December as usual. Another Fed hike is behind us. Will we now see a rally in gold in January?Fed Hiked But It Will Monitor RisksYesterday, the FOMC published the monetary policy statement from its latest meeting that took place on December 18th-19th. In line with the expectations, the US central bank raised the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to the target range of 2.25 to 2.50 percent (it w...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1261.00+$19.00Silver$14.77+$0.19XAU69.79+4.78%HUI158.49+4.97%GDM576.83+3.08%JSE Gold1344.82-10.71USD96.34-0.72Euro114.57+0.85Yen90.12+0.82Oil$45.88-$2.2910-Year2.804%+0.024T-Bond144.71875-0.3125Dow22859.60-1.99%Nasdaq6528.41-1.65%S&P2467.42-1.58% The Metals: Gold gained $24.30 to a new 5-month high at $1266.30 by early afternoon in New York before it c...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1261.00+$19.00Silver$14.77+$0.19XAU69.79+4.78%HUI158.49+4.97%GDM576.83+3.08%JSE Gold1344.82-10.71USD96.34-0.72Euro114.57+0.85Yen90.12+0.82Oil$45.88-$2.2910-Year2.804%+0.024T-Bond144.71875-0.3125Dow22859.60-1.99%Nasdaq6528.41-1.65%S&P2467.42-1.58% The Metals: Gold gained $24.30 to a new 5-month high at $1266.30 by early afternoon in New York before it c...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1261.00+$19.00Silver$14.77+$0.19XAU69.79+4.78%HUI158.49+4.97%GDM576.83+3.08%JSE Gold1344.82-10.71USD96.34-0.72Euro114.57+0.85Yen90.12+0.82Oil$45.88-$2.2910-Year2.804%+0.024T-Bond144.71875-0.3125Dow22859.60-1.99%Nasdaq6528.41-1.65%S&P2467.42-1.58% The Metals: Gold gained $24.30 to a new 5-month high at $1266.30 by early afternoon in New York before it c...Read More
By Dave KranzlerBloomberg posted an article this morning describing the Collateralized Loan Obligation market as "Wall Street's Billionaire Machine." But I seem to recall that the CLO market was one of the financial nuclear bombs that blew up and triggered the financial system de facto collapse in 2008. Well, it's back - with a vengeance. Of course the taxpayers were once again sold a bi...Read More
By Stefan GleasonThe Fed blinked - but didn't flinch away from another rate hike. On Wednesday, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policymakers rejected President Donald Trump's call for a pause. They raised their benchmark rate by a quarter point to a range up to 2.5%.The only concession Fed chairman Jerome Powell offered to Trump and nervous stock market investors was a revised, less hawkish...Read More
Rules help guide us through uncertainty.Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson. The opinions expressed are his regarding the rules for traveling our economic path.THOSE WHO MAKE THE RULES:For perspective on Washington D.C. and Wall Street, we listen to wisdom and wit from Bill Bonner:"We look at the passing parade in Washington through a cynical lens...No situation is so hopel...Read More
By David HaggithBefore Trump was even inaugurated, I said he was clearly draining the swamp directly into the White House. That was obvious as soon as he nominated a Goldman-Sachs roster to fill all the financial cabinet positions. Some wishfully said he was playing 4-D chess by keeping his enemies close. I called baloney. He was simply being Sached. One of those from the Goldman roster was Stev...Read More
By Gary TanashianBelow are the Opening Notes and Bond Market segments from last Sunday's edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 530. Jerome Powell was actually more firm than I expected. Atta boy Jay! Aside from my prognostication the more important stuff (IMO) begins at the 4th paragraph. That is where I put on my tin foil hat and tell what I think. It does seem to dovetail with what we s...Read More
As part of Merk's in-house research we regularly evaluate a consistent set of charts covering the economy, equities, fixed income, commodities and currencies. The aim is to keep our eyes open and to look through the noise of the headlines, avoiding the distractions of sensationalized click-bait. In sharing this content, we offer a cross-check to your own thinking and aim to add value to your own...Read More
December as usual. Another Fed hike is behind us. Will we now see a rally in gold in January? Fed Hiked But It Will Monitor Risks Yesterday, the FOMC published the monetary policy statement from its latest meeting that took place on December 18th-19th. In line with the expectations, the US central bank raised the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to the target range of 2.25 to 2.50 percent...Read More
Fed monetary policy inched toward suicide Wednesday with a 25-basis-point rate hike and a feint toward bumping up interest rates two more times next year. Are they trying to make certain that Trump doesn't get re-elected? This interpretation is sounding less farfetched each day as the banksters continue to flout a global economic storm that is gaining strength by the week. It is manifest in the...Read More
Jingle bells have not rung for any investment class towards the close of the year. We all read about heaven and hell on our religious books. In the "Kaalyug" (technological age as per Hindu scriptures), most of the people go to hell as they perform more bad deeds than good deeds. In financial language heaven is profit and hell are investment and trading losses. Most of us go to hell as we incur...Read More
Before I began my business career, my rich dad insisted that I learn to be a real estate investor. At first, I thought he wanted me to invest in real estate simply for the real estate itself. As the years went on and my base of education grew, I came to better understand the bigger picture of the world of investing.Rich dad said, "If you want to be a sophisticated investor, you must train your min...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia (December 20, 2018) - PRIZE MINING CORPORATION ("Prize" or the "Company") (TSXV:PRZ) (OTCQB:PRZFF) (MQSP:GR:FRANKFURT) announces that step-out diamond drill holes at the Pilar Grande area of the Manto Negro Copper Project in Coahuila State, Mexico continues to intersect copper-silver mineralization. Drilling at the El Granizo site has encountered complex faulting th...Read More
Topics Include:*History of gold - Nixon tariffs, and closing the gold window*Investment case for gold*Why US debt to GDP ratio and increasing debt load creates a systemic problem with specific outcomes, all of which indicate an allocation to gold may be prudent*How low gold sentiment in western markets may indicate a key buying opportunity*Physics properties of gold, and why gold is a truly non-co...Read More
Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More
Over 2,400 US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, a number that is now about the same as the death toll from the actual 9/11 attacks.Continue...Read More
The Critical Investor presents an analysis of Trilogy Metals by Kees Dekker, a mining investment consultant. Arctic project; exploration1. Critical Investor IntroductionThis time Kees Dekker analyzed Trilogy Metals Inc. (TMQ:NYSE.MKT; TMQ:TSX), which sports one of the highest grade copper projects worldwide (Arctic). I found Kees' report interesting enough to obtain company feedback, and after a...Read More
The Dow Jones was up some 300 points yesterday when the sirens wailed at 2 o'clock sharp… and Jerome Powell pickled the bomb switch.When the all-clear sounded at 4 p.m., the index was down 352 points. In all, the Dow swung 900 hair-raising points yesterday.Markets emerged from their shelter this morning to take a look around - and survey the damage.Still shaken, still rattled... they broke u...Read More