Treasury Secretary Yellen recently took an airplane to China.To our everlasting astonishment the aerial machine arrived intact.It was after all "constructed" by Boeing.In China the American potentate read her hosts a severe lesson... and wagged a lecturing finger in their stern faces.She bellyached and moaned about Chinese economic "overcapacity."China in Ms. Yellen's telling is overproduc...Read More
Peter Krauth of the Silver Stock Investor explains why he believes Silver Crown Royalties Inc. is unique.You already know how much I love silver. But I also really love royalties. So, today, I'm going to talk about a company that I think you're unlikely to find anywhere else. It's a unique blend of silver and royalties: my favorite metal and my favorite business model rolled into one.I have been f...Read More
These funds could significantly derisk this Idaho-based gold-antimony-silver project, noted a Roth MKM report.Perpetua Resources Corp. (PPTA:TSX; PPTA:NASDAQ) got a target price boost from Roth MKM on the news the mining company received a letter of interest for US$1.8 billion ($1.8B) in financing from the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of the United States, reported Roth MKM analyst Mike Niehuser in a...Read More
Barry Dawes of Martin Place Securities shares why he believes Nova Minerals Ltd. is one to watch.Key Points for Nova9.9moz gold resource in AlaskaThe enterprise value of a ridiculous A$0.00/oz.Much more comingListing on NASDAQ to improve market valuationExploration indicating considerable potentialLow-grade ore but high operating marginsKorbel is the main depositRPM high-grade growing resourceExce...Read More
LONDON, 10 April 2024 - Data, analysis and comment from BullionVault feature today in a review of the gold market in London financial newspaper CityAM."While the size of gold's price gain isn't unprecedented, its strength is," says BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash."So too is what's underpinning this bull run."Find out what's driving gold higher and how the price could move from here at...Read More
LONDON, 10 April 2024 - Data and analysis from BullionVault feature today in a report on the surging gold price from UAE English-language newspaper The National."The People's Bank of China, already the biggest single source of demand, has become a buyer of gold seemingly at any price," the Dubai-based paper quotes BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash.Find out why in the full story at The N...Read More
LONDON, 9 April 2024 - The price of gold has set new all-time highs for a record 8 days running reports the UK's Guardian newspaper online, quoting BullionVault data and analysis. Read the report here at The Guardian online:Gold price set for record 8-day run of record prices, says BullionVault Read More
LONDON, 8 April 2024 - BullionVault is named today as a simple way to buy gold, silver or other precious metals by US news giant CNN.Read the full story at CNN here:Mastering the basics of how to invest in commodities Read More
LONDON, 5 April 2024 - Comment from BullionVault is quoted tonight by leading US financial news-site MarketWatch in its latest report on the surging price of gold."Jobs growth up, bond yields up and Fed rate forecasts up, but gold doesn't care," says Adrian Ash, director of research."Geopolitics continue to drive bullion prices higher, not the economic data or interest-rate outlook."Read the full...Read More
LONDON, 5 April 2024 - Data from BullionVault's Gold Investor Index features today in a report on the contrast between rising gold sales among Western investors with the surge in Chinese demand published by Bavarian news-site Bayerischer Rundfunk."Large precious metal dealers in German-speaking countries are slowly running out of space in their warehouses because sales are increasing so sharply,"...Read More
LONDON, 4 April 2024 - Data from BullionVault - "the world's largest online precious metal marketplace" - is featured today in a report on the surging gold market published at popular commodities news-site OilPrice.com.The latest Gold Investor Index "shows that Western investors banked record profits from selling gold in March, offloading almost twice the amount purchased," says the report, first...Read More
LONDON, 4 April 2024 - German investors magazine AssCompact today publishes an interview with BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash.Explaining the latest surge in gold prices, "It appears that hedge funds have decided that gold options offer the biggest delta on a rebound in expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates," says Adrian."So far it looks like this has been a goo...Read More
LONDON, 26 March 2024 - Analysis from BullionVault features today in a report on the latest gold-price records from Denmark's financial newspaper of record Berlingske, one of the world's longest-running continually published newspapers."Gold is a way to reflect the expectation of interest rates, the fear of inflation, and the fear of wars and events that create instability and turbulence in the fi...Read More
LONDON, 11 March 2024 - Comment from BullionVault features today in a report on the rising price of gold from Austrian news-site ?ber?sterreichische Nachrichten.The report looks at how Chinese demand, plus its continued central-bank purchases, are underpinning this bull market.Subscribers to ?ber?sterreichische Nachrichten can read the full story, in German, here:Was die Rekordjagd beim Gold mit C...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 4 points at 8:35 AM EDT.S&P 500 futures recovered 25 points following release of the March U.S. Producer Price Index at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase of 0.3% versus a gain of 0.6% in February. Actual was an increase of 0.2%. On a year-over-year basis consensus was an increase of 2.3% versus a gain of 1.6%...Read More
The United States economy is largely a "financialized" economy.Financialization: "The increase in size and importance of a country’s financial sector relative to its overall economy."Is financialization a sickness of corroding empires? Do previous examples exist?These are the questions we tackle today.The financial industry represented 10% of the gross domestic product in 1970.By 2010 the fi...Read More
As soon as Greg Ip wrote his asinine "What's Wrong With the Economy? It's You, Not the Data" piece in The Wall Street Journal last week, I had a funny feeling Karma was about to bite The Establishment in the ass.Well, Karma acted like a real Karen yesterday when the inflation numbers came out.In a showing that surely made Joke Biden take a deep sniff, the CPI rose 3.5% in March. Core prices, which...Read More