The central bank is widely expected to hike interest rates on WednesdayThe Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kicked off its two-day policy-setting meeting today, with the central bank widely expected to announce another rate hike tomorrow afternoon -- despite protests from President Donald Trump and recently dovish Fed comments. While the S&P 500 Index (SPX) tends to struggle the month after Fe...Read More
LONDON, 2 November 2018 - Comment from BullionVault features today in the latest gold-price update from leading US finance site MarketWatch.Faced with "such uncertainty" around the US mid-term elections and next week's Federal Reserve policy meeting, "gold is taking a pause after its best winning streak since January," the report quotes BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash, pointing to gol...Read More
Perception of gold as an investment is fundamentally flawed. No matter the detail behind the analysis, gold is not an investment. investment…a thing that is worth buying because it may be profitable or useful in the future.Lets suppose you are at the grocery store and you see that butter is on sale for $2.00 per pound. Normally you pay $3.00 per pound or more.Since...Read More
LONDON, 2 November 2018 - BullionVault is named today by iNews as a way UK savers and investors should think about preparing for March 2019's Brexit from the European Union.Website of newspaper the i, which has a daily circulation of over a quarter-million copies, "Like it or not, Brexit is coming," says iNews.Looking at cash and foreign currency, global markets, infrastructure, wine and crypto-cu...Read More
The earlier uptick in the Chinese ammonium paratungstate (APT) price faltered in the week ended Friday December 14, while both European and Chinese ferro-tungsten markets were stable due to the end-of-year trading lull. APT fob price in China moved down due to low overseas buying interest amid falling prices in the domestic market. Chinese tungsten concentrate price unchanged. Ferro-tun...Read More
The SPX fell more than 10% in 50 sessionsThe major stock market indexes are in correction territory -- defined as at least 10% below their record highs -- and the S&P 500 Index (SPX) is no exception. In fact, the broad-market index fell more than 11% in just 50 sessions, marking the first time the index has dropped at least 10% in that short of a span since January 2016. Below is what we might exp...Read More
Newmont Mining (NEM) is a gold stock with plenty of institutional interest. This means due to its huge following it is a good candidate for Gann Angles.Gold and gold stocks are waiting for the FED and other central banks to swing to dovish monetary policy, Powell hinted this in last speech, and next week the FED is expected to hike 0.25% to 2.5%, however the 3 previously planned hikes in 2019 look...Read More
The shares could be poised to break out of recent congestion below $245The shares of medical analytics issue Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO) have taken a breather since touching a record high of $253.90 in early December. However, the equity could be ready to launch its next leg higher, with TMO shares flashing a historical buy signal.Specifically, Thermo Fisher stock is now within one s...Read More
LONDON, 19 October 2018 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash was a guest today on CNBC TV-18, India's leading financial news channel.Speaking by phone from London, Adrian said now looks a good time to start accumulating gold ahead of the financial and political risks 2019 will bring.The current move higher in gold prices has been led, he went on, by formerly bearish hedge-fund traders cl...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1249.30+$3.00Silver$14.64-$0.03XAU70.61+2.05%HUI160.34+2.31%GDM583.74+2.24%JSE Gold1328.43+26.18USD97.06-0.08Euro113.64+0.17Yen89.18+0.64Oil$46.24-$3.6410-Year2.823%-0.035T-Bond144.4375+0.65625Dow23675.64+0.35%Nasdaq6783.91+0.45%S&P2546.16+0.01% The Metals: Gold erased early Asian gains and dipped to $1245.10 at about 2AM EST before it rallied up to $1...Read More
By Dave KranzlerA friend asked me today what I thought Powell should do. I said, "the system is screwed. It ultimately doesn't matter what anyone does. The money printing, credit creation and artificially low interest rates over the last 10 years has fueled the most egregious misallocation of capital in history of the universe.Eventually the Fed/Central Banks will print trillions more - 10x mo...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Thanks to C.C., our new friend in Shanghai, China, for alerting us to Chinese-language commentary published in August in the Hong Kong Economic Journal that cited GATA extensively, even taking for illustration the GATA painting by Alain Despert: https://www1.hkej.com/dailynews/investment/article/1914231/ Your secretary/treasurer today has had some fun attempting a tr...Read More
The last few years of the Everything Bubble were driven by the ultimate dumb money: corporations borrowing to buy back their stock at record high prices. A whole generation of CEOs and CFOs were able to pad both their reputations and their year-end bonuses this way while, it seemed, blatantly screwing over their employees and other stakeholders. Like most other kinds of criminal negligence, this...Read More
Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. The US stock market continues to implode. At the same time, precious metals, bitcoin, and the Indian stock market are acting as superb safe havens.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this great short term gold chart.3. Note the positive bounce from buy-side support at $1237, and the inverse H&S bottom pattern. A fresh r...Read More
JNJ and BA are two stocks to watch todayThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is bouncing back today, trading well into triple-digit territory. Traders are anticipating tomorrow's Fed decision, while also monitoring a sharp decline in oil prices. At last check, January-dated crude futures were down 5.2% at $47.31 per barrel amid reports of rising crude production in both the U.S. and Russia. Amon...Read More
By David Haggith It's downright wintry on Wall Street right now. Firmly establishing the worst start of a December for the US stock market in 38 years, all three major stock indices plumbed the greatest depths they have hit all year ... and it's been a bad year! The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed at 2,546 and 6,754 respectively. The Dow closed down 504 points to rest at 23,593. If it closes the...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Are gold and silver mining companies joining the class-action lawsuits being filed against investment bank JPMorganChase because of the confession by a former futures trader for the bank who has pleaded guilty to manipulating the monetary metals markets?:https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/13/jp-morgan-faces-lawsuits-after-guilty-pl...While gold and silver mining investors...Read More
By Steve St. AngeloInvestors will be surprised to know the main factor that drives the gold price. And no, it isn't the oil price or market. While the oil price has been a good indicator for the gold price over the past 50+ years, it hasn't done much over the shorter term. However, there is a gold market demand factor that seems to move the gold price more than any other indicator.In my ne...Read More
By Keith WeinerFor the first time since we began publishing this Report, it is a day late. We apologize. Keith has just returned Saturday from two months on the road.Unlike the rest of the world, we define inflation as monetary counterfeiting. We do not put the emphasis on quantity (and the dollar is not money, it's a currency). We focus on the quality. An awful lot of our monetary counterfeitin...Read More
Although I've projected a further 3.3% drop in the E-Mini S&Ps over the near-term, we should remain open to the possibility of a stock-market reversal on Tuesday that would kick off the increasingly prayed-for Santa rally/dead-cat bounce. The chart shows what would need to happen to trip the bullish signal. Specifically, the March contract would need to push above the small peak at 2616.75 tha...Read More