By Gary Savage$SPX in oversold conditions, this is not a new perma-bear market. The market will start pricing in the corona virus dying out. Still another 10-15 years in this bull market to go..https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More
If you're a regular reader of these pages, you may recall that we've been documenting the ongoing fraud of "Exchanges For Physical" for the past several years. With trading volumes surging during these turbulent times, EFP use is surging again, too. Thus it's time for an update.Let's start as we often do with a list of links to previous posts on this subject. You might note the first one is date...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Does the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission have jurisdiction over manipulative futures trading by the U.S. government, other governments, or brokers acting for them?Is the commission aware of futures trading by governments?In a letter to U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney, R-West Virginia, dated January 28 and released to GATA yesterday, the commission's chairman, Heath P...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold 18-dma is $1636 level. Upper Bollinger is $1699Read More
It is just fear of recession and fear that a long term investing opportunity will be lost that is deciding investment strategy. Traders and find managers are booking profit in every investment (other than stocks) to invest for the long term in stocks. Most believe that stock markets are great long term investing opportunity. Every investment has crashed due to corona virus. Gold, silver, crude o...Read More
On Sunday, Italy registered a huge jump in new casesof the COVID-19, the stock market plunged,while the oil market crashed. Tuesday morning, and Italy is on lockdown. Meanwhile,gold jumped above $1,700. What’s next for the yellow metal? Gold Jumps Above $1,700Last week, I wrote that: from thefundamental point of view, the environment of fear, ultra low interest rates,weak equity markets...Read More
Gold is testing itsprevious 2020 highs, but silver plunged anyway, which created a very specialsituation. Namely, the goldto silver ratio just jumped to the 100 level.This may not seem like abig deal, because ultimately people buy metals, not their ratio, but itactually is a huge deal. This ratio is observed by investors and traders alike,as it tends to peak at the market extremes. Moving to the 1...Read More
Last week I talked about unrealistic expectations for the price of silver (see Silver Loses Its Mettle). My comments were centered on two specific factors: 1) silver’s primary role as an industrial commodity and 2) the fallacy of the gold-to-silver ratio.Both of these items have their root in fundamentals, or lack of them.In addition, I pointed out the fact that the price of silver has decli...Read More
LONDON, 11 March 2020 - Comment from BullionVault features today in a report on investing in gold from UK 'mid-market' tabloid the Daily Express.Reporting how one BullionVault user just used the company's smartphone app to buy almost ?1m of gold in a single trade, "Gold sales are rising as investors shun stock markets, higher-risk currencies and corporate bonds," says the newspaper on its website...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold's vertical rise shows its power. 18-dma is $1628, Bollinger bands is up near $1700.Read More
Oil rallied with the Dow after historic lossesAfter a disastrous Monday, the Dow turned in an over 1,000-point rally today, as Wall Streetrecouped some of the historical losses suffered in the previous session. It was an incredibly volatile session, with the blue-chip index trading as much as 160 points lower at its session lows, only to furiously push higher in last-minute trading. The S&P 500 an...Read More
Mining stocks have pushed higher amid the global sell-offAs gold prices and safe haven assets skyrocket in the face of the global economic sell-off, mining stocks such as Barrick Gold Corp (NYSE:GOLD) have weathered the storm. GOLD hit a three-and-a-half year high of $22.44 on Feb. 24, and although its taken a breather since then, data from Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White sugg...Read More
GILD has amassed 19% year-to-dateWith the major U.S. indexes suffering their worst week since the financial crisis of 2008 in late February, it should be non-trivial to say coronavirus - or COVID-19 - has become a massive caveat to not only public health crisis, but to Wall Street as well. The spread and severity of the flu-like epidemic is concurrent to the volatile run in markets during the past...Read More
Southwest Airlines' CEO announced he's taking a 10% pay cut in response to the sector's "severe recession" While the coronavirus outbreak continues to impact the flight sector, shares of Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) are down 1.2%, last seen trading at $43.20. In the midst what he described as a "severe recession" for the airline industry, the firm's CEO Garry Kelly announced he was taking a 10...Read More
Oil is enjoying a lift of its ownStocks continue to shake off yesterday's worst day since 2008, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) up around 126 points at last check. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) are also in recovery mode, as President Donald Trump put forth the idea of a payroll tax cut or relief in response to the rapidly increasing coronavirus headwinds in the U...Read More
The retailer just posted a fourth-quarter earnings and revenue beat Dick's Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS) is getting a big boost today following its fourth-quarter earnings report, up 10.5% at $38.10. The sports equipment retailer reported earnings of $1.32 and $2.61 billion in revenue, topping analysts' expectations, and hiked its quarterly dividend by $13.6. Meanwhile, the company also announced...Read More
AIM Immunotech is developing a vaccine that was used to contain the SARS outbreakShares of AIM Immunotech Inc (NYSE:AIM) were last seen trading down 22.5% at $4.73, despite yesterday announcing that the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Japan will begin testing its drug Ampligen, a broad-spectrum antiviral, as a potential treatment for the new coronavirus outbreak. Researchers...Read More
Several analysts have cut their price targetsStitch Fix Inc (NASDAQ:SFIX) is down 30.6% to trade at $14.72 this morning, one of the worst stocks on the Nasdaq today and alreadyhitting a record low of $14.28. Though the company reported profits of 11 cents per share, higher than Wall Street's estimated six cents per share, the reported revenue of $451.78 million came in lower than the estimated 452...Read More
President Trump proposed a tax cut to combat the negative economic effects of COVID-19Stocks are recovering some of yesterday's historic losses in pre-market trading today, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) signals a nearly 900 point open. S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) futures are also eyeing a significant pop, after U.S. President Donald Trump proposed the idea of "a...Read More
Stewart Thomsonemail: stewart@gracelandupdates.comemail: stewart@gracelandjuniors.comemail:admin@guswinger.comMarch 10, 2020The US government is taking Corona very seriously, but only as it relates to the stock market. Instead of trying to save burning stock market investors from an ongoing sleigh ride into the financial abyss, the government needs to start mobilizing the nation’s armed forc...Read More