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 political left that I came to know in college that one that rallied around free speech, reason over faith, fairness to all and peace seems to have evaporated completely.I barely recognized what's replaced it. Truth is, I cannot make heads or tails out of any of it. It seems like this chaotic assembly of seemingly random biases, all shoved together in a package like a grab bag of the bizarr...Read More

Fed hawkishness hasbeen the rankling thorn in gold’s side for 18 months now.  Since the Fed started this monster rate-hikecycle, every material gold and gold-stock selloff has been driven by the threatof more rate hikes.  Those boost the US dollar,triggering gold-futures selling.  But theFed’s hawkish spell over traders is waning. Gold and the miners weathered this...Read More

What a beautiful nothing! Nothingreally happened on the markets on Friday, but due to the context of theprevious days’ actions, it was profound.The thing is that it was a day whenmarkets took a breather and verified their previous moves.Some price moves are accidental ortriggered by geopolitical events. Sometimes, the markets pretty much “have to”move in a certain direction becau...Read More

The gold stock correction has been in play since GDX/HUI doubled topped in April-MayGold Stock Correction From a Seasonal ViewWe begin this article, which updates the gold stock correction, as a platform for providing information requested by two NFTRH subscribers. Below are the recent seasonal tendencies for GDX. I’ve elected to use only the years from 2018 to current in order to keep the g...Read More

As many of you that follow my public articles likely know, I am an avid reader. And, from time to time, I will choose to read other public articles on various markets.What truly burns my buns are articles that present market fallacies as the basis for their "analysis." And, sadly, this is all too commonly seen in the metals complex.So, just the other day, I read an article that called fo...Read More

Preciousmetals markets are ticking lower this week amid an ongoing summer lull ininvestor demand. Theupshot of soft market conditions for gold and silver is favorable buyingopportunities for bargain hunters. Not only are spot prices down, but so arepremiums on popular bullion products available through Money Metals. Overthe past three years, premiums on Silver Eagles have been especially elevated...Read More

Simply put, the road to reaching net zero begins and ends with copper. All infrastructure built to support renewable energy uses large amounts of copper, as the metal is a highly efficient conductor of electricity and heat.To keep the energy transition going, millions of feet of copper wiring will be required for strengthening the world’s power grids, and hundreds of thousands of tonnes more...Read More

The white metal is priced for aneconomic outcome that’s unlikely to materialize. AI OptimismWith liquidity-fueled assetsoutperforming in 2023, they’ve decided that QT and higher interest rates arenot going to spoil their party. Moreover, with silver and goldalso liquidity beneficiaries, they have adopted similar attitudes.However, while the gambit can persist in the short ter...Read More

Gold-stock technicalsare dramatically improving, turning increasingly bullish.  After slumping to major support zones in thesummer doldrums, the gold miners’ stocks have surged sharply in the past coupleweeks.  That strong advance has achieveda decisive breakout above the main gold-stock benchmark’s key 50-day movingaverage.  Similar breakouts in recent yearshave heralde...Read More

LONDON, 3 January 2024 - German personal finance site Finanz Nachrichten today features the latest Gold Investor Index data and comment from BullionVault.On an annual average basis, both the Gold and the Silver Investor Indices set new all-time lows in 2023 as profit-taking jumped and new demand fell hard.Click through to read the full story, in German, here:Deutsche Edelmetallinvestitionen erreic...Read More

LONDON, 2 January 2024 - BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index features today at UK personal investing site The Armchair Trader."The split in gold between private investment and central banks couldn't be starker," says BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash. "While central banks are buying gold like it has returned as the lynchpin of the global monetary system, private investors are sell...Read More

LONDON, 2 January 2024 - Comment and data from BullionVault feature today in a look at the investing year ahead from ThisIsMoney, the popular UK financial news-site from the Daily Mail group of newspapers.Reviewing the outlook from expert commentators for global shares and bonds, "Gold has set a run of new all-time records and the underlying direction clearly points higher," says the report, quoti...Read More

This webinar is open to Wood Mackenzie clients with the following subscription ONLY:Asia Pacific Power ServiceAsia Pacific Renewables ServicePlease register with your business email if your company has access the subscription above. Successful registration is based on email domain detection. Feel free to contact angel.hang@woodmac.com or luis.catalan@woodmac.com if you have any questions or e...Read More

This session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Copper Mine Cost Service, how to access and use them to:Analyse copper mines cost and look at the global cost curveBenchmark the mines using various production related metricsRegister nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Tuesday, 5 December 2023 - 4pm L...Read More

This session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Copper Mine Cost Service, how to access and use them to:Analyse copper mines cost and look at the global cost curveBenchmark the mines using various production related metricsRegister nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Friday, 1 December 2023 - 1pm Si...Read More

Metals Market Service - CopperThis session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Metals Market Service - Copper, how to access and use them to get information and analysis of global copper market, looking at the supply, demand and price.Register nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Monday, 4 December 20...Read More

Metals Market Service - CopperThis session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Metals Market Service - Copper, how to access and use them to get information and analysis of global copper market, looking at the supply, demand and price.Register nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Thursday, 30 November...Read More

Both nickel and copper possess properties that give them a central role in the drive for a greener future. While demand from existing use cases will continue to grow steadily, electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications will underpin a huge increase in long-term demand.At the recent Future Facing Mined Commodities Forum, we looked at the importance of these two metals for the energy tran...Read More

How much copper is needed to successfully meet the climate targets set out by the Paris Agreement? Wood Mackenzie quantifies the scenario in its latest research report, ‘Red metal, green demand: copper’s critical role in achieving net zero’, finding that the global energy transition presents an almost unattainable mine supply challenge, with significant investment and price incen...Read More

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