Duringthe lackluster and otherwise unremarkable trading of 2018, a hugely importantdevelopment took place in the precious metals markets. Gold production, in theestimation of some top industry insiders, peaked.Peak goldrepresents the point at which the total number of ounces being pulled out ofthe ground by miners reaches a maximum.Itdoesn’t necessarily mean gold production will suffer a pre...Read More
As the stock market cracked on October 10th we noted…Looks Who’s Holding Firm Amid the Carnage; the Gold MinersAnd sure enough the GDX bottoming pattern noted in that post (and before that in an NFTRH subscriber update) played out perfectly amid the stock market carnage going on all around it.Was I trying to predict something? Of course not. I was just following general rules we&rsquo...Read More
Big win for the doves! And for gold, as it jumped above $1,320 amid the soft FOMC statement. What’s next?Committee Will Be PatientYesterday, the FOMC published the monetary policy statement from its latest meeting that took place on January 29-30th. In line with the expectations, the US central bank unanimously kept the federal funds rate unchanged at the target range of 2.25 to 2.50 percent...Read More
Silver is currently going for a majorbreakout.Here is a chart I featured months ago: On the chart, thefirst phase of the silver bull market was from 1993 to the end of 2001, and thesecond phase is potentially from 2001 to the end of 2015.It appears that there is a similarity betweenthe two phases. I have drawn some lines, and marked some patterns to show howthey could be similar.The first phase i...Read More
ECB’s meeting is behind us, while the gathering of the Fed officials is ahead of us. In the meantime, the price of gold jumped above $1,300. Will it stay for longer? Slowdown in the Eurozone, but not RecessionOn Thursday, the ECB held its monetary policy meeting. It left the policy on hold. The bank also maintained its forward guidance about the future path of interest rates unchanged (they...Read More
By: Stefan Gleason, Money MetalsDuring the lackluster and otherwise unremarkable trading of 2018, a hugely important development took place in the precious metals markets. Gold production, in the estimation of some top industry insiders, peaked.Peak gold represents the point at which the total number of ounces being pulled out of the ground by miners reaches a maximum.It doesn't necessarily mean...Read More
By: Gary ChristensonGold prices (weekly chart) formed an impressive inverse head and shoulders formation during a five-year base. Gold prices, which bottomed in December 2015, should climb the wall of worry.WHAT WALL OF WORRY?Really? You have to ask? Financial, stock market, debt and political worries come to mind:Global debt is about $250 trillion. The lenders expect to be repaid plus interest....Read More
By: Richard (Rick) Mills Gold markets were rocking on Tuesday, lifted by a basket of factors that included poor stock market performance earlier in the week, slow growth in China, weak earnings reports and expectations the US Federal Reserve would strike a dovish tone at its two-day meeting starting on Tuesday afternoon. The Fed raised interest rates four times in 2018 but some officials have...Read More
By: Gary TanashianAs the stock market cracked on October 10th we noted...Looks Who's Holding Firm Amid the Carnage; the Gold MinersAnd sure enough the GDX bottoming pattern noted in that post (and before that in an NFTRH subscriber update) played out perfectly amid the stock market carnage going on all around it.Was I trying to predict something? Of course not. I was just following general rul...Read More
By: David HaggithFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell placed his put in stocks while saying there is none. When he doubled down today on a more dovish approach to the economy, Powell claimed the Fed is not designing interest rates to keep the market climbing. If that is true, recession must be near:Fed delivers a "double-barrel dovish blast" The Fed sees recession dead ahead. You have only that...Read More
Well, there you have it: the most brazenly bogus rally in the history of the world. Are these guys good, or what? The fix was in even before Powell declared Wednesday afternoon that the Fed would be "patient." (Now there's a word that will reverberate through history!) AAPL's and Boeing's handlers had already gotten the jump on the Fed chairman's latest PR mutterance, deftly engineering respec...Read More
Full Article: SWOT Analysis: Gold Traders Bullish for 11th Straight WeekBY: Frank HolmesStrengthsIn what has been a rather rare occurrence, silver was the best performing metal this week, up 2.64 percent despite a steady trickle of silver out of the physical metal ETFs on a near daily basis. Gold traders are bullish for an 11th straight week, as surveyed by Bloomberg, on the heels of a declining...Read More
Silver peaked just shy of $50 during April of 2011. The price has been correcting ever since, falling below $14 per ounce in 2016 and again late last year. But there is a silver lining to such a deep and protracted price correction.With silver prices under $20 per ounce for so long, a significant number of mines are unable turn a profit. And even the ones that can, are not generating enough cash f...Read More
I can’t believe I’m saying this...But even with a $630 billion valuation, the market still doesn’t love Alphabet (GOOG) nearly enough.The market is missing something huge about Alphabet. Investors are completely ignoring a “hidden asset” that Alphabet owns which alone is worth more than most publicly traded companies.I believe that factoring in the value of this ̶...Read More
Please click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.c...Yra Harris is a trader with over 32 years of experience in all areas of commodity trading, with broad expertise in cash currency markets. He has a proven track record of successful trading through combination of technical work and fundamental analysis of global trends; historically based analysis on global hot money...Read More
Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Grant Williams back to MacroVoices. Erik asks Grant if we in a cyclical bear market and where he feels treasury bond yields are headed next. They discuss tensions between China and Taiwan, the rise of global populism and the future of France and Europe. Grant shares his update on how things are developing on Australian Real Estate and the risks of a recess...Read More
Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," as well as a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as an attorney until 1997 when she was recruited to work for an intern...Read More
Jason talks about Wednesday's Fed announcement and how rate hikes and QT may be doneRead More
Rick Sanchez presents an incredible video of an Su-27 Russian fighter jet confronting an F-15 in midair at almost supersonic speed and discusses what the encounter illustrates about today's military technology. Then former naval intelligence officer John Jordan joins to share his insights and expertise.Read More
In a move sure to unleash fury from the Trump administration, the European Union has announced it has set up a transactions channel with Iran to bypassContinue...Read More