Gregory Weldon is CEO of Weldon Financial and Editor of the influential newsletters "Weldon's Money Monitor," the "Commodity and Currency Monitor," the" Metal Monitor," and the "ETF Playbook." He launched these macro-market publications, covering supply-demand fundamentals, along with technical, intermarket, and psychological insights, after building a successful career as a trader on Wall Street....Read More

Sector expert Michael Ballanger looks back on markets in 2018 and provides his New Year's outlooks for gold, silver, uranium and more. A Brief Word on ForecastsEach year between December 25 and January 1, every blogger, analyst, newsletter guru, or market historian like me issues their "forecast" for the upcoming year, and what I find a worthy exercise is to go back and read what we all wrote in...Read More

Clive Maund provides a technical analysis on silver and explains why he believes recent movements could be the "opening shot of a a major bull market." The last update was wrong. Silver was expected to drop with the stock market, but instead it held its ground and then broke higher last week. The reasons for this misinterpretation, both for gold and silver, are set out in the latest Gold Market u...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts gold and discusses the current state of the market. The last update was wrong. Gold was expected to drop with the stock market, but instead it rose. Being wrong in this business is not a crime, but it is vital to recognize the error as soon as possible and make a course correction, and if possible discern the reason or reasons for the error. Failure to do this...Read More

The Critical Investor explains why he sees this company as a "solid buying opportunity." Kutcho Project1. IntroductionAlthough Kutcho Copper Corp. (KC:TSX.V) remains under the radar of most it seems, it doesn't seem to lose a lot of time, and continues doing the heavy lifting in order to advance its flagship project, the Kutcho high-grade copper-zinc project in British Columbia, Canada. Backed by...Read More

Please Note: US markets are closed tomorrow for New Year's Day. CloseGain/LossGold $1282.20+$2.20Silver$15.47+$0.10XAU70.66+1.41%HUI160.58+1.54%GDM588.56+1.55%JSE Gold1375.75+7.84USD96.14-0.24Euro114.59+0.12Yen91.23+0.39Oil$45.41+$0.0810-Year2.683%-0.036T-Bond146.125+0.59375Dow23327.46+1.15%Nasdaq6635.28+0.77%S&P2506.85+0.85% The Metals: Gold gained $4.10 to $1284.10 in London before it d...Read More

By David HaggithThe world is descending into intellectual chaos. Read El Erian in the following linked article, and then come and back tell me we have not moved into madness:El-Erian: 1000-Point Swings In The Dow Are The "New Reality"There is clearly a tooth missing in one of the gears in El-Erian's brain. How do you make this statement ...[A recession] is certainly not becoming a reality. You n...Read More

My Two CentsBy Andy Sutton / Graham Mehl This article was originally written by Andy Sutton on 7/24/2009; roughly 4 months after the markets bottomed from the 2008 blowout. Anything 'new' will be bolded. The 'Two Cents' series at the time was going through something of a post mortem of the meltdown and trying to give people a 'reset' so to speak regarding what was true and what wasn't. People f...Read More

By Clint SiegnerIt's amazing what passes as a market these days.Stocks rallied during the Christmas week, and the mainstream financial press would like you to believe bargain hunters swooped in after the weeks of heavy selling to grab some deals. The truth is there are very few actual people still evaluating the merits of publicly traded companies.The markets are driven by programmed trading and...Read More

By Frank HolmesStrengthsThe best performing metal this week was silver, up 5.15 percent, finally getting some respect as it approaches its 200-day moving average. Hitting six-month highs this week, money managers are the most bullish they've been on gold in months. Gold has been a beneficiary of the volatility experienced in global equities this week. Bloomberg reports that gold priced in the Br...Read More

The past couple of years have been brutal for precious metals mining stocks. Gold and silver went down a little while the miners went down a lot - four times as much to be exact. That's painful but not surprising. The miners, being in effect options on the underlying metals, tend to be a lot more volatile. But volatility works both ways, and starting in November gold began to rise while the mine...Read More

TECHNICAL SCOOPCharts and commentary by David ChapmanPhone: 416-523-5454 Email: david@davidchapman.comdchapman@enrichedinvesting.comTwitter: @Davcha12December 31, 2018"Gold is money; everything else is credit." J.P. Morgan, 1912 (financier, banker; 1837-1913) "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store...Read More

The last update was wrong. Gold was expected to drop with the stockmarket, but instead it rose. Being wrong in this business is not a crime, but it is vital to recognize the error as soon as possible and make a course correction, and if possible discern the reason or reasons for the error. Failure to do this through pride, obstinacy or stupidity can lead to modest losses becoming ruinous. So wha...Read More

By Keith WeinerLast week, we wrote about the concept of discounting. This is how to assess the value of any asset that generates cash flow. You calculate a present value by discounting earnings for each future year. And the discount rate is the market interest rate. We said:"If the Fed can manipulate the rate of interest, then it can manipulate the value of everything......There is no other rate...Read More

Full Article: Gold Miners Are Crushing the Market in the Face of Higher RatesBy: Frank HolmesSummary:Anticipating trouble ahead, fund managers make a historic rotation out of equities into bonds.Gold and gold mining stocks have been the one bright spot this quarter.Tax reform turns one year old. Has it achieved what was expected?Disregarding strong opposition from the likes of DoubleLine Capital...Read More

RAPAPORT... Macy's has removed a collection of Roberto Coin black-jadejewelry from its shelves following allegations the line bears unlawful gemcertification. Natural-stone supplier Kings Stone, which made the claimsthat prompted Macy's move in April, filed a lawsuit in August seeking damagesof $46.1 million from Roberto Coin Incorporated (RCI). The suit asserts thejeweler continued to use th...Read More

RAPAPORT... This story has legs: AUS jeweler has obtained a colorful opal featuring an encased insect. The rare stone originates from Java, Indonesia, andfeatures a well-preserved invertebrate, apparently with its mouth still open. Lookingclosely, one can even see thin fibers extending from the limbs, noted Philadelphia-basedgemologist Brian Berger, who recently acquired the gem. The phenomenon i...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The assets of the lab-grown diamond maker Scio Diamond are being bought by a Nevada company called Adamas One Corp.   According to the agreement between the firms, over a period of 18 months Adamas will pay $3.3 million to take care of Scio's secured debt.   Adamas will also hand over 350,000 shares of its stock to Scio to cover its unsecured debts of more than $3 millio...Read More

Join us on BNNBloomberg at 11:00 AM EST today. Thank you to Larry Berman at www.etfcm.com for this opportunity. WALL STREET RAW RADIOWITH YOUR HOST, MARK LEIBOVIT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2018SPECIAL GUESTS: DON VIALOUX, HENRY WEINGARTEN, HARRY BOXER AND SINCLAIR NOEhttps://tinyurl.com/ybvyxyvm Excerpts from Don Vialoux comments on Wall Street Raw(With added charts)U.S. equity indices boun...Read More

I know we are in the midst of a joyous time of year, but that doesn't mean the world has stopped turning. And the start of 2019 brings us to a critical moment. We're on the brink of the third wave crash.Let's take a gander at recent history: First, there was the 1980's savings and loan crisis. Then, in 1987, the stock market crashed, and the Dow Jones index lost 23% of its value. The next major ev...Read More