Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

Big Oil is on the move, feeling its way into a changing energy world. There are two sides to adapting: how to decarbonise oil and gas and how to build a sustainable business around zero-carbon technology. Valentina Kretschmar, VP and Tom Ellacott, SVP of our Corporate Analysis team took me through their thinking of how company strategies are developing.This week, BP went a step further on the firs...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 28 points at 8:30 AM EDT.Abbott Labs dropped $6.40 to $98.84 after losing litigation on its infant formula. Alibaba added $2.17 to $78.70 after reports that the company has raised fees.McDonald's added $2.25 to $254.25 despite reporting lower than consensus second quarter revenues and earnings. The company extended its...Read More

Are we going to be reliving the 1970s? Perhaps we will experience the stagflation of the 1970s in this decade, as financial excesses are worked out and monumental investments to retool our industrial base and infrastructure place a drag on productivity and profits. There is substantial logic in that scenario.As the charts below illustrate, stagflation also crushed the stock market’s speculat...Read More

We all just watched a new, dark chapter of American history unfold, with more to come, no doubt. Shamelessly, the Empire of Lies showed us the raw, rancid stuff of which it is made, and the ugliness of the spectacle is beyond appalling.Maybe you're trying to process the recent, midnight defenestration of President Joe Biden by power players within the Democratic Party. That, and the backroom, rigg...Read More