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

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. The road to zero carbon will see an extraordinary build out of low carbon electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable power generating capacity. And as the world reduces its dependence on hydrocarbons, metals will be a linchpin of a zero carbon economy. Copper – in the form of wire, cable and foil – will bind...Read More

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We stand at a pivotal moment for the metals that will be essential to the energy transition. Metals-intensive low-carbon electrification remains a significant demand driver for transition metals, but geopolitical tensions and a challenging fiscal environment mean net-zero policies are being rolled back.For copper, EV and grid-related growth will boost long-term demand, but short-term supply-demand...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

The copper market is on the brink of transformation, driven by increasing demand for copper-intensive technologies and the urgent need for sustainable practices across the metals and mining industry.Our interactive copper infographic offers a comprehensive overview of the future of the copper market, detailing the key trends and projections that will shape the industry through 2034.Fill out the fo...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. It’s a little over a year since the US Inflation Reduction Act was passed into law. Solar was one of the main beneficiaries, thanks to an extension and expansion of the tax credits available to the industry. So why has the sector fallen out of favour with investors recently?August was a difficult month for the...Read More

BHP has made an all-share offer for Anglo American which valued the company at US$40.7 billion, conditional upon separate demergers by Anglo American by distribution of its entire shareholdings in Kumba and Anglo-American Platinum Limited to Anglo American shareholders. Anglo American’s board has unanimously rejected the proposal from BHP on the basis of valuation and uncertainty associated...Read More

By the early 5th century, the Roman Empire was in decline. Much of its territory had been lost, its monetary system was being debased, and the political system had devolved into chaos.In 452 AD a massive barbarian force led by Attila the Hun had pillaged Europe and was now inside the core of the empire.It didn't seem like Roman forces would be able to stop them.Emperor Valentinian III sent the Pop...Read More

LONDON, 17 February 2025 - Practical insight from BullionVault features today in a report published online by Newsweek, the globally-respected US current affairs magazine, about the sudden calls on social media to audit the US Treasury's gold reserve."You don't want an audit per se, you want an inspection and a tally count," says Newsweek, quoting BullionVault and explaining the difference between...Read More

The gold miners’ stock prices have largely decoupled from their metal, which overwhelmingly drives their profits.This fundamental disconnect has spawned a shocking valuation anomaly, with gold stocks far too low relative to gold.But this aberration won’t last, as markets abhor extreme deviations from precedent.Mean reversions and proportional overshoots soon follow, so gold stocks will...Read More

Calm before the storm, anyone?Turning Points AheadSo far, this week has been calm.However, as you read in my previous analysis, the turning points are near andwe still have four more sessions before the end of the year. Bitcoin justfailed to move above $100k again, and it is declining in the pre-markettrading, and S&P 500 futures are down as well. Time will tell if that wasthe beginning of a b...Read More

Gold truly enjoyed aremarkable 2024, relentlessly powering higher to many new records.  Gold achieved a rare monster-status upleg,which proved extraordinarily-unusual. Big gains stacked up despite extreme overboughtness, speculators’exceedingly-overextended gold-futures positioning, and American stock investorsnot yet chasing gold’s upside.  Severalsources of major globa...Read More

The Federal Reservesomehow surprised traders with a hawkish rate cut this week.  While that had been expected, apparently theFed’s projected rate-cut trajectory slowed even more than feared.  So market reactions were violent, includingthe US dollar blasting higher unleashing heavy gold-futures selling.  This is the latest in a long line ofFed-spawned tests of gold’s resi...Read More

Silver is stepping back into the spotlight, glinting with the promise of rising prices, surging demand, and shifting market dynamics. Building on insights from my previous article, “Silver Worth $150-$170? Facts to Make the Case for a Major Price Surge,” it’s clear the metal isn’t just playing second fiddle to gold, it’s tuning up for its own symphony. Current Market...Read More

How many hours of work would it take topurchase one ounce of gold? Now you’ll know. Interesting, right?The 1980 Peak StillReignsGold price truly peaked in the 1980,and while it moved to new nominal highs in 2011, this wasn’t the case in termsof how much one would have to work for it. In 2011, gold peaked slightly belowthe previous high. This year, we saw another move to those extreme v...Read More

Copper, silver, and gold quite often movetogether, especially during the big moves.Impending Massive SlideAnd this is currently very helpful.Given gold’s recent decline and a muchbigger decline in silver and mining stocks, one might wonder whether miners’and silver’s weakness are telling the truth about the precious metals market’soutlook, or if it’s gold that’s...Read More

In my yesterday’s Gold TradingAlert, I wrote that we had some clues regarding the end of thecorrective upswing.CorrectiveUpswing Nearing Its EndWe saw an invalidation in the GDXJ (ofthe tiny move to new short-term highs), and before that silver outperformed ona short-term basis, which was also a bearish indication. Today, we got somemore. Today, miners are back in theirunderperform...Read More

Gold’s monster uplegremains alive and well, after weathering a sharp post-election selloff.  One had certainly been due, as gold had justsurged to extremely-overbought levels. The resulting pullback was big and fast, doing much essentialrebalancing work.  Gold’s resiliencedefying some bearish headwinds is a bullish omen.  Despite its massive size, this monster upleg...Read More

Gold has sure had awild ride in the several weeks since the US elections!  It first plunged then surged after Trump’sdecisive victory, which surprised legions of traders.  Gold’s earlier big down days helped fuelfears another Trump administration is bearish for gold.  Its poor performance after Trump’s first wineight years ago buttresses that case. But that&rs...Read More

Today we finally see it – the USDX movedlower at last. USD’s breather here is nothing surprising, and it’s not bearisheither.It’s simply normal for a market tocorrect after launching a rally as strong as what we saw in October andNovember. In yesterday’sanalysis, I wrote the following about the above chart:Yes,while I have been writing about USD Index’s likely s...Read More