•  The US midterm election results-led USD weakness helps regain positive traction.   •  A fresh leg of a downfall in the US bond yields provides an additional boost.   •  Further gains are likely to remain capped amid the prevalent risk-on mood. Gold quickly reversed a knee-jerk slide to four-day lows and was now seen building on its...Read More

The US$ index is breaking higher. Its trading at 96.41 as we pen this. A daily close above 96.61 marks a new 52-week high and puts the dollar in position to eventually retest its bull market high at 104. If this strength continues then the relief rally in precious metals could be over. So why is that a bullish catalyst for Gold?First, we know that a real bull market is not going to begin until the...Read More

Only one digit has changed. But it may have profound consequences, sending the country closer to junk status. Meanwhile, Rome and Brussels clash over budget plan. Will that duel benefit or harm the yellow metal?Only One Notch Above Being JunkItalian drama continues. On Friday, Moody’s, one of the most significant rating agencies in the world, downgraded the Italian credit rating from Baa2 to...Read More

Published 20 Hours AgoUpdated5 Hours AgoReuters Leonhard Foeger | ReutersGold pared some gains on Wednesday but held firm as the dollar slid after the U.S. midterm elections delivered a split Congress and as investors looked ahead to a Federal Reserve meeting for signals on future interest rate hikes.Spot gold was up 0.01 percent at $1,226.53 per ounce having earlier hit $1,235.83, while U.S. gol...Read More

Oil prices are down a bit, but are still close to multi-year highs. That should leave the shale industry flush with cash. However, a long list of U.S. shale companies are still struggling to turn a profit.A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and the Sightline Institute detail the "alarming volumes of red ink" within the shale industry. "...Read More

Different ways the gold to silver ratio will affect precious metals.Inverse head and shoulders technical analysis of the gold to silver ratio.Future possibilities of the gold to silver ratios.The gold to silver ratio, or the number of ounces of silver required to purchase one ounce of gold, is within a window of approximately 6 to 9 months whereby it will either strongly confirm or strongly deny t...Read More

I have now been a contributor at Seeking Alpha for seven years, during which time I have written for approximately six years, as I took a one-year hiatus. And, during that time, I have had the honor of penning almost 400 articles.During the six years I have been actively writing on Seeking Alpha, 30,000 of you have trusted me enough to begin following my work, as I just hit the 30,000-follower mar...Read More

Chris Wibbelman has joined warehouse and logistics firm Istim Metals as its president, based in Detroit. He will report into Istim Metals chief executive officer Michael Whelan and will be responsible for global strategy and development. The move reunites Wibbelman with Michael and Bill Whelan, with the latter being the co-founder of warehousing and...Read More

The amount of energy required to mine bitcoin, or digital gold as some proponents like to call it, is considerably higher than that of physical gold, a research study has found. In a research paper for The Nature International Journal of Science, Max Krause, a research engineer at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, and Thabet Tolaymat of the Environmental Protection Agency found t...Read More

Bix says since the Dems won the house, taking down the bad guys will go even faster. Bix also has a critical update on JP Morgan's silver market rigging... by Bix Weir from Road to RootaSo much going on these days! In this morning's "Horn of Zeese" I cover the ramifications of the Election results, JP Morgan being exposed, my Clif High interview and much more! Read More

Long-term contracts for cobalt hydroxide supply in 2019 have been heavily weighted toward lower payables year on year, with discussions centered around increasing availability of intermediates. But the extent of the likely hydroxide surplus' impact on next year's metal market is less clear. Since last year's mating season, Glencore has announced the restart of production at Katanga in the Dem...Read More

Bill Murphy explains exactly why silver is now the cheapest asset on the planet. He also shares what is in store for silver in the future...by Bill Murphy from the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA)Remarks by Bill Murphy, ChairmanGold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.New Orleans Investment ConferenceFriday, November 2, 2018GATA's past and the future of gold and silverThanks for taking the time...Read More

Aluminium and nickel prices ended higher on the London Metal Exchange on Wednesday November 7 but a 10-year low in zinc inventories fail to boost the metal's price. The three-month aluminium price reached an intraday high of $1,993.50 per tonne and remains the top performer. More than 11,900 lots changed hands by the close, more than copper's 11,700 lots.The three-month nickel reached an intraday...Read More

Comex copper prices inched higher during morning trading in the US on Wednesday November 7 with a persistently softer dollar lending support amid a lack of other market catalysts. The copper price for December settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange inched up 0.75 cents to $2.74 per lb. "In the broader macroeconomic environment, downside price risks are likely...Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 50% from peak to trough during "the Great Recession," which lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. That's why investors buy defensive and alternative investments like gold, silver, art, and wine.These types of investments can hold, and even increase, their value no matter what else is happening in the world. It doesn't matter if unemployment is at...Read More

Base metals on the London Metal Exchange pushed higher during morning trading on Wednesday November 7, supported by a strong bounce in global equity markets, while the US dollar index lost ground after gains by the Democrats in the US midterm elections. Overnight, US midterm election results indicated a majority win for the Democrats in the House of Representatives, with US president Trump's admin...Read More

Gold futures ended Tuesday with a loss, at their lowest settlement in nearly a week, with traders focused on the outcome of Tuesday's midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. December gold GCZ8, -0.16% lost $6, or 0.5%, to settle at $1,226.30 an ounce on Comex. That was the lowest finish since Halloween. December silver SIZ8, -0.06% settled 14.7 cents, or 1%, lower at $14.50 an...Read More

Resource and expansion drilling at the Kutcho copper-zinc project in B.C. has extended mineralization down dip of its Main deposit, reports Kutcho Copper Corp. (TSXV: KC; US-OTC: KCCFF).Mineralization was extended 50 metres down dip from previous drilling and beyond the project's existing resource model in drill hole KC18-280, which returned a 5.4 metre intercept from 193 metres down hole grading...Read More

After a surge in prices last year, enthusiasm for cobalt has been fading, partly because of a surge in new supply. But sentiment could be changing after Glencore's unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo suspended cobalt sales after detecting low levels of radioactivity.Glencore Plc's sudden discovery that some of its cobalt is radioactive could not have come at a better time."It's nice to finall...Read More

Afghanistan selected preferred bidders for three gold and copper mines in 2012. It took the war-torn nation six years to finally sign the contracts.Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced the deals in the past few weeks. The government took time to finalize the agreements because it wanted to ensure they were transparent and will help eliminate corruption in awarding contracts, Ghani said in an in...Read More