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 CIS export billet market became firmer early in the week following a stabilization of prices in the scrap market as well as fresh billet bookings agreed at higher prices, Fastmarkets heard on Monday October 7.Fastmarkets' daily steel billet index, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was $352 per tonne on October 7, up by $1 per tonne from Friday.A 50,000-tonnes cargo of Ukraine-origin billet was repor...Read More

"It came with a speed and ferocity that left men dazed. The bottom, simply fell out of the market... The streets were crammed with a mixed crowd agonized little speculators, sold-out traders... inquisitive individuals and tourists seeking ... a closer view of the national catastrophe...Where was it going to end?" account of stock market crash in the New York Times, October 1929 "In this age...Read More

Dave KranzlerOn October 4th, as I expected would happen, the Fed announced that it was extending its overnight and term repo operations out to November 26th (the November 12th two-week term repo matures on the 26th).The Fed added 7 more 2-week "term repos, " plus a 6-day "term repo," with the next three operations upped to $45 billion. It extended the overnight repos until at least November...Read More

StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was gold, up 0.51 percent. Gold traders and investors are positive on future gold prices in this weeks' Bloomberg survey. For the first time in a month the gold bulls outnumbered the combined bearish and neutral responses. ETFs added 39,919 troy ounces of gold to their holdings on Thursday, marking the 14th straight day of inflows, according to Bloomb...Read More

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, Oct. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE - Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") today announced its Isabella Pearl gold mine, located in Mineral County, Nevada, has reached commercial production levels. This commercial production announcement is based on mining rates, ore placement on the heap leach pad, mining and process costs, p...Read More

By: Andy HechtStarting and June and through the beginning of September, gold and silver prices were back in bullish mode. Gold rose to its highest price since 2013 and silver to its peak since 2016. The nearby gold futures contract traded up to a high at just under $1560 per ounce. Silver peaked at just under $19.54. Markets rarely move in a straight line, and corrections can be healthy for bul...Read More

Import prices for steel slab in Southeast Asia and East Asia were stable over the past week due to sluggish trading activity amid a week-long holiday in China to mark the country's 70th anniversary.Market participants are waiting to see how Chinese steel prices will change when its markets re-open on October 8, a trader in Taiwan said. Prices in Asia's downstream hot-rolled coil market fell amid C...Read More

Avi Gilburt, Elliott Wave TraderAs the media highlights the potential impeachment process in the coming weeks, many are so concerned that this will be the "cause" of the market drop we are expecting. Yet, history suggests otherwise.The narrative will certainly play out as follows: The market likes certainty and stability within our government. (Please ignore that this was the same reason many cl...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend C.W. wrote this week:"After reading recent commentaries noting that the U.S. Justice Department and Commodity Futures Trading Commission are overlooking the long-term suppression of the gold price while indicting individual traders for spoofing the gold and silver futures markets, I wondered why the authors did not acknowledge a simple likely explanation."...Read More

The Dow Industrials ended the week with an 800-point Whoopee Cushion bounce that recouped two-thirds of a 1300-point loss suffered days earlier. The swoon, exhilarating as it may have seemed to traders, will do little to brighten an economic picture that has gone from boom to gloom since mid-summer. One might think that the dark cloud of recession over China and Europe would have caused investor...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold's short-term trend is lower, finding support at the 18-week moving average..Read More

Range bound trade in gold and silver should be broken this week and a new range should be formed. There will be good demand in gold as long as it trades over $1480. There will be good demand in silver as long as it trades over $1680. Copper, zinc and nickel are poised for a ten percent one way move. Industrial metal price moves will be dependent on perception of recession among traders. Chinese...Read More

Off the RailsYour Social Security Return on InvestmentThe Next QuadrillionMissing OpportunitiesThe Best Birthday PresentI'm filing this letter on the day I turn 70 which, among other things, means I start receiving Social Security benefits this month.The good news, at least for me, is I am getting a whale of a deal from Social Security compared to later generations. Frankly, I was surprised at m...Read More

The markets for ferro-chrome with both high carbon and low carbon (0.10% C) content ticked upward in the week ended Friday October 4, with support from low supply volumes coming into the spot market. High- and low-carbon alloy prices rise in Europe Imported alloy price in China increases Domestic alloy price rolled over in China US alloy market stable.Prices for high and low carbon (0.10% C) ferro...Read More

"The Fed has enabled politicians to essentially escape fiscal responsibility entirely."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, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner,...Read More

The recent economic numbers are starting to have a decidedly negative bent to them. Manufacturing is down, the stock market is heading down and nobody knows where it will stop. Trump has been haranguing the Fed to rapidly lower rates and now it appears that he'll have his wish. Another rate cut is in the offing. Will we go totally negative or just hit zero? That's the question.John Rubino is the f...Read More

Since September 17, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has pumped billions of dollars into the repurchasing (repo) market, the first such intervention since 2009. The Fed has announced that it will continue to inject as much as 75 billion dollars a day into the repo market until November 4.The repo market provides a means for banks that are temporarily short of cash to obtain short-term (usually...Read More

"I have always appreciated the significant support our Chinese fans and sponsors have provided and I would hope that those who are upset will know that offending or misunderstanding themContinue...Read More

South Park episodes, discussions, tweets and fan pages have all been purged from the Chinese internet after the creators took aim at the communist party'sContinue...Read More

Continue...Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973, helping to steer the fund to a 4200% return before "retiring" at age 37. He is considered to be one of the greatest investors of all time. Rogers has made two record-setting journeys - once by motorcycle and once by car - and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for doing so. In between his frequent travels, he has se...Read More