Gold Editorials & Commentary

As the US (and foreign) deficits and debt-loads continue to surge to levels that were once unimaginable, the recognition of the value of precious metals as an asset class is increasing at an accelerating rate.

The average American investor holds a diversified portfolio of stocks… and their government holds a diversified portfolio of debt-funded wars. The horror in Gaza will likely become regional, but by then it may already be overshadowed by US neocon meddling in the...

Gold futures finally closed above $2,000, but if one is betting on the rally’s continuation, it’s too early to open that champagne.

The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 1.78%. U.S. stocks are in their third monthly decline while underwhelming corporate earnings and yields climbing above 5% have investors pondering their choices.

Gold prices are flirting with all-time highs once again and investors are wondering if this time might be different. Perhaps gold (and silver) can finally break out of the range where they have been mired over the past 3-½ years?

Gold faces monthly resistance at $2000 and $2010 and weekly resistance at $2025 to $2030. As we recorded, Gold was trading around $2013 with two days left in the month.

Oil has traded stronger on the threat of supply interruptions in the geopolitically sensitive Middle East (the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq). Sean Lusk, co-director of commercial hedging at Walsh Trading, told Kitco News he sees gold...

Gold mining stock charts have not yet confirmed a sustainable rally, and Q3 fundamentals may be a headwind.

Although my technical forecasts have generally been accurate, occasional guesses about when the sky would fall have consistently underimagined the height of bullish folly. Since yet another October looks likely to pass without a stock-market crash, perhaps it’s a...

Greg Weldon analyzes current macroeconomic landscape and potential developments in the near future and what is driving Gold towards a breakout. He also discusses Silver, the Gold/Silver ratio, the stock market and finally, implications of a bond bear market.

Chris Vermeulen, Chief Market Strategist at The Technical Traders, returns to the show, and we delve into the recent gold and silver moves. As rates rise, the stock market faces challenges due to shifting investor preferences for higher returns in safer assets.

It's getting close to pandemonium in the Middle East as the United States has just bombed Syria "in self defense" of its armed forces, which happen to be stationed in Syria for entirely peaceful reasons.

Stocks are moving down into an intermediate decline. I've tried to prevent people from doing what their emotions want to make them do, and that generally means that people want to buy at tops because the market has gone up for a long time and they've become very ...

In yesterday’s article THE STATE OF THE WORLD we looked at the complex geopolitics of the world as it spirals into World War 3. This was necessary as we have to take these trends into consideration when attempting to determine the outlook for Precious Metals’ prices...

Sadly as the Mid-East mayhem continues, the safe-haven bid has further fed into the price of Gold toward settling yesterday (Friday) at 2016, the highest weekly close since 05 May.

Well, if you believe the reporting coming out of the mainstream financial media, then the economy is going gangbusters. Third quarter GDP came in on Thursday at a better than expected 4.9%. That represents an acceleration of economic growth, at least officially,...

The current downtrend in the Dow Jones began on August 7th, and for the past two, almost three months it’s been all downhill. Not an avalanche, but so far, a relentless deflation in valuation that has now taken the Dow Jones below its BEV -11% line at the close of...

According to the U.S. Treasury, year-end data from September 2023 show that the deficit for the full year 2023 was $1.7 trillion, $320 billion higher than the prior year’s deficit. As a percentage of GDP, the deficit was 6.3%, an increase from 5.4% in FY 2022.

Trend is UP for gold. A bottoming pattern in progress. In recent years, gold stocks have a tendency to bottom in the summer/fall time frame.

Gold has been consolidating below $2080 for over three years. Prices are above the trendline, and we could see a breakout in November. The price action over the next 2 weeks is crucial. Here’s what I’m watching.

A new major upleg is underway in gold, which should easily achieve new all-time-record highs.  That will greatly boost investor interest and capital inflows into this leading alternative asset.  Despite gold’s sharp V-bounce, speculators’ gold-futures positioning...

While geopolitical conflict has kept gold afloat, mining stocks’ weakness signals trouble ahead. While risk assets attempt to break free of their bearish corrections, gold’s relative outperformance has the yellow metal shining bright. Despite that, we’ve booked 11-...

Here are today's videos and charts.

Gold touched $2000/oz resistance last Friday but has so far held most of its gains in a bullish fashion. It closed Wednesday at $1995/oz. Next Tuesday marks the monthly close. The monthly candle chart of Gold is below, with the resistance line at $2000. Gold has...

If rapid M2 percentage growth forecast an inflation problem back in 2020, why would it not be forecasting deflationary pressure now?

Joining us today is Mark Yaxley, co-founder of Strategic Wealth Preservation (SWP), and we dive deep into the current global economy, the prospects of gold & silver, the recent conflict's impact on precious metal prices, the role of Federal Reserve's policies,...

In the past 3 years we've seen the gold price break the $2,000 level on several occasions. Yet each time it's come back in, leaving many wondering what it will finally take for a decisive breakthrough that finally leaves the $2,000 level in our rear-view mirror.

There’s a good reason why investors are amazed that something hasn’t broken in the economy yet: The last time US government bond yields climbed so far, so fast, the nation plunged into back-to-back recessions. So says an article by Bloomberg, published on Yahoo!...

A quick history lesson on Wars that are often won with finance skills as much as field tactics. A very important lesson as we are close to backing three wars at the same time and should probably listen carefully to the songs of history!

Fiscal explosion is not in the economic dictionary. But in the foreign exchange markets and bond markets this intuitive concept has sometimes powered a narrative which drives long-term US interest rates and the dollar upward in tandem. The puzzle to explain at such...