By John MauldinOptimism and Hong KongEasterling: Correction and ContinuationJensen: The US Is 1980s JapanLebowitz: Buy the Dip?Lewitt: Charts Point to CautionInsights from Lacy HuntHousel: What a Time to Be AliveBoston and BaltimoreOnly two weeks in and 2018 is already breaking records - mostly in a good way. But that leaves 50 potentially less enjoyable weeks to go. So rather than focus on prom...Read More

When you are following the markets closely day after day it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture. So with the "everything bubble" getting closer to bursting, leading to universal mess and mayhem, there could not be a better time to look at the long-term picture for gold and silver, in order to see whether they are going to salute and go down with the ship, like they did in 2008, or const...Read More

Just a quick update on GLD which is showing the price action approaching the top rail of its triangle trading range which should be around the 127.50 area. Many times during the formation of a 5 point triangle reversal pattern the price action will fail to make it all the way down to the 5th reversal point which suggests the bulls are eager to get positioned. A touch of the top rail will complet...Read More

Europe could face a deluge of steel imports previously destined for the United States if Donald Trump's 232 investigation leads to strict import duties on steel products, German steel association WV Stahl has warned. EU tariffs on imports of cold rolled coil (CRC) from Russia and China led to prices for the material jumping in European domestic markets in 2017, while Russian producers lost ma...Read More

By Gary TanashianAfter a positive year-end with the expected precious metals rally we noted on Dec. 31, in NFTRH 480:"With HUI dwelling just under the 195 resistance parameter, a pullback can come at any time. But there are enough other factors still in line to expect a resumed rally after any grind at resistance comes into play."and then on Jan. 7, in NFTRH 481:"What HUI actually did was immedi...Read More

The Turkish deep-sea scrap market remained silent on Monday January 15 because of limited supplies and poor demand from the Turkish steel mills.The mills have booked a number of deep-sea cargoes for February, but were still expected to book more for the month.However, the supply of material, especially from the United...Read More

That was fun. Since mid-December gold has behaved like a tech stock, jumping from $1,240/oz to $1,337 and carrying a long list of gold mining stocks along for the ride.Now everybody's asking the same question: Is this finally the start of the long-overdue run at gold's (and silver's) 2011 record high, or just a case of futures speculators once again panic-buying themselves into an untenable long...Read More

"We've got to understand that North Korea is holding onto these nuclear weapons because they think it is their only protection from the United States coming in andContinue...Read More

- London homeowners cut property prices by another 1.4% in January- Average price for a London house dropped by ?22,000 to ?600,926 in 2017- Takes 78 days to sell a home on average, the highest level since 2012- London's downtrend continues after 2017 performance as worst UK housing market- UK regional house prices begin to falter as house prices climb slows down- Gold bullion remains a great h...Read More

"There's teams dedicated to it... at least, three or four hundred people... they're paid to look at d*ck pics."Continue...Read More

Turkish domestic scrap prices have continued to increase in line with rising imported scrap values, sources said on Monday January 15.A number of steel mills in the country have raised their buy prices for auto bundle scrap by TRY10-35 per tonne over the past week.Alloy long steel producer Asil ??elik raised its buy price for the...Read More

The Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire had gold coins called the aureus and solidus, but they also minted a popular silver coin called the denarius. .Continue...Read More

Iron ore prices dropped below $77 per tonne cfr China on Monday January 15, on a lack of trading after both the steel and futures markets suffered losses. Metal Bulletin's 62% Fe Iron Ore Index Today: $76.59 per tonne cfr Qingdao Daily change: down by $1.46 per tonne Month-to-date average: $77.13 per tonne Metal Bulletin's 58% Fe Premium...Read More

For Part 1 of this interview, CLICK HERE"Some people believe that if you go to school you'll be happy, or if you get married you'll be happy. Well, I don't know about that, but gold has made me very happy."Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 personal finance book of all time. His book titles hold four of the top ten spots on Nielsen Bookscan List's Life-to-Date...Read More

Buying activity in the CIS export billet market was muted in the first half of January due initially to the long year-end holidays and later to generally low demand for the material in the major outlets.Despite this, Metal Bulletin's weekly export CIS Billet Index rose to $520 per tonne fob Black Sea on January 15, up from the previous $514 per tonne fob Black Sea amid higher offer prices.Billet o...Read More

"This exceptional top-quality diamond is the largest to be mined to date and highlights the unsurpassed quality of the Letseng mine," Continue...Read More

- London homeowners cut property prices by another 1.4% in January- Average price for a London house dropped by ?22,000 to ?600,926 in 2017- Takes 78 days to sell a home on average, the highest level since 2012- London's downtrend continues after 2017 performance as worst UK housing market- UK regional house prices begin to falter as house prices climb slows down- Gold bullion remains a great h...Read More

A blistering boom, backed by $4.3 trillion in bank loans, ends. In the era of the never-ending "Everything Bubble," where asset prices can do only Continue...Read More

Featured GuestsBill Murphy & Arch CrawfordShow HighlightsBill Murphy of GATA.org, returns with extremely bullish comments on the PMs. Millions of new Bitcoin millionaires may convert a fraction of their digital wealth for something tangible resembling Bitcoin that they can hold in their hands - gold bullion. Stacey Herbert and Max Keiser of the Keiser Report on RT recommend gold and continue to...Read More

Export slab prices from the CIS region rose by $25 per tonne over the first half of January, because of the rise in finished flat steel prices as well as the reduced availability of the semi-finished material, sources told Metal Bulletin on Monday January 15.Russia's Evraz and Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) were said to be seeing good demand for slabs from their own re-rolling assets, even though the la...Read More