Major US stock markets were up again with DJIA up 0.7%, S&P 0.4, NASDAQ down 0.8% and Russell 2000 off 2.5% both off last month's record levels. Emerging markets were down again 0.6%. TSX down 1.2% and TSX-V down 2.2% due to week gold prices. Bitcoin the always volatile digital currency was off 7% last month. Gold was down another 0.7% and Silver was up 1.1% but broke $14 during the month. Pt up 3...Read More

The austerity measures of the EU are having a profound impact in Europe. In Paris of December 1st, 2018 (right on time with our volatility models for December) there Continue...Read More

After a week of insisting that a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina was going to happen, President Trump at the last minute sent out a Tweet explaining that due to a Russia/Ukraine dispute in the Sea of Azov he would no longer be willing to meet his Russian counterpart.According to Trump, the meeting had to be cancelled because the Russians seized three Ukrainian n...Read More

Dear Reader,Trading commodities is tough business: It's hard enough to spot a good setup, harder still to time pulling the trigger.Our friends at Elliott Wave International understand this reality -- so, they've put together a free resource for you: They call it, "4 Commodities Ripe for Opportunity -- NOW." Inside, you'll see setups in 4 popular commodity markets -- each with big potential.I think...Read More

 CloseGain/LossGold $1230.80+$9.10Silver$14.37+$0.20XAU65.84+2.14%HUI148.35+2.29%GDM540.63+1.67%JSE Gold1104.90+6.09USD97.01-0.18Euro133.48+0.28Yen88.07-0.14Oil$52.95+$2.0210-Year2.984%-0.018T-Bond141.3125+0.15625Dow25826.43+1.13%Nasdaq7441.51+1.51%S&P2790.37+1.09%  The Metals: Gold gained $13.10 to $1234.80 by late morning in New York before it drifted back lower into the...Read More

JPMorgan Chase and a number of otherbullion banks are in a whole lot of trouble. Evidence detailing years ofrigging markets and swindling clients is piling up. Deutsche Bank pleaded guilty two yearsago and forked over hundreds of thousands of documents. John Edmonds, a formerJPMorgan trader, entered his own guilty plea last month and turned state’sevidence.The carefully cultivated system ofc...Read More

Bottledwater is now the most consumed drink sold in a plastic bottle in the UnitedStates. The fact that North Americans don’t think twice about paying up to $5for a bottle of H2O has allowed Nestle Waters - the largest bottled watercompany in the world - to sell $7.4 billion worth in 2016, and that was just forwater, one of dozens of products from chocolate to baby food marketed by theSwiss...Read More

Novemberwas the worst month for oil bulls since July 2016. Over the past few weeks, theprice of black gold has dived deeply, sometimes dropping even under the barrierof $50. What impact did this price action have on the long-, medium- andshort-term picture of the commodity?Let's starttoday’s alert with the long-term chart (chartscourtesy of http://stockcharts.com). Looking atthe above chat,...Read More

 CloseGain/LossGold $1230.80+$9.10Silver$14.37+$0.20XAU65.84+2.14%HUI148.35+2.29%GDM540.63+1.67%JSE Gold1104.90+6.09USD97.01-0.18Euro133.48+0.28Yen88.07-0.14Oil$52.95+$2.0210-Year2.984%-0.018T-Bond141.3125+0.15625Dow25826.43+1.13%Nasdaq7441.51+1.51%S&P2790.37+1.09%  The Metals: Gold gained $13.10 to $1234.80 by late morning in New York before it drifted back lower into the...Read More

 CloseGain/LossGold $1230.80+$9.10Silver$14.37+$0.20XAU65.84+2.14%HUI148.35+2.29%GDM540.63+1.67%JSE Gold1104.90+6.09USD97.01-0.18Euro133.48+0.28Yen88.07-0.14Oil$52.95+$2.0210-Year2.984%-0.018T-Bond141.3125+0.15625Dow25826.43+1.13%Nasdaq7441.51+1.51%S&P2790.37+1.09%  The Metals: Gold gained $13.10 to $1234.80 by late morning in New York before it drifted back lower into the...Read More

A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary GeologistContact@MercenaryGeologist.comDecember 3, 2018 Along with many in the natural resource business, I read Ian Telfer's dire prediction for world gold production in a May 16, 2018 interview with Canada's Financial Post with interest. Here's an excerpt: "Are we not looking for it? Are we bad at finding it? Or have we found it all? My answe...Read More

By Clint SiegnerJPMorgan Chase and a number of other bullion banks are in a whole lot of trouble. Evidence detailing years of rigging markets and swindling clients is piling up.Deutsche Bank pleaded guilty two years ago and forked over hundreds of thousands of documents. John Edmonds, a former JPMorgan trader, entered his own guilty plea last month and turned state's evidence.The carefully culti...Read More

By Dave KranzlerThe market is already fading quickly from the turbo-boost it was given by the announcement that China and Trump reached a "truce" on Trump's Trade War - whatever "truce" means. Last week the stock market opened red or deeply red on several days, only to be saved by a combination of the repetitious good cop/bad cop routine between Trump and Kudlow with regard to the potential...Read More

Featured GuestsPeter Schiff & Bob HoyeShow HighlightsPeter Schiff, head of SchiffGold, Euro Pacific Capital, and Euro Pacific Gold Fund (EPGFX) joins the show from his vacation office in tropical Crypto-Rico, where air conditioning service, not heating is the chief concern today. Key takeaway - gold is building a base that will likely culminate in new record prices, from $2,000 - $5,000 and unde...Read More

TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V): GRGFrankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE): G6A OTCQB Venture Market (OTCQB): GARWFVANCOUVER , Dec. 3, 2018 /CNW/ - Golden Arrow Resources Corporation (TSX-V: GRG, FSE: GAC, OTCQB: GARWF), "Golden Arrow" or the "Company" is pleased to announce that the Company's joint venture partner in Puna Operations Inc., ("Puna") has declared commercial production at the Chinchillas si...Read More

By Frank HolmesStrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 5.38 percent as hedge funds boosted their net long positon to a nine-month high. Gold traders and analysts are bullish for the third week in a row, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. Mark O'Byrne, research director at GoldCore, said "the set up for gold is getting better and better and it looks set for a strong...Read More

TECHNICAL SCOOPCharts and commentary by David ChapmanPhone: 416-523-5454 Email: david@davidchapman.comdchapman@enrichedinvesting.comTwitter: @Davcha12December 3, 2018"Buy when you are scared to death; sell when you are tickled to death." market maxim (Cabot Market Letter, April 12, 2001) "There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think." Robert Prechter, Jr. (Elliott Wave theorist...Read More

By: Larry LaBorde To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Last month Bill Bonner wrote an interesting article about trading the Dow/gold ratio. He recommended selling the Dow and buying gold when the ratio was above 15 (the Dow is too high compared to gold) and selling gold and buying the Dow when the ration was below 5 (the Dow...Read More

By John MauldinThis Is NutsFrom Pyramid to RectangleRedefining RetirementDemographic Problems and OpportunitiesPuerto Rico, Cleveland, and Boca RatonIn an increasingly divided world, we all share one great desire: self-preservation. Not just humans, either. The survival instinct exists in almost every living thing. Humans simply have greater ability to do something about it.In fact, we have been...Read More

By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.comThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) previously deemed Deutsche Bank as the most systemically dangerous bank in the world.Professor of Economics and Law, William Black, knows why and contends:"Deutsche Bank (DB) poses as what is called a 'National Champion' bank and the largest bank by far in Germany, but it's actually the largest criminal enterprise in Ge...Read More