Gold Editorials & Commentary

The best performing precious metal for the week was platinum, up 4.47% as Impala Platinum reported weaker production for the quarter. Rough diamond prices have continued their ascent, unphased by the deteriorating consumer sentiment, with Anglo American reporting...

Gold has a unique appearance. It is also astonishingly heavy—much heavier than it has any right to be. It’s just an inch and a quarter in diameter yet weighs 0.075 pounds. Everyone should hold one in his hand (and own a few).

While the mainstream media in the US seems to rarely talk about the gold and silver markets, it was interesting to see a report by CNBC's Jim Cramer address how now could be the time to buy gold.

The Bear Market is not over. In this article we will first take a look at the big picture, then focus on the recent rally, when and where it is likely to top, and the nature of the next decline, which we believe will be significant.

The market this week was a bit on the boring side, but that is how things on Wall Street usually go.  Following the market is much like following a daily soap opera on television.  Not every episode is exciting, but you have to see most episodes to follow the story...

Rising geopolitical tensions helped push gold prices up this week. The monetary metal ran to $1,800 an ounce on Thursday. As of this Friday recording, gold is pulling back some and comes in at $1,781 now – up 0.4% for the week.

Today, Gary Wagner joined us to discuss Gold & Silver price targets. We also discuss the U.S. dollar and how it hasn't been this strong against the euro in 20 years, the potential Fed pivoting soon & more.

Following early-week strength, Gold formed its low for last week in Wednesday's session, here doing so with the spike down to the 1770.00 figure. From there, a firm push higher was seen into Thursday, with the metal running up to a peak of 1812.00 - before backing...

After 18 rather ingloriously agonizing weeks of Gold's "parabolic trend" being Short, it has at long last finally flipped to, well, Long. "A little drum-roll please, have a cigar, and nice to see you again sometime!"

Gold sector is on long term SELL signal as the recent buy signal has failed. The correction since 2020 drags on.

Have you ever wondered what the yield curve’s favorite song is? Neither have I, but I bet that in July it was Britney Spears’ hit, Oops, I Did It Again! Indeed, the yield curve inverted again last month, for the second time in 2022. It means that long-term rates...

The Friday jobs report could bring a pause in the current rallies but then I think we rally right into September!

The gold miners’ stocks have been hammered to deeply-undervalued levels in recent months.  Slammed by heavy gold-futures selling driven by an extreme parabolic US-dollar surge, the gold stocks have been largely abandoned.  That left their stock prices anomalously...

The real price of gold has started to trend higher. When we say “real” price of gold, we refer to gold’s performance against the other asset classes and markets. We monitor gold’s performance against the stock market, foreign currencies, and commodities.

After a decade of low-interest rates, the Federal Reserve has surprised the market not only with its interest rate hikes but also with the aggressiveness of the pace.

Traders expect the U.S. Fed to soften as Chairman Powell suggested they have reached a neutral rate with the last rate increase. The US stock markets started an upward trend after the last 75bp rate increase – expecting the U.S. Fed to move toward a more data-driven...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the technical recession! According to the initial measure of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real GDP dropped 0.9% in the second quarter, following a 1.6% decline in the first quarter (annualized quarterly rates). As the chart...

Gold has just witnessed a successful support test of a critical level which keeps the technical model bullish until proven otherwise. In this article, we will detail the technical test just witnessed, and what the expected outcome will be for gold as long as support...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the potential for a rally in gold stocks. They were extremely oversold, trading at support, and the selling was abating. Precious Metals bottomed before the Fed decision last week and jumped higher following the decision. This week they...

Doug Nolan, author of Credit Bubble Bulletin, makes the following observation about how it is the investments and nations that exist on the periphery to the main economic streams that have the most risk and see the first de-risking when things begin to crumble:

Once again, the US is facing a recession which Main Street feels, Wall Street whistles past, and DC simply denies. Below, we look at these recessionary forces and delusional policy makers in the context of blunt-speak rather than Fed-speak so that we can best...

Oil and gasoline prices continue to fall.  That’s relieving some inflationary pressures, yet gold is surging in a dramatic rally from my $1675 buy zone.

In yesterday’s analysis, I wrote the following right below the USD Index charts: This move is in tune with what we saw at previous local bottoms. The RSI moved slightly below 50, and it’s the turn of the month – this combination was enough to trigger rallies in the...

The Affordable Care Act, No Child Left Behind, and the USA PATRIOT Act received new competition for the title of Most Inappropriately Named Bill when Senate Democrats unveiled the Inflation Reduction Act. This bill will not only increase inflation, it will also...

In this 30-minute conversation with Elijah Johnson of Liberty Finance, Matterhorn Asset Management principal, Matthew Piepenburg, discusses the recent Fed rate hike and its broader implications for global markets in general and the gold price in particular.

The time is now for the broad market rally to gain a following. It’s a bear market. The trends make that assertion, not me. But as noted in an NFTRH update on July 28th…

With last week’s second 75 basis-point rate hike, the Federal Reserve now claims it has achieved a “neutral” monetary policy stance. That would mean, in theory, that interest rates are neither stimulating nor restraining the economy.

As the economy heads into what looks an awful lot like a recession, gold and silver markets are making a comeback. Gold is rallying 2.1% this week to bring spot prices to $1,772 an ounce.

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 8.88%, likely on short covering around the Federal Reserve hiking the borrowing cost. Gold climbed this week after the U.S. economy shrank for a second consecutive quarter, reports Bloomberg, pushing the...

Despite gold’s latest move higher, its outlook remains bearish. If its 2012-2013 pattern is to repeat, it means gold is now preparing for a big fall.