Zinc at decade-high, palladium hits record as greenback dropsIMF's David Lipton says there's 'faster growth in all regions'BlackRock's Hambro Sees Commodities Bull Run in 2018Copper jumped by the most in two months and zinc hit a fresh decade-high as base metals rallied on a potent combination of a softer dollar, dwindling inventories and continued robust outlook for demand. Palladium rallied to a...Read More
The Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire had gold coins called the aureus and solidus, but they also minted a popular silver coin called the denarius. One denarius was the daily wage for unskilled labor and Roman soldiers.Of course, in the late Empire, the aureus, solidus and denarius were all debased by mixing the gold and silver with base metals. The decline of the Roman Empire went hand in...Read More
Changes in public sentiment and to state laws have created a tidal wave of profits for fast moving investors in pot stocks.With the pot industry still in its infancy, many of these companies have their best days ahead of them.If you buy into the right companies now, before the big money starts rolling in, you could stand to make six figures, or more.Today, I'll show you a few marijuana companies t...Read More
If you or I pulled a stunt like this, we’d go to jail.(And our faces would be plastered all over the news, our families shamed, and our savings would be taken away.)But Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan — along with his counterparts at the Saudi Oil Ministry — is pulling off one of the biggest market manipulation schemes since the Hunt brothers cornered the silver market...Read More
Investment expert Matt Badiali recently released a viral video called "Freedom Checks" that has many scratching their heads, wondering what these investments are exactly.In the video, now viewed by millions of Americans, Matt says these "freedom checks" are not a government program like Social Security or Medicare, and they're not a 401(k) or IRA or any similar type of retirement account.As Matt d...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesJan 16, 2018Novo shareholders have been on a wild rollercoaster ride since early July when the stock snoozed at about $.80 a share. Avideo posted on YouTube of prospectors locating gold nuggets at surface at Purdy’s Reward acted as a catalyst to propel Novo higher to $8.83 in the first week of October for a 1000% increase in just over three months.While the price of shar...Read More
Stewart Thomsonemail: stewart@gracelandupdates.comemail: stewart@gracelandjuniors.comemail:stewart@gutrader.comJan 16, 2018Gold and related investments are off to a very positive start in 2018. I don’t expect any major pause in the action until China’s Golden Week holiday celebrations get underway.Chinese gold dealers will be on holiday this year from about February 15 to February 21....Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1339.30+$1.30Silver$17.21-$0.03XAU90.27+1.30%HUI204.39+1.52%GDM682.72+1.92%JSE Gold1316.17-51.24USD90.43-0.52Euro122.65+0.59Yen90.81+0.78Oil$63.73-$0.5710-Year2.543%-0.005T-Bond150.90625+0.53125Dow25792.86-0.04%Nasdaq7223.69-0.51%S&P2776.42-0.35% The Metals: Gold saw modest gains in holiday thinned trade yesterday before it fell back to $1331.80 in London today, but it...Read More
By Dave KranzlerEvery month consumer debt in aggregate hits a new record. Auto loans and student loans have been hitting monthly record highs for quite some time. In November credit card debt hit a record high in total and increased a record monthly amount for any one month. Mathematically this can't go on forever. In fact, there are signs - indicators not reported widely by the financial media...Read More
Billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell of Equity Group Investments discusses his views on deregulation, the economy, the GOP bill and investing internationally.Sam Zell is an American businessman. He is chairman of Equity Group Investments (EGI), a private investment firm he founded in the 1960s. The firm's equity interests are often in asset-intensive industries such as real estate, energy, lo...Read More
Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. Gold and related investments are off to a very positive start in 2018. I don't expect any major pause in the action until China's Golden Week holiday celebrations get underway.2. Chinese gold dealers will be on holiday this year from about February 15 to February 21. This creates a significant vacuum in gold demand. As dealers and Chinese...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 Graham SummersOver the weekend, the Cleveland Fed released its media Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for December 2017.The result? The Median CPI rose 0.3% in December, an annualized rate of 3.5%.Put simply, core inflation is rising rapidly... and the Fed is WAY behind the curve.Small wonder the US Dollar is collapsing, breaking through critical resistance.The BIG PICTURE chart is even uglier...Read More
Mark B. Spiegel, managing member at Stanphyl Capital, joins the team to discuss his favorite ideas, long and short.2:47 Tesla, a love affair in reverse6:40 Opportunities in the nano-cap realm10:02 Fewer public companies. Less value?12:13 Mark's thoughts on agricultural commoditiesJames "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthl...Read More
By Gary SavageThis video examines the concept of controlling greed at tops and limiting anxiety at bottoms using multi-month charts of GDX and Gold.https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
For Part 1 of this interview, CLICK HEREFor Part 2 of this interview, CLICK HERE"It's really about what's real. When I talk to people, I say, what do you think will be here in 2040? Will gold still be here? Well, it's been here since eternity. Will the dollar be here? I don't think so. Will blockchain be here, I think so.Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 pers...Read More
By Frank HolmesStrengths? The best performing metal this week was palladium, up 3.02 percent. After polling neutral last week, gold traders and analysts are back to a bullish view of gold, according to the Bloomberg survey. This week gold ETFs added 91,867 troy ounces of gold to their holdings, the largest one-day increase since early December.? Inflation increase...Read More
David Morgan, one of the thought leaders in our community, joined us for a look ahead at 2018 for precious metals. David's got a company that pulls precious metals out of scrap and is poised to cash in. There's more gold in a ton of scrap iPhones than you find in many mines. 2017 showed strength in gold, not so much in silver. David wouldn't be surprised to see a high of $21 or more for silver in...Read More
By Clint SiegnerIf officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are bothered by allegations of incompetence and capture by Wall Street's bankers, it is hard to tell. The Commission recently hired Brett Redfearn to serve as Director of the Division of Trading and Markets. Redfearn left a 13 year stint at JP Morgan to assume a key role in regulating banks, investors and traders.The SE...Read More
Some commentators have made a big deal over the Yuan-denominated oil futures contract that will soon begin trading in Shanghai, but in terms of effect on the global currency market this appears to be a very small deal.With or without a Yuan-denominated oil futures market there is nothing preventing the suppliers of oil to China from accepting payment in Yuan. In fact, some of the oil imported by...Read More