Full Article: Buy This While It's Still CheapBy: Doug CaseyThe trending investment themes today, like cryptocurrencies and marijuana stocks, are too overbought to get in right now, said best-selling author Doug Casey."I'm up maybe 50 to one on [bitcoin]" Casey told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, "but I can't recommend something to people after it's go...Read More
By David HaggithIt took sixteen months to build the exceptionally steep Trump Rally, and just one week to eliminate a quarter of it. While I wouldn't call that jolting reversal a stock-market crash in the ordinary sense, the largest one-day point fall in the history of the market (by far) certainly marks a massive change in market conditions. From this point forward, it won't be the same market...Read More
By Avi GilburtOver a week ago, in my analysis to my members, I noted that, ideally, I was looking for the market to pullback and test the 2800SPX region. And, the market certainly dropped down to the 2800 region, but also broke the 2796SPX support upon which I was focused. That had me begin to focus on the 2700SPX region of support. And, today, we dropped and broke my next level of support at 27...Read More
U.S. crude production rose to its highest level ever this past reporting period and surpassed Saudi Arabia as second-ranked in the worldContinue...Read More
By Mike MaloneyIn this video, Mike Maloney gives an update on the recent market volatility.Watch Mike's "Things to Come in 2018" video for his full forecast of the year ahead. Read More
"I don't think this equity-market correction is big enough yet to Continue...Read More
The price of no asset can move up or down in a straight line, so why should mining stocks be any different? They have been declining relentlessly for almost 2 weeks, erasing more than 10% of their value. Sharp? Definitely. Unsustainable? Perhaps. When will the turnaround take place? It depends. It depends on the bullish signs and confirmations that we get. The correct question to be asking now...Read More
"At a time of heightened geopolitical risk and negative/low real rates, investors continued to focus on gold's wealth preservation roleContinue...Read More
By JP Koninghttps://www.bullionstar.com/This blog post is a guest post on BullionStar's Blog by the renowned blogger JP Koning who will be writing about monetary economics, central banking and gold. BullionStar does not endorse or oppose the opinions presented but encourage a healthy debate. Would it make sense to rebuild an international gold standard like the one we had in the late 1800s?...Read More
By Frank HolmesMonday's monster stock selloff is exhibit A for why I frequently recommend a 10 percent weighting in gold, with 5 percent in bullion and jewelry, the other 5 percent in high-quality gold stocks, mutual funds and ETFs.What began on Friday after the positive wage growth report extended into Monday, with all major averages dipping into negative territory for the year. The Dow Jones I...Read More
- Bitcoin falls from $20,000 to below $6,000 and bounces back to $8000- Top 50 crypto currencies lost over 50% of value in 24 hours- Over $60 billion wiped off entire crypto currency market in 24 hours- Markets concerned about increased regulation, manipulation & country-wide bans- 'Growing global unease about risks virtual currencies pose to investors and financial system' - SEC- Gold acting...Read More
Summary: The macro data from the past month continues to mostly point to positive growth. On balance, the evidence suggests the imminent onset of a recession is unlikely.The bond market agrees with the macro data. The yield curve has 'inverted' (10-year yields less than 2-year yields) ahead of every recession in the past 40 years (arrows). The lag between inversion and the start of the next recess...Read More
Feb 08, 2018 Guest(s): George Milling-Stanley State Street Global Advisors Gold has stayed muted when stocks have been tumbling, leaving experts scratching their heads but one expert said that correlation is not always so iron-clad. Investors have been their selling gold to cover margin calls on stocks, explained George Milling-Stanley, Head of Gold Strategy for State Street Global Advisors. "In...Read More
Feb 07, 2018 Guest(s): Will Rhind CEO, GraniteShares Total gold ETF holdings are at their highest level since May, 2013, and this could be due to a growing interest in commodities in general.Will Rhind, CEO of GraniteShares, told Kitco News that growing interest in gold is driven by two main factors: "weaker U.S. dollar, and more volatility and increasing fears of inflation in the market."Rhind...Read More
By Ira EpsteinIs gold headed to $1300? https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More
After what happened the stock and cryptocurrency markets the last few days, it feels like this week should be over.It's been a crazy ride!Talk about whipsaws!Continue...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff 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, BusinessWee...Read More
Feb 08, 2018 Guest(s): Phillip Streible Senior Market Strategist, RJO Futures Silver has been lagging behind gold in terms of growth in the last year, but one analyst said that now may be a good time to buy into silver. According to Phil Streible, senior market strategist at RJO Futures, a gold-silver ratio above 80 signals a strong buy for silver. The gold-silver ratio was last at 80.43 at the...Read More
*This interview was recorded on 2/7/18Jim Rickards is a lawyer, investment banker and economist with over thirty years' experience in capital markets. He is currently Chief Global Strategist at Meraglim. He advises the Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, and major hedge funds on global finance, and served as a facilitator of the first ever financial war games conducted by the P...Read More
Feb 13, 2018 Despite gains earlier this week, gold's price is depressed and should be trading higher. "[Gold] should be a lot higher," Todd 'Bubba' Horwitz of bubbatrading,com told Kitco News, "we should be making new highs with the pressure on equities and what's going on with the dollar." On equity markets, Horwitz said that investors should brace for volatility in the year ahead. "I think the m...Read More