Gold Editorials & Commentary

Yesterday, the Fed released minutes from its last meeting. They show an important shift among the meeting participants. In September, the FOMC turned more worried about the state of the U.S. economy, while just six weeks later in October, the Committee felt more...

Many people feel that the metals are too hard to trade.  Personally, I view them as much easier to trade since they are a rather pure sentiment trade. And, they have acted almost perfectly within our expectations of late.

Since the Federal Reserve detached the dollar from the gold standard in 1971, the world's central bankers – with the Fed leading the charge, have flooded the world with fiat currency to the point of diminishing its purchasing power to shadow status.

3,400 high net worth investors with at least $1 million in investable assets were surveyed by UBS. Fifty-five percent of respondents expect a significant drop in the markets at some point in 2020.

You know the monetary drill: Commercial bankers and central bankers create more digital dollars from nothing, inject them into the economy, dollars devalue and prices rise. They issue press releases claiming they are doing a great job.

In this interview, Brian and Darryl Panes reconnect with Egon von Greyerz of Matterhorn Asset Management AG at the Gold and Alternative Investments Conference in Sydney.

‘Retail Gold Insights 2019’ has just been published by the World Gold Council. It is a thematic analysis of their new consumer research survey. With a base of 18,000 participants across India, China, Russia, Germany, the US and Canada, we believe it is the largest...

The recent sell-off in gold has triggered massive gold demand from India. Recall that India had been dormant since June, when the Government increased the import duty by 25% on imported kilo bars. But the lower price of world gold, combined with India's peak...

Some analysts has argued that the manufacturing sector reached a through. But this not the case. The latest Fed’s report on the industrial production and capacity utilization clearly shows that the pundits were wrong again. As they so often are.

GoldCore directors have been monitoring the political and economic situation in Hong Kong for the last year. It has clearly deteriorated in the last two weeks and we are now erring on the side of caution in terms of our client’s who store assets there.

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." —Sir Isaac Newton (Newton's Third Law) In nature, where everything moves freely absent human interference, her omnipotent forces are allowed to manifest themselves in manners that create a living ecosystem...

The title of this analysis may seem perplexing, but it’s really isn’t. Gold can rally up and down. In fact, any market can. They just can’t do it at the same time. Gold and silver bottomed several days ago and they are now moving higher and their rally is likely to...

Top US politicians describe the US economy as the “mightiest of all time.” Houston, we have a problem! The next tariff tax deadline is now only about three weeks away. 

Today, we want to say two things about negative interest rates. The first is really simple. Anyone who believes in a theory of interest that says “the savers demand interest to compensate for inflation” needs to ask if this explains negative interest in Switzerland...

A couple of weeks ago, I was in Lima, Peru, attending the Mining & Investment Latin America Summit. I heard from a number of industry leaders that mining in South America has become more challenging in recent years.

The US-based bond market is in tragic condition. All the bonds in US financial markets reek of rigged prices and inflated values. It is not a single bond sector, but rather all bond sectors that are in deep trouble, against a background of multi-year economic...

The Fed’s Powell testimony on the economy before Congress pushed stock prices higher last week. And it was worth paying attention to that news. But will the next set of economic data confirm the bullish outlook? Investors will have to focus on Wednesday’s and Friday...

In Friday’s article, we wrote that what comes up must co..rrect and gold has indeed shown to be in a corrective mode. We also wrote that the yellow metal was unlikely to break below the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement based on the previous upswing and while gold moved...

Ronald Stöferle of Incrementum And the “In Gold We Trust” report and Egon of Matterhorn Asset Management, discuss at the Precious Metals Summit in Munich, Germany, the massive risks of the world’s financial system.

It is my privilege now to welcome back the one and the only Gerald Celente, publisher of the renowned Trends Journal. Mr. Celente is a frequent guest on the Money Metals Podcast and is perhaps the most well-known trends forecaster in the world. And it's always great...

The top of the recent stock market wave looks to be ending on Monday, Nov 18, the Leo moon and Bradley turn. All I’m looking for is an irregular higher top on Dec 3. I’m expecting about 4 points up on the open, then down to 3079/80 by Nov 21.

Until Thursday’s close, the price action looked toppy!  For the past week, prices had traded in a narrow range and negative divergence had appeared at the daily and hourly level, and the fear & greed index has been at “extreme greed” for over a week.

We've herein gone on now for nine weeks nearly ad nausea about the Gold pricing zone of 1454-1434 being an anticipated "support shelf". And indeed, now with nine weeks notched of parabolic Short trend, Gold's price finally has truly tested that zone, which so far...

This week found the Dow Jones at the same spot as it did last week in the BEV chart below; at a new BEV Zero (new all-time high) as it advanced by 324 points during the week.  The bulls must be feeling pretty good, as since November 1st the Dow Jones has made seven...

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Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. Gold sector is on major buy signal. GLD is on short-term sell signal. GDX is on short-term sell signal. Speculation remains high despite the current pullback.

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In a key policy shift, the ECB has recently introduced tiered system of interest rates. This news isn’t of interest only to the banks keeping their reserves at the ECB. In today’s article, you’ll learn about the new instrument of monetary policy, and find out what...

The major gold miners just enjoyed a phenomenal quarter for gold, which soared after its first bull-market breakout in years. Q3’19’s much-higher prevailing gold prices should’ve driven soaring earnings for the miners, due to their big inherent profits leverage to...

Impeachment circus lows and stock market highs dominated the news cycle this week, and precious metals are quietly attempting a recovery.