Gold Editorials & Commentary

This week will very likely be one we look back on as a big inflection point. We will see that the bears are coming back. It appears the market is forming a head and shoulders topping pattern. There are a couple different ways to trade this pattern depending on the...

Last time I wrote, I pointed to May 19th as being a likely, important bottom in the precious metals complex. It is May 16th in the evening as I write this. If I'm correct, the next three days should prove to be huge down, especially for the miners. Most analysts...

I was emailing back and forth with my pal Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter, this week and as we were basking in the limelight of analytical brilliance, it occurred to me that having a stock that many of us own, Kaminak Gold Corp. (KAM:TSX.V), suddenly the...

A respectable number of Americans hold investments in gold and silver in one form or another. Some hold physical bullion, while others opt for indirect ownership via ETFs or other instruments. A very small minority speculate via the futures markets. But we...

As suggested here recently gold hit its upward sloping “box” pattern resistance level and reacted downward. There is just too many indicators pointing to a continuing for the reaction, possibly even below the “box” support. At this point the odds are for continued...

For many years we have warned of the dangers of derivatives. We were laughed at leading up to the 2008 financial debacle when Lehman broke and nearly took the entire system down. That turned out to be no laughing matter and here we are again at exactly the same...

The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico is in the throes of a debt crisis that recently reached a breaking point when it missed a $422 million bond payment due May 2nd. When asked in a subsequent interview about the likelihood of making future payments on the remaining...

This year’s first quarter is one for the history books. Not only did gold appreciate at its fastest pace in 30 years, but demand for the yellow metal was the strongest it’s ever been on record. Let me repeat that: the strongest it has ever been.

History is testament that an ill-conceived fetus is doomed to a handicapped crippled adulthood. Thusly, many rational pundits perceive the hodge-podge jumbled union of many European nations, known as the Euro Union. But just as oil and water cannot be blended nor...

During the last three weeks gold broke out to the upside and posted a sharp rally until $1,303 missing the January 2015 high only marginally. Since then prices have come back down to $1,257 retracing all of the previous gains. Overall the bulls remain in control and...

The price of gold moved down about sixteen bucks, while that of silver dropped about three dimes. In other words, the dollar gained 0.3 milligrams of gold and 0.04 grams of silver.

Most people like their truth palatable, easy to digest, and believable. Unfortunately for our emotional needs, some truths are uncomfortable, unsettling, and difficult. Regarding the United States, the U.K., Europe and Japan IT IS COMFORTING TO BELIEVE:

There are readers here who might be too young to be aware of the history of gold and what that means for the future of the price of gold, and of course, of silver. The story of gold is however much more convoluted than that of silver. The latter has the effort of...

significant support level, but also further confirm that, since the end of March, it has been in the process of creating a bull market top in the form of an important H&S pattern. Should this prove to be the case, it would project a serious decline over the...

Gold speculator and large futures traders cut back on their gold bullish positions last week after a streak of seven consecutive weekly gains, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on...

If you’re bullish on the stock market, you should notice the Dow Jones’ BEV plot below has been trending the wrong way for the past month. At week’s end the Dow closed 4.24% below the red BEV Zero Line; 4.24% below its last all-time high of 19 May 2015. From its...

Greetings from the Land of the Bayou, where a mid-May stroll along the banks of the slowly flowin' Big Muddy here in Louisiana's capital is a walk through nature's own steam bath: 'tis easy on the joints and great for gettin' the suitcase wrinkles out of one's...

After watching some markets develop over the past week, we thought it warranted a few thoughts on a possible outlier outcome in US Treasuries over the next several weeks. Since Treasuries made their respective highs in mid-February, we held an intermediate-term...

Gold sector is on a new major buy signal. The cycle indicator has just turned down last week, suggesting a multi week correction is starting. Silver is on a long-term buy signal. Short-term is now on sell signal, caution is advised.

It is my privilege now to welcome in author, lawyer, television pundit, and Forbes columnist Gordon Chang. Gordon is a frequent guest on Fox News, CNBC, and CNN and is one of the foremost experts on the Chinese economy and its geopolitics and has written a book on...

Yesterday the World Gold Council released its estimate of gold demand for the first quarter of 2016, which compared with supply estimated at 1,081 tonnes.

This is a special preview of the KE Report Weekend Show. In this week's show we feature Jeff Christian, Managing Partner at CPM Group for two segments. This is the second of the two segments where the focus is on gold and the supply and demand fundamentals.

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The gold miners’ stocks have skyrocketed this year as investors started returning to this long-abandoned sector. Many have doubled since January, with plenty tripling or even quadrupling. Naturally such fast gains raise concerns about whether they are actually...

For years the Fed has been lying about inflation. There are many methods of doing this, but the simplest was to use a “measure” of inflation that did not actually measure inflation at all. This is the famous Consumer Price Index of CPI. It is meant to measure...

Are gold lease rates (GLR) really one of the major drivers of the price of gold, as is often cited? A lease rate is the market price for borrowing or lending the particular asset. Obviously, the gold lease rate is the cost of borrowing gold.

The Global Financial Market took a big hit in 2015 and most investors have no idea why. The U.S. and global financial system both sit on a foundation that continues to erode each year. While the disintegration of the global financial substructure has been going on...

I could write a long, detailed post trying to encompass global stock markets (generally bearish), commodities (bounce very mature) and bonds (mixed views, depending upon the flavor) but that is what I get paid to do each weekend in NFTRH reports and in private posts...

In my testimony in support of the gold legal tender bill this year, I discussed failing pension funds. Retirees who count on their pension checks are being told that their monthly check will be reduced by up to 60%. This is devastating to them, obviously. What isn’t...

Last year, Puerto Rico defaulted for the first time in its history. We wrote then that its public debt was unsustainable and because the territory could not declare bankruptcy, the island’s debt crisis would be returning to the spotlight from time to time. Indeed,...