Wolves in sheep's clothing are currently hard at work undermining the world's clean energy efforts. "Experts" who claim to be in favor of sustainable power are hell-bent on destroying the world's best chance for limitless, carbon-free electricity. Right now, a former leader of the wolf pack is rearing his head into the news cycle. Gregory Jaczko, Obama-era former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (N...Read More
LONDON, 24 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault leads the gold-market report posted today on MSN, the news and web portal from global software giant Microsoft.With stock markets tumbling around the world, "Gold is clearly finding favor as portfolio insurance," MSN quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault.Read the full story, first published by MarketWatch, at MSN here:Gold set...Read More
I'll never forget the day I got my first car. My uncle worked for the Metropolitan Transit Authority down in New York City, and one of his colleagues had an old clunker he wanted to offload. Since I'd just turned 16 and gotten my license, my uncle kindly thought of me and inquired about the vehicle on my behalf. "It's a 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille," he told me over the phone. "It runs, but it nee...Read More
LONDON, 24 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault is published today by leading German investment tips website Godmode Trader.Gold priced in Euros has traded higher than current levels on only 49 business days, fewer than for gold priced in other currencies. This shows, says the report, how far the ECB has fallen short of expectations in tackling the current surge in global inflation.Read more...Read More
LONDON, 23 January 2022 - Comment from BullionVault features today in advice from the UK's best-selling Sunday newspaper about new commemorative coins being issued to mark Her Majesty the Queen's platinum jubilee.Whilst potentially appealing to avid collectors, "In gold value terms such coins are not the best investment," the Mail on Sunday quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault....Read More
LONDON, 14 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault is quoted today in The Daily Telegraph, the UK's conservative-leaning broadsheet newspaper, about the impact of rising inflation on gold investment and prices.With inflation surging near post-WW2 highs in the US, there's "reason to expect the price of gold, the world's oldest inflation hedge, to take off. But it hasn't," says The Telegraph's Que...Read More
LONDON, 12 January 2022 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash was a guest this morning on the BBC World Service's flagship Newsday current affairs show."Among all the sources of gold demand," Adrian told BBC radio's global listeners, "investment demand is what drives gold prices, and in 2020 we saw record inflows. That proved a hard act to follow."Looking briefly at the impact on gold of...Read More
LONDON, 10 January 2022 - BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index data are highlighted today in a report on Germany's solid private gold-investment demand from WirtschaftsWoche, one of the country's leading investment magazines."Inflation rates of over 5% are ringing alarm bells for many Germans, so gold is in demand again as a safe haven," WiWo says."The trading platform BullionVault reports th...Read More
LONDON, 6 January 2022 - Leading German finance magazine Das Investment today reports at length on BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index data."Private investors in this country were more interested in gold again in December," says the report, noting that the Gold Investor Index Deutschland "climbed to a 3-month high of 57.4 points."Find Das Investment's full report (in German) on BullionVault'...Read More
This past Monday was brutal.The Dow plummeted 1,000 points. The S&P 500 lost nearly 4% of its value, and the Nasdaq lost nearly 5%.The only stocks that were paying off that day were defense stocks and ETFs that short the broader markets.But that's just the nature of the markets.Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.Although it doesn't always have to be that way.Truth is, there is one investment y...Read More
The fear in today's market is palpable, and blood is spilling freely.You can taste it everywhere you go, like a crimson snowflake littering portfolios up and down Wall Street. Over the last three weeks alone, we've seen the tech-heavy Nasdaq shed 15%. For some people, their proclivity to panic has put them in full distress.Others, however, know that a bloody market is one of the most profitable o...Read More
About seven weeks ago, on December 7, 2021, I put out an alert with the subject line "I Hate to Say This, But..."Here's what I wrote:This is the most ominous chart I've seen in years:This is a five-year monthly candlestick chart of the SPX. The SPX is based on the 500 top companies in the United States.Each candlestick represents a month. The chart goes back to 2017.That red candlestick from two m...Read More
Russian forces have made minimal progress against Ukraine in recent days. Unlike the invader, gold rallied very quickly and achieved its long-awaited target - $2000!Nobody expected the Russian inquisition! Nobody expected such a fierce Ukrainian defense, either. Of course, the situation is still very dramatic. Russian troops continued their offensive and – although the pace slowed down consi...Read More
Crude Oil Climbs High. Is It Enough to Enjoy a BetterView?The threat of sanctions caused a stirin the markets: WTI spiked above $130 and Brent is nearing the $140 mark. Whereis crude oil going next?A possible Western embargo on Russian oilcaused oil prices to soar again on Monday, as stock markets feared persistentinflation and a consequent economic slowdown.On the US dollar side, the continuedral...Read More
This month, the Fed is expected to hike interest rates. Contrary to popular belief, the tightening doesn't have to be adverse for gold. What does history show?March 2022 – the Fed is supposed to end its quantitative easing and hike the federal funds rate for the first time during recovery from a pandemic crisis . After the liftoff, the Fed will probably also start reducing the size of its ma...Read More
After the war-driven gold rally, oilis starting to outperform. History between these two has already shown thatsomeone may suffer. Many suggest: gold miners.The precious metals corrected some oftheir gains yesterday, but overall, not much changed in them. However, quite a lothappened in crude oil, and in today’s analysis we’ll focus on whatit implies for the precious metals market and,...Read More
The gold miners’ stockshave mostly been consolidating sideways over this past half-year. They’ve been held down by periodic bouts ofheavy gold-futures dumping on Fed-tightening fears. But as those traders exhaust their selling firepower,gold stocks have formed a strong technical base that is birthing their nextmajor bull-market upleg. And a stifftailwind is mounting a...Read More
As history shows, gold and silverrallies based on geopolitical tensions are often short-lived. Yesterday, a hintof a trend reversal appeared.Don’t stop reading this mining stockanalysis until you get to the part about junior mining stocks’ analogy.Something might interest you there.While the unfortunate conflictconfronting Russia and Ukraine has intensified in recent days, gold, silver...Read More
Gold prices declined in 2021 and the prospects for 2022 are not impressive as well. However, the yellow metal’s strategic relevance remains high.Last month, the World Gold Council published two interesting reports about gold. The first one is the latest edition of Gold Demand Trends, which summarizes the entire last year. Gold supply decreased 1%, while gold demand rose 10% in 2021. Despite...Read More
A new commodity supercycle is beingdriven by a massive energy transition … And two elements are experiencing asupply squeeze that is creating huge opportunities for investors. The first is lithium, the super metalfueling the EV and energy storage boom. The second is helium, the key tofuture tech innovation and an irreplaceable necessity for semiconductors, whichare also under...Read More