Gold Editorials & Commentary

Many gold bugs fail to understand the interplay between gold stocks and the Gold/Silver ratio.

In response to tariff tax attacks launched by US government “cowboys”, the Chinese central bank (PBOC) may or may not increase its tiny monthly gold purchases.

The best performing precious metal for the past week was gold, up 9.35%. According to RBC, Regis Resources pre-released third quarter gold production of 90,000 ounces, driven by a 25% beat at Tropicana. Fiscal year 2025 year-to-date-rate of 381,000 ounces is...

Last week was a wild one for investors, with stocks whipsawing in a storm of volatility and uncertainty. When the dust settled, gold was the last safe haven standing.

Mike Maharrey, a reporter and analyst at Money Metals Exchange, recently spoke with Jp Cortez, executive director of the Sound Money Defense League, about the major strides being made in sound money policy across the United States. 

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed Senate Bill 130 into law, reaffirming gold and silver as legal tender. This symbolic victory marks Alabama’s latest step toward promoting constitutional sound money in the state.

Perhaps you can 't blame the banks for not being able to keep up with the furious gold price rally. But at least UBS is trying (although they're hardly alone now), and in this morning's show Vince talks about why they just raised their gold price target by $500 per...

So, Trump backed off a little, while China discretely flexed its muscles by halting exports of its rare earth minerals. The latter didn’t get enough media attention, but in my view, this likely ends the dramatic series of tariff hikes – at least for some time.

The main purpose of this update is to make the point that for the first time since this major bull market phase began early last year, investors are starting to take a serious interest in Precious Metals’ stocks with major breakouts in a range of large and mid-cap...

This Deeper Dive will lay out the fault lines that have appeared throughout the US economy. They reveal major tectonic plates that are shifting global economics, which I’ll present with hard facts, not just conjecture to show what is erupting beneath the surface and...

Money-supply growth rose year over year in February for the seventh month in a row, the first time this has happened since mid-2022. The current trend in money-supply growth suggests a continued reversal of more than a year of historically large contractions in the...

A word of advice if you’re looking for bankable information on the direction of the economy:  tune out the mainstream media’s cavalcade of Trump-deranged bozos and focus on the 4820 target in the SPX chart above.

What a stunning week we’re living through in the gold and silver markets. Where after last week’s vicious selloff, now the gold price is on the verge of its third consecutive day of $100+ gains.

What a week! I certainly was not expecting this kind of strength. Gold was up over 6% on the week, and silver up over 8%. The miners, GDX GDXJ, up a whopping 19% on the week. Again, what a week!

What a week!  Last Thursday, the Dow Jones had yet to break below its BEV -10% line, as seen below.  Then this week came into play, with its huge daily swings.  Monday saw the Dow Jones down by over 2,200 points, no doubt because of Trumps tariffs.

Friday at 13:33 GMT, June Gold traded at 3262.  ‘Tis our forecast high for this year as selected at New Year, and completes the triad of our three Golden Goals for 2025.

Gold and silver are making big moves up this week in the face of intense stock market volatility and overall weakness.

Gold sector cycle is up. Trend is up for gold & gold stocks. New buy signals but no set ups yet.

Markets staged a dramatic short-covering rally on Wednesday after Trump announced a 90-day suspension of reciprocal tariffs. The S&P surged 9.5%, posting its third-largest gain since 1940.

As the second quarter of 2025 begins, both Bitcoin and the broader crypto sector present a mixed picture. On one hand, innovations and an unrelenting forward-looking perspective continue to inject fresh momentum into the space.

With an unprecedented global trade war underway, market volatility has been extreme.  Stock markets around the world and major commodities have been hammered on great uncertainty.  But gold’s star is rising, increasingly becoming the leading refuge amidst this chaos...

Here are today's videos and charts.

As the wild ride continues in all markets, let's take a look at COMEX gold futures to assess where things stand. I focus on COMEX futures because key support and resistance levels tend to form cleanly at $100 intervals—$3,000, $3,100, $3,200, and so on. 

It isn’t often that you check the markets over your first cup of coffee and find gold up over $100. But that’s precisely what greeted me as I switched on CNBC this morning.

Significant amounts of gold flowed into gold ETFs for the fourth straight month in March, driving assets under management (AUM) to a new month-end record.  Funds in every region reported inflows of gold, with North American ETFs leading the way.

As global markets react to trade tensions and tariff rumors, the real story may lie beneath the headlines. In the latest Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey argues that while tariffs dominate the financial news cycle, they’re just a subplot in a much...

In this timely Gold Matters discussion, VON GREYERZ principals, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, DISCUSS THE END OF A MONETARY ERA and offer perspective on the extreme market volatility unleashed by the ever-changing Trump Tariffs.

For anyone who ever felt like following the precious metals sometimes felt like watching paint dry, hopefully the last few days have helped to let go of that feeling.

U.S. Treasury Bonds turned about face and dropped more than 3% in Monday’s trading. The huge reversal and decline wiped out all of last week’s increase which I referred to in my previous article…

Despite the undeniable ripple effects of the recent tariff measures out of DC, the headlines, as usual, are mostly wrong about the causes of the current market volatility and the longer-term ramifications ahead.