Gold Editorials & Commentary

This hasn't happened in about a year in a half, but gold has made (marginally) a higher-high. We have not yet seen follow-through, but this is typical. The second or third attempt is when we usually get a breakout.

Relentless rate hikes and QT mean that the destruction of the US stock, bond, and real estate markets is essentially assured.  Interestingly, the big question is not whether these markets will crash or not. 

Gold has been heading higher over increasing market volatility and worries in Ukraine. Futures must hold $1850 to support a bullish breakout to new highs.  

Alternate facts or reality have become part of our daily lives such that there is an indistinguishable blurring between the two worlds. In the fantasy world of the metaverse, people or their avatars are spending ever greater portions of their lives on online...

Analysts' 2022 forecasts for the gold market are not overwhelmingly enthusiastic – they see it flat. However, maybe the opposite should be expected.

Gold continues to benefit from the market turmoil and has apparently forgotten about medium-term problems. Meanwhile, the rising USD and a hawkish Fed await confrontation.

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 4.74%. The metal escalated faster than gold on the back of stronger inflation and geopolitical tensions. Gold firmed up as the week ended amid concerns over inflation after the U.S. consumer prices...

This commentary plus the quickie review of Gatos Silver is an excerpt from the February 3rd issue of my subscription newsletter. You can learn more here: Mining Stock Journal

Oil is very late, in a very mature move higher in oil prices and focusing their trades in energy and most certainly leveraging their trades in this two-years move higher.

The situation from less than a month ago repeats itself, and gold once again confirms that it likes international tensions. However, since history does rhyme, its upward activity may not last for too long.

Michael Pento, well known money manager, joins us to describe the current setup as the biggest potential stock market crash in history during 2022.

The recently released January 2022 statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements --

After hitting the highest official inflation rate in 40 years, bonds did exactly what I warned of in my last Patron Post where I said, The collapse of the Everything Bubble will be an economic supernova. Think Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns and all the rest of what...

The markets have been quite volatile recently, not so much in terms of major trends – as yet? – but definitely in terms of high volume activity, many signs of intervention in most markets and lack of proper and clear direction. It is like the weather when clouds...

Last week's action saw gold forming its low in Monday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1807.50 figure. From there, a sharp rally was seen into late-week, with the metal running all the way up to a Friday peak of 1867.40 - before backing slightly off the...

Before I expand upon the events of the past week that caught my increasingly-illusory attention span, I wish to impart upon my readers one of the many chasms that separate the generational narratives these days.

Not to be taken lightly a wit what's going on with the Russia/Ukraine strain. For as the StateSide President sagaciously stated yesterday (Friday): "things could go crazy quickly" in urging U.S. citizens to vacate the premises. To which the markets responded in kind...

This week the Dow Jones closed within scoring position, or within 5% from the Dow’s last all-time high every day, until Friday, where it closed with a BEV of -5.60%.  This isn’t necessarily bad, but it certainly isn’t good.  For a year, from November 2020 to...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. To public readers of our updates, our cycle indicator is one of the most effective timing tool for traders and investors. It is not perfect, because periodically the market can be more volatile and can result in short term...

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire shares word from an inside source that Basel III compliance has driven a top-tier bank to unload the last of their unallocated gold contracts.

I have been forecasting a distribution cycle in the U.S. stock market for a while now.  Which means the insiders are selling to the less sophisticated investors, pension funds, money managers, and people that are almost required to buy stocks no matter what. Since...

While the gold miners’ stocks remain out of favor, they are still coiling.  This small contrarian sector has been winding up like a spring during this past half-year of technical basing.  With great fundamentals getting even better, ignored gold stocks are due for...

In line with bearish bets, miners have thrown a match. Gold, however, doesn’t want to leave the ring without a fight. How long will it stay high?

Geopolitical tensions are casting a pall over the Olympics in China amid rising fears of war with Russia. As nations prepare for conflict, investors should brace for potential fallout in asset markets.

Lagarde opened the door to an interest rate hike, which gave the European Central Bank a hawkish demeanor. Does it also imply more bullish gold?

The market was up, but mining stocks chose to reverse. Meanwhile, gold sent a clear signal to investors. So, when everyone buys, what happens?

Peter Grandich joins us to discuss the Mother of All Bubbles popping. We are watching amazing circumstances in the bond and stock markets. Everything is extremely fragile. Here is what Peter is watching for.

Gold is approaching the resistance and it is doing so early on in the daily cycle. Not only does gold need to get through $1,835 area quickly, but also $1,880 within two weeks:

In an investment world of instant gratification and Fed Intervention, when short term trading and speculation is the norm, real values are forgotten.

There's a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation floating regarding rising interest rates and gold prices. Let's take some time today to try to clear things up.