NEWS &VIEWSForecasts, Commentary & Analysis on the Economy and Precious MetalsCelebrating our 47h year in the gold businessJUNE 2020By Michael Kosares, USAGOLD"To propose a return of inflation is to be inflammatory," writes Lightman Investment Management's Rob Burnett in an opinion piece for the Financial Times. "Investors are committed to a deflationary thesis and such is their fervor tha...Read More
YESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM The gold price was up a small handful of dollar by around 8:30 a.m. China Standard Time on their Friday morning...but then the selling pressure commenced. It continued quietly lower until it touched the $1,700 spot mark around 11:15 a.m. in London -- and then jumped a bit higher at that point. The unbelievable jobs report hit the tape at 8:30...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:A European friend well known to us who prefers not to fall under even more surveillance in his own country sends the observations below, for which your secretary/treasurer will take the responsibility of sharing with you.His main point -- that huge volatility will be injected into the gold market to facilitate government intervention elsewhere in the world financial...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold has strong support around $1653.50+ / 18 week moving average. Momentum rolled over. Read More
Double EffectSecondary ConsequencesEven if We Get a Vaccine...Bottom LineShould you wear a mask in public? This seemingly simple question immediately generates emotional, political, and social anxiety.It is just one of many provocative questions COVID-19 is forcing upon us. They should be simple, data-driven policy issues but many are not.Today's letter is in a different format from the usual T...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses the factors he sees weighing on precious metals in the near term. The precious metals sector is now set up for a correction that could be quite severe, which is evident on the charts, but also made more likely by the fundamentals where we see a return to "risk on" as a result of ongoing massive money injection by the Fed coupled with this being a seasonally...Read More
Rudi Fronk and Jim Anthony, cofounders of Seabridge Gold, discuss movements in the gold markets since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. In mid-January, 2020, COMEX open interest (OI) set a new record of nearly 800,000 contracts. Swap dealers as usual supplied the market by going short 205,679 contracts on January 14, also a record. They probably expected to reduce their risk by purchasing ph...Read More
Greg Johnson, chairman and CEO of Metallic Minerals, talks with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable, about the Metallic Minerals' drill results, as high as 7,459 g/t silver, at the Keno Silver Project in the Yukon. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for our conversation today is Greg Johnson, of the Metallic Group of Companies. here to discuss some exciting updates that are occurring simultaneously a...Read More
The gold miners’ stocksjust rolled over into a correction, raising concerns about the staying power oftheir massive post-panic upleg. Thesehigher prevailing gold prices have driven very-strong fundamentals at the goldminers. But they are entering the seasonally-weaksummer doldrums. And current sentimentand technicals play major roles in governing when uplegs remain healthy...Read More
As Great Lockdown was positive for the gold prices, the Great Unlock will be bad, right? We invite you to read our today’s article about the Great Unlock and find out whether it really must be negative for the gold prices. It’s all government’s fault, right? After all, the Great Lockdown was introduced by the federal and state governments introduced, wasn’t? Well, not quite...Read More
The NFTRH plan is and has been that the gold mining sector, due to the fundamentals implied by the handy graphic below, could eventually lead a world full of inflatables higher. The miners, leveraging gold’s out performance to most everything else during liquidity crises and even deflation, move first and draw in the inflationist bugs later. If the macro goes inflationary the miners will lik...Read More
The gold miners’ stocksjust rolled over into a correction, raising concerns about the staying power oftheir massive post-panic upleg. Thesehigher prevailing gold prices have driven very-strong fundamentals at the goldminers. But they are entering the seasonally-weaksummer doldrums. And current sentimentand technicals play major roles in governing when uplegs remain healthy...Read More
As Great Lockdown was positive for the gold prices, the Great Unlock will be bad, right? We invite you to read our today’s article about the Great Unlock and find out whether it really must be negative for the gold prices. It’s all government’s fault, right? After all, the Great Lockdown was introduced by the federal and state governments introduced, wasn’t? Well, not quite...Read More
The NFTRH plan is and has been that the gold mining sector, due to the fundamentals implied by the handy graphic below, could eventually lead a world full of inflatables higher. The miners, leveraging gold’s out performance to most everything else during liquidity crises and even deflation, move first and draw in the inflationist bugs later. If the macro goes inflationary the miners will lik...Read More
While the use of gold to protectagainst inflation is well known, it has other investment attributes that arepotentially even more valuable, and this is particularly true in times of crisis.In this analysis, we will examine therelative performance of gold and stocks (as represented by the S&P 500)between early February and late May, as the coronavirus pandemic and theresulting economic shutdown...Read More
The US Dollar Index is getting close to thebreakdown that will signal a massive Silver rally. A type of Silver rally thatwas last seen in the 70s, when Silver went from around $5 to $50.The market has virtually completed a fullcycle to set up the next Silver rally. See this long-term US Dollar Index chart: On the chart, I havemarked two fractals (1 to 3), with a fractal virtually representing...Read More
Gold and Silver moved lower early on June 2nd and3rd. Our research teambelieves this is a “Washout Low” price rotation following a technical patternthat will prompt a much higher rally in precious metals. This type of washout price rotation is fairlycommon before very big moves after Pennant/Flag formations or just afterreaching major price trigger levels.With Gold, a sidew...Read More
Could 2020 end, please? The pandemic is not over and the US suffers now from mass riots across the country. They could aggravate the coronavirus crisis and increase the demand for gold. On May 26, a black man, George Floyd, was killed by the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During his arrest – he allegedly used earlier a $20 counterfeit bill in a nearby store – the police officer put...Read More
From the March 23rd low in the PM complex we’ve enjoyed the first easy part of this rally that should have many years to run yet. Every bull market will consist of an impulse move followed by a consolidation period, rinse and repeat until the bull market ends with some type of reversal pattern. Normally in a secular bull market the turning points will generally be very large to buildup the e...Read More