By Frank HolmesTwo big themes last week at Inside ETFs, the Comic-Con of exchange-traded funds attended by more than 2,300 advisors and investors, were innovation and disruption. Like all other industries, the investing world has seen its fair share of disruption in the past quarter-century think indexing, passive investing, the rise of robo-allocation and now blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Th...Read More

ABN Amro's Casper Burgering took the top spot on Metal Bulletin's Apex 2017 yearly base metals leaderboard with an accuracy rating of 96.4%.In second place for base metals was Investec with an accuracy rating of 96.1%, while Ed Meir of INTL FCStone was in third with 96%. Metal Bulletin Research took fourth place with 95.60% and Bert Melek from TD Securities was fifth with 94.10%. In the precious m...Read More

- Property crisis in London as over half of 1,900 luxury apartments built 2017 fail to sell- London's still high priced property causes companies to locate offices elsewhere- At current rates, glut of London properties will take three years to sell- Leading London-based estate agents Foxtons' sees 42% drop in earnings, yoy- UK's largest estate agent issues second profit warning in three months-...Read More

Echoing the criticism of too much hype surrounding U.S. shale from the Saudi oil minister last week, a new report finds that shale drilling is still largely not profitable. Not only that, but costs are on the rise and drillers are pursuing “irrational production.”Riyadh-based Al Rajhi Capital dug into the financials of a long list of U.S. shale companies, and found that “despite...Read More

Deutsche Bank and its associate group, UBS, HSBC etc have been fined by the CFTC for gold price manipulation. I am sure silver prices are being manipulated by a group of banks and hedge funds. Silver is undervalued. Long term industrial uses of silver will exceed production. Those who had invested in physical silver have lost all hope that silver prices can rise. Some of the silver investors are...Read More

President Trump will deliver his State of the Union speech tonight. No doubt there will be plenty of "good news" about his first full year in office. But today's Liberty Report will dig a bit deeper. What is the real state of the union? Tune in!Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New...Read More

Central banks remain powerful creatures. Will gold escape from their grip?Bank of JapanIt’s a hot period in central banking. On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy on hold. Kuroda tried to convince the markets that the BoJ won’t follow the Fed towards an exit from easy monetary policy soon. “We haven’t reached the stage of thinking about how to handle an exi...Read More

Turkish steel mills have returned to the deep-sea scrap markets for March cargoes and the prices have fallen further at the recent transactions, sources said on Tuesday January 30.The mills had been widely expected to book more cargoes for delivery in February, but no such deals have been reported.Instead, after a short period of negotiation, the mills in the country booked two deep-sea cargoes fr...Read More

The Debt Markets are beginning to flash multiple warnings that "all is not well."High yield credit, also called Junk Bonds, leads stocks and most risk assets to the upside. With that in mind, consider that the High Yield Credit ETF (HYG) has broken its uptrend from the 2016 bottom.This is a MAJOR warning that the "risk on" move of the last few months is stalling out if not preparing for a correcti...Read More

With FEAR that Bitcoin's bear market trend will significantly worsen, Andy Hoffman of CryptoGoldCentral.com speaks of why optimism , community, and strong hands must prevail - as the most impactful innovation of our lifetimes continues to explosively grow, with a market valuation way undervaluing where it is, and where it's going. Ignore the FUD, from both within, and without, the Bitcoin communit...Read More

Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in the gold and silver markets. Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.Gold sector is on a long-term buy signal.Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.Gold sector is on a short-term buy signal.Short-term signals can last for days and weeks, and are more suitable for traders.Sp...Read More

The Debt Markets are beginning to flash multiple warnings that "all is not well."High yield credit, also called Junk Bonds, leads stocks and most risk assets to the upside. With that in mind, consider that the High Yield Credit ETF (HYG) has broken its uptrend from the 2016 bottom.This is a MAJOR warning that the "risk on" move of the last few months is stalling out if not preparing for a correcti...Read More

Bank of JapanIt's a hot period in central banking. On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy on hold. Kuroda tried to convince the markets that the BoJ won't follow the Fed towards an exit from easy monetary policy soon. "We haven't reached the stage of thinking about how to handle an exit [from monetary easing]", he said. The BoJ Governor also insisted that the bank is fully committe...Read More

Iron ore prices tumbled below $73 per tonne cfr China on Tuesday January 30 after a drop in billet prices, with trades concluded at lower prices than a week ago. Metal Bulletin's 62% Fe Iron Ore Index Today: $72.97 per tonne cfr Qingdao Daily change: down by $1.36 per tonne Month-to-date average: $75.97 per tonne Metal Bulletin's 58% Fe Premium Index Today: $59.70 per tonne cfr...Read More

Facebook is banning all ads that promote cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, in an attempt to protect people from advertisements promoted by "financial products and services Continue...Read More

The Debt Markets are beginning to flash multiple warnings that "all is not well."High yield credit, also called Junk Bonds, leads stocks and most risk assets to the upside. With that in mind, consider that the High Yield Credit ETF (HYG) has broken its uptrend from the 2016 bottom.This is a MAJOR warning that the "risk on" move of the last few months is stalling out if not preparing for a correcti...Read More

CloseGain/LossGold $1336.80-$5.20Silver$17.11-$0.07XAU86.56-1.03%HUI194.03-0.89%GDM656.14-1.09%JSE Gold1239.40-60.77USD89.23-0.13Euro123.97+0.14Yen91.97+0.06Oil$64.50-$1.0610-Year2.724%+0.033T-Bond147.34375-0.78125Dow26076.89-1.37%Nasdaq7402.48-0.86%S&P2822.43-1.09% The Metals: Gold dropped $7.50 to $1334.50 in Asia before it bounced back to $1348.90 by a little after 9AM EST, but it then...Read More

By Ira EpsteinGold and silver fall into support levels off of rising US interest rates and stock market correction.https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More

The DOJ and SEC have begun investigating an Apple software update that slows down older iPhones, according to a story from Bloomberg published Tuesday. Continue...Read More

The Debt Markets are beginning to flash multiple warnings that "all is not well."High yield credit, also called Junk Bonds, leads stocks and most risk assets to the upside. With that in mind, consider that the High Yield Credit ETF (HYG) has broken its uptrend from the 2016 bottom.This is a MAJOR warning that the "risk on" move of the last few months is stalling out if not preparing for a correcti...Read More