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

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 8 points at 8:35 AM EST.Index futures dropped 20 points following release of the January Employment Report at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus for January Non-farm Payrolls was 185,000 versus upwardly revised 333,000 in December. Actual was 355,000. Consensus for the January Unemployment Rate was unchanged from December at 3.7%....Read More

For several days, ever since the supposedly amazing GDP report from quarter four 2023, we've been blasted by the media about how great the economy is doing.It's exasperating because these claims do not fit with human experience. Last we heard from the Census Bureau, real income is down, and no one doubts it. Everyone, or at least most average people, has felt strong downgrades in living standards...Read More

“As goes January, so goes the year.”So runs an ancient Wall Street wheeze.January 2024 has ended. How did January 2024 go?The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened January at 38,033.It closed January at 38,355.That is, the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a 322-point January efflorescence.If the year goes as January goes... 2024 will end in clover.Yet will it? Perhaps. Perhaps not.Sor...Read More

"India may be an emerging economy, but the UK is a submerging economy!" shrieked my friend's father.Only a few years ago, my friend G brought his parents to the UK from his native Chennai. His objective was to ensure they had the best medical care money could buy. They could live in an exciting city like London, stay healthy, and live a long life close to family.A few weeks ago, G sent them back t...Read More

Perpetua Resources should receive a final Record of Decision for its Stibnite Gold Project from the U.S. Forest Service, according to a Roth MKM report. Perpetua Resources Corp. (PPTA:TSX; PPTA:NASDAQ) offers favorable gold project economics and increasing strategic support from state and federal stakeholders, according to a February 2 research note from Roth MKM analyst Mike Niehuser.The Stibnite...Read More

The combination of supports and acandlestick formation encouraged the bulls to fight.How high could stock go?Last week turned out to be a breakthroughfor the bulls. They managed to maintain important support, which attractedbuyers to the trading floor and resulted in further positive technical changes.How high can the bulls climb in the following days? You will find the answer tothis question in t...Read More

Silver is underpriced.In other words, silver is on sale.The current gold-to-silver ratio reveals this.This ratio tells you how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. Or to put it another way, the gold:silver ratio tells you the price of gold in silver. In general, the ratio tends to narrow as a precious metals bull market unfolds.In other words, silver outperforms gold.The opposi...Read More

Thanks to the last week’s declines,natural gas lost 32% and approached the support area. What are theimplications?Major Declinein Natural Gas PricesLast week, natural gas recorded itsbiggest decline in months. Could this have been predicted? What technicalfactors encouraged the bears to attack? What changes did this movement leavebehind on the chart? You will find answers to these questions...Read More

Which countries have the most gold?Central banks around the world have aggressively added gold to their reserves over the last several years.In 2022, central bank gold buying came in at 1,136 tons. It was the highest level of net purchases on record dating back to 1950, including since the suspension of dollar convertibility into gold in 1971. It was the 13th straight year of net central bank gold...Read More

Gold appears to have built solid support above $2,000 an ounce, but momentum to move higher in the short term has eased with uncertainty about the timing of Federal Reserve rate cuts.But short-term sentiment aside, there are plenty of reasons to remain bullish on the yellow metal.The Fed appeared to surrender to inflation at its December meeting. While the central bank held rates steady, it signal...Read More

With Bitcoin making the news last week when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally approved exchange traded funds, it’s a good time to review the topic again.Bitcoin still offers the potential to serve as a form of honest money and to end-run the central bankers and politicians who have abused the fiat system so badly. Yet some proponents still market the crypto asset as &ldqu...Read More

Gold price has been falling in today’spre-market trading, but… Given the recent (HUGE!) weekly reversal, does itreally surprise anyone?The Historical ContextWell, it might surprise those thateasily forget what happened in the previous weeks and focus on just theday-to-day price swings, but the truth is that the context provided by previousweeks, months, and years (and the performance...Read More

While the yellow metal hit a newrecord high, the silver price remains below its post-pandemic peak. Recession RisksLoom Over SilverWhile gold has dominated the headlines recently,silver and mining stocks have been material underperformers. And with thelatter better barometers of investors’ enthusiasm, their relative weaknessshould concern the permabulls.  Likewise, with w...Read More

While looser monetary policy may seembullish in the short term, the medium-term ramifications could upend the yellowmetal.Recession PessimismAheadThe ‘bad news is good news’ tradecontinues to dominate the financial markets, as weaker economic data isperceived as bullish for risk assets. In a nutshell: if the Fed pivots and endsQT, all of investors’ problems will disappear. Howeve...Read More

Silver just shot up, and given whatthe stock market is doing, it makes perfect sense.Namely, it’s most likely the final partof the rally in them both, and the same is the case for gold and mining stocks. Echoing Early 2022Starting with the stock market, it’sstill the case that the shares are following their early-2022 path.What I wrote about it previously, remainsup-to-date:Stockssoare...Read More

Cameco Corp. (CCO:TSX; CCJ:NYSE) — the godfather of the uranium trade — has moved to all-time highs, with the spot price hitting US$80.00/lb. From Trading Economics:"Uranium prices in the U.S. surged past US$80 per pound for the first time since January 2008 in November, soaring past pre-Fukushima disaster levels amid high demand and risks to supply. Fossil fuel volatility and decarbon...Read More

Hi,Gold has long been seen as the refuge for investors who are concerned about economic downturns and inflation. And it's tempting to attribute the metal's price movements to factors like supply and demand, the dollar and interest rates. But Elliott wave analysis shows the actual driver of gold prices is ... market psychology.Elliott wave analysis is the only method that objectifies market psychol...Read More

Gold stocks have mostlyground lower to sideways since spring, leaving this contrarian sector reallyout of favor again.  Yet both the metaland its miners’ stocks are early on in their strongest seasonal rallies of theyear.  From late October to late February,gold tends to enjoy excellent gains which the gold stocks leverage.  Given 2023’s great winter-rally setup, gold&rs...Read More

The Copper/Gold ratio has been indicating an oncoming counter-cyclical environment since breaking down in June, 2022Copper: Cyclical, inflation sensitive and a material of positive economic progress.Gold: Much more counter-cyclical, less inflation sensitive and a ‘liquidity haven’ material of long-term monetary value. I have not posted the monthly chart of the Copper/Gold ratio probabl...Read More

Caught between conflicting forces,will pivot optimism outweigh the economic malaise that should unfold in themonths ahead?A Short-Lived Rally?From war premiums to pivot hopes, silver seessunny skies, as the international and domestic fundamental outlooksincrease investors’ enthusiasm , as the international and domesticfundamental outlooks increase investors’ enthusiasm. However, t...Read More