Gold Editorials & Commentary

The precious metals still do pirouettes on the trading floor, but they can stumble in their choreography. The bears are just waiting for it.

The gold miners’ stocks surged back this week, blasting higher out of early-year weakness.  Those big-and-fast gains were fueled by gold’s own, which shot up without any news catalyst.  Seeing battered gold stocks showing signs of life has piqued traders’ interest,...

I am pretty confident that we are about to break the manipulation. Virtually every commodity has been going nuts to the upside up since March of last year, what possible reason has gold been stuck?

Intermediate decline in progress. I would even suggest that we are in the bloodbath phase, this is when you see selling panic hit from the traders. Perma-bears will come out and start making incorrect calls.

The Everything Bubble is bursting, and the Fed has barely even begun its war on inflation. Many top stocks are already in their own bear markets. Nvidia, way off its game, has lost 25% of its value from its last high score.

According to recently released data by the World Gold Council (WGC), as of September 2021, the total amount of gold held in reserves by central banks globally exceeded 36,000 tons for the first time since 1990. This 31-year record was the result of the world’s...

As today’s (Thursday’s) market activity shows, the bubble is still in force as US stock markets/sectors generally remain intact (for the most part, with some notable exceptions outside of the headliners, as certain table legs get kicked out). But gold is in a...

The bi-polar US Dollar, like so many market forces of late, is exhibiting some odd behavior. In recent interviews and reports discussing the year ahead, I specifically cited the movements of the bi-polar US Dollar as one of the most critical market signals to watch...

Gold Newsletter editor Brien Lundin today calls attention to a new report by Myrmikan Capital's Dan Oliver about the gold price that would be necessary for U.S. gold reserves to back the dollar at levels that once were traditional:

Doug Casey explains his latest views on the politicians, the central banks, gold and silver

The Ukraine situation it seems will worsen. The US president is using the usual threat of “trade sanctions or trade alienation” to both China and Russia. Russia wants talks on Ukraine.

Back in November, we noticed a surge in COMEX gold "Trade at Settlement" volume. This occurred at a time when total contract open interest and price were also rising, and it all preceded a sharp reversal in price two weeks later. This same scenario may now be...

“Inflation is too high,” admitted Lael Brainard during her nomination hearing in the Senate for the Vice Chair of the Fed. You don’t say, Governor Obvious! Indeed, the latest BLS report on inflation shows that consumer inflation rose 0.5% in December on a monthly...

If a nation of libertarians espousing gold as money can be viewed as the centre of the global politics spectrum, it’s painfully obvious that most of the world’s governments and political parties are far to the left of this mighty marker.

Over the past year, the Federal Reserve Note “dollar” has been losing value at an alarming pace as reflected by broad price level increases.

Those that read my analysis regularly know that I do not take general market fundamentals or news into account when I analyze the stock market. The main reason is that I view that which drives fundamentals as being the same as that which drives market price. However...

Being the first weekly missive of 2022, I want to touch upon an Email Alert I sent out to subscribers on New Year’s Day where I discussed the “First Five Days” segment of “The January Barometer”, an indicator developed by the late Yale Hirsch (with whom I had dinner...

Rick Rule joins us to describe the conditions that he believes will launch the next phase of the silver & gold bull market. Rick also likes oil and natural gas investments right now.

China has cut their interest rate today. This was on expected lines. I do not see any significant impact on gold and silver and copper.

The intermediate top in the US Dollar looks to have been achieved. The US Dollar market is doing the opposite of what logic dictates. The problem is of course is that the Dollar has been pricing this in for several months.

According to many commentators on the markets, we stand at the cusp of a major change in US and global markets and therefore in the condition of the US and the global economies. A look at the longer term charts of some key US markets opens a window on the...

There seems to be an almost fanatical obsession with ‘fortune telling’ when it comes to the financial markets. Gold is no exception.

Last week's action saw gold forming its low in Monday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1789.30 figure. From there, strength was seen into early-day Friday, with the metal pushing up to a peak of 1829.30 - before backing off the same into the daily/weekly...

Inflation is one of the best determinants of gold price movements, because investors buy precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium) as an inflation hedge when the prices of goods and services are rising faster than interest rates.

The post 23-March-2020 flash crash advance continues.  During my Christmas vacation, the Dow Jones made three new BEV Zeros in the chart below, numbers #51, 52 & 53, with #53 on January 4th.  But before the Dow Jones did all that, it first deflated below its BEV...

Just in case you've forgotten (or weren't around yet), the mid-1970s were marred by stagflation, the cost of living in rampant rise whilst the economy suffered demise. Specific to the three-year run from 1973 (and its intolerable lines for gasoline) through 1975,...

In the first Live from the Vault of 2022, Andrew Maguire shares his gold and silver price projections for the year ahead and explores the bullish momentum triggered by Basel III implementation.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. Gold sector is on long term SELL signal. GLD is on short term buy signal. Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on mixed signals.

Here are today's videos and charts.  The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers.

Gold is lagging the raging inflation unleashed by the Fed’s epic money printing.  Despite leading inflation benchmarks skyrocketing to multi-decade highs, gold prices have barely budged.  Serious inflation initially fuels record-high stock markets, which stunt gold...