In our latest Insights, we look at the battle between the bulls and bears that is shaping up on INK Ultra Money. On balance, the bulls seem to be tipping towards the Energy sector as a possible path to higher returns. Meanwhile, the financial system is at risk of being disrupted by cryptocurrency. Finally, our insider of the week helps to ensure that junior gold mining stays in the opportunity sp...Read More

The trading range on the HUI and other PM stock indexes continues its job of confusing both the bulls and bears alike. I’ve always said that trading an impulse move is much easier than trading during a consolidation phase. During a strong impulse move up it is easy to see the price action making higher highs and higher lows. Trading during a consolation phase is usually completely different....Read More

In military terms, the phrase "locked and loaded"refers to "locking" a magazine or cartridge into a firearm andloading a round into the gun's chamber. A variant is to "lock thesafety" and then load a magazine into the weapon.The analogy in his essay is that from a technical (chart)standpoint, the price of gold and silver arebuilding energy to the point that they are g...Read More

The dollar is the mostimportant unit of account for international trade, the main medium of exchangefor settling international transactions, and the store of value for centralbanks. The Federal Reserve is the lender of last resort, as in the 2008–09financial crisis, and is the most common currency for overseas borrowing bygovernments and businesses.Investors want to owndollars when the prove...Read More

The number of new daily infections in Europe is rapidly increasing, even reaching new heights in several countries. That is just another reminder that the second wave in fall or winter is upon us. Yes, I know. You are all fed up reading about the coronavirus. And yet, the coronavirus is not fed up with spreading around the globe. The number of new daily infections keeps going up, as the chart belo...Read More

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:Gold will target the $2,250 level before stalling and attempting another upside price rally targeting $2,500 or higher.Silver will target the $33 price level when the current upside move builds enough momentum, then target $38 or higher.Our next upside price target for platinum is $1,410, representing a +52.4% upside price target.Palladium bottom in March 2020 was near $1,357....Read More

Views of gold in relation to other markets and brief summaries thereof, with a focus on how it relates to the gold mining sector and the inflationary macro to come.Gold/Silver RatioGold/Silver is in a potential bounce pattern with RSI and MACD positive divergences. A bounce (if applicable) – which would likely come in unison with a counter-trend bounce in USD could accompany more broad ...Read More

Gold has been consolidatinghigh since early August, when it rocketed parabolic on colossal gold-ETFdemand.  That 6-week-old sideways drift hasworked off some greed and overboughtness, but plenty still remains.  So gold isn’t out of the woods yet for thisessential sentiment-rebalancing selloff. With residual overboughtness still extreme, gold faces considerabledownside risk hea...Read More

Peter Krauth outlines the reasons he believes the price of silver will continue to rise. They say patience is a virtue.Well, if anyone is virtuous these days, it has to be silver bulls.They also say good things come to those who wait. I believe those good things will be coming…in spades.Silver reached just shy of $50 back in April 2011. A decade later, we're still just barely above half tha...Read More

The latest FOMC statement and economic projections signal are that the interest rates will stay at zero until the end of 2023. This is excellent for gold. Yesterday, the Fed issued a statement regarding the FOMC meeting, which was held from September 15-16. The US central bank kept the interest rates and the conditions of its quantitative easing unchanged. The chart below shows the levels of effec...Read More

A price floor is expected when further selling the price down causes scarcity...by Keith Weiner of Monetary-MetalsA few days ago, we wrote about a big silver crash. The price dropped around 7.5%.And the basis dropped from around 2% to 0.6%. At the end, we said:"The key question is: what is the follow-through? If the price stays down and the basis goes back up, that will be a bearish signal. If...Read More

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For a moment, picture 2020 as any other year. Imagine there was no pandemic. Now go and take a look at the S&P/TSX Composite Index. In the absence of a public health disaster, the performance of some of Canada’s best blue-chip stocks would look disastrous. The harsh reality is that this situation could last longer than anticipated, with the prospect of a fully reopened economy receding a...Read More

When the markets go south, one place investors often turn to for safety is gold. The price of gold has been soaring over the past year, rising around 30%, and it hit a high of more than US$2,000/oz in August. However, thus far, the markets have been going in the same direction as gold. Since March 11, when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the Dow Jones is up aroun...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 25 that are worth another look.Prices for flat-rolled steel imported into South America took a downturn in the week to September 25 with Chinese mills presenting lower offers amid residual negotiations for November shipments.Brazilian trade chamber Camex confirmed this...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 25 that are worth another look.Prices for flat-rolled steel imported into South America took a downturn in the week to September 25 with Chinese mills presenting lower offers amid residual negotiations for November shipments.Brazilian trade chamber Camex confirmed this...Read More

A lump-sum payment in digital dollars for all Americans during a recession or to raise inflation as an alternative to QE and negative interest rates, which have failed.Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin)...Read More

Consistently bullish on China, Mr. Rogers spoke with us amidst the global coronavirus pandemic about the on-going trade war and tech war between the US and China, the stimulus, and the future of global trade and finance. With Huawei at the center of the global technology competition, Mr. Rogers sheds wisdom, drawn from history, on the shifts of global technological leadership over the modern Indus...Read More

Andrew Maguire is an Independent London Metals Trader and Analyst, internationally renowned for his unique ability to read the precious metals market with the knowledge and experience gained over 35 years trading in financial and commodity markets. Andrew sits on the advisory board of a global physical bullion exchange and is a consultant advisor to many international hedge fund managers, bullion...Read More