By: Ira EpsteinWill Pelosi take away the trade-deal Trump victory with an impeachment delivery to the Senate?Gold APRIL (now updated) Futures. Gold is down the first trading day of the week, 18-DMA is at $1497 area and rising. Gold peaked out at missile day. Read More
RambusHeads UP ...from Rambus Chartology."You may recall we were looking at the Japanese YEN / PM complex combo chart several months ago comparing the YEN to the PM complex. For whatever reasons how the YEN goes the PM complex tends to follow. It's not a perfect correlation but close enough to pay attention. Today the YEN gapped below an important trendline that goes all the way back to October...Read More
Ask yourself what factors what factors will affect global financial markets once the so called US-China trade deal is signed. Trade war is the biggest reason why gold prices rose from $1200 to $1600 in around twelve months. Central bank buying and other reasons have also contributed to gold price rise but the biggest catalyst has been the trade war and recession fears. I will happy if gold price...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321gold reports on the latest drill results from this company's Montana project. The world is at an interesting junction. Awash in debt caused by promises that governments cannot possibly fulfill, civil disorder takes place in at least fourteen different countries. The U.S. political system has tied itself into partisan knots in an effort to replay the 2016 election with a Preside...Read More
The Vancouver-based company believes it may have discovered a new mineralized zone at a British Columbia property. Scottie Resources Corp. (SCOT:TSX.V) announced in a news release that recent drilling was successful in the Blueberry vein on the Bow property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The company reported the results, which are from 630.2 meters (630.2m) of diamond drilling completed i...Read More
The report updates and the company being a takeout target are discussed in an iA Securities report. In a Jan. 7 research note, iA Securities analyst George Topping reported that Rubicon Minerals Corp. (RMX:TSX; RBYCF:OTCMKTS) updated the mineral resource at its Phoenix gold project in Red Lake, Ontario.Topping highlighted that the updated resource now contains 811,000 ounces (811 Koz) in the Meas...Read More
Market forecasterMartin Zweig famously warned investors against underestimating the power of theFederal Reserve Bank to control markets. He coined the phrase “Don’t fight theFed” back in the 80’s. Preciousmetals investors are wondering if this is still goodadvice.On one hand, it ispretty hard to argue with that bit of wisdom.The Fed Zweig wasreferencing had begun taking a m...Read More
Heads UP …from Rambus Chartology.“You may recall we were looking at the Japanese YEN / PM complex combo chart several months ago comparing the YEN to the PM complex. For whatever reasons how the YEN goes the PM complex tends to follow. It’s not a perfect correlation but close enough to pay attention. Today the YEN gapped below an important trendline that goes all the way back to...Read More
Near the start of every year, I share our ever-popular Periodic Table of Commodity Returns, now updated to reflect the final results of 2019. To view the interactive table and download a copy of your own, click here. Commodities as a whole had a mostly positive 2019, returning 16.53 percent as measured by the S&P GSCI. This far surpasses commodities' five-year average return of about negativ...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinWill Pelosi take away the trade-deal Trump victory with an impeachment delivery to the Senate?Gold APRIL (now updated) Futures. Gold is down the first trading day of the week, 18-DMA is at $1497 area and rising. Gold peaked out at missile day. Read More
RambusHeads UP ...from Rambus Chartology."You may recall we were looking at the Japanese YEN / PM complex combo chart several months ago comparing the YEN to the PM complex. For whatever reasons how the YEN goes the PM complex tends to follow. It's not a perfect correlation but close enough to pay attention. Today the YEN gapped below an important trendline that goes all the way back to October...Read More
Ask yourself what factors what factors will affect global financial markets once the so called US-China trade deal is signed. Trade war is the biggest reason why gold prices rose from $1200 to $1600 in around twelve months. Central bank buying and other reasons have also contributed to gold price rise but the biggest catalyst has been the trade war and recession fears. I will happy if gold price...Read More
Silver may not be going to $50 tomorrow, but 2020 looks like it's going to be a very interesting year. Here's why...by Rory Hall from The Daily Coin with Chris MarcusSubscribe, ReSubscribe, Share and LikeThanks for watching, listening and sharing.Visit Chris Marcus - https://arcadiaeconomics.comVisit Rory - https://www.thedailycoin.orgI sat down with Chris Marcus, https://arcadiaeconomics.com Arc...Read More
RAPAPORT... E-commerce spending in the US grew to a record high during the holiday season, driven by a rise in smartphone purchases, according to Adobe Analytics.Revenues rose 13% year on year to $142.5 billion over the November-December period, with consumer purchases on smartphones raking in more than $50 billion in sales for the first time, and accounting for 84% of online sales growth. Ea...Read More
RAPAPORT... Tiffany & Co. has unveiled the location that will serve as its home during the two-year renovation of its New York flagship store.The Tiffany Flagship Next Door, a four-story space on East 57th Street, adjacent to the jeweler's Fifth Avenue store, will take the place of its primary location until late 2021. Tiffany plans to test out periodic installations and exclusive pa...Read More
RAPAPORT... Chow Tai Fook intends to close up to 15 stores in Hong Kong as street protests and a tourism slowdown have hit sales.Leases on more than 40 of the jeweler's 91 retail locations in the municipality are due to expire during the fiscal year starting April 2020, the company said Tuesday. Management will decide which of those leases it will allow to lapse."We will review the store performan...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Rapaport Diamond Podcast ushers in the new year with a review of the holiday season and some bold predictions for 2020. Is this the year of retail refurbishment? Will rough buying become more demand-driven? How is De Beers relating to sightholders going into lab-grown? Will John stick to his fitness regime and Sonia to her goal of being more mindful? And will Billy Porter stea...Read More
RAPAPORT PRESS RELEASE, January 14, 2020, New York... The Rapaport Group has released its Diamond Price Statistics Annual Report for 2019, evaluating the performance of polished-diamond prices. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the past year's trends and compares the price changes within specific diamond categories.Diamond prices fell in 2019 as the trade faced macroeconomic uncertainty...Read More
(IDEX Online) - EyeOnJewels has launched a local online marketplace for jewelry in the US that is standardizing the shopping process. The new service enables consumers to find fine jewelry and watch products from local vetted and certified jewelers without having to search them individually. Using EyeOnJewels, shoppers can add items from different retailers to their cart and pay for them in o...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The International Gemological Institute (IGI) has opened a new center in Shanghai. The new office includes classrooms and a lab is located in the Fosun building in the Bund Financial Center. IGI said the center will offer enhanced educational and grading services as well as gemological information. "IGI's Shanghai base will promote mutual understanding between IGI and the...Read More