Finally, silver has begun to outperform Gold, just as we always expected it would. The gold/silver ratio kept going up until it started going down. People become turned off by the high price of gold and have found that silver is still cheap. The ratio peaked at 125, way above 80-90 where it usually peaks. All as a result of the panic. Now we're almost back down to 100. Silver needs to do 2.5 times...Read More

This development poses a serious threat to our constitutionally protected right to privacy, and who never have been allowed if not for the Patriot Act.Continue...Read More

"The state of Georgia made it look like its covid cases were going down ***by putting the dates out of order on its chart*** May 5 was followed by April 25, then back to May again, whatever made it look like a downslope."Continue...Read More

The Federal Reserve has grown their foreign bank swap lines from $0 to $446.5 BILLION in just 2 months....who said there would be a strong "V Shaped" recovery?! I wish I had that kind of printing press!Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com...Read More

The fans are just entering the ballpark in precious metals and natural resources, and these markets are not anywhere near major tops. Bob also explains why he's been buying "cheap" stocks with share Continue...Read More

A Covid-19 vaccine, or lack thereof, will have zero effect in terms of reversing these cycles. Call it Fate, call it karma, call it what you will, but the cycles have aligned and nothing can stop the unraveling Continue...Read More

The economic devastation from this unnecessary virus insanity has so structurally altered the economy that the Climate Changed advocates are throwing wild parties cheering the end of so many jobs.Continue...Read More

Texas, North Carolina and Arizona are among the states seeing increasing numbers of covid-19 cases, intensifying concerns as they seek to reopen shuttered economies. Continue...Read More

It seems prudent at this point to tell people to take modest doses of vitamin D supplements for their health. The evidence is easily strong enough to justify it.Continue...Read More

Some 68% of respondents to the Bank of America Global Research Fund Manager Survey for May called the current market surge a "bear market rally."Continue...Read More

"What you say matters. Help create a more equal world by using gender-neutral language if you're unsure about someone's gender or are referring to a group," states the tweet.Continue...Read More

Most analysts believe that when the RSI oscillator rises above 70 the market is "overbought" and will suffer a decline in price.An RSI above 70 is overbought on short-term charts, but on this long-term quarterly bar chart, it's clear that a rise to 70 Continue...Read More

Here are some red flags to watch out for:The salesperson gives you some story about why you should avoid bullion and buy collectible coins instead.Continue...Read More

Swedish state-owned iron-ore producer LKAB has confirmed that all production at its Kiruna mine has stopped following a seismic event on Monday, the company said on Tuesday May 19. All production has stopped after a seismic event, with a magnitude of 3.3, occurred at 3:11am on May 18, with no forecast as to when it will resume and an intensive inspection of the mine now underway, the company said....Read More

The CIS export billet market remained bullish early this week, with demand from China continuing to support prices after a plunge in interest from Turkey at the end of last week.Market participants reported offers of CIS-origin billet to China at $385-400 per tonne cfr, which would net back to $355-370 per tonne fob for cargoes to be shipped from the Black Sea basin.Some market participants said t...Read More

Money manager Adrian Day reviews developments at three gold and silver companies in his portfolio. Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ:NYSE.MKT; VGZ:TSX, US$0.807) continues to advance the Mt. Todd project in Northern Territories, Australia, as it monetizes non-core assets to maintain a healthy balance sheet without dilution. As it awaits its final permit, the improvements at Mt. Todd are now incremental, with...Read More

Steel billet and rebar prices in the United Arab Emirates had mixed fortunes in the seven days to Tuesday May 19, with demand limited by Ramadan and Covid-19 restrictions, market sources told Fastmarkets.Market participants in the UAE said that demand was unlikely to improve before the end of Ramadan in late May.Ramadan is normally a slow month for the region, but the Covid-19 curfe...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices moved up further on Tuesday May 19 amid expectations of economic stimulus emerging from the country's annual meetings of policymakers later this week. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,560-3,590 yuan ($501-505) per tonne, up by 30 yuan per tonneThe National People's Congress of the Communist Party of China will start its annual meeting on May 22 in Beijing while th...Read More

European high- and low-carbon ferro-chrome prices increased last week, with industry sources reporting around 900 tonnes of done deals for high-carbon material and about half that for more refined-grade material.The high-carbon ferro-chrome price spread narrowed to $0.12 per lb after deals were reported that raised the lower end of the assessment. Deals for around 900 tonnes were reported and...Read More

The blue-chip index skidded into the close at its session lowsYesterday's broad-market optimism was short-lived, as the Dow plodded through a day in the red before bottoming out with a 390 point drop at the close. Weighing on the blue-chip index were corporate reports from Home Depot (HD) -- which suffered an earnings miss -- and Walmart (WMT), which initially surged after its first-quarter repo...Read More