The best-performing precious metal for the past week was silver, but still lower by 2.32%. Scotia views the Ontario Teachers Power Plan deal as positive for New Gold shares—not only is the deal structure financially accretive by their estimates, but it increases...

After a tepid March and April, Indian gold demand surged during an important May festival. India ranks as the second-largest gold market in the world behind only China.

The money supply is rising again, and persistent price inflation is not a surprise. Price inflation occurs when the amount of currency increases significantly above private sector demand. For investors, the worst decision in this environment of monetary destruction...

The metals rally took a breather this week, with gold, silver and copper all showing five-day declines as of this writing on Friday, May 24. The pullback was expected given what happened on Monday.

Gold reversed lower after a false new high, losing 3% on the week. Silver and the miners held up better, losing 2.5% and 3%-4% respectively.

In today's short little video I'm going to just take a look at metals. They're still doing more or less what I expected.

Elliot Wave Analysis of key markets.

Is the bull market about to come crashing down, or will we have to wait until autumn when such disasters traditionalllllllly occur? I’m a traditionalist myself and expect the bear that’s coming this fall to usher in America’s umpteenth panic and sixth full-blown...

We start with this from the “Pat on the Back Dept.”  Per the prior missive penned a week ago (“Another Gold All-Time High is Nigh”), ’twas therein stated that Gold (then 2420) was exhibiting sufficiently daily trading range such that one could reasonably expect a...

The Dow Jones saw some downward pressure this week.  Nothing serious as it closed the week with a BEV of -2.33%, still deep in scoring position.  In my BEV charts, I always include a table giving the point values for the important BEV lines.  If you look at the one...

On Wednesday, minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting showed central bankers are frustrated by the lack of progress on inflation. After several months of official inflation readings coming in hotter than expected, the Fed has been forced to back off...

Could the world be creeping closer to a monetary gold standard? Steve Forbes sees signs that it is. In a recent article published by Forbes Magazine, Steve Forbes wrote that it may seem hard to believe, but the world is “beginning to lurch toward a gold-based...

Gold and silver soared and plunged together, but… Not at the same pace. And this can tell a lot. The way in which both precious metals move relative to each other is not random. It has specific rhythms and patterns, and understanding what it means can give one an...

The mid-tier and junior gold miners in this sector’s sweet spot for upside potential recently wrapped up their latest earnings season.  These fundamentally-superior smaller gold producers delivered big last quarter, reporting spectacular results.  The potent...

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The Reserve Bank of India has followed the lead of China and other Eastern central banks and ramped up its accumulation of gold.

Chinese private sector gold imports accounted for 543 tonnes in the first quarter, while the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) added 189 tonnes to its reserves over this time horizon. Most of the PBoC’s purchases are “unreported.” China continues to be the marginal...

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Fed and two other U.S. banking regulators are going to significantly reduce a planned increase in capital requirements for the country's large banks.

How long will the world keep buying U.S. bonds, notes, and bills, or use the dollar as a reserve currency, if Washington is bent on fiscal self-destruction?

The salvo from Washington as it unleashes the Green War with China leaves no doubt about the perilous state of Sino-US relations, and, incidentally, about Bidenomics. Yet, the remnant of a strong monetary link between the two countries brakes the journey into an...