Gold Editorials & Commentary

The past week was again a case of the ‘usual’ persisting – not unaided, of course, and more often than not requiring a good deal of ‘assistance’, else important trends could have changed, while other did change, as directed. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note...

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, with a gold-inspired lift of 4.80 percent. It is typical for silver to have a higher beta to gold. Gold is headed for its biggest weekly advance since July, reports Bloomberg, following the Federal Reserve’...

In this month’s Matterhorn Interview, Bill Murphy and Chris Powell, co-founders of GATA, analyze risks of the monetary system and comment on changes to the London Gold fix procedures and participation, liquidity issues and the difficult relationship between paper (...

Gold moved about $30 last week. Consequently, many investors view this fact as a bullish sign and indication that much higher gold prices are likely to follow. Is this really the case? Let’s take a look at the gold charts (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com...

There are numerous irrefutable signs in Wall Street that forecast an inevitable and imminent BEAR MARKET IN STOCKS. Indeed, these same signs accurately forecasted the 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 Bear Market in stocks. And based upon the following devastating Technical...

Few analysts noted it, but the $USD actually staged its second strongest day of the year the Friday before last. The only other day in which the $USD rallied more was on the day of BREXIT, a black swan event that featured EXTREME currency volatility.

“Gold will likely soar to a record within five years as asset bubbles burst in everything from bonds to credit and equities, forcing investors to find a haven”, reported Bloomberg last week, quoting Old Mutual Global Investors’ Diego Parrilla.

It’s almost like magic. The Fed can say something, or in the case of last Wednesday it can say nothing, and gold and especially the silver price get a boost of rocket fuel. Actually, the Fed said both yes to rate hikes—in the future—and no to a rate hike now. This...

SPX quickly put a halt to its correction from 2193 -- and built a base while it waited for the next FOMC meeting. After the decision was announced, it broke out of its base and met its first phase target, which took it back to the top of its corrective channel....

The cycle since 2009 has been different from other market cycles throughout history in only one significant manner. To wit: it is the Global Central Banks that have intentionally pushed interest rates to zero and below. This encouraged investors to speculate in the...

No doubt you Shakespeareans out there recall from "Hamlet" the Danish prince's sycophantic buddies, (turned spies for cunning Uncle King Claudius), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 'Course, as the tragic tale unfolds, the immortal Bard deftly writes the pair out of the...

As expected, the FOMC passed up another opportunity to raise their Fed Funds Rate this week. With 2016 being an election year, and late September just a few weeks from the November election, how anyone could believe the Yellen Fed would even consider raising...

It seems as if the tide has changed as the U.S. imported a record amount of gold from Switzerland in July. Normally, the flow of gold from the United States has been heading toward Switzerland. For example, when the U.S. exported a record 691 metric tons (mt) of...

Stocks are experiencing great strength now after the Fed meeting and decision to keep rates on hold, as expected. There is just no reason to hike rates until after the elections, meaning December is the earliest possible rate hike in my view.

This week I attended the Denver Gold Forum along with three other U.S. Global InvestorsU.S. Global Investors - an investment management firm specializing in gold, natural resources, emerging markets and global infrastructure opportunities around the world....

There were some hopes that a non-move by the Fed would end the current correction in precious metals and spark a move to new highs. Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve cannot override the supply and demand component of the market. Gold and gold stocks popped higher....

Gold sector is on a major buy signal. Cycle is down. Investors stay patient and wait for the correction to complete, then cost average in at the next cycle bottom.Silver is on a long-term buy signal. Short-term is on buy signal. Silver is in a correction and can...

In previous articles, we examined gold's performance in the presidential election cycles. The only relatively reliable conclusion we were able to draw from the long-term analysis is that the post-election year is the worst for the price of gold in the whole cycle....

Gold surged sharply this week after the Yellen Fed yet again chickened out on raising its benchmark interest rate. Gold-futures speculators’ irrational fear of Fed rate hikes has been a major drag on gold. And rate-hike risks just plummeted in the coming months,...

Technical Analysis of The Markets Via Videos.

Before I discovered the junior PM stocks in 2002, the big cap tech stocks is where I played especially during the 1990’s. The real move for the tech stock actually began in 1995 where the final parabolic move started into the 2000 top.

“There remains a risk of deflationary spirals in which capital flight, currency devaluations and collapsing asset prices would stymie growth and shrink government revenues. As capital begins to flow out, there is now a real danger of entering a third phase of the...

From the 1637 Tulip Bubble to the financial meltdown of 2008, the theme has been the same. The masses never learn, they always cry foul on the way down…but gurgle with joy on the way up. In other words, when they are making money, they are okay with the risk, but...

Arguments about sound and unsound money often degenerate into a ‘them-and-us’ dispute, with the supporters of unsound money casting sound money proponents as impractical out-of-date libertarian weirdos. Supporting one side or the other as if they were opposing...

Gold was up 1.5% and silver surged 3.1% yesterday after Janet Yellen again failed to raise rates from record lows at 0.25%. The Fed maintained ultra-loose monetary policies which are again creating stock and bond market bubbles in the US and other countries.

This week's harvest of headlines records a lot of hope in the crude oil markets as well as remarkably reckless borrowing. Matched, of course, by the equivalent in lending.

Trump or Clinton are “positive for gold” and prices could rise to between $1,700 and $1,900 per ounce by year end according to Canadian gold mining magnate Rob McEwen. Gold “is a currency that doesn’t have a liability attached to it,” McEwen said Tuesday in an...

All Said and done, confidence in central banking's confidence game remains the prime mover of gold prices, writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault. Because as the New York Times put it in 1999, with no shred of irony or historical awareness, who needs gold when you've got...

I have a core position in Miners that I started early in 2016. As a trader, I have sold most of my shorter term trading positions and I am waiting for the fat pitch to reload. Are we there or is there further selling likely? I believe that we are very close to...

Yes, you heard me right. The miners are setting up in a pattern which can see them double within the next nine months. So, let me explain. But, before I get into that explanation, I want to preface this write up by saying that I put a lot of thought into where I...