By: Ira EpsteinI would not be surprised to see gold pull back a bit before resuming to its upside. Gold market is very much in an uptrend.GDX / Gold Stocks - momentum locked in to the upside:Read More

U.S. stocks on Wednesday mustered modest gains following a dramatic turnabout, with all three key equity benchmarks recovering from losses of at least 1% which were partly driven by signs that global economic growth was slowing as the U.S. - China trade war intensifies. How did benchmarks perform? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.34% finished 22.45 points lower, or less than 0.1%, to 26,...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday August 9 that are worth another look.China launched a consultation paper on Friday August 9 to implement a stricter arsenic threshold on copper concentrates imports, a move that could lead to drastic changes in global trade flow of high-impurity concentrates and a further premium on treatment charges of clean concentrates.We...Read More

- Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price jumped up the moment that trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening in New York. It ran into "all the usual" suspects" almost immediately -- and then chopped rather aimlessly sideways until the 2:15 p.m. China Standard Time afternoon gold fix in Shanghai. It was stair-stepped lower from there until the low t...Read More

Gold futures settled virtually unchanged Friday but marked the best weekly return in more than a month, amid Italian political jitters and another wrinkle in the U.S.-China trade talks. December gold GCZ19, +0.01% on Comex shed $1, or less than 0.1%, at $1,508.50 an ounce. For the week, gold has climbed 3.5% based on the most-active contract's finish on Aug. 2. The weekly advance would mark the b...Read More

In his most recent HoweStreet.com interview, Bob Hoye from ChartsandMarkets.com is on watch for a post-bubble contraction. In particular, he sees the yield curve reversing in the direction of a contraction and junk bond credit spreads once again breaking out. Hoye says, "Just looking at the spreads you could say this is anticipating a contraction".For confirmation that we are in contraction terri...Read More

Prices for steel billet were steady or moved downward in most regions over the week ended Friday August 9 because of reduced prices for iron ore and long steel products, after a rise in the political and trading tensions between China and the United States affected most of the world's ferrous markets.The markets were also affected by the devaluation of the yuan. The Chinese currency broke the leve...Read More

- Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price jumped up the moment that trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening in New York. It ran into "all the usual" suspects" almost immediately -- and then chopped rather aimlessly sideways until the 2:15 p.m. China Standard Time afternoon gold fix in Shanghai. It was stair-stepped lower from there until the low t...Read More

The Big ConThe Usual SuspectsUnsafe at Any SpeedLooking for SolutionsMaine and MontanaI have a special treat for you. I'm at Camp Kotok, the annual economics/fishing retreat in Maine. Knowing internet connectivity would be scarce here, I asked good friend Larry Kotlikoff to be your guest writer this week.For those who don't know, Larry is a Boston University economist whose work spans an amazi...Read More

In this segment Mr. Rule fully discusses the likelihood that we are in a sustainable significant gold bull market after a deep, deep bear market. One always precedes the other. Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd., began his career in the securities business in 1974. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest...Read More

Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiaries. Read More

Why hard assets are so important given the current state of global markets.Full Article and Comments at: https://www.peakprosperity.com/the-ha...Part 2 of this Article (Defending Against The Global Currency Crisis): https://www.peakprosperity.com/defend...Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regar...Read More

Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More

- Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price jumped up the moment that trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening in New York. It ran into "all the usual" suspects" almost immediately -- and then chopped rather aimlessly sideways until the 2:15 p.m. China Standard Time afternoon gold fix in Shanghai. It was stair-stepped lower from there until the low t...Read More

Prices for steel billet were steady or moved downward in most regions over the week ended Friday August 9 because of reduced prices for iron ore and long steel products, after a rise in the political and trading tensions between China and the United States affected most of the world's ferrous markets.The markets were also affected by the devaluation of the yuan. The Chinese currency broke the leve...Read More

- Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price jumped up the moment that trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening in New York. It ran into "all the usual" suspects" almost immediately -- and then chopped rather aimlessly sideways until the 2:15 p.m. China Standard Time afternoon gold fix in Shanghai. It was stair-stepped lower from there until the low t...Read More

The Big ConThe Usual SuspectsUnsafe at Any SpeedLooking for SolutionsMaine and MontanaI have a special treat for you. I'm at Camp Kotok, the annual economics/fishing retreat in Maine. Knowing internet connectivity would be scarce here, I asked good friend Larry Kotlikoff to be your guest writer this week.For those who don't know, Larry is a Boston University economist whose work spans an amazi...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday August 9 that are worth another look.China launched a consultation paper on Friday August 9 to implement a stricter arsenic threshold on copper concentrates imports, a move that could lead to drastic changes in global trade flow of high-impurity concentrates and a further premium on treatment charges of clean concentrates.We...Read More

Gold futures settled virtually unchanged Friday but marked the best weekly return in more than a month, amid Italian political jitters and another wrinkle in the U.S.-China trade talks. December gold GCZ19, -0.02% on Comex shed $1, or less than 0.1%, at $1,508.50 an ounce. For the week, gold has climbed 3.5% based on the most-active contract's finish on Aug. 2. The weekly advance would mark the b...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday August 9 that are worth another look.China launched a consultation paper on Friday August 9 to implement a stricter arsenic threshold on copper concentrates imports, a move that could lead to drastic changes in global trade flow of high-impurity concentrates and a further premium on treatment charges of clean concentrates.We...Read More