What do snapping turtles and long-time investors have in common? Sector expert Michael Ballanger explains.The Weekly Missive, which usually arrives over the weekend (sometimes on Friday, sometimes on Sunday) was delayed this weekend for one reason: I had to change it.I started out last week with an idea that was leaning in the direction of full-on capitulation in the sense that this latest, three-...Read More

We warned about this move many months ago and just 6 days agowe issued a research post suggesting Gold had cleared major resistance andwould start a rally mode to push above $2000 – possibly above $2100.  Well, guess what happened right after we madethat statement? Yup – Gold started to rally higher and is currently tradingnear $1790 – about to break $1800 for the first time...Read More

By: Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Voima GoldFor thousands of years gold is the ultimate store of value. Currently, gold is undervalued as there are massive bubbles in asset markets and central banks continue to print money, which supports these bubbles. This is an unsustainable situation; and when the bubbles burst the gold price will rise.Gold is the ultimate store of value, as it's the only globally accep...Read More

Strengths? The best performing precious metal for the week was gold, up 1.57 percent. Gold is heading toward $1,800 an ounce driven by fear that the resurgence in virus cases will impede the global economic recovery. Gold for August delivery rose to $1,796.10 on the Comex on Monday - the highest level since 2012. The yellow metal saw a third straight weekly gain, which is its longest...Read More

V-shape mania appears to be tapering off. Years from now, market historians will come to regard the spectacular rally since late March as a case study in mass psychosis. The explosive resurgence of bulls is not only unsupported by economic reality, it flouts common sense in ways that only extraordinary popular delusions can. There is the implicit notion, for one, that just a handful of supposedl...Read More

We will start this update by looking at gold's price measured against various important currencies. These long-term charts quickly make clear that gold is in a major bullmarket, which is another way of saying that these currencies are losing purchasing power.Gold in Australian dollars...Gold in Canadian dollars...Gold in Japanese Yen...Gold in Swiss Francs...So we should clearly not allow oursel...Read More

The PM stocks have moved nicely over the past 2 weeks. Many gold investors wanting in on the next big move have been left on the sidelines under invested. It's my view that this has occurred because everyone and his brother has had one eye on the often published gold and silver seasonality chart. This chart is a composite of 40 years of action and shows gold weak until late July and silver...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinCovid waves spooking markets. Gold's monthly, weekly, daily chart, pushing the upper Bollinger bands and the longer the market stays over it, the stronger the bull market is:Read More

Trend is bullish for gold and silver on fears of rapid spread of coronavirus in USA. June month is not yet over. One still needs to watch for some large sellers in gold as a part of the profit booking. Overall it still a buy on sharp dips strategy in gold and silver. This week? On Tuesday US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will speak about the stimulus and lending facilities to sup...Read More

RAPAPORT... De Beers and Alrosa continued to see rock-bottom sales in June as buyers rejected the miners' high rough prices in favor of cheaper goods from smaller suppliers."[The major miners] want to hold on to prices, so people don't see any [incentive] to buy because it's difficult to sell and make money," a sightholder told Rapaport News. "[Manufacturers and dealers] are already sitting o...Read More

RAPAPORT... Luk Fook's revenue and profit fell in fiscal 2020 as the coronavirus and social unrest in Hong Kong hampered sales.Overall revenue for the Hong Kong-based jewelry retailer dropped 29% to HKD 11.23 billion ($1.45 billion) for the year ending March 31, it reported last week. Net profit plunged 42% to HKD 867.7 million ($112 million).The company's retail revenue in mainland China slid 28%...Read More

RAPAPORT... Pandemic or not, Chow Tai Fook has no intention of slowing its expansion into China, with plans to open approximately 450 stores on the mainland during the current fiscal year, managing director Kent Wong told Rapaport News. A vast majority of those new locations will be in tier-4 and tier-5 cities, which have population sizes of around 200,000 to 300,000, and are growing at a fas...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesThe agreement paves the way for the government to fund and construct a power plant at Tavan Tolgoi.In February, Rio and Turquoise Hill submitted a feasibility study to the government for a US$924 million power plant.Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesThe parties have agreed to work towards finalising...Read More

Asian-Pacific equities and pre-market European equity index futures were weaker this morning, Monday June 29, but base metals prices were for the most part firmer. * Nikkei led on the downside this morning with losses of 2.21%.* Covid-19 surges in some southern US states, with 2.5 million confirmed cases reported in the country.* Profits in China’s industrial sector showed growth of 6% year o...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 12 points in pre-opening trade.Boeing added $12.30 to $182.31 after the FAA indicated that test flights on the 737 Max aircraft are set to start today.Gap Stores gained $0.63 to $12.70 after Deutsche Bank raised its target price from $13 to $15.Square added $1.45 to $105.75 after KeyBanc Capital increased its target pr...Read More

Iamgold's (TSX: IMG) 70%-owned C??t?(C) gold project in northern Ontario has received a key federal permitting approval, taking it one step closer to a construction decision.The approval, under the Fisheries Act, is related to impacts on fish habitats and tailings management for the site, located 20 km southwest of Gogama.Iamgold says it's working toward a construction decision with Sumitomo Meta...Read More

Rupert Resources (TSXV: RUP) has reported two new drill results from its recently discovered Ikkari target at its wholly owned Pahtavaara gold project, located in northern Finland's Central Lapland Greenstone Belt, 150 km north-northeast of the town of Rovaniemi.Drill hole 120059 intersected 15.2 grams gold per tonne over 13 metres from 121 metres downhole including 36.6 grams gold per tonne over...Read More

Trevali Mining (TSX: TV; US-OTC: TREVF) has suspended operations at its Santander zinc-lead-silver mine in Peru after 19 workers tested positive for the Covid-19.Trevali said the workers were asymptomatic and put into quarantine.Further testing will be done at the mine, and the company did not provide a timeline for a restart.The underground mine is 215 km northeast of Lima and has a 2,000-tonne p...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) has reached an agreement with Mongolia regarding the construction of a power plant to supply the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, located in the Gobi Desert.The new deal is a revision of the original power source framework agreement (PSFA) signed in 2018. It states that Rio Tinto, its subsidiary Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) and the Mongolian...Read More

Let's face it, at times like these, editorial writers are spoiled for choice. How does one choose among the most pertinent topics of the day? The surge in new coronavirus cases in the U.S.? Last week Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and South Carolina all reported their highest-ever single-day totals of new cases. Yesterday Johns Hopkins University recorded nearly 39,000 new cases in the United States.Or...Read More