Journal (subscription required) report indicated lawmakers in Washington D.C. were toying with the idea of overhauling music licensing rules. On the charts, Spotify stock has had a rip-roaring start to 2019, adding 31.5% year-to-date, now near...Read More
Home Depot and Caterpillar stocks are slipping in pre-market tradingDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are lower today, dragged down by Caterpillar (CAT) and Home Depot (HD) stocks. Specifically, CAT received a downgrade to "sell" from UBS, and HD reported fourth-quarter earnings that fell short of expectations. In addition, Wall Street is weighing the S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller home price...Read More
The gulf between bulls and bears widened in the latest Investors Intelligence surveyOne of the essential broad-based sentiment indicators we track is the weekly Investors Intelligence (II) poll, which measures the mood among financial advisors in much the same manner that the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) survey takes the temperature among retail-level market participants. In...Read More
By: Stefan GleasonMore than a decade after the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. monetary policy continues to operate in crisis management mode.Despite a long, drawn out rate-hiking campaign - now paused - the Federal Reserve has yet to bring its benchmark interest rate up to normal levels historically.It has yet to unwind the vast majority of the nearly $4 trillion in emergency asset purchases added...Read More
Global aluminium premiums were little changed this week, with good support from steady market conditions, but premiums in South Korea moved higher due to low levels of inventory. European traders happy to hold metalSouth Korean premiums move up on tight inventoryImport uptrend and domestic discounts in BrazilUS premiums steady. Contango still supporting European premiumsLondon Metal Exchange price...Read More
1. The biggest driver of major markets right now is the possibility of a US-China trade deal.2. On that note, please click here now. The US government's wild launch of tariff taxes caused global markets to swoon in the first half of 2018. Gold and the Chinese stock market were hurt more than a lot of other markets.3. Gold has done well with QE, QT, falling rates, and rising...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerI don't know if it was the intent of the Fed, but Jerome Powell has managed to trigger a rush into stocks more frenzied than the one that engulfed the last days of the dot.com/techbubble. The vertical ascent since Christmas in the Dow/SPX is unprecedented on a percentage basis over an 8-week period of time. All sense of logic, sound analysis and fear of risk has disappeared. I d...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Financial letter writer Mark Hulbert never offers a good word about gold, which is fine, but then never offers a relevant one either. This practice has turned him into a mere propagandist.In his essay today at MarketWatch, headlined "Why Gold Won't Save Your Portfolio from Inflation's Bite" --https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-gold-wont-save-your-portfolio-from......Read More
In my last article, "The Bears Have it Right: Economy went Polar Opposite of Bullish Predictions," I laid out my first prediction for 2019 a recession by summer. I don't want the following revelations and facts that I have since come across to get lost in comments I recently posted to that article, so I'm bringing them all together here.How bad was 2018?The Wall Street Journal just said it wa...Read More
Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") updated its annual reserve estimates as of December 31, 2018, increasing its proven and probable reserve tonnes at both its Oaxaca Mining Unit and Nevada Mining Unit by a combined total of 18% gold ounces and 14% silver ounces. Gold Resource Corporation is a gold and silver producer, developer and explorer with operations in Oa...Read More
By: IRA EPSTEINGold Price action consolidating in narrowing ranges. 18 day average is key (~1322.70$)Read More
The recent plunge in Heinz-Kraft shares reminds us that even Warren Buffett can make a mistake. A couple of years ago, it might have seemed as though the Sage's portfolio was impervious to downturns, given its heavy focus on the basics: food chain, railroads and insurance companies. As it happens, his bet on such time-tested brands as Oscar Mayer, Jell-o, Kraft Singles, Kool Whip and Cheez-Whiz...Read More
The correction in industrial metals was a case of "buy the rumour and sell the fact". The rumour was a trade deal between USA-China. Now that the trade deal is more or less a done deal, there was profit booking. There can be more corrections in industrial metals and thereafter a period of consolidation. The next big move will be next week around the release of various US jobs numbers. Once detai...Read More
A summary of base metals premiums from across the globe for the week to Tuesday February 26.Please click...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly higher at the close of trading on Tuesday February 26, with positive trade rhetoric in US-China trade talks lending support to commodity investment, while US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell signaled slower but strong US economic growth. Copper's three-month price continues to hold ground near the $6,500-per-tonne level against a backd...Read More
Progress on the U.S.-China trade front is worrisome to gold investors.Yet despite the loss of safety demand, gold still has plenty going for it.Increased demand from China, emerging markets will pick up the slack.Now that the March 1 trade tariff deadline on Chinese goods has been extended, investors can finally breathe a sigh of relief. More importantly for gold, however, the trade deadline exten...Read More
In contrast to the clear skies outside, a cloud hung over discussions among Indian scrap traders attending the opening session of the annual conference of the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) earlier this month in Kochi, southern India.Secretary-general Amar Singh praised the superior air quality in the host city, compared with the metropolises of New Delhi and Mumbai. But delegates...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 26 that are worth another look.Lithium producer share price weakness is a reflection of the supply response that started in 2018, head of base metals and battery materials research William Adams said. While the supply side is weighing on sentiment, the demand side of the equation remains extremely bullish - and inc...Read More
Teranga finishes 2018 with record production and $112 million EBITDA.Wahgnion construction is on time and budget and commercial production could start earlier than planned.Golden Hill initial resource tops one million ounces of gold.The first quarter of 2019 should be the strongest quarter of the year, which could provide a boost for the share price once results are released. Source Introduction...Read More