Yesterday, the minutes ofthe FOMC December meeting were released. What do they sayabout the Fed’s stance and what do they mean for the gold market?The Fed IsDivided over Number of Hikes in 2018At the December meeting, the U.S. central bank increased the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to a range 1.25-1.50 percent. The move was widely expected by investors, but there was no u...Read More

The gold miners' stocks have huge upside potential in 2018, likely the best among stock-market sectors. They really lagged gold last year, so a major mean-reversion catch-up rally is coming. The gold miners are universally ignored and deeply undervalued relative to the metal which drives their profits. And gold itself is likely to power dramatically higher this year as euphoric record-high stock m...Read More

I keep reading articles claiming that inflation is nowhere to be found.If that is true, explain the following four charts.Copper has broken out of a 10-year downtrend.This chart suggests that Copper will be retesting its 2011 highs.Another inflationary industrial metal (steel) is posting a similar pattern.There is literally NOTHING bearish in that chart. The bear market in steel from 2010 onwards...Read More

Automobile production in Argentina edged down by 0.1% year on year in 2017.Car output came to 472,158 units last year, down from 472,776 units in 2016, according to figures released by national auto association Adefa on Thursday January 4. Sales to the domestic...Read More

CloseGain/LossOn WeekGold $1320.50-$1.40+1.33%Silver$17.20UNCH+1.53%XAU87.39-0.45%+2.49%HUI198.13-0.32%+3.03%GDM661.89-0.20%+1.73%JSE Gold1322.71+17.52+1.47%USD91.97+0.10-0.36%Euro120.42-0.26+0.32%Yen88.43-0.27-0.43%Oil$61.44-$0.57+1.69%10-Year2.477%+0.025+2.74%Bond151.9375-0.375-0.63%Dow25295.87+0.88%+2.33%Nasdaq7136.56+0.83%+3.38%S&P2743.15+0.70%+2.60% The Metals: Gold fell $5.70 to $131...Read More

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I keep reading articles claiming that inflation is nowhere to be found.If that is true, explain the following four charts.Copper has broken out of a 10-year downtrend.This chart suggests that Copper will be retesting its 2011 highs.Another inflationary industrial metal (steel) is posting a similar pattern.There is literally NOTHING bearish in that chart. The bear market in steel from 2010 onwards...Read More

Metalsinvestors may have missed it given the gloomy sentiment that plagued marketsfor much of 2017, but gold just finishedits best year since 2011.Perhapsin a year like the one just passed, 13% gains are simply not inspiring. U.S.stocks finished about 25% higher for the year, and crypto-currencies includingBitcoin left all other asset classes in the dust. Bitcoin gained roughly 1,400%. Diehard gol...Read More

Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort241,42878,16060,048155,104332,704456,580470,912Change from Prior Reporting Period 38,83811,5182,405-36527,76640,87841,689Traders17086744552246183 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 44,15129,819500,731 3,3832,57244,261 non reportable positionsChange from the previous reporti...Read More

2018-01-05 06:16 ET - News ReleaseAlso News Release (C-PWM) Power Metals CorpMr. Jared Lazerson of MGX reportsMGX MINERALS ANNOUNCES 17.0 METRES OF 1.81% LI2O AT CASE LAKE LITHIUM PROJECTMGX Minerals Inc.'s joint venture partner Power Metals Corp. has released drill results for the main dike at Case Lake, Cochrane, Ont.Highlights include:PWM-17-33: 2.19 per cent lithium oxide (Li2O) over 6.0 metre...Read More

The first trading days of 2018 are confirming signs of renewed investor interest in the precious metals sector after a long period of malaise.Gold and silver markets entered the year with some stealth momentum after quietly posting gains late in 2017. Gold finished the year above $1,300/oz. - its best yearly close since 2012.Over the past five years, the yellow metal has been basing out in a range...Read More

Car production in Brazil grew by 25.2% year on year in 2017, mainly led by record exports, according to figures released by national automobile association Anfavea on Friday January 5.Output totaled 2.7 million units, against 2.16 million vehicles in 2016.Brazilian car exports hit an annual record in 2017, at 762,033 units, up by 46.5% from 2016's level of 520,137...Read More

I keep reading articles claiming that inflation is nowhere to be found.If that is true, explain the following four charts.Copper has broken out of a 10-year downtrend.This chart suggests that Copper will be retesting its 2011 highs.Another inflationary industrial metal (steel) is posting a similar pattern.There is literally NOTHING bearish in that chart. The bear market in steel from 2010 onwards...Read More

By Dave Kranzler"This time it's different." That quote is from Sir John Templeton, a legendary investor who is considered the father of the modern mutual fund industry. For most of the month of December, I've been hearing ads from mortgage brokers who are promoting the idea of refinancing your house in order to take care of holiday bills. It reminded of the early 2000's when then Fed Chairman, A...Read More

This morning I noted that I did not appreciate seeing Jeremy Grantham's note dismissed even in the slightest way and without rancor by a Biiwii author. His intro was "Here we go with the "melt-up" meme again.", which I felt was not appropriate for our purposes, coming as it did from a writer who was cautionary all through 2017.Look, I was pretty sure I was going to be wrong about a Q4 market top l...Read More

Full Article: The Next Financial Crisis will be Worse than the LastBy: Nomi PrinsThis piece first appeared in Truthdig.We've made it through 2017. The first-season installment of presidential Tweetville is ending where it began, on the Palm Beach, Fla., golf course of Mar-a-Lago. Though we are no longer privy to all the footage behind the big white truck, we do know that, given the doubling of...Read More

Steel exports from the Middle East, CIS and India are expected to be the main price setters in Asia in 2018, as production cuts in China over most of the first quarter leave a gaping hole for them to continue to wrestle their way in.Steelmakers in India, Turkey and the Middle East will likely find it easier to raise their offers this year due to Chinese steel products losing their competitiveness,...Read More

The gold miners' stocks have huge upside potential in 2018, likely the best among stock-market sectors. They really lagged gold last year, so a major mean-reversion catch-up rally is coming. The gold miners are universally ignored and deeply undervalued relative to the metal which drives their profits. And gold itself is likely to power dramatically higher this year as euphoric record-high...Read More

By Gary TanashianThis morning I noted that I did not appreciate seeing Jeremy Grantham's note dismissed even in the slightest way and without rancor by a Biiwii author. His intro was "Here we go with the "melt-up" meme again.", which I felt was not appropriate for our purposes, coming as it did from a writer who was cautionary all through 2017.Look, I was pretty sure I was going to be wrong abou...Read More

As per my previous comments, gold (GLD) had hit my $1,360 target and I was contemplating the possibility of a break above $1,375. I believed at that time the best chance for this was in September/October, because after that we would enter the typical year-end period of gold weakness. As it turned out gold made it no higher than my $1,360 target and the year-end weakness began to take hold.I drag t...Read More