Gold Editorials & Commentary

As the wild ride continues in all markets, let's take a look at COMEX gold futures to assess where things stand. I focus on COMEX futures because key support and resistance levels tend to form cleanly at $100 intervals—$3,000, $3,100, $3,200, and so on. 

It isn’t often that you check the markets over your first cup of coffee and find gold up over $100. But that’s precisely what greeted me as I switched on CNBC this morning.

Significant amounts of gold flowed into gold ETFs for the fourth straight month in March, driving assets under management (AUM) to a new month-end record.  Funds in every region reported inflows of gold, with North American ETFs leading the way.

As global markets react to trade tensions and tariff rumors, the real story may lie beneath the headlines. In the latest Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey argues that while tariffs dominate the financial news cycle, they’re just a subplot in a much...

In this timely Gold Matters discussion, VON GREYERZ principals, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, DISCUSS THE END OF A MONETARY ERA and offer perspective on the extreme market volatility unleashed by the ever-changing Trump Tariffs.

For anyone who ever felt like following the precious metals sometimes felt like watching paint dry, hopefully the last few days have helped to let go of that feeling.

U.S. Treasury Bonds turned about face and dropped more than 3% in Monday’s trading. The huge reversal and decline wiped out all of last week’s increase which I referred to in my previous article…

Despite the undeniable ripple effects of the recent tariff measures out of DC, the headlines, as usual, are mostly wrong about the causes of the current market volatility and the longer-term ramifications ahead.

The Money Metals quarterly bar chart race on the evolution of global international reserves is out. Recently, gold overtook the euro, and soon will be challenging the dollar!

An overwhelming majority of economists agree: protectionist tariffs harm the very nations that impose them. The notion that taxing Americans for buying foreign goods somehow strengthens our nation is no less absurd now than when Adam Smith dismantled it in the...

The stock market flaunts its stupidity in abundance today. It opened up 1400 points based on nothing but jaw-flapping by President Trump. This happened for two reasons, and will keep happening.

The news is coming at a breakneck pace and Vince Lanci is here to break down what is going on, from tariffs, to retaliatory tariffs, stocks, bonds and of course Gold and Silver!

Tariff war just got to a new level, and gold soared. Will it soar to new highs? In a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of global trade tensions, the trade war between the US and China has reached new heights.

In order to determine why it isn’t too late to buy gold, we need to consider why many people might be inclined to think that it is too late.

If you wonder why so many central banks continue to load up on gold, Russia’s experience with the yellow metal provides the answer.

In recent days, we have read numerous articles about a possible agreement between the US administration and its main trading partners to devalue the US dollar. It has been named “The Mar-A-Lago Accord”, a concept inspired by the Plaza Accord of 1985, which aimed to...

One of the key things to watch in the precious metals markets this week is this Friday's COT report. The banks held large short positions prior to the selloff (particularly in silver), and on Friday we'll find out just how much short-covering they did as the price...

Gold looks fantastic! We bought the approach to the $2956 horizontal support and resistance (HSR) zone yesterday, and the market is surging higher today.

It was only a week ago when I wrote about the massive shorting opportunity in FCX – a copper/gold mining stock, and it moved right to my target area even though it seemed distant. Congratulations to everyone that participated in that trade (my subscribers took...

The best performing precious metal for the past week was gold, off 184%. Despite a temporary dip from record highs due to market pessimism over new tariffs, gold's safe-haven status remains strong amid an increasingly uncertain global economic environment.

Over the last two days of the past week, US equity markets crashed as a result of the rollout of a tariff program that was not only non-reciprocal but also applied using a formula resulting in the most severe duties since World War II.

President Trump was elected in part because he promised to reduce prices and not drag the country into foreign wars. Sadly, President Trump has adopted a tariff policy that will raise prices and abandoned his “America First” foreign policy in favor of a return to...

President Trump issued separate presidential proclamations to increase tariffs to 25 percent on all US steel imports and raise tariffs from 10 to 25 percent on all aluminum imports effective February 11, 2025. The White House metal tariff fact sheet is here. Many...

Odds of a recession are increasing and the yield curve is quietly steepening. Any further move from this point forward almost guarantees a recession, which sets the stage for the next wave higher in Gold and precious metals.

The gold market is known for deep liquidity and relative efficiency, especially in the United States. But what if that changed overnight? What if, for example, President Trump held a press conference at 4pm ET on a Tuesday– I know it’s crazy but bear with me– and...

The gold-silver ratio is trading near its all-time high of 125 reached on Jan 1, 2020. As of this writing, it now takes 102 ounces of silver to equal the value of one ounce of gold. The historical average is around 60.

Gold Miners parted ways with gold immediately, confirming once again that they are not a good alternative for the yellow metal itself. Two-day losses for gold mining shares were approximately the same as for stocks in general, down close to 12%.

A word of advice if you’re looking for bankable information on the direction of the economy:  tune out the mainstream media’s cavalcade of Trump-deranged bozos and focus on the 4820 target in the SPX chart above.

We discuss downside support targets in Gold & Silver and in the miners.

Well, it's certainly been an active week in the markets, and of course the precious metals. But as gold and silver continue selling off today, Vince Lanci takes a look at what the banks have been telling their clients about the metals.