Happy New Year everyone!Goodbye 2018, I won’t really miss you much!Hello 2019, I can’t wait to get to know you better…For New Year’s Eve, I celebrated at Bonifacio Global City (BGC)… My “home” away from home…Started off at The Island, in Uptown…Let the countdown begin…HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!Later, headed on over to High Street, for the live co...Read More
We are starting the New Year off with two encouraging developments for Canadian mid-cap oriented stocks. Not only has the INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index outperformed the S&P/TSX 60 Index over the past month, but our INK Indicator is also showing potential signs of peaking, something that tends to develop near a base in stock prices.Last spring, we were head faked by insider enthusiasm towards g...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:When GATA got started in January 1999 we figured that the rigging we saw in the gold and silver markets was the work of the big investment banks that heavily traded the monetary metals on the futures exchanges. Our idea was to gather evidence of their collusion and then sue them for triple damages under the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the anti-trust laws of the...Read More
Graceland Updates By Stewart ThomsonJan 1, 2019 1. As the new year begins, gold continues to gain respect as the ultimate investment asset. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the US dollar.2. Most investors tend to view the dollar as a "safe haven", but the big bank FOREX traders that really move the currency market view the dollar as a risk-on asset class.3. They...Read More
By Steve St. AngeloIf history is our guide, we are on track for a severe market meltdown in 2019. While the U.S. broader indexes remained in record territory for most of 2018, December turned out to be a complete disaster for stocks. So, even though the markets have reversed higher from their Christmas Eve lows, this is nothing more than a bear market rally.It's really that simple. Thus, a...Read More
- Are we to prepare for a global Debt Bubble Collapse in 2019?- 2019 to see the political and economic uncertainty of 2018 continue and likely to deepen- Investors lulled into a false sense of security by politicians, brokers, bankers etc.- Much "cheer leading" of the "economic recovery" narrative and by extension financial markets - particularly property and stock markets- Trade wars, currenc...Read More
In this video, Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson focus on four issues:(1) our departure from Patreon (as of Jan 15, 2019);(2) plans to create an alternative creator-funding platform, with multiple payment options, and with protection for free speech foremost and center as a guiding principle;(3) the exceptional danger posed by the increasing willingness of payment processors such as MasterCard, Visa...Read More
"The Pentagon Papers were stolen property, weren't they? They were stolen from the Pentagon and given to the New York Times and the Washington Post...Nobody went to jail at the Continue...Read More
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Top silver expert David Morgan comments on the worst year for stocks since 2008. He sees a shift coming away from equities and into precious metals. He sees 2019 being positive for gold and silver and sees even more momentum entering metals in 2020.Morgan thinks the Fed will not have much room to cut interest rates if the economy enters a recession. However, they could use quantitative easing. But...Read More
Continue...Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. Keiser invented "Virtual Specialist Technology," a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Prior to inventing this technology, he worked on Wall S...Read More
Trump's tariffs aren't exactly working as planned. Nor will they ever. The Peterson Institute for International Economic notes USContinue...Read More
"#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball...if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger."Continue...Read More
Thousands of protesters gathered in Hong Kong this week to demand full democracy, fundamental rights, and independence from mainland ChinaContinue...Read More
Akihiko Kondo received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in Chemical Engineering (1988). He was appointed as full professor of Kobe University in 2003 and also appointed as a Continue...Read More
The NDX just underwent its annual rebalance, with six companies removed from the list and six companies addedThe Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) is made up of the largest non-financial companies. The index recently underwent its annual rebalancing, adding six companies and removing six. The tables below show the six additions and removals, along with their 2018 return and analyst "buy" percentages from Zac...Read More
Don't miss this "hidden" trendline for the long-term Treasury trackerSimultaneous with bond yields cooling dramatically from the highs that rattled investor sentiment earlier in the fourth quarter, the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) has staged a comeback from its Nov. 2 four-year closing low of $112 (at which point the exchange-traded fund was down 11.7% on a year-to-date basis)....Read More
Watch Silver, folks. This quiet shiny metal is starting a move that could be very foretelling of global market concerns and risks. Early on December 26, 2018, Silver broke through recent resistance, to the upside, with a relatively large 2.8%+ upside move. Why is this so important to traders? Because Silver is the “sleeper metal” that is typically the last to react to global economic c...Read More
- Are we to prepare for a global Debt Bubble Collapse in 2019?- 2019 to see the political and economic uncertainty of 2018 continue and likely to deepen- Investors lulled into a false sense of security by politicians, brokers, bankers etc.- Much "cheer leading" of the "economic recovery" narrative and by extension financial markets - particularly property and stock markets- Trade wars, currenc...Read More
Although yours truly has yet to completely jump on the bull bandwagon (which has revved up recently), I cannot ignore the positive fundamental and technical developments for precious metals.On the fundamental side, the market is essentially pricing in no hikes for 2019 and the start of rate cuts in 2020. For Gold, that is a huge improvement from just a few months ago. In regards to the technicals,...Read More