Gold Editorials & Commentary

When most of us think of financial centers that affect our investment portfolios, we think of places like New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and perhaps even Washington DC and Silicon Valley.

Holiday returning 'blues' . .

Once again gold tested the $270.00 - $272.00 an ounce support level and then rallied sharply. By Thursday gold was $278.30 an ounce, up $7.20 from its August 23rd bottom.

The late John Scarne, legendary card manipulator and gaming wizard, used to tell a story about how he and his pal, heavyweight boxer Jim Braddock, walked into a crooked card game and won a pile of money.

Just over two months ago, a study was published here at GOLD-EAGLE of the diamond formation that had been developing on the Dow Jones Industrial Index.

The price of gold is poised to explode because the world is poised to explode. The precious metals big bang theory in action. As we enter fall 2000, there are three or four, at least, flash points likely to impact precious metals markets.

FRANKFURT am 25 August 2000 -- At first glance it is indeed difficult to understand how a market, such as the gold market, which shows a chronic production deficit, is decaying over decades and how this results in prices that force an ever-incr

Holiday returning 'blues' . .

Negative vibes . .

Hello everyone, this is Harry Bingham reporting on August 21, 2000. Our next scheduled update is September 5th.

Many analysts had originally anticipated that the Euro would pose a serious challenge to the Dollar simply because the population and GDP of the EMU pool of countries exceeded those of the US.

Everybody is talking about "the economy." It's doing great. It's strong. It's soaring, rising, bounding, booming. It's powerful, and nary a voice is raised in dissent.

The enclosed correspondence is self-explanatory. I wrote to the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) first thing Monday morning, to protest their arbitrary and obscene margin increases in their palladium contract.

Moribund price behavior . . . continued the drifting lower characteristics following several good upside days.

What is really sustaining bullish sentiment about the U.S. stock market and, propping up the dollar? When asked, everybody pulls the same trump card: Faith in the economy's superior qualities, and faith in the unique wisdom of Mr. Greenspan.

Every financial panic must have a catalyst, a lynchpin upon which the cascading effects of monetary disaster spreads across large segments of the economy.

As this essay has grown almost as bloated as the United States M3 money supply, it has been rent asunder and split in two for your own protection. The thrilling finale will be published next week.

As stock market indicators go, nothing beats an up-close examination of the market itself, especially the stocks of leading "blue chip" companies. Two such large-cap, highly traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange are the stocks of major U.S.

June 30 marked the second anniversary of the Tocqueville Gold Fund’s inception. Over that period, TGLDX has been the top performer in the Lipper Analytics universe of precious metals funds with a cumulative return of 15.71%.

Becoming accustomed . . . to repeated patterns?

While accounting wizardry may have helped to obscure a vast multitude of corporate sins and weaknesses during the 1990s bull market, the smokescreen is growing patchier each day as a burgeoning list of formerly high-flying stocks flirt with 12-month lows.

Now that the Camp David talks have failed over the status of Jerusalem, it's time to look at the effect on the Precious Metals markets this fall.

By all standards, credit creation is the backbone of any bull market, and liquidity (i.e., trading volume) is the lifeblood. Both are interrelated and without the two no sustained bull market is possible.

Was Wednesday surprising? Not really for several reasons; including what already was clearly struggling rally behavior during the poor excuse for a turnaround on Tuesday, and air pockets so visible in many stocks, including some that i

Now that we've reached the half-year point in my tracking the cyclical pattern of gold trading, e.g., "Up overseas / Down in NY", it's time to examine that phenomenon a little more closely.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Ultimately, the only way to make money in an investment is to buy low and sell high. Comparing gold and stocks, now is clearly the time to move 5% to 10% of your assets into gold.

Multiple concerns . .