While it's always great to hear Rick Rule talk about the markets, at this year's New Orleans Investment Conference we were able to catch up with Rick and talk about his life, and the lessons he's learned through investing.It was great to hear about some of Rick's biggest successes and failures, and the advice he would pass along to someone who's getting started in the investing world today. Althou...Read More

Two potential trajectories for the U.S. Dollar IndexWhy Brent thinks stocks still have higher to go, even from these lofty levelsChina, trade deal, and currency rate component of the trade dealCanadian Interest RatesGold outlookRead More

"The USTR is focused on countering the growing protectionism of EU member states, which unfairly targets U.S. companies, whether through digital services taxes or other efforts Continue...Read More

This is the fourth straight month of contraction in one of President Trump's favorite sectors of the economy. Continue...Read More

Following the latest dismal ISM data which sent US equity markets tumbling, traders were on the prowl for any hints what the US may do over the next major catalyst in the US tradeContinue...Read More

The current bull cycle for gold prices is still in progress, and it's only a matter of time before price levels for the yellow metal hit $2,000 an ounce, this according to Sean Boyd, CEO of Agnico Eagle."We're still in that bull market that started in 2015. This is just the initial phase," Boyd told Kitco News. "We think in this cycle gold will hit a new high in U.S. dollars. Ultimately, we'll get...Read More

Sector expert Michael Ballanger offer his latest insights into the markets and his investment strategy as 2019 winds down. "Gold is money; everything else is credit." J.P. MorganDating back to the mid-80s, and usually around the end of November, I begin to formulate strategies and portfolios looking out to the upcoming New Year, taking into account technical, fundamental and geopolitical factors...Read More

Sector expert Maurice Jackson begins a four-part series on private placements with a conversation with Tekoa Da Silva of Sprott USA. Maurice Jackson: Thank you for joining us for aspecial four-part series entitled All About Private Placements. Joining us for a conversation is Tekoa Da Silva; he is an accomplished licensed financial advisor for Sprott USA, the preeminent name in the natural resour...Read More

Teaser: Let’s face it, we live in a world of radical uncertainty. Yet we’re supposed to make perfectly rational decisions – so, how do we cope with the unknown? We tell narratives, and form our decisions around them! Let’s explore the narratives in the financial markets for it reveals their importance to the gold market. Let’s face it, we live in a world of radical un...Read More

Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 325,28653,65293,522191,548497,015610,356644,189 Change from Prior Reporting Period -12,0102,215-16,214-15,078-28,706-43,302-42,705 Traders 18560794955265170 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 58,91225,079669,268 -6,641-7,238-49,943 non reportable po...Read More

Strengths? The best performing metal for the week was palladium, up 3.66 percent. Palladium reached a fresh record this week, reports Bloomberg, hitting $1,842.76 an ounce and extending this year's rally to 46 percent. Gold also witnessed safe haven buying following Trump's signing of a bill supporting Hong Kong protestors. Despite renewed hopes for a U.S.-China trade pact, hol...Read More

By: Larry LaBorde When considering the space requirements of $1,000,000, the first question is in what form? I will try to illustrate the volume and weight of $1 million dollars in three forms: $100 bills, gold eagle coins and silver eagle coins. I have had some customers surprised by the volume of metals they have ordered when it arrives. Some have been overwhelmed (usually with silver)...Read More

By: Gary Savage After 2013, we started see these huge pre-market dumps in gold. Banks playing the markets with massive contract dumps on the markets, in five minutes or less, usually in the pre-market where that contract volume size will start to..Read More

Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsThe basic idea behind the Quantity Theory of Money could be stated as: too much money supply is chasing too little goods supply, so prices rise. We have debunked this from several angles. For example, we can use a technique that every first year student in physics is expected to know. Dimensional analysis looks at the units on both sides of an equation.Money supply...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend J.D. writes today:"I write regarding the interesting response you received from Shawn Elizabeth Phillips, corporate secretary at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, by e-mail dated November 13, 2019:http://www.gata.org/node/19583"The New York Fed's response points to purported Dodd-Frank law rules prohibiting disclosing for two years of the identities of...Read More

The next two weeks are big global economic data days and central banks meetings (including FOMC). Eastern European central banks have started increasing gold reserves. Those central banks whose gold have been stored in vaults in UK have started to repatriate their gold or have given their intention to take back their gold. But bank of England is not giving gold to South American nations. This wi...Read More

RAPAPORT... Sales of secondhand luxury goods increased in 2019, presenting an opportunity for growth in the jewelry market, according to Bain &Company. Purchases of secondhand goods rose to EUR 26 billion ($28.67 billion) for the year, with previously ownedwatches and jewelry showing a strong performance, Bain noted last week in its globalluxury report.   "We see the secondhand...Read More

RAPAPORT... Sales of jewelry and other luxury items in Hong Kong slid inOctober, marking the second-highest monthly decline on record as protests in the municipality dented consumer sentiment. Revenue from jewelry, watches, clocks and other valuablegifts fell 43% year on year to HKD 3.92 billion ($500.2 million) during themonth, the municipality's Census and Statistics Department reported Mon...Read More

RAPAPORT... Zimbabwe's state-owned diamond miner is planning tendersoutside the country in an effort to attract more buyers, Bloomberg reportedThursday. The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) intends tohold 11 international sales in 2020, the news agency cited the miner's actingCEO, Rob De Pretto, as saying. Its tenders are currently in Harare, thecountry's capital, but the location does...Read More

RAPAPORT... Tiffany & Co. and Pandora received high ratings on anannual list comparing responsible sourcing by the largest companies in thefashion industry. Tiffany garnered the top rating of AAA in the retail category for thefifth consecutive year, according to the yearly Environmental, Social and Government report by index and analytics provider MSCI, formerly Morgan Stanley Capital Internat...Read More