Apropos of this missive’s title — and with the year’s first quadrimester (plus two May trading days) already in the books — let’s start with another of our infamous Gold Quizzes.  Ready? In settling yesterday, (Friday) at 3247, Gold completed its 18th trading week...

Gold and silver have pulled back several percent over the past week while stock markets have been buoyant over the past week as the Trump administration has softened its stance on tariffs.

At the close of the first week of May, 2025, looking at the Dow Jones Bear’s Eye View (BEV) chart below, it could be interpreted in one of two ways; 1. The Dow Jones is rebounding from a correction within the context of a bull market advance, 2. The Dow Jones is...

Central banks continued to stockpile gold in the first quarter. Official net gold purchases came in at 244 tonnes, 21 percent below Q1 2024 (310 tonnes), but 25 percent above the five-year quarterly average. As the World Gold Council put it, central bank gold buying...

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Something important is about to happen next week... The U.S. nonfarm payroll statistics were just released. They were better than expected, but overall, well within the previous range of values – nothing to write home about.

The gold stock correction was needed, is healthy and will provide opportunity.

Gold miners’ stocks were dramatically surging just a couple weeks ago.  Mounting bullish sentiment was increasingly attracting back traders, who bid the leading gold-stock ETF to dozen-year-plus secular highs.  But this sector’s strong upside momentum reversed since...

Record gold prices drove first-quarter demand in 2025 to the highest level since 2016. The LBMA gold price hit multiple record highs in Q1, with the average price coming in at $2,860 an ounce. That was a 38 percent year-on-year increase.

USA Today reported the US economy’s performance in Q1 was the worst in three years. GDP growth in the last quarter of Biden’s administration was 2.4%; in the first quarter of Trump’s administration, it is – 0.3%.

In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey opens with an unexpected comparison between the experience of playing goalie in a chaotic amateur hockey game and navigating today’s financial markets.

The gold price is down again this morning. And as Vince Lanci reports, a big part of the reason why is record Chinese holiday liquidations.

Chinese investors are pouring money into gold. China accounted for more than half of gold flows into ETFs globally last month, and Q1 Chinese demand for gold bars and coins hit the second-highest quarterly level on record.

After a volatile couple of months filled with relentless news and confusing cross-currents from the Trump administration’s tariff plans and other policies, the financial markets have calmed down in recent weeks—providing a much-needed breather for everyone, myself...

Gold has won the competition — a plebiscite as long-running as established civilizations — to be crowned mankind’s universal choice as a store of value and medium of exchange — as real money. Now, in less than two decades, a potential competitor has arisen: Bitcoin...

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real GDP just went from a positive 2.4% annual growth rate to -0.3%. It will, of course, take two consecutive quarters of the “growth” rate coming in below zero for the present quarter to be officially designated as part...

After a furious rally that even saw the gold futures break $3,500 per ounce, the price has been due for a pullback.

Slide in copper, anyone? FCX? Or terrible jobs / GDP readings? We’ve got all of those today. Copper’s decline commenced even before the release of ADP employment and GDP statistics. This is not surprising, as technical indicators often precede fundamental factors....

The threat of a credit collapse and subsequent deflation currently outweigh the risks associated with higher inflation. This article explores the threat of a credit collapse and its implications for economies and societies worldwide.

As we are in the final stages of a debt cycle that is causing gold to skyrocket, the question arises: how high can gold go?