By: Ira EpsteinGold market's 18-DMA is under $1,600. 5 days in a row OVER the Bollinger band. Tomorrow it is likely try to get under the band, under $1,650..Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Somebody seems to have dumped a lot of gold derivatives on the market this afternoon, and Zero Hedge estimates it at $3 billion worth and attributes it to the Bank for International Settlements:https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/gold-suddenly-hammered-multi-billi...There may not yet be any public evidence tying this particular attack to the BIS, but whoever did it...Read More
Silver has not risen at all. Just trade in the technical in silver. Corrections in gold are healthy. There are lots of US economic data next week. US various February jobs report will be there next week. Correction or profit booking in gold and silver will be there. Corrections will be healthy to ensure that the current rally in gold is a sustainable one. A continued one way rise will imply a bo...Read More
Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. The US stock market is in "sleigh ride" mode against gold stocks.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this chart. Yesterday was another day of disappointment, fear, and outright terror... for most investors who are locked in the Dow versus GDX sled.3. The disintegration of the US stock market against GDX began...Read More
Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock JournalTwo economic reports were released which demonstrate that the money printing is not helping the economy. In the fourth quarter of 2019, U.S. household debt pushed over $14 trillion, reaching an all-time record high. This was fueled by a surge in mortgage and credit card debt. Much of the the new mortgage debt consisted of cash out" refis, which helped exacerbat...Read More
Gary TanashianI went out in the afternoon with gold screaming upward on COVID-19 hysteria. I see something like that and I mentally prepare for the "volatility violence" we talked about in last weekend's edition of NFTRH (#591).Maybe some of you old hats like me remember the last bull market, from 2001 to 2008. Yes, of course you do. Massive "attacks" on gold were routine, and they seemed...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold market's 18-DMA is under $1,600. 5 days in a row OVER the Bollinger band. Tomorrow it is likely try to get under the band, under $1,650..Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Somebody seems to have dumped a lot of gold derivatives on the market this afternoon, and Zero Hedge estimates it at $3 billion worth and attributes it to the Bank for International Settlements:https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/gold-suddenly-hammered-multi-billi...There may not yet be any public evidence tying this particular attack to the BIS, but whoever did it...Read More
Silver has not risen at all. Just trade in the technical in silver. Corrections in gold are healthy. There are lots of US economic data next week. US various February jobs report will be there next week. Correction or profit booking in gold and silver will be there. Corrections will be healthy to ensure that the current rally in gold is a sustainable one. A continued one way rise will imply a bo...Read More
LONDON, 25 February 2020 - Comment from BullionVault features in today's latest gold-price report from leading US investment news-site MarketWatch."Backing gold has paid handsomely so far in 2020," MarketWatch quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault, "but if coronavirus really does start to suck oxygen out of the markets day after day, this is where it gets tough to sit tight in go...Read More
By: Gary SavageGeneral market updates on today's big down-move. This video update includes: $ES, $AAPL, $COMPRead More
"Explosive growth of shadow banking was about the invisible hand having a party, a non-regulated drinking party, with rating agencies handing out fake IDs." Paul McCulley, economist, bond investor, PIMCO; coined "shadow banking" in 2007, The New York Times 4/6/2010; b. 1957 "If you are ready to give up everything else to study the whole history of the market as carefully as a medical student st...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 11.52 percent as precious metals had a stellar week. Gold hit a seven-year high this week, holding above $1,600 an ounce to the highest since February 2013 largely on coronavirus fears. The metal also rose on speculation that the Federal Reserve will ease monetary policy before year-end. Gold remained strong even as the U.S. dollar a...Read More
Clive MaundIf you are wondering why gold is starting to accelerate away to the upside, you need look no farther than the following amazing chart forwarded to me by reader Larry Fike, which Larry has kindly given me permission to reproduce in this update...Click on chart to popup a larger, clearer version.Chart courtesy of Larry FikeThe chart speaks for itself and requires little additional comme...Read More
Now that we are hearing stories about the viral threat of superspreaders, of deepening economic paralysis around the world, and how it could take 18 months to produce a vaccine, investors' show of bravado in recent weeks seems to have melted away. Shares got hit across-the-board on Thursday and Friday, and if investors know what's good for them they'll pound the bejeezus out of them this week. A...Read More
Gold April reached a high of $1684.10 early morning (at New Zealand open). Silver march reached at high of $1879.50. Copper march fell to a low of $256.50. Crude oil fell to a low of $51.66. Early morning high (just after New Zealand open) can be fake or just stop loss hitting price moves. No doubt the trend for gold and silver is bullish. BUT still they have to break and trade over early mornin...Read More
The number of coronavirus cases outside China are growingThe Dow was on the wrong side of history today, turning in a 1,031-point loss, its third-worst single-session drop ever. The blue-chip index has now given up its year-to-date gains in just one day, as COVID-19 continues to spread to more countries outside of China. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq turned in equally ugly setbacks, the latter sufferin...Read More
ZM short sellers can't be happy with today's breakoutSchaeffer's Senior Options Strategist Tony Venosa, CMT is taking a look at the shares of Zoom Video Communications Inc (NASDAQ:ZM) ahead of the company's earnings release next Wednesday, March 4. Venosa pointed out that ZM stock recently moved past the 50% year-to-date level, and is now testing a region on the charts near $36 that is equal to t...Read More
Deutsche Bank cut its price target on Foot Locker to $55 from $59Foot Locker Inc (NYSE:FL) is selling off today,following a price-target cut from Deutsche Bank. The analyst cut its estimate to $55 from $59 early this morning, which has sent FL down 3.2% to trade at $37.62, on pace for its lowest close since early September. This comes right ahead of the retailers fourth-quarter earnings report, sl...Read More
Both stocks are selling off with the broad market todayThe20 stocks listed in the table below have attracted the highest weekly options volume during the past 10 trading days, with data courtesy of Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White. The stocks highlighted in yellow are new to the list. Below, we're going to take a closer look at ride-sharing startups Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT) and...Read More