Gold Editorials & Commentary

World trade has fallen for the second quarter in a row. The decade of stagnation of industrial production in the United States, Japan, and European Union can be blamed on financial engineering, housing bubbles, war, and recently on destructive monetary policy in QE...

Gold has risen another 1.7% in British pound terms this week and is 1.8% higher in euro terms; and is again acting as a hedge against currency devaluations, Brexit, eurozone and heightened political and geo-political risk in the UK, EU, US and most of the world.

America’s economic condition is truly a “tale of two cities.” Upper middle class and wealthy earners have never been more flush thanks in large part to the record liquidity creation of the last eight years as well as to their financial market exposure.

The selling of gold we saw last week was another desperate attack by the BIS and some central banks, together with the bullion banks, to manipulate the gold market lower. We saw over 40% of annual production of gold being sold last week which is 1,000 tons. The...

The correction in the gold and silver stocks and, more importantly for us, the miners ETF (GDXJ) is rapidly coming to a close. Without embarking on a flight of verbosity and overstatement, here in a nutshell is why I see a bottom in the cards—and possibly a solid,...

Because perspective is everything, let’s once again get some big picture perspective. S&P500 is outside the lower fork line (again the Fork being a novelty, but the line being real) but above critical support. Bears would call this an overthrow to the upside...

Without a doubt the most important event of the recent month (or even the recent years) was unexpected OPEC's decision to limit its production to a range of 32.5-33.0 million barrels per day. The agreement reached in Algiers (which is expected to be implemented this...

Make no mistake, sterling’s collapse is a very serious development, and has serious consequences for sterling interest rates. While it is becoming apparent that interest rates are going to have to rise possibly for all currencies on a one-year view, sterling’s...

It has never been more important to own gold as part of a diversified portfolio. The form your gold investment takes is just as important as owning it in the first place. ETFs and pooled gold may not be functional in extreme markets and may themselves be subject to...

What a difference two weeks can make! After an agonizing and confusing sideways draw during the summer which kept the bulls happy and lulled them in security the gold market has now shown its ugly face again. Fortunately two weeks ago I had laid out a worst case...

The financial world has missed the biggest story of 2016. That story is the fact that the CURRENCY markets have stopped paying attention to Central Bank policy and are now deciding things for themselves.

Two millennia ago according to the bible, three wise men came to offer Jesus the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The peak of the Roman Empire is considered to be at the time Jesus was born although it took until 476 AD until the Western Empire finally fell....

I am going to begin this update with a very simple proposition: get your shopping list in gear, as the time to buy is upon us. Last weekend, I noted the following: As far as the actual charts are concerned, I still see nothing that suggests this correction has run...

Gold in GBP has risen another 3.5% in the last 3 trading days as the British pound continues to be “pounded” on international markets. Gold in GBP terms is now 43% higher year to date and has risen from £716/oz on January 1st to £1024/oz today.

You want to retire soon but you don’t trust debt based fiat currency paper assets. Besides, the stock market looks toppy and bonds have about run their 30+ year bull market to its inevitable and ugly end – as indicated by negative interest rates, QE, helicopter...

The ability to filter through hundreds of gold stocks, choosing those with the best relative value, among other things, is a skill that our portfolio management team at U.S. Global Investors has over 30 years of experience in. Our primary fiduciary responsibility as...

Gold, silver and mining stocks moved higher yesterday. However, the size of the rally was not huge…and it was another day during which the PM sector didn’t decline. The back and forth movement together with decreased volatility appear to be temporary as this kind of...

This article looks at factors that will affect gold and silver prices as we go forward. We have to say they are considerable and will lead to our conclusion that while the gold price has fallen through support below $1,300 and now stand at $1,250, we see the...

The world is undergoing a major economic transition from deflation to inflation. Sadly, very few retail investors are correctly positioned to benefit from this exciting change. In the big picture, the transition means that gold stocks will outperform gold bullion,...

Gold prices “are going up” whether Trump or Clinton are elected according to most analysts in the gold market including former Libertarian and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Gold crashes, sending traders running as it plummeted below key support. Tongue wagging from Team Fed and a rising Dollar helped slap gold below $1300 for the first time in more than three months as investors begin to come to grips with a potential December rate...

Gold and silver prices charged higher during the first six months of the year. They fell into a rut over the summer, and then hit the skids last Tuesday. Lots of bullion investors are wondering what in the world happened. There are three primary factors driving this...

The Fed is Officially Screwed. The Fed has maintained rates too low for too long. Historically any time this has happened we’ve had an inflationary disaster soon after. The Fed claims to be data dependent, but if you’re talking about inflation data this is a lie.

There’s no other way to say it: Gold had a bad week. Last Tuesday alone, the yellow metal fell more than 3 percent, shuffling off $43, in its biggest one-day loss in three years. It broke below the psychologically important $1,300 mark and touched the 200-day moving...

Fed Head Janet Yellen is keeping alive the tradition of her predecessors, Messrs. Greenspan and Bernanke, by showing she is equally as blind-sighted to the bubbles central banks are blowing in the bond and equity markets. During her September press conference, Ms....

We are getting closer to our long forecast drop in the commodities complex with the possibility of some important lows next year. WTI is still putting in a top, the dead cat bounce that has lasted throughout this year is running out of steam. Consequently, we should...

This past week there was some panic selling in the PM complex, which is what we need to see happen to put in an important low. The HUI hit the 50% retrace at 195 for this first leg up in its new bull market, just under 200, which is an important physiological round...

Fortunately for traders, the Commitments of Traders report did at least catch the big move lower on Tuesday of last week so we were able to get a peek inside the market to see what happened to those massive hedge fund long positions during last week’s meltdown in...

Topping and declining cycles are putting pressure on the major indexes, some of which are already seriously challenging an important trend line from the February low. If that trend line fails, sellers should appear and drive prices lower. How low is the question...

This year’s recovery in precious metals prices – and the sudden spike in gold/silver mining stocks – convinced a lot of people that a new bull market had begun. Last week’s brutal smack-down scared the hell out of many of the same folks.