By: IRA EPSTEIN Is Gold Building a Base or a Top?Read More
The European market for ferro-silicon has fallen again with traders reducing their offer prices both on an inter-merchant basis and to consumers in the steel sector, while the market in the United States has stalled on a lack of buying activity. Europe marks new low for 2019 Market under further pressure China prices rolled over US market flat on inactivity.European market under pressureThe downwa...Read More
It’s possible last week’scascading selling rout in palladium ended its multi-year bull market. Theformerly white-hot metal lost more than $200/oz (but is beginning to rebound).For now, however,palladium prices remain in a long-term uptrend above the bullishly aligned 20-weekand 50-week moving averages – and physical supply remains tight. Regardless of whether the palladium market...Read More
In February, the World Gold Council released the newest edition of Gold Investor. What can we learn from the report? Let’s discuss gold’s role in the onslaught of the cashless society, its role as a portfolio diversifier, reverse asset and source of liquidity.Rogoff Wants Cashless Society, but Appreciates GoldAs a lot has happened recently, we didn’t have time to analyze the late...Read More
Copper's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange had gone up by the close of trading on Monday April 8, once again trading at more than $6,500 per tonne over the afternoon, while a marginal dip in the US dollar index helped zinc's three-month price recover to more than $2,900 per tonne.Volumes traded in copper topped the complex over the day, with more than 13,000 lots changing hands by the...Read More
By: IRA EPSTEIN Is Gold Building a Base or a Top?Read More
Trump wants interest rate cuts this year. His strategy is simple: Weaken the US dollar ? A weaker US dollar will help US exports and also reduce import ? Higher employment will be there if interest rate cuts are there and the US dollar also weakens. The ultimate goal of all these moves is to get a re-nomination next year and also win next year presidential elections. The fallout of a weaker US d...Read More
I recently spoke with Maximilian Sali, who along with Brad Telfer founded Barrian Mining Corp. Interesting to note is that Max comes from a long lineage of successful investors, his father was a founder and a director of Qtrade Securities, a large Canadian discount brokerage that had a major stake purchased by Desjardins and his uncle was a top producing broker in Vancouver who ran Dundee Securi...Read More
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Precious Metals disappointed again.The miners were leading the metals but the metals broke down from bear flag patterns and that took the miners lower, suggesting an interim top is in place.The technicals suggest weakness could be ahead for the sector but the fundamentals are finally turning bullish.Before we get to fundamentals, let’s look at the t...Read More
The earlier sharp fall in the European ferro-vanadium price slowed in the week ended Friday April 5 amid stabilizing market sentiment, while the price in China continued to decline on weak demand. The Chinese ferro-vanadium price continued to fall amid weak buying interest. The European ferro-vanadium market shows signs of stabilization; price fall slows down. Chinese and European V2O...Read More
As we’ve been suggesting for months, expect continued moderate price weakness in Gold and Silver through most of April 2019 and possibly into early May 2019 before a strong price rally will setup and push Gold prices well above $1500 before the end of 2019. Our Adaptive Dynamic Learning predictive price modeling system has been calling for this move for many months (see the chart below...Read More
Learn how to protect savings and maximize returns by investing in precious metals.Gold Trust would like to announce the newest edition of its guide to precious metals, perfect for anyone hoping to safeguard their investments and retirement!And today, they are giving away a free copy of their Investor's Guide to Precious Metals 2019!Their goal is to help regular investors learn the "pro" secrets...Read More
The price of steel rebar and wire rod exported from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) decreased by $5 per tonne over the week, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday April 8.Fastmarkets' weekly assessment of the price of CIS export wire rod was $505-515 per tonne fob Black Sea on April 8, moving down from $510-520 per tonne fob a week earlier.The lower end of the assessment is reflective of...Read More
Clive Maund sees some rough waters with gold and discusses how to play it. I have not been happy about the pattern that has been forming in gold since it plunged rather rudely and sharply around the end of February. The concern that was engendered by that plunge and the accompanying momentum breakdown, that we can see on gold's latest 8-month chart below, were allayed by its managing to stabilize...Read More
Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More
Stocks extended their short-term uptrend on Friday, as investors' sentiment remained bullish following the monthly jobs data release. The S&P 500 index got closer to its last year's September record high. But will the uptrend continue despite some technical overbought conditions?The U.S. stock market indexes gained 0.2-0.6% on Friday, extending their uptrend, as investors sentiment remained bu...Read More
The major silver minershave rallied higher on balance in recent months, enjoying a young upleg. That’s a welcome change after they suffered amiserable 2018. Times are tough for silverminers, since silver’s prices have languished near extreme lows relative togold. That has forced many traditionalsilver miners to increasingly diversify into gold. The major silver...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday April 8 that are worth another look.The World Trade Organization handed a victory to Russia in a Ukrainian transit dispute in its first-ever ruling on a national security exemption, which could have profound implications for pending Section 232 disputes at the WTO and potential automobile tariffs to be imposed by United Stat...Read More
Take advantage of the first amendment, and participate in a nation-wide poll.With the 2020 election growing ever closer, the country continues to be divided politically.From disputes about the appropriateness of displaying the Confederate flag, to rights for minorities, and the ever-growing concern about security at the U.S. border, the 2020 election promises to be contentious... if not the most c...Read More
Do you want to protect your capital against recession? Great, just like us and millions of other people. The key questions is, thus, how to predict that the danger is coming. We invite you to read our today’s article and find out what are key recession indicators – and their relationship with the price of gold. Do you want to protect your capital against recession? Great, just like us...Read More