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

The Canadian company is making progress in this regard such that Q4/23 numbers should improve, noted a Red Cloud Securities report.Silver X Mining Corp. (AGX:TSX.V) missed Q3/23 estimates for production after halting it temporarily but since the restart, has been ramping operations back up aggressively, reported Red Cloud Securities analyst Timothy Lee in a November 15 research note."We view the r...Read More

Global Analyst Adrian Day notes that recent earnings reports from gold and precious metals companies reflected lower production and higher costs amid macroeconomic uncertainty. However, strong balance sheets position leading royalty companies to acquire assets.Franco-Nevada Corp. (FNV:TSX; FNV:NYSE) faced declining sales, though higher prices led to higher revenues. Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd. (OR:...Read More

The World SilverSurvey is an annual report published by The Silver Institute since 1990. Itprovides market participants with supply and demand statistics for criticalsectors of the silver market, along with price and trade data.The 2022 World SilverSurvey reported a global silver deficit of 154 million ounces, the mostsignificant since 2015. The 2023 World Silver Survey reported a global silverdef...Read More

The markets just assumed a dovish U-turnin interest rates, thinking that the inflation problem is handled. The below chart features the inflation that’s expected inone year. Yes, you see it correctly.The market expects the inflation to moveto about 1.31% in one year.A bit over 1% in one year… Really?!Here’s the recent CPI (YoY) reading: Long RoadAhead for Inflation Reductio...Read More

As anxiety grips the white metal, is aretest of the 2023 lows or highs more likely? With the Fed’s hawkish crusade helping tosuppress gold, silver, and mining stocks, the permabulls have gonefrom loud to quiet. Moreover, with resilient demand supporting inflation andkeeping the pressure on the Fed, we warned on Mar. 31, 2022, that consumerspending would cause problems for the centr...Read More

Yesterday’s FOMC and the following press conference were groundbreaking. Rates stayed, but Fedsaid about raising them twice this year = no U-turn!This is a game-changer because so manyinvestors were still believing in a quick, dovish U-turn. And those dreams werejust dispelled. The fact that rates were not hiked yesterday doesn’t matter asmuch as the fact that their expected future pat...Read More

Approximately 12 years ago, I wrote my first public market prognostication and it was focused on gold.At the time, gold was enjoying a parabolic rally, and the discussion amongst the general public was how far past the $2,000 mark gold was going to strike during that rally. So, on Aug. 11, 2011, I concluded my first gold articleas follows:"Again, since we are most probably in the final stages...Read More

What if bitcoin just topped? What doesit change for the price of gold going forward, if anything?Many years ago, people wanted to buy goldbut didn’t really want to store it in their homes, pay for safekeeping andinsurance during transport, and so on. The demand gap was filled by all sortsof e-gold, e-bullion, and overall pooled accounts. This idea might seem odd tothose, who are new to the p...Read More

While callingthe top is a process that plays out over time, silver’smomentum has fizzled, and the next major move should be to the downside. Toexplain, we wrote on Apr. 21: Theblue line above shows how silver often peaks in mid-to-late April, withsubstantial weakness following until the end of June. In a nutshell: May and June are when the white metal hassuffered its worst his...Read More

While the 2011 analog paints anoptimistic portrait for gold, silver and mining stocks, a re-enactment of thelast debacle is unlikely to unfold this time around. Back then, gold soaredamid the debtceiling chaos, while the USD Index was a major casualty. And whileit’s possible lawmakers could ignite a similar event, most learn from theirpast mistakes.For example, while bloated stockvaluat...Read More

April had started with gold at $1,990,then gold moved as high as $2,063.40, and yesterday, it closed at $1,999. Atthe moment of writing these words, gold futures (because that’s what you see onthe above chart) are trading at $1,993. Monthly Reversal CandlestickThis means that gold formed a hugemonthly reversal candlestick. Since the opening and closing (assuming that thecurrent price will be...Read More

As the gold market marches toward new records, it is proving the naysayers wrong and vindicating longtime bulls. Gold posted a record high close on a quarterly basis at the end of March. Now the monetary metal has its sights set on setting a new all-time high here in the coming days.That’ll have to wait until next week though as global markets are closed here on this Good Friday. Gold will f...Read More

If the decades old bubble in paper assets is ending, that's why gold!Various promotions along the way of the Continuum have distilled the case for gold down to handy buzz phrases like “got Gold?” as if it were a carton of milk. Other promotions have presented gold as the go-to asset through all types of macro phases, from “fiat is gonna blow up any day now” to “inflat...Read More

SVB failed in March. Oil was destined to fall as early as February - here's why; The failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank have prompted a lot of discussion about the potential of a domino effect. People are wondering "what's next?"The financial press is linking just about every downward price move in just about every financial market to the woes in the banking secto...Read More

By Jon Forrest Little, Unless you live under a rock (and some days I wish I did), all eyes are on which bank will fail next.We knew this was coming. Decades of Zero Interest Rate Policy, QE, and risky fractional reserve practices have consequences.Superpowers like Russia and China are eyeing America’s financial vulnerabilities while the Fed, Congress, Treasury, and Wall Street play musical c...Read More

Justin Spittler : 615% gains the last timethis was triggered… “This is incredibly bullish”… “Someone big” is loading up…I’m no gold bug, but…Gold is closing in on its all-time highs.OnMonday, gold broke above $2,000 per ounce—the highest it’s been in over a year: Itsall-time high of $2,074 is now within reach.Andif history repea...Read More

Gold prices surged to test the $2,000/oz level early this week before retreating ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision.Fed policymakers opted for another 25 basis-point hike -- disappointing investors who had hoped for a pause in the wake of high-profile bank runs.Stocks sold off in post-Fed trading on Wednesday afternoon. Precious metals markets, however, managed to record gains f...Read More

Namely, while the GDXJ (upper part of thechart) moved only a little above its recent high, silver has pretty muchdoubled its previous short-term upswing. WhatAre the Suggestions? To be clear, neither of those moveshigher was substantial. However, it is the relative performance that mattersfrom an analytical point of view.As I have emphasized many times before, miners tend to underperform gold clos...Read More

Enough is enough. No market can decline without correcting every nowand then. And both gold and the USDX point to an upcoming reversal.Let’s start with gold.IsIt Over? Looking at its price from ashort-term point of view, we see that it paused for a brief moment at its 38.2%Fibonacci retracement level. And then – after the pause – golddeclined.Not only that – it declined bel...Read More

The two global crude benchmarks are stillenjoying momentum that began on Thursday – despite larger-than-expected UScrude inventories – following reports from the financial press that Russia willcut oil exports from its western ports by 25% per month in March compared toFebruary in response to Western sanctions.These claims, however, have not yet beenconfirmed by the Russian Ministry of...Read More