Gold Editorials & Commentary

Gold sector cycle is down. Trend is up for USD and down for gold & gold stocks. Looking for a new set up to trade the short side.

In my yesterday’s Gold Trading Alert, I wrote that we had some clues regarding the end of the corrective upswing. We saw an invalidation in the GDXJ (of the tiny move to new short-term highs), and before that silver outperformed on a short-term basis, which was also...

Gold’s monster upleg remains alive and well, after weathering a sharp post-election selloff.  One had certainly been due, as gold had just surged to extremely-overbought levels.  The resulting pullback was big and fast, doing much essential rebalancing work.  Gold’s...

As December begins, financial institutions and market analysts are unveiling their 2025 forecasts, with gold attracting significant attention. Predictions are shaped by a variety of factors, with the new US administration naturally playing a prominent role.

The share of global official gold reserves not stored at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York (FRBNY) and Bank of England (BOE) in London has reached 78% in 2024, from 51% in 1972.

After rebounding in September, central bank gold buying surged in October, doubling the 12-month average. Central banks added a net 60 tonnes of gold to reserves in October, the highest monthly total year-to-date, according to data collected by the World Gold...

The latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, hosted by Mike Maharrey, dug deep into critical topics including the Federal Reserve’s precarious financial situation, ongoing inflationary pressures, and the role of precious metals in safeguarding wealth. 

During a recent interview, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Bitcoin is “just like” gold and is not competing with the U.S. dollar. Not long after his comments, Bitcoin surged to over $100,000.

The market action suggests that the corrective upswing is maturing and likely about to end. How can we tell? Silver. Silver is outperforming today, while miners are no longer doing so.

The sun rose the next day. The end of the world did not arrive on Trump’s electoral triumph. The Trump trade actually worked. Why did mainstream media, pollsters and some normally savvy investors get it so wrong? Maybe America is not as polarized. Maybe the fear...

Inflation picked up in October, but remains more or less on track. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, grew at a continuously compounding annual rate of 2.9 percent in October 2024...

The Federal Reserve is losing billions of dollars every month. And do you know whose problem that is? Yours. In this episode of the Money Metals' Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey explains why the Fed is losing money, why it matters, and why you -- the American...

Vince Lanci discusses how Gold’s drivers will change in 2025. The drivers from 2024 will provide support to the market but US and Western investors need to take the lead to push Gold to higher levels.

Donald Trump recently threatened to ostracize any BRICS nations that continue their efforts to de-dollarize. And given some of the trade and military wars currently ongoing, that creates a potentially volatile situation that could go a variety of ways.

In a region fraught with geopolitical turmoil, Eastern European central banks are loading up on gold. Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic have been among the top gold buyers this year, with Poland leading the way.

For most commentators, a “stable price level” is the key for economic stability. For instance, let us say that there is a relative increase in consumer demand for potatoes versus tomatoes.

Last week, Russia announced a temporary ban on the export of precious metals scrap. The Russian government hopes keeping scrap within its borders will enhance domestic refining operations.

Precious Metals are setup to move higher and diverge from the stock market when it endures its next bear market. History shows how this transpires at or near the beginning of secular bull markets.

JP Cortez joins us to discuss if 2025 will be the year of silver! He also discusses the bank's shocking silver prices predication!

With Donald Trump ready to become president for the 2nd time in just under two months now, Jim Willie stops by to share his thoughts on whether Trump's second term will be different than the first.

The coming Trump presidency is likely to be exciting, but a lot is unknown. Investors need solid tactics to handle commodities, the stock market, bonds, crypto, and of course supreme money gold.

There was an irrational knee-jerk reaction to sell gold and silver after Trump won the presidential election, but they are now stabilizing and setting up for a continuation of their prior uptrend.

One thing I have not predicted for 2024 is stock-market crash, and so far I haven’t predicted one for 2025 either. However, Adam Taggart’s guest in a video posted below says he anticipates a huge market crash is coming soon.

As President-elect Donald Trump assembles a cabinet that will be tasked with implementing policy change at the federal level, individual state governments are plotting their own policy responses.

Indians have a strong affinity for gold and silver. This has traditionally been expressed in demand for gold and silver jewelry, along with bars and coins. But over the last year, there has been tremendous growth in gold and silver exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The banks have been significantly short both gold and silver as the prices have rallied this year, with historic peaks for the positions in both metals towards the end of the summer.

As rhetoric regarding trade tariffs increased prior to the election and, with that same rhetoric continuing post-election, the danger to free trade and a strong economy is heightened.

I was recently honored to be a featured speaker, as well as a gold market panelist, at the 50th anniversary of the New Orleans Investment Conference. So, what follows is a slightly modified version of the presentation I gave during my featured speech. 

Let’s hope Musk and Ramaswamy have been paying close attention to David Stockman’s ten-part series on how to cut the U.S. budget before America spends its way into bankruptcy.

Gold & Silver remain in correction mode and it is accompanied by falling or low volatility.