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Gold Editorials & Commentary

Gold-Eagle gold and precious metal news, market analysis and editorials from world renowned gold analysts and market experts.  Stay informed with the latest news and analyses on gold prices and perspectives on the economy to guide your investing decisions.

 

March 21, 2014

There is a fascinating story from Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor about his interview with Hank Paulson, who was the US treasury secretary at the time of the Lehman crisis. Paulson said that he was told by the Chinese that they had a message from the...

I've had some recent conversations with attorneys who were considering class-action lawsuits regarding a gold price manipulation stemming from reports about the London Gold Fix. I told them that while there is no doubt that gold and, particularly, silver are...

March 20, 2014

Briefly: In our opinion short speculative positions in silver (half) and mining stocks (full) are justified from the risk/reward perspective.

I had the privilege of interviewing Louis James, the chief metals & mining investment strategist at Casey Research. Louis is the editor of Casey International Speculator, the first subscription newsletter I ever bought, and I am holding a good number of his...

Do you recall that last week I pointed out some interesting research on the monthly price of gold, from our friend Jeff Clark, that March was gold’s worst performing month of the year. I found that very surprising, but wrote that if gold finished this month “up” (...

March 19, 2014

Fundamentally, Gold should soon start the final 3rd phase of this long-term bull market.

Gold seems to be sparking more attention these days, as investors have seen the precious metal steadily rise from its December low of around $1,200, to a new high of $1,350 just three months later.

March 18, 2014

Briefly: In our opinion short speculative positions (half) in silver and mining stocks are justified from the risk/reward perspective.

Since the start of this year, gold has performed extremely well. This daily chart shows the shiny metal moving steadily higher, in a bullish channel

Gold is staging a breakout of a powerful technical pattern that will bring $1500/oz. into reach. Buying pressure has been building for physical gold. Price action is reflecting stronger bullish sentiment and a continuation of the long term bull trend, which dates...

If interest rates are supposed to be on the rise, why has the price of gold gone up so much this year? Is it merely because it is bouncing back after a sharp decline in 2013? We have a closer look at the link between gold and interest rates to gauge how investors...

Consider our economic world from two perspectives: The Deviant View – as represented by those who visit deviantinvestor.com, read alternate media, are skeptical of the “official” news, and who critically examine the financial world. or The others – call it the...

We find ourselves in the situation where a stock market crash worse than 1929 (in which the Dow declined 89%) is becoming ever more possible. Pension funds, endowments and personal retirement accounts are all at serious risk of almost total loss. So called “...

March 17, 2014

Every week, our investment team reviews a variety of sources to formulate a summary of the top events in the gold, resources, and emerging markets. The results are categorized in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. We believe this SWOT model...

At the end of every month, I review the performance of my investment portfolio and so should you. In February my holdings gained 12.87%. Year to date (January and February, 2014) my investment portfolio has appreciated by 46%. That is a good start, but you may...

Since last August, the Indian government placed a stranglehold on gold imports into the country by requiring that 20% of all gold imported be exported as jewellery. This forced the amount of gold imported to drop to 30% of former levels until October of last year....

Coming into this weekend we had an “information overload” of sorts. So many moving parts all of which are important and any one of them capable of being THE black swan that “blindsides” the markets even though they are nearly all visible and in the public domain....

Can the gold price be fundamentally related to some other economic variables? Can we use those variables successfully in trying to predict the future price of gold? Is gold highly correlated with any of those variables?

I’ve shown you several comparison charts with the HUI, GLD and SLV that shows they all tend to breakout at roughly the same time. One can sometimes be stronger than the others but they tend to breakout at the same time. This week was no exception.

The US Dollar Index is on the verge of substantially rising in value during the next couple of years. There are a number of reasons for this prediction. Firstly, the US$ is grossly over-sold (ie under-valued). Since 2001 the greenback has lost more than one-third of...

March 16, 2014

It’s Friday morning, and the prospect of the “sum of all fears” is creeping into the global consciousness. In other words, the “realization of reality” is – slowly but surely – taking hold, which is why, at the moment, even unprecedented doses of money printing,...

SPX has started a correction which can only be labeled as short-term, for now. It is possible that it could evolve into one of intermediate nature, but we won’t be able to confirm that until we see what path it takes after this correction is over.

The Federal Reserve has let it be known that it intends to reduce its purchases of mortgage and US Treasury debt (taper its Quantitative Easing) to zero. At each of the Federal Reserve’s past two meetings they’ve cut their QE purchases by ten billion a month. They...

March 15, 2014

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on mixed signals. Gold sector cycle – up as of 12/27.

For the past several weeks, our commentaries have dwelled on factors unrelated to what so many other writers have focused, primarily demand from a variety of sources, shrinking supply of physical at COMEX and LBMA, lots of charts and graphs to make interesting...

Last Monday gold ended a week-long consolidation that saw it fall from $1354 to $1329, before rising strongly to over $1370 yesterday. Not only is Asian demand still outstripping mine supply by a large margin, but physical ETFs such as GLD are now beginning to see...

Gold is a safe haven…The emerging market turmoil in January got the safe haven ball rolling. The slowing U.S. economy then added another boost, especially with Yellen keeping the same policies as Bernanke.

March 14, 2014

"The first rule of mainstream financial journalism and, particularly, financial journalism about gold is never to put a specific critical question about the monetary metal to any of the primary participants in the gold market, central banks. That is, nearly all gold...

Chart Analysis Gold Fibonacci, Silver, GDX & GDXJ via videos

Gold’s strong rebound upleg this year has been driven by big gold-futures buying. After abandoning gold last year, American futures speculators are returning to the yellow metal in droves. These capital inflows are a very bullish harbinger, as major futures buying...

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