By David Brady, CFAIt is difficult to provide an update on something that hasn't moved in months. Other than a spike higher on October 11, Gold has basically done nothing in the past three months. The current range remains 1214-1251. Many investors in the precious metals space have become extremely bullish recently, given the rally from 1167. But there is little reason for it, in my opinion. Not...Read More
First developing countries blew up. Then real estate topped and started to roll over. Now oil has entered what CNBC just called its "longest losing streak in three decades." The oil rout just became a bear market for U.S. crudeIn a volatile turnabout, the U.S. crude benchmark fell into a bear market Thursday just five weeks after hitting a nearly four-year high.West Texas Intermediate crude for...Read More
The widely-held mega-cap stocks that dominate the US markets are just wrapping up another blockbuster earnings season. Sales and profits soared largely due to Republicans' massive corporate tax cuts. Still these lofty stock markets are vulnerable to serious downside, as October's brutal plunge proved. Such extreme revenue and earnings growth cannot persist, and valuations remain in dangero...Read More
After falling in August and September, intervention in the gold market by the Bank for International Settlements via gold swaps increased substantially in October, according to the bank's monthly statement of account, published this week: https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc181031.pdf The bank's August and September statements are here: https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc180...Read More
TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V): GRGFrankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE): G6A OTCQB Venture Market (OTCQB): GARWFVANCOUVER, Nov. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Golden Arrow Resources Corporation (TSX-V: GRG, FSE: G6A, OTCQB: GARWF), "Golden Arrow" or the "Company" is pleased to announce that the Company's joint venture partner in Puna Operations Inc., ("Puna") has reported...Read More
By Daniel R. Amerman, CFAHousing prices and the associated REIT returns have worked very differently in the United States since the recession of 2001. The increasing financialization of the real estate markets by Wall Street, and the aggressive and unconventional interventions by the Federal Reserve over that time, have combined in multiplicative fashion to produce new and volatile sources of ho...Read More
Key Gold and Precious Metals News, Commentary and Charts This WeekWith Brexit around the corner and stock markets plunging in October - is now the time to invest in gold is asked by This Is Money this week. They kindly mention GoldCore as a leading "online bullion dealer" of physical gold (bars and coins) and informed their readers how "buyers can ask to have it stored, for a charge, or delive...Read More
Full Article: SWOT Analysis: Election SpottingBy: Frank HolmesStrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 4.29 percent as hedge funds cut their bearish platinum view to the lowest in seven months. Gold ended October with a gain for the first month in seven. The Bloomberg Intelligence (BI) Global Senior Gold Valuation Peer Group Index is headed for its biggest monthly increase si...Read More
When you receive a paycheck, who do you pay first?If you're like most Americans, you're probably paying everyone else first-your rent/mortgage, groceries, utilities, car payment, insurance, etc. Once you're done paying all those bills, you stick whatever you have left (if anything) into savings-that's the classic "paying yourself last" scenario.And like most people, you then patiently await your n...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger muses on the forces at play on the markets and precious metals, and also mentions uranium. Back in the 1960s, from time to time, many of my elementary school classmates would have great difficulty paying attention to the teacher. It would usually take the form of doodling with a pencil, drawing prepubescent renditions of monsters or hot rods or animals. The polite...Read More
Read the latest articles at Peak Prosperity: https://www.peakprosperity.com/Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stoc...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized ecoanomist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWeek, Tim...Read More
Democrats plant to pass the most extreme gun-control legislation in decades when they take over the House majority next yearContinue...Read More
With real estate starting to crack in Australia, Harry Dent returns for his latest tour earlier than expected. Declining numbers across the country is a very big deal for several reasons which Harry details in his latest video...*If the volume isn't working, click the volume icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the video playerHarry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, new venture investor...Read More
At Alhambra Investments we seek to create informed portfolio strategies that, like the Alhambra, stand the arduous test of time. We are best known for our in-depth research and Continue...Read More
Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed first time guest, forensic accountant and transparency reporter at MarketWatch.com, a Dow Jones publication, Francine McKenna http://retheauditors.com/. Francine's Market Watch articles can be found here https://www.marketwatch.com/topics/jo... and they also routinely appear in the Wall Street Journal.Francine has over 25 years experience working in...Read More
Nov 12, 2018 Guest(s): Rob McEwen The large-cap miners have dissuaded investors from entering the mining sector space with their lackluster performance and shrinking production profiles, said Rob McEwen, chairman of McEwen Mining. "The majors haven't done any favors to the sector. They've gone out and they've sold off production so their growth curves have a negative slope to them. They got rid...Read More
First developing countries blew up. Then real estate topped and started to roll over. Now oil has entered what CNBC just called its "longest losing streak in three decades.” The oil rout just became a bear market for U.S. crudeIn a volatile turnabout, the U.S. crude benchmark fell into a bear market Thursday just five weeks after hitting a nearly four-year high.West Texas Intermediate crude...Read More
The leftists have figured out a way to tax wealthy even more by taxing their ability to flee Illinois.Continue...Read More
In today's update we look at yet another 'Punch and Judy' American election farce which once again ignored the 'Elephant in the room' - the inevitable U.S. $121.7 trillion debt crisis and the coming global $250 trillion debt crisis.We briefly look at the outcome of the elections, how markets have reacted in the short term and more importantly the long term outlook for markets and the dollarWe ex...Read More