A convoy carrying mine workers was attacked by gunmen, 40km from SEMAFO's Boungou gold mine in the Est region, killing 37 people and injuring a further 60.Read More
It's crazy out there.And what's truly frightening: We all know it's crazy out there, but few people seem to be doing anything about it.Earlier this week, billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio published a blog where he argues an excess of free money, enormous government deficits, and excessive social liabilities have set the world up for a "big paradigm shift." Dalio concludes, "The system of ma...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 344,59164,76398,524181,688498,826624,803662,113 Change from Prior Reporting Period 9,1685,85533,1194,69120,61346,97859,587 Traders 20283815755290196 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 65,37828,068690,181 -239-12,84846,739 non reportable positionsCha...Read More
The US stock markets have surged to all-time-record highs, fueled by extreme Fed easing. It jawboned about rate cutting, slashed rates, and birthed a new large-scale Treasury monetization campaign! All this has left traders hyper-complacent, assuming the upside will continue indefinitely. But are these lofty stock levels fundamentally-justified? The big US stocks' just-reported Q3'19 r...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold - how far low can it go?Read More
Typical gold and silver price movement after Diwali. Gold and silver have always formed short term peak around Diwali. Irrespective of the news, history has repeated itself. I will prefer to use sharp dips to invest for next year. Long term investment is good at current price. Short term investors and very short term traders need to remain on the sidelines. Physical demand and investment demand...Read More
"We are removing any and all mentions of the potential whistleblower's name and will revisit this decision should their name be widely published in the media or used by public figures in debate.Continue...Read More
Central banking can only exist at the expense of Liberty. The longer that it exists, the more Liberty it destroys. Ultimately, one of the two must give.Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Revolution: A Manifesto and End The Fed. An unwavering defender o...Read More
As we approach a critical time in the markets, it's important to ask how the megaphone pattern is being affected. Harry Dent warns of higher highs and lower lows while noting that now is the optimum time to lighten up, sell or hedge your stocks with put options.Harry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, new venture investor, noted speaker, bestselling author, and the founder and senior editor at Dent...Read More
Eric Sprott discusses this week's downturn in precious metal prices while also providing his perspective on several mining companies which have recently reported quarterly earnings.Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securit...Read More
The Federal Reserve's grand scheme to raise asset prices and create a "wealth effect" has many unintended consequences, not the least of which is pricing young people out of the real estate marketContinue...Read More
The Critical Investor does a deep dive into this explorer's drill program at its Yukon silver project. Haldane Exploration camp, YukonAll cashed up after raising C$1.1 million in an oversubscribed financing in July, Alianza Minerals Ltd. (ANZ:TSX.V) was ready for its 2019 Phase II drill program at its flagship Haldane silver project, after the Phase I drill target defining program was completed e...Read More
Silverplunged on Tuesday, just as it was likely to afterthe triple reversal that we’ve been writing about, and it was decliningstrongly during Wednesday’s pre-market trading. And then it all changed. Silversoared before the U.S. markets opened and the white metal ended the session inthe green. We definitely saw a silver reversal. But, was it significant and canit be trusted?Wedoubt tha...Read More
This morning in pre-market the Amigos’ futures charts update the macro story……which goes something like this… Copper, the cyclical Amigo (weekly chart) has furthered the intermediate trend line break we noted on October 25th. This is in line with the rally in US and global stock markets and even more so, the global macro reflation theme. It does not look so impressive ye...Read More
As it has done with cobalt, graphite and rare earths, China appears to be locking up the nickel market. Nickel’s top producer, Indonesia, in early September decided to accelerate a scheduled ban on ore export shipments, from 2022 to January 1, 2020. The ban which instead took immediate effect on Oct. 28, is to encourage the building of domestic smelters instead of exporting raw nic...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 344,59164,76398,524181,688498,826624,803662,113 Change from Prior Reporting Period 9,1685,85533,1194,69120,61346,97859,587 Traders 20283815755290196 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 65,37828,068690,181 -239-12,84846,739 non reportable positionsCha...Read More
The US stock markets have surged to all-time-record highs, fueled by extreme Fed easing. It jawboned about rate cutting, slashed rates, and birthed a new large-scale Treasury monetization campaign! All this has left traders hyper-complacent, assuming the upside will continue indefinitely. But are these lofty stock levels fundamentally-justified? The big US stocks' just-reported Q3'19 r...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold - how far low can it go?Read More
Typical gold and silver price movement after Diwali. Gold and silver have always formed short term peak around Diwali. Irrespective of the news, history has repeated itself. I will prefer to use sharp dips to invest for next year. Long term investment is good at current price. Short term investors and very short term traders need to remain on the sidelines. Physical demand and investment demand...Read More
SD Friday Wrap: Is it Black Friday already? Because silver's really looking like it's having an epic doorbuster sale today...Last Friday I said the world was descending into madness.The world is descending into madness:Nothing has changed.In the markets, however?Newfound optimism.Total Euphoria.But don't take 'Ol Half Dollar's word for it, see for yourself:That's eight Trump Tweets about the recor...Read More