Fed decides on Fed Funds Rate Change on Wednesday...any decision is the WRONG decision and will soon be exposed as such! Will Trump use the Fed as the scapegoat for market destruction? Very Likely!Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com. Bix...Read More
Josh Shapiro is an American politician and the 50th and current Attorney General of Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in Continue...Read More
Last week something historic happened in the US Senate. For the first time in 45 years, a chamber of the US Congress voted to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.While there is plenty to criticize in the War Powers Act, in this situation it was an important tool used by a broad Senate coalition to require President Trump to end US participation in the Saudi war ag...Read More
Money manager Adrian Day explains why he believes this stock should be sold now. Sell Nevsun Resources Ltd. (NSU, NY, US$4.46-4.47) with a limit of US$4.50.Zijin announced earlier in the month that it had received its third and final approval from Chinese authorities to proceed with its friendly takeover of Nevsun. There is little chance the takeover will not proceed. We are now going to sell Nev...Read More
A BMO Capital Markets note highlighted potential upside for investment in this Australian company. In a Dec. 7 research note, analyst Andrew Kaip reported that BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage on AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (AU:NYSE; ANG:JSE; AGG:ASX; AGD:LSE) with a Market Perform rating and an $11 per share target price. "We like the improving outlook," he added. Over the past four months, the...Read More
A Canaccord Genuity report discussed the agreement implications specifically and broadly. In a Dec. 14 research note, analyst Carey MacRury reported that Canaccord Genuity increased its target price on Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (WPM:TSX; WPM:NYSE) to CA$41 per share from CA$38.50 (current share price is about CA$25.54). This change was made to reflect the company's just-announced tax settleme...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1246.30+$8.00Silver$14.67+$0.09XAU69.19+2.37%HUI156.72+2.66%GDM570.75+1.84%JSE Gold1302.25+3.60USD97.14-0.32Euro113.47+0.42Yen88.54+0.31Oil$49.88-$1.3210-Year2.858%-0.035T-Bond143.75+0.46875Dow23592.98-2.11%Nasdaq6753.73-2.27%S&P2545.94-2.08% The Metals: Gold saw slight losses in Asia, but it then climbed steadily higher in London and New York and ende...Read More
Perception of gold as an investment is fundamentally flawed. No matter the detail behind the analysis, gold is not an investment. investment…a thing that is worth buying because it may be profitable or useful in the future.Lets suppose you are at the grocery store and you see that butter is on sale for $2.00 per pound. Normally you pay $3.00 per pound or more.Since...Read More
Newmont Mining (NEM) is a gold stock with plenty of institutional interest. This means due to its huge following it is a good candidate for Gann Angles.Gold and gold stocks are waiting for the FED and other central banks to swing to dovish monetary policy, Powell hinted this in last speech, and next week the FED is expected to hike 0.25% to 2.5%, however the 3 previously planned hikes in 2019 look...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1246.30+$8.00Silver$14.67+$0.09XAU69.19+2.37%HUI156.72+2.66%GDM570.75+1.84%JSE Gold1302.25+3.60USD97.14-0.32Euro113.47+0.42Yen88.54+0.31Oil$49.88-$1.3210-Year2.858%-0.035T-Bond143.75+0.46875Dow23592.98-2.11%Nasdaq6753.73-2.27%S&P2545.94-2.08% The Metals: Gold saw slight losses in Asia, but it then climbed steadily higher in London and New York and ende...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1246.30+$8.00Silver$14.67+$0.09XAU69.19+2.37%HUI156.72+2.66%GDM570.75+1.84%JSE Gold1302.25+3.60USD97.14-0.32Euro113.47+0.42Yen88.54+0.31Oil$49.88-$1.3210-Year2.858%-0.035T-Bond143.75+0.46875Dow23592.98-2.11%Nasdaq6753.73-2.27%S&P2545.94-2.08% The Metals: Gold saw slight losses in Asia, but it then climbed steadily higher in London and New York and ende...Read More
By Dave KranzlerA couple of my subscribers emailed me expressing frustration over the fact that their recent homebuilder puts are either not moving higher or losing value despite the sell-off in the overall stock market. There's two factors. First, the homebuilder sector has dropped well over 30% since late January. To an extent there may be some seller's fatigue. At some point there will be sho...Read More
By Clint SiegnerThe Democratic party will be moving back into the control room in the House of Representatives.Congress may commemorate the return to split government with a partial shutdown. The feud over construction of a border wall looks like it will not be resolved in time. It could be the first of many political dramas in 2019.The debate over funding for the wall is theater, make no mistak...Read More
By Frank HolmesStrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 1.41 percent, though hedge funds cut their long position to a three-week low. ICBC Standard Bank, however, sees palladium hitting $1,500 an ounce by 2020. Gold traders and analysts were mostly bullish on the yellow metal this week on concerns about a potential U.S. government shutdown and ongoing uncertainty around Bre...Read More
By David HaggithThe Big Bear is back. Ursa Major is in the house of the rising sun, and Taurus is in the house of the setting sun. Those are bad signs for investors who are now daily diving into their horoscopes. The market is pouring out of an inverted Big Dipper, otherwise known as the Big Bear (Ursa Major), and no one (not even the Fed chair) nor any positive event seems able to stop it. I ca...Read More
By Justin SmythAssets that are typically the most inversely correlated to the stock market during bear markets have started exploding higher in the last few weeks. The IEF bond ETF broke out of a Stage 1 base recently. The utilities ETF XLU broke out of a Stage 2 continuation pattern and is making new all-time highs. Gold mining stocks are the sector I'm paying very close attention to right no...Read More
By PlungerUsing Charles Dow's well known method of reading the stock market's movements , on Friday December 14th 2018 , the averages confirmed a bearish indication and can now be classified to be in a bear market. This action Friday is the first occurrence of a valid bear market signal in 11 years. Together the Dow Industrials and Transportation averages triggered a bear market signal followi...Read More
Gold is not only flowing from West to East.It is also flowing into the house account at Goldman Sachs. Or at least the paper claims for it in New York.Below is the monthly report showing the large amounts of physical gold which have been steadily flowing through the Shanghai markets into strong hands in China.Few commentators are talking about this.What is less familiar, and what I have not read...Read More
Full Article: Outlook 2019 - Rush to SafetyBy: Kitco News(Kitco News) - Once again the Kitco News team has been working hard to create the definitive resource for precious metals investors ahead of 2019.Our efforts have again paid off with today's launch of 2019 Outlook - Rush To Safety. I have lost count of all the bank reports we have read, analysts we have talked to, and data we have review...Read More
This won't be the last time that you read this headline.The stock market is crashing again to start the last trading week before Christmas. The Dow and S&P 500 both declined by 2.1% today, while the NASDAQ is down 2.3%. The major drivers of this market decline are slowing growth projections, an escalating trade war between the United States and China, as well as rising interest rates.Investors are...Read More