Gold Editorials & Commentary

No, it can’t. We’ve read a very interesting essay on gold, VIX (the volatility index) and the safe haven status entitled Forget gold, the VIX is the new safe haven and we would like to share our thoughts about it. First of all, what would you expect from a safe...

WHOLESALE trade in London left the price of gold sitting at last week's finish of $1317 per ounce Monday morning, as European shares rose with government bond prices but commodities slipped.

Markets tend to rally during the last two months of the year, but like the indexes, that is a statement of averages, and averages do not always tell the whole story. It is not a secret that the Lying Ben schemers have been responsible for propping up the volume-...

Gold finished Friday down -7.20 to 1315.30 on 1352.50 on moderately heavy volume, while silver dropped -0.05 to 21.86 on moderate volume. The gold/silver ratio dropped -0.21 to 60.17. Gold was sold starting in the afternoon in Asia through mid-day in NY, being...

There’s talk of foreign central banks purchases of US Treasury debt slowing down, or even significant reductions in their current Treasury bond holdings. Unfortunately, authors seldom share their work with the readers of their articles. But I’m the kind of guy who...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on buy signals but no set ups yet. Gold sector cycle – up as of 10/25.

A rather interesting development occurred on Friday, and one that I wasn't really expecting. The dollar sliced right through its intermediate trend line on its first attempt. I thought for sure we would see some kind of pullback from that trend line before a break....

If fundamentals mattered, gold and silver prices would be substantially higher. They are not, and for a reason. It is not hard to define what factors are influencing price, for they are political, even criminal under normal circumstances. These factors are, in...

Markets stalled out this past week and are beginning to roll over by the looks of it so far, but if all of 2013 is any indication this correction should be relatively shallow and short lived. We let our stops take us out of trades and we raise stops to lock in...

After record buying of Gold Eagles during the precious metal smack-down earlier this year, sales of the official coins declined significantly in August & September. However, sales have seen a substantial turn around this past month.

The financial markets watch the Fed very closely, and for good reason as outlined on October 25. Wednesday’s Fed statement was interpreted by the markets as being more hawkish than expected (hawks want higher rates/low inflation). Investors were hoping for a “the...

Research published by Yale Hirsch in the Trader's Almanac shows that the market year is broken into two six-month seasonality periods. From May 1 through October 31 is seasonally unfavorable, and the market most often finishes lower than it was at the beginning of...

As an astute gold market follower, you’ve no doubt been inundated with an abundance of commentary on China and India this year. That’s essentially all we’ve been writing about of late. It’s for good reason! China and India’s surge to historic levels of physical...

In 2012 more gold was extracted from the Earth than ever before in history. And even with 2013’s anomalous gold panic devastating the mining industry, production is expected to rise for the fifth year in a row. The latest exploration cycle is no doubt bearing its...

Chart analysis On Gold, Silver, GDX and GDXJ via Videos.

In this part and the next we will look at the prospects for the gold price for the rest of this year and beyond. These next parts are the critical parts. What we will try to do is to synthesize the factors playing on the gold market today and have done in 2013.

On Wednesday Finland gave in to public pressure and revealed where she stores her gold reserves. The statement followed a press release by the Bank of Sweden on similar lines released on Monday.

Institutional trust and confidence continues to unravel as less and less participation, combined with isolation, threatens the middle class. As in all major crises throughout Anglo American history, the weight will be carried on the shoulders of the pragmatic caught...

The most important question for all investors today is: How much must the greenback be devalued (again) in order to finance the soaring National Debt and incalculable future Obamacare costs so that the country can avert a looming U.S. Debt Default.

Martin J. Gruenberg, the FDIC Chairman, made a speech at the Volcker Alliance Program in Washington, D.C. earlier this month explaining how the even largest globally systemic banks will be dealt with in the event of a systemic banking failure. In closing he states...

Medieval thinkers were tempted to believe that if you throw a rock it flies straight until it runs out of force, and then it falls straight down. Economists are tempted to think of prices as a linear function of the “money supply”, and interest rates to be based on...

Note: on the chart above, the listing of Trajan Decius between the emperors Titus (79-81 AD) and Hadrian (117-138 AD) looks to be a mistake. That period saw the reign of Trajan (98-117 AD). Trajan Decius (249-251 AD) followed Phillip the Arab (244-249 AD). He is...

As Chief Market Strategist for Anglo Far East, the precious metals logistics and custodial services company, Alex Stanczyk travels frequently to China and has extensive knowledge and experience about its attitude towards gold. In the following snippet from a longer...

“Structural unemployment” (i.e. permanent unemployment) is nothing new in Western societies. Indeed, it has been a constant fact-of-life in our economies ever since the Industrial Revolution. What is new is the choice by Western governments to ignore this problem –...

In our previous essay we took a closer look at the situation in silver and mining stocks (precisely: SLV and GDX ETFs) and discussed how it may translate into the precious metals market. As we wrote in the summary:

It’s no secret that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the mining sector is in the dumps. According to PWC, deal volume in the first half of 2013 declined 31% as compared to the same period last year. Deal value declined 74%. Excluding Glencore’s $54...

WHOLESALE prices of gold and silver extended yesterday's sharp falls in London trade Thursday morning, as world stockmarkets also fell following the US Federal Reserve's latest policy statement.

The last two times they spiked this way, the following year was pretty brutal. See the next chart, which tracks the S&P500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) and margin debt, the amount of money investors are borrowing against their shares of stock to buy more stock.

What if bottom line investment results for a nation as a whole were very different than the great majority of investors understood? What if most long term investment plans were based on what could be quite easily shown to be "bad information"?

Precious metals miners are the most volatile stocks on earth. They're so volatile that investors often forget that underneath those whipsawing stock prices lie real businesses. But even many of those who consider themselves old pros in natural-resource investing...