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
Recent results from Troilus Gold's drilling of its Southwest zone are discussed in a Haywood report. Troilus GoldIn a May 14 research note, Haywood analyst Pierre Vaillancourt wrote that at Troilus Gold Corp.'s (TLG:TSX; CHXMF:OTCQB) Troilus project in Quebec, the Southwest zone shows mining potential.This is the case in part, he indicated, because recent drill results showed the Main zone of Sou...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts his expectations for how silver prices will respond to movement in the stock market. Much of what is written in the parallel Gold Market update is equally applicable to silver and it will not be repeated here. Although silver has picked up significantly since its March low it has greatly underperformed gold over the past two years. But this is normal during th...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321gold discusses why he believes this new company can succeed with this gold mine while its predecessor could not. Yesterday I promised I would be boring so here it is. We are in a depression. The Fed is doing the opposite of the right thing. They are destroying the currency. Their stupidity will take down the stock market as well as the bond market and leave most of the 99% brok...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger breaks down the Canadian government's monetary policies, and offers an anecdote drawing correlations between positioning in gold now and positioning in gold in the 1970s, before the commodity's "parabolic" ascent. As I sit here on a Thursday evening, contemplating the logic behind my most recent additions to a highly tentative short position on the SPY:US (the exch...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses the price of gold in various currencies and what he believes is ahead for gold, the U.S. dollar and the stock markets. 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 bull market, which is another way of saying that these currencies are losi...Read More
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