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November 24, 2014

For most of my career in international investing, I had always placed a great deal of faith in Switzerland's financial markets. In recent years, however, as the Swiss government has sought to hitch its wagon to the flailing euro currency and kowtow increasingly to U...

What really drives the price of gold? Some say it's a fear gauge. Others prefer to look at the demand coming from the Indian wedding season. But the silliest of all conclusions to reach is that the dollar price of gold should be determined solely by its value vis-à-...

"Whether the single medium is gold, silver, seashells, cattle, or tobacco is optional, depending on the context and development of a given economy. In fact, all have been employed at various times, as media of exchange. Even in the present century, two major...

On morning of 17 November, while Western investors were sleeping, China opened the door to its investment world. On that day China began two way trading between the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges. This development essentially opened the Chinese stock market...

The Dutch central bank said Friday it is repatriating some of its gold reserves from the U.S., making it the latest central bank in Europe to address public concerns about the safety of its gold in the wake of the eurozone debt crisis.

Indubitably, there are several factors which heretofore have affected the price of gold. Needless to say, these factors have been material drivers that have fuelled the price of gold since the present secular bull market was birthed in 2001.

In part two of this Weekend Report I want to take an in-depth look at the US dollar as many of the important currencies of the world all seem to be making important moves right now. If that is true then the US dollar is also in the process of making an important...

November 23, 2014

Very few people understand what Putin is doing at the moment. And almost no one understands what he will do in the future. No matter how strange it may seem, but right now, Putin is selling Russian oil and gas only for physical gold.

After two years of insane money printing designed to rescue its failing economy, Japan has now been rewarded with… another recession. So what went wrong you ask? The same thing that always goes wrong when a central bank resorts to money printing to rescue an economy...

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I have had all of you as friends and associates during what has been a long war, not a good war, but a very long "financial war". As you know from these writings; this has been a war conducted by the Federal Reserve against...

On Thursday morning, whilst taping this week’s Audioblog, I discussed how overnight, the PMI Manufacturing reports in China, Japan and essentially all of Europe were not only miserable but well below expectations. Heck, even the PMI report in the United States of...

Frank Holmes of the USFunds.com summarizes this week’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the gold market for gold investors. Gold closed the week at $1,200.29 up $11.54 per ounce (0.97%). Gold stocks, as measured by the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index...

2014 has been a very good year for the “policy makers.” Seeing the Dow Jones up 8.32% on the year tells us that, but more importantly we can see their success in enforcing “stability” in the economy by the lack of days of extreme volatility and breadth in the stock...

Now for more on what’s head for gold and silver and what suppressed prices are doing to the mine supply, let’s get right to this week’s exclusive interview:

Gold has been volatile in recent weeks. It broke down, then it bounced back up. So where does it currently stand? Gold’s timing will help us in identifying the lows and the steps upward towards a new bull market.

November 22, 2014

Most markets continue to show some strength, albeit slowly. We continue to march higher and higher regardless of the many people calling for a correction. While a small pullback would be great, the simple amount of scepticism tells us that there is a ton of cash on...

Gold has had a volatile week. It rose from $1,147 last Friday afternoon to a high of $1,205 on Tuesday. On Wednesday the price moved between down $25 on the latest opinion poll on the Swiss referendum, then recovered to $23 before falling again on the release of...

When you want to see the real reason why the U.S. dollar seems weak or strong, check out the underlying components of its index. Want to know where the smart money thinks the value of the dollar is going? Check out the weekly COT’s for the Commercial Traders net...

He who owns the gold rules. That has been the clichéd “wisdom” for some time. However it appears Russia has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the Golden Rule, for it certainly is not getting any respect. To the contrary, the Golden Rule has become subservient to...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012 when $HUI was at 550. Short term – on buy signals. Gold sector cycle – up as of 11/14. COT data suggests a major bottom is not in yet for the metals.

November 21, 2014

The topic of ‘currency war’ has been bantered about in financial circles since at least the term was first used by Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega in September 2010. Recently, the currency war has escalated, and a ‘sanctions war’ against Russia has broken...

There is just over one week to go before the Swiss gold initiative referendum on Sunday 30 November. The release of the latest opinion poll earlier this week shows a strengthening of opposition to the initiative at the expense of the yes camp, with the level of...

Gold RSI, Silver MA, FXI, QQQ, GDX & GDXJ analysis via videos.

For several weeks I have been expecting a major secular bottom in precious metals and the junior miner. I told you to watch for the accumulation after a shakeout. The junior gold miners (GDXJ) appear to be on the verge of breaking a three month downtrend. There...

Gold has suffered a rough couple of months, getting pounded below major support. One driver was stock-market capital flowing out of gold again, as evidenced by renewed differential selling pressure seen in gold-ETF shares. But this was minor compared to last year’...

Gold made an all-time nominal high of $1,923 in September of 2011. In the following three years until the present, it has been mostly downhill. This is the longest and deepest correction of the entire bull market that started in 2001. Gold has declined by a whopping...

Gold, that “barbaric relic” from yesteryear just won’t go away even though the central banks around the world would like just that. I believe it was Keynes who first coined the phrase “barbarous relic” which has stuck for more than half a century. But why does it...

Gold’s reversal from $1130 to $1200 combined with sharp rebounds in the gold miners has given precious metals bulls some hope that the bottom may be in. A few weeks ago we noted that the sector was extremely oversold and a snapback rally could begin. Gold has been...

November 20, 2014

The gold price was drifting lower on Thursday, unable to find support from slightly higher than expected inflation numbers in the US that came in at 1.8% and solid Swiss gold export data. At $1,192 an ounce by mid-afternoon in New York gold investors can still boast...

“For a central banker, deflation is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, Famine, Disease, and Deflation. It is helpful to understand that, before a person is allowed to join the staff or board of a central bank, he or she is taken into a back room and...

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