Gold Editorials & Commentary

The gold price hit a new record high this week, rising up to $2,942 in the spot market on February 10. Gold is now up 11% for the new year, after rising over 27% in 2024. After such a run, with gold just below the key $3,000 per ounce level, one might wonder if the...

Gold has surged to a new all-time high, breaking through $2,911.72 per ounce on a thick mix of domestic and foreign uncertainty, inflation concerns, and a shifting macroeconomic landscape. While bullion has historically served as a safe-haven asset, the latest rally...

For years, we’ve been warning of gold’s critical role as a buffer against increasingly obvious currency risk, banking risk, geopolitical risk and market risk.

China's futures traders have been the driving force behind gold’s extraordinary $400 surge in March and April 2024. However, these traders have been relatively quiet since then. My theory is that as gold heats up again, they will return, triggering a parabolic rally...

In January, European gold-backed ETFs charted the largest inflow of metal in more than two years, driving global ETF gold holdings higher to kick off 2025. Gold-backed funds globally reported net gold inflows of 34.5 tonnes last month, adding $3 billion to their...

On the heels of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talking about how the Trump administration is going to 'monetize the asset side of the US balance sheet' over the next 12 months, Tom Luongo joins me to discuss what they mean by that, and how all of the other...

While some gold bugs in the West are nervous that gold “might fall down”, in the East the world’s most savvy gold market investors are waiting in earnest for… a price sale of significance to buy.

The best-performing precious metal for the past week was gold, up 1.86%. Gold is showing strength this week, hitting a fresh record high as trade war worries bolster demand and the potential for tariffs reigniting inflation adds to its appeal.

Gold stocks have enjoyed a strong move while Gold has climbed to $2900/oz. The various ETFs and indices have gained 20% since the end of December. 

Gold has been massively outperforming the rest of the PM complex for quite some time, but that all began to change since the first of January this year. I know how frustrating it has been for precious metals stock investors to see gold going up while the precious...

Most economic commentators are of the view that when an economy is starting to experience difficult times the central bank should provide support to the economy by means of large increases in money supply. These increases are expected to strengthen the economic...

With Gold making another all-time high, Vince digs into the dynamics pushing it higher.

I’m going to start with the Dow Jones below, plotted in the Bear’s Eye View, or the BEV View.  What is the Bear’s Eye View?  The BEV View ignores prices.  Instead, it compresses price data into a range of only 100 percentage points spanning from; 0.0%: New All-Time...

The purpose of this Precious Metals sector update is to make two points clear in as short order as possible. The first is to explain why gold’s current powerful uptrend, that began less than a year ago, has much further to run.

During Donald Trump’s first term as president, gold rose from $1,209 to $1,839. Factors included trade wars, geopolitical tensions and the covid-19 pandemic. Trump’s protectionism and MAGA rhetoric incited BRICS like China, Russia and India to move away from the US...

Get the forecast for Microsoft right and you cannot go far wrong guessing where the stock market is headed next. This has been an article of faith at Rick’s Picks for years, and it has served us well.

One of the constant themes from last year's historic gold & silver rally was how the bullion banks had to continually raise their price targets to keep up.

As we move into the year 2025, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the configuration of the time cycles, for both the Gold market - as well as for U.S. stocks.

The price of Gold just completed its sixth consecutive up week, within which the past three thus far comprise the newest weekly parabolic Long trend.  Indeed through this latest week, Gold continued to attain All-Time Highs, teasing yesterday (Friday) up through...

Volatility in all markets has risen this week in the wake of on-again-off-again tariffs, poor earnings announcements in the tech sector, and wild action surrounding the precious metals markets.

Speculation remains robust which is positive for overall higher gold prices. A text book perfect bull market: consolidation then breakout. Next high target: $3100/$3150.

Since President Trump took office and introduced his policies, financial markets have faced a wave of uncertainty driven by a mix of complex and often conflicting forces.

Central bank gold demand topped 1,000 tonnes for the third straight year in 2024. To put that into perspective, central bank gold reserves increased by an average of just 473 tonnes annually between 2010 and 2021.

The level of disruption taking place at the federal level under Trump 2.0 is progressing much faster than anyone anticipated. Uncertainty is rising over tariffs, revelations of fraud within USAID, and the renewed "Maximum Pressure" campaign against Iran. There's a...

God took 7 days to make the world. Hitler transformed Germany from a democracy to a violent authoritarian state in only 100 days. Today’s US political climate too is changing as President Trump’s Maganomics remakes America and the world. It might take less than 100...

The gold miners’ stock prices have largely decoupled from their metal, which overwhelmingly drives their profits.  This fundamental disconnect has spawned a shocking valuation anomaly, with gold stocks far too low relative to gold.  But this aberration won’t last,...

We have a truly generational breakout for the CDNX junior stocks index in play this week. Here are today's videos and charts.

The NY Fed has recently published a study on bank failures in the U.S., examining the reasons why banks fail. For this study, the regulator constructed a large database with balance sheet information for most U.S. banks dating back to the Civil War.

Gold’s back in the mode of setting a new record high (almost) every day. Sure, it's taking a break today, down a few dollars after a torrid run over the past week.

Gold demand followed prices higher and set a new record in 2024. According to data compiled by the World Gold Council, total gold demand rose by 1 percent to 4,974 tonnes, driven by robust central bank buying and surging investor interest in the East.