Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. After breaking upside from a double bottom pattern, gold continues its solid price action. More good times lie directly ahead for precious metals investors, because Chinese New Year buy season begins very soon.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge. Note the solid position of my key 14,7,7 Stochastics indicator on this daily g...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Bart Chilton, the former member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission who pushed his agency to hold in a March 2010 public hearing that addressed manipulation of the monetary metals markets and called GATA leaders as witnesses, this year has been hosting Russia Today's daily "Boom/Bust" program, and last Thursday he interviewed fund manager and gold advoca...Read More
Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson. The opinions are his.Sometimes we must consider the unthinkable.Official US national debt is $21.6 trillion. Unfunded liabilities are five to ten times higher. Global debt is about $250 trillion. US national debt has doubled every eight to nine years for decades.National debt in 2018 - $21.6 trillionNational debt in 2026? - $40+ trillion...Read More
Powell is apparently between a rock and a hard place. Inflation surged, while the global economy slowed down. What will he do? And how will gold react? Inflation Jumps in October The consumer price index climbed 0.3 percent last month, after rising 0.1 percent in September, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the biggest rise since January, and it was mainly caused by an i...Read More
By Frank HolmesHere in San Antonio, the temperature hit a bone-chilling low of 27 degrees last Wednesday, breaking a 102-year-old record for mid-November. An out-of-state visitor, Cornerstone Macro's Head of Portfolio Insights Stephen Gregory, speculated that the Central Texas temperature, ordinarily mild this time of year, was down more than three standard deviations. I didn't make the calculat...Read More
Asset management firm Fasanara Capital compared stock valuations to bitcoin in that "it is totally disconnected from fundamentals," its chief executive told CNBCImpending tipping point for markets is due to a synchronicity of enterprise overvaluation, high indebtedness, low cash balances and a drawback in public flowsStill, a major selloff hasn't arrived, and many market-watchers continue to...Read More
Gold and silver are steady. There is good demand for physical gold in China and ASEAN nations. Prices of gold and silver are low in Asia due to a stronger currency against the US dollar. People are taking advantage of stronger currency to buy gold. There will be sudden one way moves in bullion anytime till Friday. Asian markets and Asian traders do not sleep on US holidays. Silver demand is supe...Read More
Jim Grant, editor and founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, discusses whether the Fed might slow its pace of interest rate hikes as market volatility continues to hit U.S. stocks.James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The Forgotten Depression...Read More
Jim Rogers, author of "Street Smarts" joins Sprott Media's Remy Blaire at the NASDAQ MarketSite to consider risks and opportunities on the investment horizon. Rogers offers his take on geopolitical and political risk around the globe and discusses the implications of potential scenarios.Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973, helping to steer the fund to a 4200% return be...Read More
Jordan provides an overview of the gold market, what he's seeing from a technical perspective, and also what he expects to drive the gold price in the coming months.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold Premium, a publication which emphasizes market timing and stock selection for the...Read More
A Black security guard stops a shooter at a night club, undoubtedly saving lives. Police arrive and shoot him dead. Do conservatives really want inner-city folks armed for their own safety, or does that simply paint another target on them? Is the 2nd Amendment color blind, or do parents now need to have "the talk" about CWB - Carrying While Black?Read More
Bob Farrell, longtime Merrill Lynch head of research, celebrated market technician and author of the widely cited 10 Rules for Investors, calls in to share his insights with Grant's.2:21 What's changed, and what's the same6:40 "Excesses in one direction lead to excesses in another." Does that apply to interest rates?11:20 Capital allocation strategies in a lower-return environment16:49 Buy and hol...Read More
Harry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, new venture investor, noted speaker, bestselling author, and the founder and senior editor at Dent Research, where he dedicates himself to identifying and studying demographic, technological, and geopolitical trends. He has a free daily newsletter at www.harrydent.com called "Survive and Prosper." Mr. Dent accurately predicted Japan's collapse in 1989, the d...Read More
Oil prices fell hard on Tuesday, ending four days of gains and renewing a sell-off that has seen crude futures plunge into a bear market.Continue...Read More
This gold company's deposit continues to grow laterally and at depth. Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (GSV:TSX.V; GSV:NYSE) announced in a news release results from six more holes drilled at the Railroad-Pinion project's Dark Star deposit in Nevada, taking the number of holes reported to 128 out of 136 total. Overall, these results showed grades above 2 grams per ton gold (2 g/t Au), higher than th...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1222.40-$0.80Silver$14.32-$0.10XAU65.17-0.81%HUI147.19-0.73%GDM538.38-0.32%JSE Gold1143.65+2.03USD96.81+0.60Euro113.68-0.82Yen88.76UNCHOil$53.43-$3.7710-Year3.056%+0.003T-Bond139.90625+0.125Dow24465.64-2.21%Nasdaq6908.82-1.70%S&P2641.89-1.82% The Metals: Gold chopped near unchanged in Asia before it climbed up to $1228.70 in London and then dropped to...Read More
After declining by more than 20 percent from the October peak, oil prices are showing some signs that they have now bottomed out.WTI hit a low point at $56 per barrel on Wednesday and Brent hit a low just below $65 per barrel. Both crude benchmarks regained some ground at the end of the week, despite the huge increase in U.S. crude oil inventories. In fact, rising prices in the face of the 10-mill...Read More
When dealing with the buying and selling ofcommodities, there are things which you need to know. It can be a complicatedbusiness, and this means that people who buy and sell products can fall intosome of the common pitfalls and experience issues. However, commodities can cover a wide range ofdifferent goods and services, so there are things that you're going to need toknow. To try and make sure th...Read More
Are the metals markets ending a price correction in unison and preparing for a massive price advance? This is the question we asked our research team to investigate and their findings may help skilled traders identify great opportunities in the future. This multi-part research article will share our most recent opinion about the metals markets as well as share some critical new data th...Read More
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses the recent rise in precious metals prices and what he sees ahead for the metals. As many of us have grown to appreciate over the years, forecasts tend to be nothing more than "educated guesses" and no matter what methods one uses, predicting directional and amplitudinal movements in economics or finance or asset prices is analogous to standing in...Read More