Gold Editorials & Commentary

Stocks are rallying today because of: Hype and hope of a Greek deal. China has stopped trading of 49% of stocks and threatened to arrest anyone who is short-selling the market (talk about a backstop!)

Gold’s weakness is related to the commodity trade at the moment. It is suffering from a combination of the weight of the collapse in energy and metals (and other commodity) prices, a firm dollar that won’t last, and the general absence of expected panic on the Greek...

Between the NYSE computer issues, Greece and the Chinese making up rules as they go, there is just too much risk. Half the battle is saving your powder for the easy money…and it will come. To be sure trying to trade this type of action that sees huge gaps...

All the world is indeed a stage. And what is unfolding is a worsening tragicomedy…and it is under the direction of the elites through their debt enslavement [un]known by the world as fiat currency. The unelected “officials” in the EU are the equivalent of Keystone...

Gold sector is on major sell signal. Cycle is down. Traders should be in cash or short.Silver is on a long term sell signal and investors should be in cash or short. COT data reveals that speculation is close to levels of previous bottoms.

US Stock Market, US T-Bonds, Gold & Silver, GDX & GDXJ And PM Rallies analysis via videos.

"At present, up to 12 trillion yuan stays in domestic residents' saving accounts. The launch of individual gold investment, therefore, will allow residents to change currency assets into gold assets. At the macro level, it will expand channels for changing savings...

China’s stock bubble has burst, with its stock markets utterly collapsing after rocketing parabolic. The failure of this popular speculative mania has grave implications for the global stock markets. It shatters the universally-believed myth that central banks can...

With the Chinese stock market, known as the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite (SSEC) plunging in recent weeks, I thought I would analyse the technicals to determine where the final low to this bear market is likely to be.

To answer the question “what drives the prices of gold” we have to determine the nature of gold. Its complexity makes it difficult to understand, even for Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the U.S. central bank.

The precious metals sector is enduring losses for the third straight week. The gold miners and silver have led the way down, though silver has rallied over the past two sessions. Gold has also rallied yet remains dangerously close to making a new weekly low for the...

- Governments move toward ever greater financial repression. - Repression includes suppression of rates, capital controls, outlawing of cash and bail-ins. - Finance ministers discuss cashless society, giving banks total control over public’s money. - Bail-in...

On Wednesday July 8th, the NYSE halted trading for several hours citing a “technical glitch” as the culprit with stocks finally resuming trading one by one later in the day. While on the same day United Airlines grounded planes as they resolved “a network...

Forget about Greece, they didn't matter yesterday as the NYSE shut down for nearly four hours. Greece does matter and certainly will matter in the weeks to come. Before getting to yesterday's very peculiar "glitch", I do want to mention something quite humorous...

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen may have missed her window of opportunity to raise interest rates. The economic data no longer paint a picture of even a tepid recovery.

Scary. That is the word that kept coming up over and over as the news came in this week. Greece technically defaulted. The Shanghai Composite index dropped some 30%. And then a computer glitch caused the NYSE to be down for three hours. Are these headlines just...

What do we know about how central banks respond to stock market crashes? Typically they lower interest rates and ease monetary conditions in liberal fashion and worry about the inflationary consequences later.

It’s a shame more Chinese investors didn’t get to read our timely warning of an impending mega-smash in the Chinese stockmarket – it would have been worth the cost of a subscription TO AVOID LOSING THEIR LIFE’S SAVINGS.

The world it seems can no longer escape Greece. The newspapers and the internet are abuzz with comments and analysis about Greece. Greece appears poised to continue to dominate the headlines for at least the foreseeable future.

Chinese markets bounced last night following drastic intervention by the state when it banned large players from selling their shares in listed companies – arresting the over 30% decline of the past four weeks.

Tonight I would like to update you on some precious metals charts we’ve been following very closely to shed some light on where we’re at and where we may be heading. When investing in the markets we need to have a game plan to follow so that we know when the game...

Did you know? Today, companies no longer utilize G.A.A.P. accounting principles (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) when writing their Annual Reports concerning their company’s income and assets!

Somebody big is sitting on the gold price and a relief rally when the Fed raises interest rates is ‘a distinct possibility’, Ross Norman, CEO of Sharps Pixley and London Bullion Market Association’s top forecaster of the past 15 years, told ArabianMoney today.

An insolvent Greece has defaulted. On June 30th, officials missed repayment of billions in lMF loans and declared a banking holiday. Predictably, many Greek citizens responded to the crisis and bought gold coins (as well as all sorts of survival goods). So did a lot...

China’s stock markets continued their decline overnight with the Shanghai SE Composite falling another 4.64% and down of 32% since June 12. Markets have begun seizing up as sellers overwhelm the system.

“Gold is what will save you. Gold will protect you from financial calamity.” And on and on. As Greece burned, and as Puerto Rico runs into “issues,” we hear the same drivel from the same culprits week after week, month after month, and year after year. And, I...

Gold failed to rally above the 1174.00 area and it seems likely now that we are probably going to revisit the 1162.00 area again. It is still possible that we are going to drop back to the 1155.80 also.

The pressure on the US stock market continues to grow. Note my red annotations on this key S&P500 earnings chart. With QE gone, rate hikes on the horizon, wage pressures growing, and the business cycle peaking, it’s a “no brainer” that US corporate earnings are...

Consider this 25 year graph of the ratio of gold to S&P 500 Index. Unless you believe, AS I DON’T, that the Fed can levitate the S&P for many more years while squashing gold even further, this 25 year chart shows that gold is currently very low compared to...

Hyperinflation is commonly defined as rapidly rising prices which get out of control. For example, the Wikipedia entry begins, “In economics, hyperinflation occurs when a country experiences very high and usually accelerating rates of inflation, rapidly eroding the...