Gold Editorials & Commentary

It's my last article of what I believe is the penultimate year of survival for history's largest; most destructive; and for the first time, global, fiat Ponzi scheme. Fittingly, on this typical quiet week of paper-thin holiday trading, the headlines are exploding...

The gold price is showing strength heading into the close of 2016. The gold price has advanced for five straight days and is back above $1,150. The price put in a double bottom around $1,125 during December and the recent really suggests this may have been the...

The biggest issue in the financial system… the issue that CNBC is completely avoiding… and 99% of professionals are ignoring is the US DOLLAR. The US Dollar Has Ripped To 103.

Tim Moen, leader of the fast-growing Libertarian Party of Canada, took time off during the Holidays to provide insights into key issues facing the Canadian economy in 2017. One priority: partially divesting US dollar holdings and shoring up Canada’s gold reserves....

In more ways than one, 2016 was a roller coaster year. One need only look at gold’s performance to confirm this. After rallying more than 30 percent in the first half, the precious metal stalled in the days before the US election, then retreated on a weekly basis,...

Something is brewing in the economy. Since the election of Donald Trump, interest rates have spiked, copper prices have surged, and various sectors of the stock market have swung "bigly" on speculation of what "Trumponomics" will bring.

As I have now been publishing my analysis on markets for a bit over 5 years, I have seen these set ups quite a number of times on many different time scales. You see, the metals complex has now dropped for months and even deeper than we had initially expected back...

Gold has suffered recently in the wake of higher real interest rates, while thanks to higher yields the US Dollar Index has reached a 14-year high. Stronger real rates hurt gold. However, so does a stronger US Dollar, which remains the dominant global reserve...

The best performing precious metal for the week was gold, down just 0.08 percent. Gold is steady in year-end holiday trading, reports UBS, and is trying to form a base around these levels. Physical markets have perked up, helping the market find stability.

By listening to President-elect Trump, we can anticipate the effect his administration will have on the US economy. Here is what we know: Mr. Trump plans to beef up the military, and improve US infrastructure, including a wall at the southern border. While there...

2016 was the year I finally decided to codify my niche as a psychology-focused market contrarian, putting the Alice, Red Queen and Rabbit components of NFTRH’s logo right there on my inner forearm, forever.

Gold may be in the first stage of a significant rally. Gold has burst out of the short-term down channel, and the recent action of the “smart money” commercial traders is very positive.

This year has been one for the history books. Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States, gold had its best quarter in a generation, Warren Buffett decided he likes airlines again and voters in the United Kingdom elected to leave the...

The best performing precious metal for the week was gold, down just 0.08 percent. Gold is steady in year-end holiday trading, reports UBS, and is trying to form a base around these levels. Physical markets have perked up, helping the market find stability. UBS says...

SPX continues to show the potential for making an intermediate top, but could have another small upward thrust before starting a lengthy correction. Ample warning is being given by reliable indicators, and the correction would conform to current cyclical patterns...

US stocks have been on a massive bullish uptrend in the weeks following the presidential elections. Yet, smart investors are diversifying their portfolios with safe haven investments such as gold. It would not be necessary to go into details of how Republican...

Nothing makes sense anymore. The markets keep going up like it is going out of fashion Trump’s honeymoon period or not. Trump might be getting a strong cabinet around him and have good ideas to stimulate the economy…though you first have to spend money (increasing...

'Tis a dubious title, to be sure, Gold's having been up as much as +29.9% year-to-date, but per yesterday's (Friday's) settle at 1135, now up only +7.0% in 2016. Justifiably, a more descriptive title ought be "Gold Four Sessions Away from its Second-Worst Half-Year...

Gold sector is on a major buy signal and short-term is on sell signal. Cycle is down. Trend is down. Correction continues. Caution is advised. Silver is on a long-term buy signal. Short-term is on sell signal. Correction continues. Silver is more volatile than gold...

An astronomical amount by any standards. Interestingly, only a small fraction of this monumental amount has been allocated to gold investments. Here below is the record of gold investments since 1980. To be sure a brief history of gold investment demand will...

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The US dollar has rocketed higher since early November’s US presidential election, rivaling the massive gains seen in the stock markets. With the world’s reserve currency catapulted to extreme secular highs, dollar euphoria has naturally exploded. Traders are...

As counter-intuitive as it may seem to many, I believe the world-wide desirability to own the much, maligned US Dollar is destined to rise. To my mind, the recent upside break-out of the US Dollar Index is a major event and confirms my belief. It is driven by...

We are now approaching the final mania in markets. The Dow Index seems to be on its last swansong. Investors have been determined to take it up to 20,000. So far, the market has been twelve points from this magic level. At the same time treasury bonds are crashing...

For many months, the price of gold has been driven by the Fed’s moves and the prospects of interest rate hikes. Therefore, the natural question after the Trump victory is how his presidency will affect the Fed’s actions and, thus, the gold market. There are several...

Deutsche Bank is a defendant in more than 7,000 lawsuits worldwide. In two of them it has recently agreed to settlements and is prepared to pay tens of millions of US dollars in restitution and fines. This includes the settling of lawsuits over gold and silver price...

Remember over a year ago when they first raised hikes, they huffed and puffed warning everyone that they would raise rates several times in 2016…and viola nothing happened until now. Now they are repeating the same thing all over again.

Gold Mining Companies Are Running Out of Gold: Five Must See Charts. ‘Peak gold’ – World’s gold production to peak in 2019 and decline. Gold found by miners has plunged 85% over past decade. Gold mining CEOs turning to deals to combat dwindling reserves. Exploration...

We exit 2016 on a tide of investor optimism. At long last, there will be a businessman in charge of the US economy in the form of a new president. Moreover, the stimulation he will provide is of tax cuts and infrastructure spending. If interest rates must rise a tad...

The last fortnight has been an exciting one in the gold and blockchain space. Earlier this week Euroclear and Paxos announced that a group which included Société Générale, Citi, Scotiabank had completed the first pilot of the blockchain-based gold trading platform...