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

A “Minsky Moment” refers to a point in time when a period of bullish speculation leads to a spectacular market crash.Named after economist Hyman Minsky, the theory centers around the inherent instability of stock markets. “Minsky held that, over a prolonged period of prosperity, investors take on more and more risk, until lending exceeds what borrowers can pay off from their inco...Read More

Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis reveals that China’s crude stock (including strategic and commercial petroleum reserves) could reach 1.15 billion barrels in 2020, equivalent to 83 days of oil demand.Wood Mackenzie senior consultant Lei Sun said: “Major crude oil importers such as China have been known to build their strategic reserves when prices are low, as seen in previous oil...Read More

Electric vehicle (EV) sales are expected to reach 45 million units per year by 2040, with a total global EV stock of 323 million, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.Both projections have been revised down 2% when compared to Wood Mackenzie's pre-coronavirus forecast, with the pandemic delaying total vehicle sales by two years.Responses to the pandemic from China and Europe have strongly...Read More

The macro setup for gold stocks is evolving into something that will surprise many after decades of poor fundamentalsI don’t make a habit of pumping the most frustrating stock sector on the planet just for the sake of it. I have made a habit of discussing why, since 2003, the macro market backdrop has been adversarial to gold stocks much more often than not. By extension, internal indicators...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice.Coronavirus, supply disruptions, muted demand and the oil price plunge have sent shockwaves across the petrochemical industry. Year-on-year profits have been considerably reduced. So how is the industry handling the blow, and what does it mean for balance sheets, budgets and planned projects?Profit margins have been squeezedCo...Read More

BHP has made an all-share offer for Anglo American which valued the company at US$40.7 billion, conditional upon separate demergers by Anglo American by distribution of its entire shareholdings in Kumba and Anglo-American Platinum Limited to Anglo American shareholders. Anglo American’s board has unanimously rejected the proposal from BHP on the basis of valuation and uncertainty associated...Read More

The gold miners willsoon report what will almost certainly prove their best quarter ever.  Mostly due to Q2’s record-shattering goldprices, gold miners’ earnings should soar off the charts.  Those will be further boosted by slightly-lowermining costs many of these companies are predicting.  With such incredibly-strong fundamentals,more professional fund managers should s...Read More

The PCE Index statisticswere released today, and you might wonder what impact they will have on theprice of gold.Let’s dig in.One might think that PCE is a criticaldriver of gold prices (and thus, you might be concerned with what the number isgoing to be), and there is some truth to it, but looking at how those reportshave indeed influenced gold price provides extra context to what...Read More

The gold miners’ stocks have been grinding lower for a month now, sapping traders’ enthusiasm.But this is par for the gold-summer-doldrums course, what typically happens in June.This sentiment-rebalancing drift is quite bullish for this high-potential sector, reloading it for another strong surge higher.With their probable mid-summer bottoming nearing, traders have a mid-upleg opportun...Read More

Did today’s decline in gold surpriseyou? It shouldn’t – during Thursday’s rally, gold moved to two resistancelines.And I sent out a special Alert indicatingthat this was actually a shorting opportunity. That’s my second position ingold in years, and we closed the previous one (it was a long position)profitably in April this year. The Beginning of aBigger MoveAnd let m...Read More

Bitcoin was heralded as the new gold.But the “old” gold ultimately managed to move above its 2021 highs, while the“new” gold didn’t.Gold didn’t disappear; they both coexist,and they both have a strong anti-dollar vibe.Questioning Bitcoin'sRallyBut… Could it be the case thatbitcoin’s rally is over? It hasn’t moved to new highs after all, despit...Read More

During the Great Depression, both silver(1931) and the Dow (1932) reached a significant low. Both have rallied significantlysince then. However, the structure of the rallies was very different.To date, the Dow has significantlyoutperformed silver since those lows. The Dow increased 988-fold from the lowto the all-time high, whereas silver has only increased 179-fold from the lowto the all-time hig...Read More

The US dollar is on the brink of a majormeltdown. This is apparent based on fundamental and technicalanalysis. Over the last 5 years, the US dollar has sustained somemajor damage through policy without losing much value against other fiat currencies.In other words, the market has not yettaken into account the true (debased) state of the US dollar, but it will soon.Since the US dollar is probably t...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 5 points at 8:35 AM EST.S&P 500 futures recovered 2 points following release of January U.S. Retail Sales at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus called for s 0.2% drop versus a gain of 0.4% in December. Actual was a 0.9% drop. Excluding auto sales, consensus was a 0.3% drop versus a 0.4% gain in December. Actual was a 0.4% dro...Read More

A constant stream of Boeing 737s packed full of gold are flying into America.Much of the bullion is coming from London, where the Bank of England (BoE) is having some... issues delivering its customers' gold.BoE is a major gold depository which claims to hold more than 5,000 metric tonnes of gold in its underground vaults. The precious metal is held for both central banks and commercial groups.But...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. Demand for mined commodities exceeded pre-pandemic levels in 2021. Despite macro-economic headwinds over the next few years, growth seems assured and could be supercharged by a faster decarbonisation pathway. Supply constraints and disruptions continue and are likely to be exacerbated by economic sanctions on Russia...Read More

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Growing US crude production – particularly in the midcontinent and Rockies regions – is upending traditional Gulf Coast pipeline routes.The result? An unprecedented great American oil pipeline build-out. The shale revolution has led to burgeoning pipeline takeaway access from the Permian basin. Last month, we discussed three reasons why the Permian’s future pipeline capacity won&...Read More

What does tight oil have in common with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet's Google stocks (known as FAANG stocks)? Answer: tight oil is arguably the upstream equivalent of these tech sector leaders. It's the hot investment play in the oil and gas index, it outperforms like mad, and it's been driving to distraction those that don't own any. Production has leapt from zero six years...Read More

Commenting after Chesapeake announced plans to buy Vine Energy in a cash-and-stock deal which values the Blackstone Group-controlled E&P at around US$2.2 billion, analysts from natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie said:  “We were confident 2021 would be a big year for Haynesville consolidation.“This deal really picks up the pace after Southwestern Energy/Indigo just tw...Read More