Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio said that the bond market has slipped into a bear phase and warned that a rise in yields could spark the biggest crisis for fixed-income investors in almost 40 years.Ray Dalio is an American businessman and founder of the investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. In 2012, Dalio appeared on the annual Time 100 list of th...Read More
Source: Streetwise Reports 01/23/2018 Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in the gold and silver markets. -->Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.The gold sector is on a short-term buy signal. Short-term signals can last...Read More
- Cyber war is increasing threat - Investors are not prepared for- Third most likely global risk in 2018 is cyber war say WEF- "Scale and sophistication of attacks is going to grow"- EU, US, NATO lay down ground rules for offensive cyber war- Ireland is viable target for attackers but is 'grossly unprepared for cyber war'- UK should expect attack that cripples infrastructure within 2 years- Tru...Read More
"The technical barrier [to cloning primates] is now broken." Continue...Read More
Topics:-Coming Currency War with China-What if China decided to stop buying U.S. Treasuries?-Global financial war games-Political Triad: Trump - China Trade War - North Korea-U.S. Federal Reserve weak dollar policy-Inflation expectations could spike gold prices-China & Russia exploding gold reserves-Currency Wars explained-Protecting your assetsJim Rickards is a lawyer, investment banker and econo...Read More
For the past few years the "strong dollar" has been so central to the global financial story - enabling ever-lower interest rates Continue...Read More
Gold may be considered to be a bet against the U.S. dollar. The depreciation of the greenback supported the yellow metal in 2017. The price of gold managed to rise last year in rather unpleasant macroeconomic environment mainly thanks to the weakness of the U.S. dollar. Now, the key question is whether the bearish trend in the greenback will continue or we will see a trend reversal (or actually a...Read More
We called this explosive Trump rally. Right after the election... After Dow futures fell 800 points overnight and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures hit their Continue...Read More
Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd., began his career in the securities business in 1974. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest products and agriculture. His company has built a national reputation on taking advantage of global opportunities in the oil and gas, mining, alternative energy, agriculture, f...Read More
As the long-term interest rate Amigo continues upward, the anti-USD ‘inflation trade’ continues onward and more and more gold bug writers emerge from the woodwork, it is time for a little antidote to the inevitable pitches and hype to come.Everything is playing to script and with this little pullback to a higher low in the miners being resolved in the favored direction, the writer bugs...Read More
Transaction confirmation times have risen substantially; this, in turn, has led to an increase in the failure rate of transactions denominated in fiat currencies.Continue...Read More
If you want evidence of the Endgame for Central Bankers, you need to look no further than yesterday's Bank of Japan (BoJ) announcement.In its simplest rendering, Haruhiko Kuroda, the head of the BoJ, stated that the Japanese Yen is effectively worthless to him.In his news conference, Kuroda reiterated that changes to the bond-buying operations don't imply shifts to its policy stance, adding that t...Read More
In a year when the S&P500 hit all-time highs, gold also held strong, finishing 2017 up 13.5 percent, according to the World Gold Council. Gold's annual gain was the largest since 2010, outperforming all major asset classes other than stocks. Contributing to this gain was a weaker U.S. dollar, stock indices hitting new highs and geopolitical instability, all of which fueled uncertainty. Investors c...Read More
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in the gold and silver markets. Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.The gold sector is on a short-term buy signal. Short-term signals can last for days and weeks, and are more suitable fo...Read More
"Longer term, the strength of the dollar is a reflection of the strength of the U.S. economy and the fact that it is and will continue to be the primary currency in terms of the reserve Continue...Read More
If you want evidence of the Endgame for Central Bankers, you need to look no further than yesterday's Bank of Japan (BoJ) announcement.In its simplest rendering, Haruhiko Kuroda, the head of the BoJ, stated that the Japanese Yen is effectively worthless to him.In his news conference, Kuroda reiterated that changes to the bond-buying operations don't imply shifts to its policy stance, adding that t...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1357.70+$16.70Silver$17.56+$0.51XAU92.08+2.42%HUI207.17+2.19%GDM688.77+2.23%JSE Gold1313.95+48.88USD89.25-0.87Euro124.02+1.04Yen91.76+0.97Oil$65.61$1.1410-Year2.652%+0.006T-Bond148.65625-0.5625Dow26252.12+0.16%Nasdaq7415.06-0.61%S&P2837.54-0.06% The Metals: Gold climbed up to $1355.40 in midmorning New York trade before it pared back a bit into midday, but it then jumpe...Read More
As the long-term interest rate Amigo continues upward, the anti-USD 'inflation trade' continues onward and more and more gold bug writers emerge from the woodwork, it is time for a little antidote to the inevitable pitches and hype to come.Everything is playing to script and with this little pullback to a higher low in the miners being resolved in the favored direction, the writer bugs are going t...Read More
If you want evidence of the Endgame for Central Bankers, you need to look no further than yesterday's Bank of Japan (BoJ) announcement.In its simplest rendering, Haruhiko Kuroda, the head of the BoJ, stated that the Japanese Yen is effectively worthless to him.In his news conference, Kuroda reiterated that changes to the bond-buying operations don't imply shifts to its policy stance, adding that t...Read More
For the past few years the "strong dollar" has been so central to the global financial story - enabling ever-lower interest rates and ever-higher financial asset prices pretty much everywhere - that it's easy to forget how illusory "strength" is for fiat currencies. Since mid-2017 that illusion has been evaporating, as the dollar falls (both against other fiat currencies and assets like oil, bit...Read More