Gold Editorials & Commentary

First, the intro per our anniversary series of posts… To celebrate NFTRH’s 10 year anniversary (Friday, Sept. 28) I’d like to present one segment from this week’s report, NFTRH 518 each day until Friday. These excerpts will give you an idea of what it takes to...

The Fed controls the gold market. The manipulators control the gold market. The “swaps” control the gold market. The hedge funds control the market. Yes, I have heard about how everyone is controlling the gold market.

From the late 1980s into the new millennium the answer appeared to be in the negative, with global central bank reserves declining from around 36,000 tonnes to under 30,000 tonnes.

The gold/silver ratio, calculated by simply dividing the gold price by the silver price, may be signaling the end of the bear market in metals is drawing near. That could be good news for gold investors and great news for those who hold silver.

On Wednesday, the FOMC will hike the fed funds rate again and promise three or four additional hikes in 2019. But be aware that this forecast is far from being a done deal.

In the latest sign of the growing divide between Washington and its allies, the European Union’s foreign policy chief announced Monday that the bloc was creating a new payment mechanism to allow countries to transact with Iran while avoiding U.S. sanctions.

All the news for gold, both technical and fundamental, continues to get more positive almost every day. This is the fabulous big picture gold chart. The price appears poised to begin a major move to the upside. That should see the world’s mightiest metal test the $...

The best performing metal this week was palladium, up 7.80 percent, scoring an eight-month high of $1,053.40 on Thursday, due to stockpiling by China, writes Kitco News. The World Gold Council reported this week that central banks added a net total of 193.3 tonnes...

After the Salzburg summit, the prospects of the Brexit deal are gloomy as never before. Will gold gain on failed talks between the EU and the UK?

Gold is set to surge over the next year as concerns deepen about the widening U.S. budget deficit and a tariff-driven trade war starts to damage the country’s economy, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

What happens to gold and silver prices when the Fed “goes all in” during the next financial crisis? Money manager Michael Pento says, “They are going to explode when the stock markets melt down and deficits are rising where is the money going to come from? 

Gold’s tiresome slog over the last month between 1190 and 1220 looks increasingly likely to end with a fall to at least 1165.30, a ‘midpoint Hidden Pivot’ support. If the stock fails to get traction there, look for more slippage to 1109.80. For gold bulls this would...

Central Banks have become big players in the gold market and now control 10% of the total market demand.  Now, this wasn’t always the case.  Just ten years ago, the Central Banks were main suppliers via their policy of dumping gold into the market.  However, the...

In case you couldn’t tell from the ubiquitous political ads and yard signs, midterm elections are right around the corner. Historically, volatility has increased and markets have dipped leading up to midterms on uncertainty, but afterward they’ve outperformed.

Last week, we talked about the capital consumed by Netflix—$8 billion to produce 700 shows. They’re spending more than two thirds of their gross revenue generating content. And this content has so little value, that a quarter of their audience would stop watching if...

The “Silver Guru” David Morgan joins Mark O’Byrne for Episode 8 of the Goldnomics Podcast. How will gold and silver perform as the current fiat monetary system inevitably collapses under the pressure of currency printing, quantitative easing, trade wars, currency...

Last week, I mainly discussed the coming economic crash and where we are in the cycles.  I also talked about the short-term stock market cycles, which I believe have peaked as of Friday or will peak on Monday. In this segment, I will mainly talk about my short-term...

Last week belonged to the laggard indexes.  DJIA and NYA went on a tear with the former rising 739 points from last Monday’s low, and (finally) making a new all-time high in the process.  NYA was also strong, but did not make a new high.  SPX could not resist this...

Large precious metals speculators raised their bearish net positions in the Gold futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.

For now nine weeks running, Gold's weekly settle has neither exceeded 1191 on the downside, nor 1223 on the upside: that is a week-to-week closing range for two months spanning just 2.7% from low-to-high, or a mere 32 points. Think back to just 2016, a year which...

My timing was pretty good.  As it turned out the Dow Jones Index saw two new all-time highs this week, the week I returned from a month long break.  These new all-time highs in the Dow Jones marks the termination of the fourth correction in the post sub-prime /...

After many weeks of pricing pressure as the US Dollar extended a rally delivering nearly unending devaluation pricing in most commodities, gold is setting up for a big upside rally and is likely to extend beyond $1240 in this initial run higher.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is down but appears to be bottoming. Gold sector is now on a major sell signal. Speculation remains at multi-decade low.

The most recent leg of the US stock market rally and the bounces in global equities, commodities and precious metals are coming as part of an “anti-USD trade”. Certain US stock sectors, most global stock markets, commodities and precious metals were pressured by the...

There is a widespread notion among investors, analysts and pundits that the escalating trade conflict between the U.S. and its trading partners is bad for the global economy. This is no stretch. The leap from there to it being bad for commodities is understandable, ...

This is one of the most unusual and interesting gold (GLD) markets that I can remember in well over a decade. There are several factors at play that include: Trade war with China becoming a currency war. India's tax situation.

Investors have pulled much capital out of gold in recent months in a major mass exodus.  Their sentiment waxed very bearish as gold was pounded lower by extreme record gold-futures short selling.  The latest record stock-market highs also suppressed the perceived...

This time is different. They always say so. But what if they are eventually right?  We invite you to read our today’s article about the history of the Fed’s tightening – in order to find out what is exceptional with the current cycle. And what does it mean for the...

Scanning the Indicators - Each morning I scan a wide range of technical indicators covering the major exchanges in the US, Canada .and the UK. As the markets ebb and flow, a range of bullish and bearish technical indicators provide valuable data for investors...

In this article, I am going to do something a little different from my usual articles and start with my perspective on market direction, and then move into the issues I see in the market today.