Apologies. As the bull market has ground on endlessly, I might have provided you with a precise target for the elusive Mother of All Tops. Instead, what I've done in recent months is pussyfoot with relatively minor rally targets of limited value. Can you blame me for hoping that one of these little pishers would eventually nail the summit of a runaway bull badly in need of a rebuke? So far, as y...Read More
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ASIAN METALS MARKET UPDATEGold needs to break and trade over $1290-$1292 zone to attract short covering. Spot silver needs to trade over $15.10 to attract short covering. Crude oil needs to trade over $60.00-$60.60 this week to be in bullish zone. Copper is in neutral zone. Japanese markets are closed this week till 5th May. So the sea calm is there in bullion and currencies. US dollar will ga...Read More
- Monetary Hockey Stick - Killer Debt - Dominoes Dropping - Washington DC, Dallas, and Puerto RicoThe US, Europe, and most of the developed world on are the road to Japanification. Like I wrote last week, we will see financial repression, ever increasing deficits, slower growth, etc. Essentially, the rest of us will begin to look like Japan with its astronomical deficits and ultra-dovish...Read More
Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More
After trip to Russia to meet Putin, Kim Jong-Un returned home by private train early on Saturday, according to the KCNA news agency. The footage aired by state TV showed crowds and officials lining the platform, waiting for their leader's arrival.Read More
To put into perspective how overvalued and dangerous the US market has become; I often cite the figure of total market cap to GDP-currently 145% of the economy. How high isContinue...Read More
Crista Huff is the lead analyst of Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor, where she combines a strict fundamental methodology with technical analysis, to identify growth and value stocks whose charts are turning bullish.She believes that the recent stock market highs are a sign of strength not weakness. She's still finding undervalued stocks using her proprietary screen.Read More
Jason talks about how desperate EU politicians may be about to walk into a very large debt trap from China1) China's Banks Are Running Out of Dollars https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-b...2) Great Financial Crisis Ten Years On: Past Role and Current Risks from China | Anne-Stevenson Yang https://www.hiddenforces.io/podcast/c...3) Juncker Rips US Stance On Huawei: EU Won't Ban Firm "Just Because...Read More
Peter Boockvar, CIO of Bleakley Advisory Group and editor of the Boock Report, returns to Real Vision to discuss his bullish outlook on copper. He notes electric vehicles as one of main drivers for future demand, highlights the supply deficit situation, and considers Southern Copper as the way to trade his thesis, in this interview with Jake Merl. Peter Boockvar is the Chief Investment Officer of...Read More
Russian gun rights activist and graduate exchange student Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for "conspiracy to act as a foreign agent without registering." Her "crime" was to work to make connections among American gun rights activists in hopes of building up her organization, the Right to Bear Arms, when she returned to Russia.She was not employed by the Russian governme...Read More
The company's Manitoba assets were discussed in a CIBC report. In an April 18 research note, analyst Oscar Cabrera reported that CIBC raised its target price on HudBay Minerals Inc. (HBM:TSX; HBM:NYSE) to CA$10.50 per share from CA$9.50 following a management-led presentation and site visit to the company's Manitoba, Canada, projects. In comparison, HudBay is trading at around CA$8.90 per share....Read More
It is the company's second asset acquisition on a particular Quebec property. Ely Gold Royalties Inc. (ELY:TSX.V; ELYGF:OTCQB) announced in a news release it acquired, for CA$600,000, a 2% net smelter return (NSR) royalty on the Fenelon mine property, operated by Wallbridge Mining Co., in Quebec. The transaction closed April 15, 2019. This 2% NSR is the second one that Ely acquired on Fenelon, ha...Read More
These final results are from an extensive drill program launched in 2017. Dark Star with Sentinel in the backgroundGold Standard Ventures Corp. (GSV:TSX.V; GSV:NYSE) announced in a news release that the final drill results from its 2019 phase 1 program further delineate the presence of gold in the northern portion of its Dark Star deposit.The campaign for this deposit at the company's Railroad-Pi...Read More
Platinum, after making what appears to be a wash-out low in August 2018, now looks poised to be a precious metal leader, writes fund manager John Newell at Fieldhouse Capital Management. What is Platinum: Platinum is a precious transition metal that has the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78 on the periodic table. Platinum is grayish white in color and is often mistaken for silver. Pl...Read More
Greg Johnson, president and CEO of Metallic Minerals, speaks with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable about why he believes the company has all the "key ingredients for success" at its project in the Keno Hill Silver District. Keno HillMaurice Jackson: Joining us today is Greg Johnson, the president, CEO, and a director of Metallic Minerals Corp. (MMG:TSX.V; MMNGF:OTC), which is known for High...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger reviews recent movements in precious metalsand discusses how he is playing the market. Last week I sent out my uber-bullish call on the metals and miners at the conclusion of a period fraught with doom and despair for all things gold and silver. The criminality of the interventionists was in full bloom as they bombed gold down through that critical "Line in the San...Read More
By: Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsWe have a postscript to our ongoing discussion of inflation. A reader pointed out that Levis 501 jeans are $39.19 on Amazon (in Keith's size Amazon advertises prices as low as $16.31, which we assume is for either a very small size that uses less fabric, or an odd size that isn't selling). Think of the enormity of this. The jeans were $50 in 1983. After 36 years...Read More
Strengths? The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 2.79 percent as hedge funds boosted their net bullish positions. Despite U.S. dollar strength, gold traders and analysts returned to their majority bullish position on the yellow metal this week, acco...Read More
By: Clint SiegnerCentral bankers and politicians love inflation, but they need "bag holders" to have faith in the value of the fiat currency IOUs they hold. The trick is to avoid suddenly destroying the ephemeral confidence in currencies by printing too much too fast.Central bankers may also need to limit the options inflation wary citizens have for escaping.They are both shifty and innovative w...Read More