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
For Part 1 of this interview, CLICK HEREMax continues his interview with Alasdair Macleod of Goldmoney.com. In this segment, they discuss the rise of China, its large purchases of gold, and Alasdair's belief that China may one day announce that it has over 10,000 tons of gold. Should Beijing do this, the dollar is toast, he says.Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs Fina...Read More
In this interview Kerry Stevenson from Symposium discusses with Egon von Greyerz the deteriorating health of the global world economy. The root cause originates from deceitful governments, derivatives, money printing and too much debt.Egon doubts Cryptos will be a savior of the upcoming global melt down. Egon purports: Governments are likely to ban Cryptos, by shutting down the exchanges, also the...Read More
"If 'Fairy Godmother Billy Porter' doesn't have an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor written all over it, we don't know what does." Continue...Read More
U.S. Attorney General William Barr, along with co-conspirators in the UK and Australia, recently wrote a letter to Mark Zuckerberg requesting he not move forward with Continue...Read More
One of the key points that I have been harping on over the last year is simple: The recent tax cuts were destined to go into financial engineering to leverage earnings per shareContinue...Read More
The mainstream financial media is absolutely ebullient about global central banks' renewed enthusiasm to cut interest rates to a level that is even lower than they already are. Continue...Read More
Topics:Why the narrative just failed and what it meansTranslating narrative failure to portfolio positioning: Who wins and who loses?Reconciling Luke's narrative failure thesis with the treasury bid evidenced by low yieldsRead More
Continue...Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Mr. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was Vice President of the American Economic Ass...Read More
"If America does not speak out for human rights in China because of commercial interest, then we lose all moral authority to speak out for human rights anyplace in the world."Continue...Read More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel ignored an EU risk assessment and allows Huawei's 5G technology.Continue...Read More
China's ferro-silicon market has been stable since participants returned from a week-long national holiday in the country on October 1-7, with prices hemmed between tighter supply amid production cuts and weaker demand.In Europe, prices increased for the first time since the start of August amid supply worries after a recent announcement of cuts to domestic production combined with low trader stoc...Read More
Continue...Bill Gross is the Portfolio Manager of the Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond and Total Return strategies and a member of the global macro fixed income leadership team. Mr. Gross co-founded PIMCO in 1971 and served as managing director and Chief Investment Officer until joining Janus in 2014. He is the author of numerous articles on the bond market, as well as the book Everything...Read More
Gold prices should be targeting as high as $1,650 to $1,700 an ounce by the first quarter of next year, but fundamental events need to be pushing the yellow in the right direction, this according to Gary Wagner, editor of thegoldforecast.com."A lot of it has to do with fundamental events and the biggest one of course is whether or not they resolved the trade war, but if they continue to have the i...Read More
"Turkey's action is precipitating a humanitarian crisis and setting conditions for possible war crimes," Trump said on Monday.Continue...Read More
A small-cap company in Montana is exploring to find out if its property contains "Platreef-style" PGE mineralization. There is a 30-mile long geologic slice of layered magmatic intrusion cutting through the Beartooth Mountain range in south-central Montana that closely resembles one of the world's most productive mining regions in South Africa. The Stillwater Igneous Complex encases tens of milli...Read More
Strong earnings reports from UnitedHealth and J.P. Morgan Chase boosted investor sentimentThe Dow clocked a 237-point win today, boosted by a few major wins early in the earnings season. Bank stocks, specifically, took center stage, as JPMorgan Chase (JPM) got a boost on its record-breaking revenue. Fellow blue chip UnitedHealth (UNH) posted numbers that sent the insurance stock gapping higher, wh...Read More
Both ANF and M have run up to historically bearish trendlinesWhile earnings season kicks off this week, there's also retail sales data due out tomorrow, putting Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE:ANF) and Macy's Inc (NYSE:M) in the cross-hairs. The two retail stocks have made outsized moves in the past week, and both ANF and M now running up to trendlines with historically bearish implications.Loo...Read More
US President Donald Trump said on Monday October 14 that he will impose a 50% tariff on imports of steel from Turkey in response to that country's military actions in northeastern Syria.However, market participants believe such a move will have a minor impact on the Turkish steel sector, because Turkey's steel exports to the United States are already limited because of weak demand.BilletA trader f...Read More
Tech peer NFLX, however, is trading in the redU.S. stocks are roaring higher today as third-quarter earnings so far have pleased investors. In the meantime, we're watching FAANG heavyweights Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), and Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB). Here's a quick breakdown where the shares of NFLX, GOOGL, and FB are trading today. 300-Strike Call In Focus Before NFLX...Read More
The short seller is "giving credit where credit is due"Shares of Bausch Health Companies Inc (NYSE:BHC) are higher this afternoon, thanks to a relatively rare bullish note from notorious short seller Citron Research. The firm said BHC stock is "on its way to $40" -- nearly double its current price -- as the stock "still trades with a 'Valeant discount' despite new management's 180-degree turn of c...Read More