"How disturbed must a person be to do what they did to a mother of five children? This dangerous and reckless act goes beyond political differences."Continue...Read More
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 cycle began.Most curre...Read More
By PlungerVolatility has now returned to the stock market after a hibernation of several years. An explosion of volatility normally is indicative of a change of trend. The recent signals transmitted by this market have been classic and has been telling us that we have entered the final topping process of this extended and stretched economic cycle. The trading over the past 7 market sessions f...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
Source: Michael J. Ballanger for Streetwise Reports 02/09/2018 The physical metals will continue to outperform mining shares until there is some stabilization in the global arena, posits precious metals expert Michael Ballanger. -->In the "I hate to say I-told-you-so" category, it looks like the Punxsutawney Phil came out of his den last week, took one look at the state of the global stock...Read More
How 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 these Reports ove...Read More
By Graham SummersThe 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 ge...Read More
Volatility has now returned to the stock market after a hibernation of several years. An explosion of volatility normally is indicative of a change of trend. The recent signals transmitted by this market have been classic and has been telling us that we have entered the final topping process of this extended and stretched economic cycle. The trading over the past 7 market sessions fit a classic...Read More
By Frank HolmesStrengths? 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 expe...Read More
Current Position of the MarketSPX: Long-term trend - The bull market is continuing with a top expected in the low 3000s.Intermediate trend - An intermediate correction from 2872 is currently underway.Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer mar...Read More
By Avi GilburtFor those that follow me regularly, you will know that I have been tracking a set up for the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX), which I analyze as a proxy for the metals mining market. I believe that the GDX can outperform the general equity market once we confirm a long term break out has begun, and I still think we can see it in occur in 2018. But, after last week's b...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
Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe on iTunes here.After gaining nearly 38% from the November 2016 election to Trump's State of the Union speech, the amazing stock market boom finally suffered it first test.Just as soon as the S&P 500 logged a new entry in the record books of going 18 months without a 5% correction, another record quickly followed wi...Read More
Summary: After gaining more than 7% by late January, US stocks have fallen into a 10% correction. It's the quickest decline of that magnitude from an all-time high in 90 years. While a fall in stocks was not a surprise, the speed and severity certainly were.So what happens next? Prior falls like this have led to quick recoveries. That likelihood is further supported by a washout in breadth,...Read More
Gold is still a solid investment in a diversified portfolio, says Axel Merk of Merk Investments.Axel Merk is the Founder, President, Portfolio Manager, and CIO at Merk Investments LLC. He is an expert on qualitative research and macroeconomic trends. Mr. Merk is also an expert on macro trends, hard money, international investing, and on building sustainable wealth, and he is a pioneer in the use o...Read More
Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Mr. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was Vice President of the American Economic Association in...Read More
Palisade Research February 12, 2018 Category: Research We first covered Firesteel Resources last November.Here's a little recap. . .Back in June 2017 Firesteel signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with Nordic Mines AB (NOMI) to operate the Laiva Gold Mine – a fully-permitted mine located in Finland. The project has C$325 million of prior exploration and development and the mill is only two...Read More
Palisade Research February 12, 2018Category: Research Here's a little recap. . .We first covered Firesteel Resources last November.Back in June 2017 Firesteel signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with Nordic Mines AB (NOMI) to operate the Laiva Gold Mine – a fully-permitted mine located in Finland. The project has C$325 million of prior exploration and development and the mill is only...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold prices rose in Asian trading on Monday while the U.S. dollar index edged down, with investors keeping a close eye on the upcoming inflation data.April Comex gold futures last traded at $1,326.30, up 0.81% on the day. And the U.S. dollar index dropped to 90.22, down 0.11% on the day.The yellow metal rebounded after finishing its second week in a row in negative territory on Frid...Read More
Image of Mount St. Helens by Ewen Roberts, via Flickr Creative Commons license. The U.S. Forest Service signed off on exploration for copper, gold and other minerals on 900 federal acres that lie just outside the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in Southwest Washington.Read moreRead More