Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

Peter Krauth, editor of Gold Resource Investor, delves into the movement among some companies to hold Bitcoin and gold rather than cash.Imagine your favorite company getting sued for holding too much cash.I know, that's a big statement. But hear me out.Corporations, pension funds and insurance companies—anyone responsible to stakeholders—could one day face class action lawsuits if they...Read More

Palladium was manipulated for years. It had the largest short position relative to itssize, while physical demand rose inversely to decreasing supply.In 2018, demand became so large that itoverwhelmed the shorts.Physical palladium could not meet the market'sneeds and prices exploded. Shorts eventually decreased their positions untilthey got to a more sustainable level.For many years, the platinum/...Read More

Gold is dodging bullets, as it comesincreasingly under fire from rising U.S. interest rates and a USD that ispoised to surge.Catching unsuspecting traders in yetanother bulltrap , gold’s early-week strength quickly faded. And with investorsunwilling to vouch for the yellow metal for more than a few days, therush-to-exit mentality highlights a short-term vexation that’s unlikely tosubsi...Read More

Commodity prices have remained in a prolonged downward trend since the price peak in mid-2008. Driven lower by a firming U.S. dollar (DXY) beginning in 2008-2011 and continuing until the present, the S&P GSCI Commodity Index has declined by about 80 percent over the last 13 years.The recent rally in the S&P GSCI Commodity Index (GTX) in 2020 appears to be a reaction to the DXY price weakne...Read More

Theeffort to squeezesilver shorts may appear to have fizzled, but naked short sellersare as vulnerable as ever.Silverfutures prices are entering backwardation. That is a bad omen for anyonebetting on lower silver prices.Backwardationhappens very rarely, but this condition has been a reliable indicator thathigher prices are on the way each time it has occurred over the past decade.Inthe futures mar...Read More

2020 was a stellar year for the precious metals, indeed one for the books. As the pandemic hit the global economies early in the year and governments around the world began to shut everything down and the printing machines began to print ginormous amounts of money out of thin air to save their economies from total collapse, gold jumped 24%, while silver jumped nearly 50%, over double that of gold....Read More

The recent rally in Marijuana and Alternative Pharma/Agriculture stocks has been impressive, to say the least.  One thing we have to remember about this sector is that it rallied to highs in 2018 and 2019, then fell out of favor for many months.  The anticipation of this new sector emerging within the US, and across many areas of the globe, prompted quite a bit of excitement after 2016 w...Read More

Corrections in Gold and Gold Stocks are completely normal in an inflationary macro market phaseSee also The Normalcy of Gold posted on February 16.Every week I notice the agony ratcheting up incrementally. While the rest of the casino takes off to the speculative heavens, gold sits on its heavy ass and the gold miners go nowhere in a downward-biased perma-correction. Or so it seems. It’s all...Read More

When a trend is strong, related markets tend to move in unison.However, when a trend is near exhaustion -- either bullish or bearish, "non-confirmations" often occur. This is when one market continues to rise (or fall), but a related market does not.As a case in point, the Feb. 3 U.S. Short Term Update, an Elliott Wave International thrice weekly publication which provides near-term forecasts for...Read More

Attention in the metals markets shifted this week fromsilver to copper and platinum. While big moves in silver and gold prices maybe coming down the road, the monetary metals are currently taking a back seatto electrical and automotive metals.A massive push by the Biden administration to replacegasoline vehicles with electric vehicles is helping to crank up demand forcopper. Anything involving ele...Read More

Tesla has supported the price of Bitcoin, but it can affect gold as well.The bull market in cryptocurrencies continues. As you can see in the chart below, the price of Bitcoin has recently increased to almost $47,000 (as of February 10). The parabolic rise seems to be disturbing, as such quick rallies often end abruptly. However, it’s worth noting that the price of Bitcoin has partially jump...Read More

The average energy investor is by now well aware of the sector's monumental shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Coal-powered power plants have been shuttering at an alarming clip as the price of electricity from natural gas and renewables undercuts them while wind and solar generation continue to gain the ascendancy.But nowhere has this change been as dramatic as the transport industry, w...Read More

The world is awash in debt, an immense, unfathomable ocean of financial obligations. The stack of IOUs is so enormous, the balances so large, they will never be fully settled without dreadful consequences to the global economy. This tsunami of debt was unleashed in 1971, when Nixon ended the backing of the US dollar with gold.Since 1971, US debt and gold price have increased greatly. Traditionally...Read More

If you were not paying attention, Platinum began to rally much higher over the past 3+ days – initiating a new breakout rally and pushing well above the $1250 level.  What you may not have noticed with this breakout move is that commodities are hot – and inflation is starting to heat up.  What does that mean for investors/traders?Daily Platinum Chart Shows Clear Breakout Tren...Read More

Peter Krauth, editor of Gold Resource Investor, explains why corporate America is beginning to see gold as a necessary reserve asset. Yellen is Treasury Secretary. Powell is Fed Chair. And Sanders is head of the Senate Budget Committee. Most of the time, it's impossible to tell the future. But there are exceptions. Right now, there's no room left to read between the lines. The goals, and outcome,...Read More

Gold and silver aren’t the only viableplays in the metals space – and they aren’t currently the leaders.On Wednesday, both copperand platinum rallied up to multi-year highs. Rhodium, meanwhile, currentlycommands $21,000 per ounce – yes, per ounce – making it one of the mostvaluable elements on the planet.What’s driving these“energy” metals? Besides o...Read More

After a frenzy of Reddit inducedactivity that captivated everyone, silver painfully gave back what it gained.What’s next for the white metal?As the precious metals’ version of moralhazard, silver tipped over the flowerpot, and left gold to clean up the mess.After silver’s short squeeze mania ended in tears on Feb. 2, the white metalgave back 97% of its squeeze -induced gains. Con...Read More

Stocks keep cooling off at their highs, and calling for acorrection still seems to be many a fool‘s errand. Does it mean all is fine inthe S&P 500 land? Largely, it still is. Such were my yesterday‘s words: (…) It‘s still strong the stock market bull, and standingin its way isn‘t really advisable. With the S&P 500 at new highs, and theanticipated slowdown in...Read More

The Roraima state bill legalizing garimpo prospecting, if signed into law by the governor, could put the Yanomami reserve and other Indigenous territories at greater risk of invasion and COVID-19 infection.Read full newsRead More

Warren Buffett’s recent foray into gold via his purchase of Canadian gold miner Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) was an interesting one, to say the least.Buffett has steered away from gold during his investing career. Only recently has he ventured into Barrick, adding a position last year. However, since this addition last summer, shares are down approximately 25%. Buffett has als...Read More