Gold Editorials & Commentary

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.

On January 17, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook and Update. It attracted little attention in a media environment flooded with stories about then-incoming President Trump, but it should have been one of the big...

Bart Brands joins us to discuss what's happening in precious metals!

Even despite fewer rate cuts than expected last year, gold was still the best performing asset. And it is again so far in 2025. And now cracks are emerging in the tech stock market, as well as in the precious metals infrastructure.

If you were hoping today would be the day that things would settle down in the gold and silver markets and return to normal, then don't watch this one.

The official platforms of American political parties are often short on substance and long on platitudes. Sometimes they are a mishmash of contradictions and promises that won’t be kept. Almost nobody reads them even in the year of their adoption, let alone a...

Gold Ratios are indicating our projected countercycle is slowly coming to be and that is to the benefit of the gold mining industry.

Because we tend to look at gold's performance in dollars, it's easy to forget that it is also priced in other currencies. We know that gold set records in dollar terms, but, how did it perform in other countries? In most currencies, it did even better.

The gold price just hit another new all-time high, as questions continue to emerge about what's really driving the market dysfunction. And in today's show, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics explains why there's more going on here than just the impact of...