Gold Editorials & Commentary

Last week, SPX extended its advance to 2110, but breadth is not supporting the move with the daily A/D oscillator barely moving up and continuing to show negative divergence. Unless this improves (and quickly) the index will not be able to continue on its upward...

From the paper money system introduced in France by John Law in 1716 to the French National Assembly’s assignat currency used as legal tender from 1789 to 1796, the issuance of unsecured paper money systems has a disturbingly long history in world commerce dating...

Nick Barisheff is a successful international businessman, entrepreneur and financial writer. For the past decade, Nick has focused on the world of precious metals and the benefits available to investors who hold physical gold, silver and platinum bullion. As...

Employment is an important topic for Washington and Wall Street. Citizens who are fully employed are more likely to vote for the political party currently in power and continue making payments on their monthly mortgages. But when examining Department of Labor...

Equity Markets and stocks really are acting great now…and breaking to new record highs. Most of the stocks I’m most focused on are those, which reported good numbers and which held their earnings gap and have setup bases. Moreover, they are now starting to move or...

SGE gold withdrawals have hit 374 tonnes in the first six weeks of the year – a record level in the run up to the Chinese New Year holiday.

We are looking at parallels between looming supply shortages for copper and gold, and the likely different patterns the two metals will follow given copper is very much an industrial metal whereas gold largely revolves around financial and investment factors. But...

To leave the EU or not to leave the EU, that is the question? Pick any hour, and you will have an answer that is good until the next hour passes. While there have been cheers and encouragement for what the newly elected Syriza party has been telling the EU, that...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012 when $HUI was at 550. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 2/07, ending the up cycle since November.

Sure, my job is to be even keeled, even when confronted with the daily crime scene manipulated “markets” have become. However, even I have my limits; and watching today’s “trading,” it was hard not to feel nauseous. I mean, today alone, we saw the Greek “...

The US stock markets’ latest record highs have left traders exceedingly euphoric and complacent. They are utterly convinced this stock bull will power higher for years to come. But their enthusiasm is very misplaced. In real inflation-adjusted terms, the US stock...

The two sides remain far apart during the Eurogroup meeting in Brussels. The 240 billion euro bank bailout expires at the end of this month and Greece could run out of money by the end of March without new external funds, driving it nearer to the euro zone exit.

Precious Metals have had an interesting week. Both Silver and the gold stocks rebounded off their 50-day moving averages only to do a 180 the following day. Meanwhile Gold has given back most of its January gains. In this missive we consider the near term outlook...

Let us start with the facts. As per the chart below, it appears that Russia has accumulated more than 26 million ounces of physical gold in less than 10 years. In that same time period, there have been only 3 months in which the Russian gold reserves have declined,...

The Chinese New Year, which kicks off today, is the largest and most widespread cultural event in mainland China, bringing with it massive consumer spending and gift-giving. During this week alone, an estimated 3.6 billion people in the China region travel by road,...

Having failed in its attempt earlier this month to move above $1,300 an ounce, gold is once again looking for sustainable support under the technically and psychologically important $1,200 level.

Gold made gains yesterday as buyers viewed the recent price falls as excessive and a buying opportunity. The U.S. Fed minutes released yesterday showed that Fed officials were cautious about raising interest rates too soon, hurting the dollar.

There are many financial and geopolitical events all coming together, culminating or beginning within the next couple of weeks. The two most notable are what will happen in Greece and Ukraine. There have also been many other clues pointing to some sort of event...

Today marks the Chinese New Year, the day promised for unleashing forces from the East which complete the Global Paradigm Shift. Let it rain; let it pour. For a full generation, the Western central bankers have relied upon debt to solve debt saturation problems as...

The US Dollar, on a slippery slope for years, has reversed and broken out against every major currency and developing economy currency. A global wide quantitative easing (QE) is happening. Almost every central bank (Sweden's Riksbank became the 14th central bank to...

Last weekend, in a segment titled Gold Obsession & Ephemeral States of Mind NFTRH 330 talked about a growing presence that seems to follow Martin Armstrong’s anti ‘gold promoters’ theme. This theme seems to be – coming as it does in a gold bear market –...

On February 18, 1943, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered a rousing speech at the Berlin Sportpalast, asking the German people, "Sind Sie bereit für totalen Krieg?" or "Are you ready for total War?" Germany had planned for Blitzkrieg and a short war...

The 2008 Crisis was not THE Crisis. The 2008 Crisis was largely a banking crisis focused on securities. The REAL Crisis will hit when the bond bubble collapses.

In late November I wrote an article suggesting that it could be in Russia’s interest to put the rouble on a gold exchange standard. The salient points were the Russians could easily make it stick, inflation would be tamed, and importantly Russia would divorce...

As we approach the fourth year of an extended correction in gold, we must re-analyze where it is we’ve been and where we are likely to go. Frankly, we must ask the question is the Gold Bull Market over? By taking the emotions out of it and getting our politics,...

Gold hit the minimum target of 1216.60 that we set in yesterday’s subscriber update at almost the exact high of $1236.40

Sorry to start today’s article with an intense blast of “manipulation proof”; but in a world of where reality has – temporarily - been so thoroughly usurped by lies and fraud, someone has to discuss reality. Not that I’m the only one, of course; as aside from the...

Our objective is to answer this question: are we currently seeing a pullback in a new bull cycle (bull pullback) or just a short rally in an ongoing bear cycle (bear rally)? After a bull pullback we would expect to see price rising off support to start a new upleg....

The market for gold coins and bars in Europe is now twice as large as that of the United States, and similarly on par with those of China and India. In addition, the India Trade Ministry is said to be seeking to cut the gold import tax from 10 percent to 2 percent...

For the last three weeks, since we struck the most recent highs in the metals, I have been searching for a pattern which provides us greater confidence that we are finally on our way to lower lows. Unfortunately, such a pattern would likely be a leading diagonal,...