Tonight I would like to update some commodities charts we haven’t looked at in a while. There have been some subtle changes taking place that need to be addressed. Just like the PM complex that topped out in 2011 many commodities also topped out that same year and have been correcting ever since. With the US dollar at an important inflection point it may be time for commodities in general to...Read More
By: Gary SavageMost people (investors) are driven by emotions. Retail investors becoming more bullish as the SPX diverges further from the 200 day moving average.Gold's potential is mind-boggling right now, I'll explain..http://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More
SPY call options are reasonably priced at the moment"We have agreed to a very large Phase One Deal with China. They have agreed to many structural changes and massive purchases of Agricultural Product, Energy, and Manufactured Goods, plus much more. The 25% Tariffs will remain as is, with 7 1/2% put on much of the remainder. The Penalty Tariffs set for December 15th will not be charged because of...Read More
RambusTonight I would like to update some commodities charts we haven't looked at in a while. There have been some subtle changes taking place that need to be addressed. Just like the PM complex that topped out in 2011 many commodities also topped out that same year and have been correcting ever since. With the US dollar at an important inflection point it may be time for commodities in general...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold weekly chart just below the resistance area, what to look out this week:Read More
Global political weather is such that financial markets will not sleep during Christmas and New Year weeks. Do not sleep in the next three weeks on your short term investment. Still anything can happen. If you are on a vacation or plan to go on a vacation for the next three weeks, then close very short term open positions in any future and options and ETF. If you are holding physical gold, any p...Read More
Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) is no longer a niche concern in the natural resources sector.Corporate governance and community issues have typically dominated the sustainability and ethical criteria of mining companies and their investors. But more recently, the focus has shifted.Environmental factors, particularly decarbonization, have come to the fore amid increasingly stri...Read More
By: Gary SavageMost people (investors) are driven by emotions. Retail investors becoming more bullish as the SPX diverges further from the 200 day moving average.Gold's potential is mind-boggling right now, I'll explain..http://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More
Richard (Rick) MillsThe Europeans want their gold back. Amid global trade uncertainty, a pall hanging over the European Union due to continued economic weakness, the exit of Great Britain still a real possibility, and dark, nationalist undercurrents swirling, several of the 28-strong EU members are looking to gold as collateral in the event of a continent-wide "storm" that blows their individ...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 3.57 percent as money managers increased their bullish outlook and took their net long position to a 22-month high. Gold traders remained bullish on the price outlook for bullion even amid trade optimism early in the week, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. Turkey's gold reserves rose $348 million from the previous week and a...Read More
Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock JournalGold and silver are set up potentially for an explosive move, fueled by the inevitable escalation of Central Bank money printing. The Federal Reserve has led the charge on this account over the last three months as the financial system has begun to veer off the rails.Currently, the Fed is printing money at the fastest rate in its history. The brown stuff is hit...Read More
RambusTonight I would like to update some commodities charts we haven't looked at in a while. There have been some subtle changes taking place that need to be addressed. Just like the PM complex that topped out in 2011 many commodities also topped out that same year and have been correcting ever since. With the US dollar at an important inflection point it may be time for commodities in general...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold weekly chart just below the resistance area, what to look out this week:Read More
Global political weather is such that financial markets will not sleep during Christmas and New Year weeks. Do not sleep in the next three weeks on your short term investment. Still anything can happen. If you are on a vacation or plan to go on a vacation for the next three weeks, then close very short term open positions in any future and options and ETF. If you are holding physical gold, any p...Read More
French ConnectionSuppressed CompetitionDo Hard ThingsReach Out & ListenVIP AccessChristmas in Puerto Rico, Pat Cox, and MoreWe choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, o...Read More
Chinese ferro-chrome producers cut their offers last week to generate cash, putting downward pressure on spot prices. Selling pressure weighs on Chinese spot domestic ferro-chrome marketCharge chrome, chrome ore prices flat in thin tradingEuropean ferro-chrome prices tick up on tight supplyUS market widens slightly lower in lackluster tradingThe Chinese spot domestic ferro-chrome price continued l...Read More
The domestic price of hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe was largely stable on Monday December 16 although steelmakers continue to insist on higher prices, market sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index domestic, ex-works Northern Europe was calculated at ?,?431.88 ($480.14) per tonne on Monday compared with ?,?432.08 per tonne on Friday.The assessment is based on "...Read More
South American steel import prices continued to climb during the week ended Friday December 13, following the trend of global prices, as customers rushed to book February-shipment cargoes ahead of the holidays, sources said.Fastmarkets' latest price assessment for steel hot-rolled coil import, cfr main ports South America, was $500-515 per tonne on Friday December 13, a three-month high and up fro...Read More
The gold price bottomed in late 2015 around $1,050 per ounce. It has since advanced to a high of $1,555 in early September, followed by a pullback to the current price of $1,470. Gold is in a well-defined uptrend channel with higher lows and recently higher highs. The breakout above $1,360 this summer was significant and we have seen follow-through buying. The $420 move in the price of gold from...Read More
The three-month prices of base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange broadly closed up at the afternoon kerb on Monday December 16, emboldened by positive China data, while a weaker US dollar provided a consumption tailwind. "LME base metals three-month prices are stabilizing... there is a cautious optimism in the air," Fastmarkets research analyst Andy Farida said. "But a trade deal between...Read More