Gold Editorials & Commentary

Market mavens have increasingly turned their talk to a possible “melt-up” scenario in the stock market. The big fear entering 2014 is that another runaway freight train-type stock market, like the one preceding the 2008 crash, is gathering momentum. The latest...

Well, it’s official, the economic talking head establishment has declared war on Germany. The opening shots in this battle were fired by none other than the United States Treasury Department, which had the audacity to blame Germany for a weak Eurozone recovery in...

Economics is an ironic science (if it is science at all by physicists’ standards). One can be perfectly correct about various phenomena in general, but offer completely wrong predictions in detail. Nevertheless offering correct predictions is still a significant...

LONDON prices for gold reflected subdued dealing Monday morning, slipping 0.9% to $1279 by lunchtime as silver and other commodities also dropped but major government bond price edged higher.

With all this talk of war and tapering, it might be time to step back and look more at forces outside of human control and their impact on precious metal prices.

Since September 2011 gold, silver and precious metal equities (i.e. HUI Index) have been correcting after a 10-year bull run that started in early 2001. Since their 2011 peaks, gold has fallen 33%, silver is down 57%, while the HUI Index has plummeted a whopping 60...

Without a doubt, monetary inflation (Blue Plot / Rising CinC) has outperformed both blue chip and gold mining shares since 1920. Unfortunately, benefitting from rising CinC is the preserve of Washington and Wall Street, not people like you or me. To my mind, to be...

What if you had someone, or something, to act as a reliable advisor telling you what to buy and when, and also how to manage your risks? Would you pay attention? Who would say “No” to such a proposition? Yet, almost everyone does ignore the source. Instead,...

Despite a string of new all-time highs, many investors are sitting out what has been one of the most impressive stock market rallies in years. A “buyer’s strike” has materialized this year in which value-oriented investors have deemed the market to be too expensive...

Current investing model favors equities and both the growth and energy sector are on major buy signals. Investors should wait for corrections in the markets to enter or re-balance their portfolios. However, there has not been a multi week correction in the major...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 11/08.

We started the week off very slowly but by Wednesday markets and stocks were breaking out higher nicely and we’ve got to follow the markets until they tell us to get out. Many stocks are ripping higher for us which is what I love to see.

There is a decline in the number of reads in our articles that do not provide a fully developed “fundamental” story about why gold and silver should be much higher in price, [but are not]. Relying upon charts to more accurately capture the developing “story” does...

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

Janet Yellen appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on the approval process, more a production than a process. The veteran economist and banker was given respectful treatment. The good Senators do not wish to be subjected to smear campaigns (see Menendez of...

In our most recent article on gold, USD and Euro Indices ( http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/plunging-euro-rising-dollar-and-their-... ) we wrote that the outlook for the yellow metal was bearish just as the outlook for the Euro Index and just as it was bullish for...

2013’s incredible stock-market melt-up persisted this week, with the flagship American stock indexes surging to fresh record highs. The euphoric bulls continue to claim today’s lofty stock prices are justified by reasonable valuations. But nothing could be farther...

The PRICE OF GOLD rose Friday lunchtime in London, regaining last week's closing level of $1288 per ounce as European stock markets turned higher and the US Dollar slipped.

In the past two weeks we have highlighted the importance of Russia and the world’s central banks to the bullish gold price narrative.

Zerohedge recently drew attention to the growing level of foreign bank cash deposits, tucked away at the bottom of the Fed's H.8 statement.

The weekly chart of the HUI Gold Bugs index asks a question we have been reviewing inNFTRH for some time now; is the bottoming situation implied by the up-triggered weekly MACD (and confirming TRIX) a ‘W’ bottom in the making that saw its low at 206? Or is it an...

Who wants a strong currency? If that question was for an opinion poll of finance ministers and central bankers, the response would be a firm no one. But in reality, no poll is needed. The last couple of weeks’ action has spoken louder than words.

We are aboard a speeding train that cannot speed up - neither can it slow down - due to fiat, default, and what will be remembered as the greatest credit fiasco in history. And the road is ending just up ahead.

Apologies are becoming increasingly common these days. From the ubiquitous “Twitter apologies” of celebrities to the mea culpas of scandalized politicians, the public has become used to hearing them on a daily basis. It came as a surprise, however, when a former...

We are now seeing many of the undesirable effects of the ACA. These are typically being described as “unintended.” However, this adjective is a bit of a misnomer, since these outcomes were entirely predictable, and in fact were predicted by many free-market...

One of the biggest shames in the world is when someone else has to take care of your business when you are perfectly capable of doing so yourself. It used to be the ultimate form of embarrassment. However, we in the United States have turned shame into an art form...

What is one to make of the fact that in the US the Ten-year Treasury note has gone from 1.40% in July 2012 to 2.76% today? That is an increase of just under 100% in a little over a year. The Government of Canada 10 year benchmark bond has not been immune from the...

One of the primary themes for this letter over the last few months has been the potential of a major market top forming. We now have what I can only call “numerous bells” ringing.

When the euro arrived on the scene, it took over around 32% of global foreign exchange reserves from the USD, with the tacit approval of the U.S. This dropped the USD’s percentage of global reserves from 95% to around 63%. Since then [2000] its percentage of...

The price of gold has suffered a large decline this year but things are looking up. Gold should stabilize and a firm price be established as we head into 2014, given the accommodative and what we believe are even extreme monetary policies seen across the major...