By: Ira EpsteinBonds also a crowded trade. Gold weekly chart has not taken out any important lows..Read More
Realistic ForecastsProfound Technological ChangeIncome ChallengesCrazy NumbersNew York and HoustonScientists say the rules change in a cosmic "black hole" at what astrophysicists call the event horizon. How do they know that? Not by observation, since what happens in there is, by definition, un-seeable. They infer it from the surroundings, which say that the mathematics of the universe as we und...Read More
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America may be safer than ever, but residents of the Land of the Free seem set on raising their children in a climate of fear.Continue...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
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Who would have thought that JPMorgan's precious metals trading desk is the functional equivalent of the mafia, and Continue...Read More
Bill Powers of the Mining Stock Education podcast discusses the news flow from this junior explorer. At the 2019 Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit last week in Beaver Creek, Colorado, I had the opportunity to meet one-on-one with numerous junior mining management teams. Due to a rising gold price environment, the expectation and general mood among the management teams was much more positive tha...Read More
Andy Hecht: Natural gas can be one of the most volatile commodities that trade on the futures market. Since 1990, the price has traded from lows at $1.02 to a high at $15.65 per MMBtu. Over the past three decades, the fundamentals for the natural gas market gave changed dramatically. Discoveries of massive natural gas reserves in the Marcellus and Utica share regions of the US and technological ad...Read More
One weekago Cameco announced it will maintain low output levels until uranium pricesrecover. The Canadian uranium miner also said it might cut production further, having already closed four mines in Canada and laid off2,000 of its workers in the uranium mining hub of Saskatchewan. Cameco share price Newslike this has stalked the uranium market for years, and while 2018 was a greatyear for the...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger uses storytelling and personal experience to unpack the myths and machinations behind the precious metals and financial markets. "Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper." —Ayn RandWhy don't we start things off a tad differently this evening? Let me relate to you all a parable from the Book of Quantitative Easing where all is...Read More
What if it’s not a new bull market for gold? What if gold prices are going lower – not higher?Think it can’t happen? Think again.In December 1987, gold prices stood at just over $500.00 per ounce. They had been on a tear for the previous three years after hitting a post-peak low of just under $300.00 per ounce in February 1985.The increase in gold’s price of $200.00 per oun...Read More
Michael Nowak, the global head of trading for both base and precious metals at JPMorgan Chase, allegedly oversaw an illegal market manipulation operation.He was placed on leave in late August and is a target in a widening DOJ criminal probe.Reuters reports that Nowak and Gregg Smith, whose title is unknown at this time, are the third and fourth people now implicated in a criminal price rigging...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 4.41 percent. Central banks continue to stock up on gold - led by Russia, the world's top buyer for seven consecutive years. Russia's central bank quadrupled its gold holdings in the last decade and has diversified away from U.S. assets. According to Bloomberg, the value of the nation's gold surged 42 percent in the past year to $1...Read More
David HaggithOne argument for last week's extraordinary plunge in bond prices, which I explored as something that might happen this time of year in one of my earlier Premium Posts, was that bond prices could get crushed by the supersized US treasury auctions planned for September and October as the government makes up for its inability to issue new debt during the debt-ceiling standoff.While poi...Read More
For a rare change, global markets seem genuinely concerned about the news. A drone attack by Iran over the weekend knocked out more than half of Saudi Arabia's refining capacity, amounting to roughly five percent of global supply. Fox and other news outlets underplayed the story initially, putting it beneath the latest sex charges against Kavanaugh. But the Saudi story shot up to the top of the...Read More
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By: Ira EpsteinBonds also a crowded trade. Gold weekly chart has not taken out any important lows..Read More
Realistic ForecastsProfound Technological ChangeIncome ChallengesCrazy NumbersNew York and HoustonScientists say the rules change in a cosmic "black hole" at what astrophysicists call the event horizon. How do they know that? Not by observation, since what happens in there is, by definition, un-seeable. They infer it from the surroundings, which say that the mathematics of the universe as we und...Read More
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