Gold Editorials & Commentary

– What are “Fake Markets” and will they lead to another global financial crisis? – What do fake markets mean for stock and bond market performance in the future? – Is this the right time to re-balance portfolios and hold more cash and gold?

I read a mainstream report about a decline in gold imports into Hong Kong, with the journalist concluding that gold demand in China is therefore down.

One of the most reliable indicators of an economic slowdown just flashed a warning sign this week. On Monday, the yield curve between the five-year Treasury yield and three-year Treasury yield inverted, or turned negative, for the first time since 2007.

Copper is often referred to as "Dr. Copper" for its ability to foreshadow moves in other markets and the global economy in general. Today we coin the term "Mr. Palladium", as this particular metal may be offering its own bit of foreshadowing. And what might that be...

Metals should be primary beneficiaries of an imminent greenback peak, with normalization in U.S. stock-market out performance, Federal Reserve tightening near a finish and the trade-weighted broad dollar approaching multiyear highs.

The double bottom is the world’s most stressful chart pattern.  It forms after a significant price decline.  The first low in the pattern creates substantial panic and fear in most investors.

President Trump and President Xi Jinping agreed to halt escalation in their trade conflict. At the same time, the Fed officials became more cautious about the pace of future interest rate hikes. How will the softening of the US trade and monetary policies affect the...

I wonder how many of you had your brains in gear when following the action in the market this past week. For those that did not, let’s review what happened.

Gold continues to make headway in herky-jerky fashion, failing to satisfy bulls but also denying bears something to cheer about. On Monday, the February COMEX contract rallied to within a millimeter of the 1240.20 Hidden Pivot target shown.

As I was shuffling papers in some old files, I came across a slip of paper on which I had written down the price I had paid for a Mexican $50 gold peso coin: $717 Mexican pesos.

Yesterday evening marked the beginning of Hanukkah. The Jewish festival of lights commemorates the reclamation of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem from the Syrian-Greeks in the second century BCE. According to accounts, after Judah and his forces liberated the temple,...

We humans are supposed to be rational. Unless we have some disorder we do not, as a rule, do something weird, strange or unexpected on the spur of the moment. When an individual does break normal patterns of behavior it might be perceived as an instance of temporary...

The yellow metal clinched its first back-to-back monthly gains since January, as holdings in ETFs expand and investors are increasingly optimistic for the metal in 2019. President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell this week...

JPMorgan Chase and a number of other bullion banks are in a whole lot of trouble. Evidence detailing years of rigging markets and swindling clients is piling up.

What is inflation? Any layman can tell you—and nearly everyone uses it this way in informal speech—that inflation is rising prices. Some will say “due to devaluation of the money.”

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) previously deemed Deutsche Bank as the most systemically dangerous bank in the world.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.   Ecclesiastes 3:1. Last month Bill Bonner wrote an interesting article about trading the Dow/gold ratio.  He recommended selling the Dow and buying gold when the ratio was above 15 (the...

Longer-term, SPX is most likely tracing out an important top before it starts (resumes) a correction taking it significantly lower. Only long-term investors will debate what lies ahead, but even at best, the anticipated decline could amount to several hundred more...

That blur you just saw was November. A month alone in which the trading range for Oil was a dramatic 32%; even both Silver and Copper traced ranges exceeding 7% for the year's eleventh month; the S&P 500, too, had a 7% trading range.

I last wrote an article on Friday November 9th as the Dow Jones closed with a value of -3.13% in the BEV chart below.  Three Friday’s later and the Dow Jones closed today with a value of -4.81%.  Not much of a difference, until we note between these two Fridays the...

The Fed blinked. This was not news to Macro Tourist Kevin Muir or readers of Biiwii.com, which is very pleased to publish his work.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. Gold sector is on a major sell signal. Speculation remains at multi-decade low, allowing for a potentially substantial short covering rally in the near future.

The Fed was notably more dovish in its tone this week. On Wednesday, Fed Chair Powell warned of "generally elevated" asset prices. But then he followed that with: "The resulting drop in asset prices might be particularly large, given that valuations appear elevated...

The junior gold miners’ stocks have spent recent months mostly languishing near major multi-year lows.  That spawned a sentiment wasteland riddled by bearishness and bereft of bids.  But these companies’ battered stock prices aren’t fundamentally righteous, as...

Here are today's videos and charts:

Once in a while it seems everything aligns just right and the world spins in the orbit we choose. This happened recently just after the publication of Gold: Still Money for a Reason The article was published on several other websites and generated quietly a bit of...

Recent market and economic developments are positive for gold and precious metals but conditions are not bullish yet. Bullish conditions and bullish fundamentals would be highlighted by a shift in Fed policy. They aren’t shifting yet. They are slowing, which...

Editors note: I am not sure what to make of being called “Ireland’s Mr Gold” but I suppose you could be called worse. For me, my fellow founder Stephen and our excellent team, it has never been about gold itself, but rather it has been about the benefit that gold...

Powell spoke yesterday. The gold market considered his remarks as dovish. And the market is always right, isn’t it?

Britain would be plunged into its deepest recession since the 1930s under a disorderly no-deal Brexit, the Bank of England warned yesterday.