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

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

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

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. Metals and mining companies are starting to shake off the sector’s long-held dedication to capital discipline. In stark contrast to Big Oil corporates which are cutting budgets, Big Mining are upping investment with the goal of growing mine supply. James Whiteside, Head of Metals and Mining Research, analysed...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 136 points at 8:30 AM EDT.Broadcom added $8.71 to $162.85 after announcing a new $10 billion share buyback program.Levi Straus advanced $0.41 to $13.91 after reporting higher than consensus first quarter earnings and revenues.CVS Health gained $5.46 to $69.31 after the U.S. government announced a $25 billion increase i...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were sharply lower this morning in response to tariff wars. S&P 500 futures were down 119.00 points to 4,955.08 at 8:30 AM EDT.JP Morgan raised chances of a recession in the U.S. to 60%.World equity markets were sharply lower this morning. The Hang Seng plunged 3,021 to 19,828. The Nikkei plunged 2,633 to 31,136. The Frankfurt DAX plunged 778 to 19,866. The Paris CAC...Read More

During the crash of 2020, we got a brief but beautiful buying window in precious metals.In March of 2020, during the COVID collapse, gold suddenly dropped from $1,700 per ounce to $1,450.Here's a chart showing the price action of gold in 2020. Note the buying window in March (when it appeared the world was ending).It was a brief window, fueled by pure panic in markets. It made no sense for gold an...Read More

Technical Analyst Clive Maund reviews Pasofino Gold Ltd. (VEIN:TSX.V; EFRGF:OTCQB; N07:FSE) to explain why he thinks the company is very undervalued.Although Pasofino Gold Ltd. (VEIN:TSX.V; EFRGF:OTCQB; N07:FSE) drifted lower since we last looked at it at the end of December due to lack of action on the takeover front, the value of its primary asset has continued to appreciate as the gold price ha...Read More

Gold has corrected and consolidated in its support zone. Ron Struthers believes this correction provides a good opportunity to buy gold stocks at a cheaper level, and he likes Rio2, which will start production in 2026.On the weekend I presented a chart on gold and expected it would correct down and consolidate in the support zone shown below, around $3,000 and so far that is what has happened.I ex...Read More

Adrian Day of Adrian Day Asset Management shares a comprehensive portfolio review, which includes thoughts on the current state of the market, gold, silver, copper, oil and gas, and uranium.The new U.S. Administration may have hastened some economic and market trends, but the underlying factors were already underway. Inflation has been picking up since last July; the U.S. consumer has been pulling...Read More

Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares his thoughts on the current state of the market and explains why he thinks you should buy gold and copper producers. I find it darkly amusing the number of fuzzy-cheeked bloggers out there calling this minor setback in stocks a "crash." With the S&P down a modest 17.6% from its peak in February, it has yet to enter the realm of "bear market" still resi...Read More

LONDON, 6 April 2025 - The UK's Telegraph newspaper today features data, analysis and comment from BullionVault, plus interviews with BullionVault users, in a detailed piece on the 21st Century boom in gold prices.Read the full story with a subscription to The Telegraph online here'There are three reasons gold has made such gains - Trump, Trump and Trump' Read More

LONDON, 5 April 2025 - Data from BullionVault today leads a report in The Times of London about how younger investors are including gold bullion in the assets they buy.You can read the full story in today's newspaper, or online with a Times' subscription here:Why Gen Z are investing in gold Read More

LONDON, 4 April 2025 - Analysis from BullionVault features in a report today on the contrasting path for gold vs. silver prices amid President Trump's US trade tariffs.Read the report at MarketWatch here:Silver has dropped to 'Depression-era lows' against gold Read More

LONDON, 3 April 2025 - BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index Deutschland is featured today by the German-language edition of popular global financial-new outlet Business Insider.Demand for gold has jumped as Donald Trump returns to the White House, says the report, with German investors accounting for four-fifths of those inflows on BullionVault during the first calendar quarter of 2025.Read t...Read More

LONDON, 3 April 2025 - Comment from BullionVault features today in the latest report from Germany's leading financial newspaper Handelsblatt on how US trade policy is affecting the price of gold."Trump's customs chaos and his increasingly volatile stance in the Ukraine conflict create the perfect backdrop for new record gold prices," the report quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVau...Read More

LONDON, 2 April 2025 - Japanese finance news-service JiJi Press today reports how the number of new first-time gold investors has jumped at BullionVault.JiJi subscribers can read the full report, in Japanese, online.https://www.jiji.com/ Read More

LONDON, 2 April 2025 - German investment-news site Aktien Check today features the latest Gold Investor Index from BullionVault, showing a sharp increase in demand for the precious metal as Donald Trump begins his second term as US President. Read the full story, in German, at Aktien Check here:Trumps "Perfektes Chaos": Goldnachfrage steigt weiter - Preise klettern in die H?he 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

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