The elections are behind us. However,the official results are still not definite. What does it mean for gold prices?Ladies and Gentlemen, the new Presidentof the United States is… still unknown! The election results are not available,as some states are still counting the votes. The race is very balanced, withfew states remaining too close to call. At the moment of writing this report,Joe Bi...Read More

In Monday’sanalysis , I wrote that the market situation is likely to becomemore specific right before, during, and perhaps shortly after the U.S. presidentialelections . And by “specific”, I mean that the markets could beginmoving against their previous trends.Well, that’s precisely what we’vewitnessed so far. The overnight volatility is significant as the markets try...Read More

Peter Krauth explains why he believes gold will be the biggest winner in the election.There's no shortage of prognostications or conjecture about the U.S. election.Of course, everyone has an opinion.Some like red, some like blue, some like neither.Last week's volatility in stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities is a clear signal that markets are uneasy. They hate uncertainty.If the election's o...Read More

Crude oil started this week with abearish price gap and a breakdown below the September and October lows. This isan extremely valuable indication. The black gold seems to have finally decidedwhat the next big move is going to be, and by breaking lower, it effectively“agreed” with our expectations. On its own, the breakdown is verybearish. However, what preceded is equally important, as...Read More

The mostpessimistic forecasts of copper demand, and pricing, during the worst pandemicin 102 years, have failed to materialize. From afour-year low in March, when the coronavirus slammed into Europe and NorthAmerica, the red metal used widely in construction, communications,transportation and energy transmission, has mounted a serious comeback. As ofthis writing spot copper is trading at $3.08 per...Read More

Election Day has finally arrived. Whowill win, and why gold will remain the biggest winner of them all?So, today is the day! It's Election Day.For quite some time, national pollsindicate that Biden has a significant advantage . He is also pollingscarcely close ahead of Donald Trump in key battleground states, but, in somestates, the lead has recently narrowed. So, in many places, the race is still...Read More

Heading into what will likely become one of the biggest events in American political history on November 3, the US stock markets are holding up quite well on Monday, November 2.  My team and I have published a number of articles recently suggesting we believe wild price swings and increased volatility is to be expected before and after the US elections.  We have even suggested a couple o...Read More

Independent financial analyst Matt Badiali explains why he expects natural gas to rebound and discusses six potential investments.The oil price gets all the press. The price of a barrel collapsed during the Covid-19 lock down. Companies went bankrupt in droves. Now, the industry turned to mergers to survive.Investors fled. The sentiment turned awful. No one cares about oil anymore. The future is e...Read More

Apparently investors don’t tire of hearing the same old thing; and their advisors willingly provide the same questionable advice: “The best way to play this new bull market in gold is to buy gold stocks” or something to that effect. Are gold stocks a better choice than golditself? Let’s find out…Four years ago, in 2016, I wrote the following:“This year’s...Read More

Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors, says it doesn't matter if the U.S. sees a Red victory or a Blue victory in the presidential election; gold will be the real winner. In this far-ranging interview with Streetwise Reports, he discusses gold's prospects post-election, inflation, stock market performance, criteria to evaluate mining companies, and companies in U....Read More

As we continue to near the November 3rd election day, Precious Metals have continued to trade within a narrow range suggesting price support is staying strong. It is my belief that potential downside risks for Gold and Silver will be relatively short-lived after the election.  We believe the broad market decline witnessed on October 26, 2020, where the Dow Jones fell over 700 points, coupled...Read More

Trump and Biden debated for the second and last time in this campaign. So, who will win, and why gold is likely to be the biggest winner of them all?President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met for the second and the last debate before the elections. Thankfully, this time things were less chaotic and with far fewer interruptions and insults. Perhaps Trump has acknowledged that hi...Read More

RAPAPORT... Jonathan Kendall, a key executive in De Beers' downstream activities, will retire at the end of the year following two decades with the business.Kendall was most recently president of De Beers Group Industry Services - the miner's grading unit - and of the company's Institute of Diamonds. In that role, he oversaw the building of laboratories in Antwerp and in Surat, India, De Beer...Read More

RAPAPORT... Prices of fancy-color diamonds slipped 0.7% in the first nine months of the year, remaining relatively steady despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) said."The [Fancy Color Diamond Index] displayed a general stability in relation to this chaotic period," the FCRF noted last week.The index for yellows slipped 0.3% for the three months ending Sep...Read More

RAPAPORT... Sodiam, Angola's state diamond company, has opened a jewelry store, its latest attempt to boost the local trade in the mining-focused country.The launch in Luanda, the capital, is a partnership with Hong Kong-based polished manufacturer KGK Diamonds, which opened a cutting factory in Angola last year, Sodiam said Thursday. The organizations marked the store's opening with an exhib...Read More

RAPAPORT... Dominion Diamond Mines plans to recall approximately 60 of its furloughed workers in December to prepare for a restart at its Ekati mine in Canada.Operations at the deposit, which has been shut since March due to Covid-19, will restart after lenders told Dominion they were close to finalizing an agreement to restructure its debt and fund the company, the miner said Friday. The news is...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Dominion, the troubled Canadian miner, is to recall about 60 furloughed employees in the hope that that its Ekati mine will soon resume operations.The deposit has been closed since March and Dominion, the world's third largest producer of rough diamonds by value, subsequently filed for insolvency protection.It expects to reach agreement soon to restructure its debt and secure...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Elvis Presley's custom-made gold ring, featuring a 7.56ct VS2 diamond, could fetch as much as $1m when it is auctioned later this month.It is among the headline lots at a sale of showbiz memorabilia in Los Angeles, USA.The ring was designed by the King with the TCB logo - Taking Care of Business - the name he gave to his band, together with a pair of lightning bolts.The ring (...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The price of fancy color diamonds fell by 0.7 per cent in Q3 after sales came to a halt in April because of coronavirus.The New York-based Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) has produced its first quarterly index of 2020.  Business was to slow in previous quarters to provide sufficient data.Its figures compare Q3 2020 with Q4 2019 and show declines of -0.8 per cent for pin...Read More

The Northern Miner's Global Mining Symposium virtual conference this week - the second one this year - was yet another resounding success, with thousands of viewers tuning in from around the world to hear the views of some of the industry's leading visionaries and entrepreneurs. From Haywood Securities co-founder and Canadian Mining Hall of Fame inductee David Elliott to Rob McEwen of McEwen Minin...Read More