The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
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It was a rough week for investors in stocksand stocks of all kinds. The S&P 500 lost 5%. Emerging Markets also lost5%. Gold Stocks, which had weakened before the broader equity market have beenhit hard. They (GDX, GDXJ) also lost 5% last week. The HUI Gold Bugs Index(which excludes royalty companies unlike GDX) lost 7%. After a strong start tothe year, gold stocks have essentially given back a...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1321.30+$6.50Silver$16.52+$0.20XAU81.08+3.49%HUI180.45+3.38%GDM613.99+2.89%JSE Gold1118.34-13.55USD90.14-0.29Euro122.92+0.54Yen92.02-0.07Oil$59.29+$0.0910-Year2.857%+0.002T-Bond144.50+0.34375Dow24601.27+1.70%Nasdaq6981.96+1.56%S&P2656.00+1.39% The Metals: Gold gained $11.10 to $1325.90 in early Asian trade before it fell back to $1317.50 in London, but it then climbed t...Read More
By Keith WeinerHow Not to Predict Interest RatesWe continue our hiatus from capital destruction to look further at interest rates. Last week, our Report was almost prescient. We said:The first thing we must say about this is that people should pick one: (A) rising stock market or (B) rising interest rates. They both cannot be true (though we could have falling rates and falling stocks).We write...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
By Ira EpsteinMetals move higher, but will it last?https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More
By BullionStarhttps://www.bullionstar.com/Chinese New Year is probably the most important date in the Chinese calendar, with the event being celebrated throughout China and in Chinese communities around the world. Gold plays an essential part of the Chinese New Year celebrations.Also known as Lunar New Year, the date on which Chinese New Year falls each year is variable since it follows the Luni...Read More
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / February 12, 2018 / MGX Minerals Inc. ("MGX" or the "Company") (CSE: XMG / FKT: 1MG / OTCQB: MGXMF) is pleased to report the adsorbtion rate for the Company's lithium extraction nanofiltration process (the "System") has been increased from 20mg/g, milligram of lithium per gram of adsorbtion reagent, to an optimized 40mg/g Li/reagent. This reflects a doubling of ads...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
The purpose of this update is to try to make sure that you remain aware that the dollar has broken down from a giant top area, and is probably headed much lower, a prospect which is not diminished by the modest countertrend rally of the past week or so. We can see this top area and the breakdown last month to advantage on the latest 4-year chart for the dollar index below. With respect to the do...Read More
In just a few short months we've gone from a stock market that was almost completely devoid of fear to one that is driven by it. Just look at the volatility index, it went from 11 in December to over 50 last week. It's settled down quite a bit, but it's still around 27. If John is right, this trend will continue into the future and could mean big gains and losses too. John Rubino is the founder a...Read More
By David HaggithTalk about the market busting a move ... and a lot of people! In less than half a month, the Trump Rally lost a third of the height it had developed over a period of sixteen months the worst two-week drop since February 2009. (The market's moves are so extreme by many measures that the Great Recession is the closest touchstone one can find to assay the last two weeks of market...Read More
Full Article: Kitco News Weekly Outlook: What Happened To Gold Prices?By: Neils ChristensenThe gold market is ending its second consecutive week in negative territory and many investors are asking: What happened?Gold's losses come as equity markets fell sharply into corrective territory, with the past week seeing the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding more than 1,000 points in two sessions...Read More
Strengths ? The best performing metal this week was gold, down 1.26 percent. China's demand for gold jewelry rose 10 percent last year to around 700 metric tons due to increasing wealth of residents. China is the largest market for gold in the world. ? Gold demand is also on the rise in India, the second largest consumer of gold, with purchases expected to rise to...Read More
By Clint Siegner U.S. equities got a free ride on the Trump train after his election, even as Federal Reserve officials hiked interest rates. That ride may have ended last week.If commentators are correct and the blame for recent selling in the stock market falls on the burgeoning fear of rising interest rates, it looks like Fed tightening is finally having the effect many predicted when the cyc...Read More
By Jordan Roy-ByrneIt was a rough week for investors in stocks and stocks of all kinds. The S&P 500 lost 5%. Emerging Markets also lost 5%. Gold Stocks, which had weakened before the broader equity market have been hit hard. They (GDX, GDXJ) also lost 5% last week. The HUI Gold Bugs Index (which excludes royalty companies unlike GDX) lost 7%. After a strong start to the year, gold stocks have es...Read More
By Bill HolterMarkets around the world are convulsing which is definitely different than anything we have seen in over a year. We also know that interest rates are going higher all over the world. In fact, if you look at rates going back to 1981, the downtrend line(s) has been broken and thus a very major change. Generational trades and 37 year trend lines are rare on their own, when they finall...Read More
Listen on BlogTalkRadioKerry Lutz of the Financial Survival Network (FSN) interviewed GoldCore's Mark O'Byrne about the outlook for crypto currencies, financial markets and precious metals.- Are bitcoin and crypto prices being manipulated like precious metals?- Is there a coordinated backlash against bitcoin from JPM and powerful interests?- 95% of cryptocurrencies and ICOs will likely go to zer...Read More