A lot of people seem to have already forgotten about last month's big market sell-off. But if you're still worried about October's market sell-off, you should know that the largest bank in the U.S., JPMorgan Chase, isn't.In fact, strategists at the mega-bank believe October's market correction was driven mostly by technical factors and should reverse as earnings season progresses. Earnings season...Read More
According to retail experts, November is now the new retail boom month as more people start to do their Christmas shopping online.The shift happened in 2016 when, for the first time ever, November retail sales outpaced December. The trend continued last year with November sales climbing 1.3%, while December was down 0.6%.Shopping events like Black Friday, Singles Day and Cyber Monday are big drive...Read More
Early gains on Wall Street fizzled and sent global stocks lower last week after reports that the U.S. is planning an additional $257 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese goods if upcoming talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail to end a trade war between two of the world's largest economies.Many stock indexes are already in official correction territory-meaning down 10% from recen...Read More
Nov 09, 2018 Guest(s): Marin Katusa Chairman, Katusa Research Gold miners have suffered of late, owing in part to poor capital allocation choices from management, said Marin Katusa, chairman of Katusa Research. "I've known David Garofalo [CEO of Goldcorp], and they announced today they're doing a massive buyback of shares. They've had a horrible quarter...they've been such poor allocators of cap...Read More
Watch as Brent Johnson, CEO of Santiago Capital, discusses the complex relationship between the US Dollar and gold prices and what it means for investors.Read More
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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
"Treasury will be able to fully fund the government until at least mid-summer 2019 by using extraordinary measures, cash-on-hand, and incoming cash flow. But costs to taxpayers Continue...Read More
Continue...Mike "Mish" Shedlock a registered investment advisor, representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management and he operates one of the most popular websites about the economy and investing online: MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis.Read More
Continue...Mike "Mish" Shedlock a registered investment advisor, representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management and he operates one of the most popular websites about the economy and investing online: MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis.Read More
Continue...Theodore Butler is an independent silver analyst who has published unique precious metals commentaries on the internet since 1996. He is the head of Butler Research LLC, where he offers a subscription service of weekly commentaries, including detailed analysis of the Commitment of Traders Report, regulatory developments, supply and demand considerations, and topics of interest to invest...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts silver and explains why he believes the metal's prospects are changing. Silver continues to be a singularly neglected and unloved investment, and has been for years now, but as we will proceed to see, this is not a situation that is likely to continue for much longer. On its 10-year chart we can see that silver has basically been moving sideways marking out a l...Read More
The precious metals sector continues to be viewed with disdain, posits technical analyst Clive Maund, who discusses the factors that he sees are behind changes in the market. The precious metals sector continues to be viewed with disdain and skepticism by the vast majority of investors, which is exactly what you want and expect to see at the earliest stages of a major bull market. However, the cha...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund tracks movements in the platinum, gold and silver markets.It was a very good day for the metals Friday, as they rose sharply in response to the dollar going into reverse after a sizable run-up. A very significant development was that platinum broke out of its Head-and-Shoulders bottom on strong volume, a move which we had expected that marks the start of a bull market...Read More
Gold is the metalof kings, the ultimate money, an eternal store of value, an untarnishableembodiment of beauty. Gold is all those things. But it is not the most valuablemetal you can own on a cost-per-ounce basis.Often, platinum commands a higher price than gold.Lately, platinum has traded at an abnormally large discount to the yellowmetal. Metals investorswho want to hold the most concentrated we...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts silver and explains why he believes the metal's prospects are changing. Silver continues to be a singularly neglected and unloved investment, and has been for years now, but as we will proceed to see, this is not a situation that is likely to continue for much longer. On its 10-year chart we can see that silver has basically been moving sideways marking out a l...Read More
The precious metals sector continues to be viewed with disdain, posits technical analyst Clive Maund, who discusses the factors that he sees are behind changes in the market. The precious metals sector continues to be viewed with disdain and skepticism by the vast majority of investors, which is exactly what you want and expect to see at the earliest stages of a major bull market. However, the cha...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund tracks movements in the platinum, gold and silver markets.It was a very good day for the metals Friday, as they rose sharply in response to the dollar going into reverse after a sizable run-up. A very significant development was that platinum broke out of its Head-and-Shoulders bottom on strong volume, a move which we had expected that marks the start of a bull market...Read More
Gold is the metalof kings, the ultimate money, an eternal store of value, an untarnishableembodiment of beauty. Gold is all those things. But it is not the most valuablemetal you can own on a cost-per-ounce basis.Often, platinum commands a higher price than gold.Lately, platinum has traded at an abnormally large discount to the yellowmetal. Metals investorswho want to hold the most concentrated we...Read More
- Gold ETFs saw inflows in volatile October as investors again hedged risk- Gold ETFs see demand of 16.5 tonnes(t) in October to total of 2,346t, the equivalent of US$1B in inflows- Global gold demand was robust in Q3 - demand of 964.3 tonnes - plus 6.2t yoy- Strong central bank and store of value coin and bar demand offset the gold ETF outflows in Q3- Central bank gold reserves grew 148.4t i...Read More