Gold Editorials & Commentary

The US stock market stalled early this week as earnings started to hit.  A number of news and other items are pending with earnings just starting to roll in.  There have been some big numbers posted from JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.   Yet, the markets have reacted...

I have been on vacation this last week, and when I had some downtime and the family was asleep, one of the activities in which I engaged was to peruse the articles written over the last week on the market. (Yea, I know... call me a nerd if you like). And, during my...

Last week, we wrote that gold miners flashed an “extremely overbought” signal, which they had only flashed once in the past – almost right at the 2016 top. Gold Miners Bullish Percent Index recently moved to the highest level that it could reach – 100.

After a measured advance in recent months gold looks on for a breakout to new highs soon. On its latest 11-year chart we can see that, with the Bowl boundary steepening to become near vertical, it could rise very rapidly and very soon, which fits with the most...

Last week's trading saw gold holding in consolidation mode, with the metal forming its low in Tuesday's session, doing so with the tag of the 1791.10 figure. From there, strength was seen into a Wednesday high of 1819.50 - before seeing sideways action into Thursday...

On June 8th the Dow Jones increased to a BEV -6.70%, and so far that has been the peak in the advance off its March 23rd’ BEV -37.09% bottom.  Since early June (the last twenty-eight NYSE trading sessions) the Dow Jones has oscillated between its BEV -5% and -15%...

Greetings from Rancho Santa Fe, where like Gold's path, the roads which rise from the ocean undulate with an upside bias toward a limitless sky. Undulate, indeed, as per the "Nothing Moves in a Straight Line Dept.", whilst fundamentally fantastic, Gold near-term...

Gold reached $1,800, close to its all-time high of $1,923. Silver reached $19, a long way from its high of $50. The NASDAQ hit another new high. Tesla closed on July 10 at $1,544, a new high. Tesla looked outrageously high at $1,200. Now the bubble has blown even...

Gold sector remains on long-term buy at the end of June. Long-term – on major buy signal. Short-term – on buy signals. Gold sector cycle is up, at a multi-year high. We are holding long and short-term positions.

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and BlackRock Financial Management are stacking up wealth like never before, thanks to the Great Recession 2.0, a.k.a. the Second Great Depression. Yet, the Fed maintains its recovery plans do not create wealth disparity.

You may have heard that gold typically rallies seasonally from the middle of the year. This trend is driven by jewelry demand, which increases ahead of the Christmas business, the Indian wedding season and the Chinese New Year celebrations on the back of advance...

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It’s official now! On June 8, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research stated that economic activity in the United States had peaked in February 2020 (and in Q4 2019, when it comes to the peak in quarterly economic activity),...

In recent articles for Goldmoney I have pointed out the dollar’s vulnerability to a final collapse in its purchasing power. This article focuses on the factors that will determine the future for sterling.

The market will always from time-to-time remind us that nothing goes straight up in the stock market. The mining stocks, especially the riskiest juniors, have had huge run since mid-March. The HGNSI (Hulbert Gold Newsletter Sentiment Index) has been a remarkably...

Summer doldrums? Not for precious metals markets! In early July, gold and silver each broke out to fresh multi-year highs. The yellow metal is within striking distance of new all-time highs and the headline worthy figure of $2,000/oz.

The U.S. CPI inflation rate rose 0.6 percent in June, following a 0.1 percent drop in May. It was the first increase in four months and the biggest jump since 2012. The move was mainly driven by higher energy prices (the energy index increased 5.1 percent in June as...

There was a time when the total U.S. fiscal deficit and debt seemed to matter. Apparently, that time has passed. Oh, my goodness. The good old days. I'm old enough to remember 2009 and all the rage about "exploding deficits" and "stealing our children's future"....

What we previously wrote about mining stocks’ breakdown and yesterday’s upswing, might seem like something that invalidates it or something that’s just nonsense. In reality, it’s one of the common patterns that we see after breakdowns – the price comes back to the...

One of our colleagues recently wrote an open letter to Ted Butler. The point was that Monetary Metals gold leasing is a different kind of activity than what is called “gold leasing” in the institutional bullion market. We make it possible for gold owners to lease...

Every year around this time, we check in with raw materials for our popular commodities halftime report. This year, it wasn’t even a competition.

The big question about America is how much more money the Fed can print while the government runs a program of borrowing money to infinity… before hyperinflation turns the fading empire into a fire pit.

The thing that's been glittering and sitting on your portfolio is gold. If that's the case, you must be quite pleased with yourself. In case you forgot to check, the prices of gold have appreciated up to Rs 49,240 for 10 grams in the spot market – registering a...

The number of cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. have been rallying very quickly in last weeks, giving way only to the gold prices, which have surpassed $1,800.

House Rep, Alexander Mooney, introduced a Bill that would the first true audit of gold owned by the United States in more than 65 years. The Bill, if passed, would require a full assay, inventory and audit of the U.S.  gold every 5 years. Currently the gold is being...

For all the buzz gold gets, it's easy to forget silver. Its turning points are telling a really interesting story here, so let's see how well the technique worked for the white metal. Next in this analysis, we'll see what it means for gold.

Many retail businesses including grocery stores and fast food restaurants have been wrangling with a national coin shortage. Some are posting notices informing customers that they will need to pay in exact change or use alternative payment methods such as credit...

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 4.25 percent. Investors poured money into silver-backed ETFs this week as the precious metals trade begins to increase in scope. Spot gold prices reached the key $1,800 an ounce level. This milestone...

Last week's trading saw gold forming its bottom in Monday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1781.20 figure. From there, a rally was seen into a mid-week high, with the metal pushing all the way up to a peak of 1829.80 - before backing off the same into...

Trying to assess the potential for a correction in precious metals (and in miners especially) is quite tricky, given the current context. Last week we argued that markets often make powerful and sustained upside advances following significant breakouts. In this...