Gold Editorials & Commentary

Gold priced in euros surged through the €1,050/oz barrier to a high of €1,052.04 per ounce this morning. It’s up 7.2% this month, outperforming gold in dollars which is up 4.8%, and building on the 12% gains seen in 2014. Market participants are increasing...

I believe today marked a breakout on the PM stock indexes and Gold which have different reversal patterns. Below is the combo chart we’ve been following that has the HUI on top and GLD on the bottom. As you can see the HUI broke above its double bottom trendline...

It is only in America that nobody seems to know or care but, in fact, during 2014 gold was the second best performing currency after the US$.

We recently discussed the astonishing surge in net long positions in the US dollar, and the lopsided reading of associated sentiment surveys, which have broken all previous records (See “How Much Further Will the Dollar Rally?” for details). Here is a brief update...

Politicians and central bankers are desperately trying to convince investors that the economy has returned to what they deem as a “pre-crisis normality”. But the truth is the global economy has never been in a more fragile condition. In an example of just how...

The financial world is changing at a very fast pace and we would like to share with you some observations of alarming recent developments in the financial system. The New Year resolution of political leaders seems to be the global implementation of the bail-in...

Paul Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He once said that if you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people eventually come to believe it.

The SPX appears to be at the beginning of a long-term distribution process which is forming a top of intermediate proportions. I want to stress the word “appears”, because the various indices are not yet unified in this process. It will probably take several more...

In answering the question posed in the title, many would simply say, “it’s all about the dollar, of course.” Others would say it is about demand in China or India. Others would say it is the conflict seen in Russia or the Middle East. Many were absolutely certain...

This article is based on an interview conducted by Claudio Grass, the Managing Director of Global Gold based in Switzerland, with Mr. Steen Jakobsen. Mr. Jakobsen is the Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer at Saxo Bank, where he has served for a total of 14...

As 2014 has closed, we want to present our view of where markets are headed in 2015 in a series of coming articles. Toward the end of this series, we will cover real estate and the economy, something slightly different than what we normally cover in our market...

Gold ended the year at $1182/oz which means its closing price is now down two years in a row. This has obviously caused a lot of mining companies trying to adjust to ‘the new reality’ by slashing costs but unfortunately the market hasn’t really taken these steps...

Here is the latest chart detailing the relationship between the Hedge funds NET POSITIONING in the Comex gold market and the price of the actual metal.

The following article is from Gold Stock Bull contributor, Ben Kramer-Miller. While I agree with his overall assessment and reasoning, I am a bit more bullish in the short term and think precious metals have likely already found a bottom. Of course, short-term...

I wasn’t planning to write this morning (Friday); and in fact, will have completed this article before the December NFP payroll report is released. Regarding said report, my advice is the same as always regarding the “island of lies” reporting of the nation’s most...

Last week was a great move for markets off lows after another very short correction. And now we’re setting up for much higher prices once again. We’ve got a few good stocks already and I’m looking for a few more and there are more and more who look ready to really...

Got gold? Got silver? If not, you may not survive very well under the current and future regime[s] established in this country. Does price matter? Sure, everyone wants to buy reasonably near the lows, and there are many of us who paid substantially higher prices...

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. A bear market rally is in progress. COT data suggests lower metal prices overall going forward.

The precious metals market isn’t really all about metals. Well, it sort of is but it is not ONLY about metals. Mining stocks are a significant part of the market and one that is very much interesting for gold and silver investors. In this commentary, we try to give...

2015 is upon us and the turbulence has already begun. 2014 was another year of an uneasy calm interrupted by sudden bouts of abrupt market volatility. We were surprised how risk appetite remained so high despite emerging and a high level of risk especially from the...

2014 ended with two ominous developments: the strength of the US dollar and a collapse in key commodity prices. It is tempting to view both events as one, but the continuing fall in oil prices through December reveals they are sequential: first there was a greater...

Gold Jobs, Silver Slow, US$, DOW, GDX & GDXJ analysis via videos.

The gold miners have seen impressive investor interest in their beaten-down stocks in this young new year, with capital inflows fueling a sharp rally. And this buying is likely just beginning, as major market changes are afoot that should catapult gold much higher...

Contrary to every publicized commodity and stock market expert on this planet earth, gold did not, I repeat did not top at $1,923.70 an ounce in the month of September, 2011. Gold topped at $1,033.90 in the month of March 2008.

Yet another country has requested that their gold be repatriated from the United States! Netherlands was the newest nation to announce this past November that they too had requested that $5 billion of their gold be repatriated from New York.

For those looking for a possible major bottom in gold and the beginning of a new bull market in 2015 they might be disappointed. For those looking for at least a temporary bottom in gold followed by a recovery rally in 2015 they might be pleased.

The current trendy reason for the mainstream to dislike Gold is strength in the US Dollar. On the surface it makes quite a bit of sense. Gold is priced in dollars. Dollar strength automatically pressures the Gold price. However, this popular view reveals a total...

Unfortunately, very few investors in the world are cognizant of the relative performance of the gold price vis-à-vis the traditional world stock markets...as demonstrated by the chart below (2001 to 2014). It shows the percent gain or loss over 14 years:

Three months ago, I wrote “2008 is back, with one temporary exception”; which, in hindsight, parallels May’s “most damning proof yet of QE failure” as the most important articles published in the past year. The latter refers to the abject failure, based on plunging...

We have seen unprecedented volatility over the last 2 months, in particular the last 3 weeks. This is highly unusual as most year ends and beginnings are calm with very little news. The news on a global scale has had the volume turned up so that nearly no market has...