Gold Editorials & Commentary

US Markets remain trading within larger patterns, or range-bound, but are approaching upper levels within those ranges while the dominant trend remains higher. Stocks are setting up better charts by the day and have really come around in the last week or two -- and...

On this week's release of NYSE Margin Debt, Business Insider headlined "Traders are betting on stocks with tons of borrowed money". As noted on our last review, the pattern has been a compulsive peak in margin and a correction in the amount and the stock market....

There is little going on in the precious metals markets that indicates directional movement to the upside, and not even much to the downside. The news is as disjointed but permeated with sameness as ever before. To try to make sense of nonsense remains in the...

Gold sector is on major sell signal. Silver is on a long term sell signal and investors should be in cash or short.

Gold and gold mining shares appear to be as contrarian today as in 1999, before a decade‐plus run in which bullion rose nearly seven‐fold in US dollar terms. For those who are concerned that the financial markets are overvalued, we believe that gold offers an out‐of...

During 2014 country Central Banks bought 477 tonnes…close to a 50-year high…and that’s equivalent enough to buy 75 Boeing Dreamliners planes. This is at once astounding as well as revealing vis-à-vis a slowly dropping gold price since late 2011.

Gold’s bottoming consolidation grind continues, with investment demand still garroted by sky-high world stock markets and the parabolic US dollar. With investors missing in action, gold prices remain totally at the mercy of American futures speculators. These...

You might not be the type who needs or cares to subscribe to commercial market commentary/advice/trading/management services, but one thing we all can do is work through the freely available stuff calling itself ‘analysis’ flying around out there at warp speed and...

One of the persistent arguments against owning gold by many financial advisers and brokers is that it “does nothing” and it incurs storage costs. Unlike cash, which earns interest, gold is a non yielding asset. The second is that gold will perform badly when...

The stronger than expected February’s job market report fuelled expectations that the Fed will increase interest rates sooner rather than later. We believed that market reaction was a bit exaggerated, and suggested in the Gold News Monitor not taking the hike for...

Last time I wrote, I was dealing with the futures sell-off when the market was closed on Good Friday. I had been expecting strength into Monday, but the futures down move of almost 20 points made me rethink an alternative scenario. As it was, we didn’t have to sell...

One of the best ways to gain some perspective on stock markets and gold is to look at the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI)/Gold ratio. The Dow/Gold ratio has a long history as the 200-year chart above attests to. The ratio has had considerable movement over the years,...

“The proper use of capital allocation is to maximize long-term value per share.” That’s according to Ralph Aldis, USGI’s resident gold expert and, since 2001, portfolio manager of our two precious metals funds—Gold and Precious Metals Fund (USERX) and World Precious...

There is now mounting evidence and undeniable proof that the world is actively preparing for economic life after the death of the US Dollar. The facts are now quantifiable, and for those of us who are accustomed to this moment in history where the Dollar is still...

The plan for today was to pen an article regarding silver. I believe silver to be the cheapest, most undervalued asset on the planet. From these current levels I believe any capital in silver is a no brainer. Let’s hold off on this thought until next week however...

In our opinion, a speculative short position (half) in gold, silver and mining stocks is justified from the risk/reward point of view. Precious metals declined once again yesterday. The move was particularly visible in silver. Is the white metal telling us something...

The world carry trade for US Dollars is over $9 trillion. In today’s world of monetary insanity, investors seem to forget that $1 trillion is a staggering amount of money. So to put that $9 trillion carry trade into perspective, if it were a country instead of a...

Bank deposits in Austria will no longer enjoy state protection and a state guarantee in the event of bank runs and a bank collapse when legislation is enacted in July. The plan to ensure that the state is no longer responsible for insuring deposits has been readied...

The size and existence of the modern state is limited only by the ability to borrow money; an ability dependent on the continuing value of fiat paper money. That limit has now been reached. Greece is not just a country that overindulged on the bankers’ poisoned...

2015 has started brightly with gold, silver and the miners all rallying to higher ground as evidenced by the Gold Bugs Index, the HUI, gaining 50 points or approximately 30%. This sort of behavior in any sector brings out the bulls in full cry that the bottom is in...

Eric Muschinski: Due to the duration of the current bear market, we are more in a "grinding" bear market, which doesn't necessarily mean that we're not going to have a capitulation selloff at the end. In 1975–1976, for example, there was a harsh mid-cycle flush, so...

With metals and mining stocks frustrating so many for the last 3 years, it seems they will be frustrating folks for just a little while longer. As I have been saying for quite some time, I do not believe the bottom is in just yet. However, the market seems to be...

Tuesday morning, and it’s “one of those days” when I’m going to have to jam pack information into my article, as there are simply too many topics worth attention; starting with flat out validation of my the premise of my “126,000 job lie” article – a mere 48 hours...

We are again entering a collapse phase similar, yet far worse than we had in 2007-2008. I will show you a few graphs as illustration of weakness in the real economy and compare them to the financial bubbles we are living.

During the past decade the gold price performance has truly been amazing. To demonstrate this we will show gold’s percent appreciation in 16 major world currencies since 2005. This will be compared to the performance of 15 major world stock indices.

With all the data finally out, the United States gold market suffered a massive deficit over the past three years. How large was this deficit? Actually, large enough to supply all the gold for the U.S. Mint’s production of its Gold Eagles for the past twenty years...

China’s President Xi Jinping (centre) poses for photos with guests at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) launch ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 24, 2014. (Reuters / Takaki Yajima). The success of China in attracting countries...

“Gold is one of the dumbest things to put in your IRA,” said the slick TV commentator, with his $200 haircut, perfect white teeth, and superior attitude. “Everyone knows income-producing vehicles are best for an IRA.” It was a prepackaged message from someone that...

Where can investors turn when global quantitative easing and the Energizer Bunny of dollars is crushing commodity prices to within an inch of the junior miners' lives? In this interview with The Mining Report, Disruptive Discoveries Journal writer Chris Berry...

The Fed and other Central Banks have shifted away from focusing on growth to focusing on inflation. The explanation here is as follows: they’ve failed to create growth, debt deflation is their worst nightmare, so the best they can hope for is inflation to make debt...