By Ira EpsteinGold gets a bid into weekend where attack on Syria is still a question. https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More

Louis Cammarosano lays out his case for what it's going to take for gold and silver to begin their next legs-up. Here's the details...Louis Cammarosano interviewed on Future Money TrendsLouis Cammarosano of Smaulgld.com is our expert guest, to discuss fascinating insights into the price of Gold, Silver and the effects of a trade war. With the recent price explosion from cryptocurrencies Louis also...Read More

Pierre Lassonde, chairman of Franco-Nevada, talks to BNN about challenges in the gold mining industry with deal flow and financing, the signs that are making him bullish on gold right now, and how conditions for gold are different now versus five years ago.Read full newsRead More

Image: GlencoreZinc hit a four month low of $3,135 a tonne on Thursday, down more than 12% from its decade high achieved mid-February.Rising fears about trade protectionism have taken the shine off most base metals but zinc's bearish outlook has more to do with new supply; and lots of it.The metal, mainly used to galvanize steel, has more than doubled since hitting multi-year lows in January 2016...Read More

Sprott has seen broadly increasing client and institutional interest which has been lead by strong private placements. This interest is being driven by 2017 commodity performance, and now the equities show good value. Rick feels that some of the companies like Agnico-Eagle are likely to do quite well over the next couple of years. Increasingly they are being run as real businesses instead of lever...Read More

Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More

Vanadium Pentoxide Prices. 2018 gain approx. 55%. Gain since 2017: approx. 280% Source: www.vanadiumprice.comCobalt Price Chart 2018 gain: approx. 22%Gain since 2017: approx. 250%US$88,000 per tonne = US$40/lbSource: LMELithium Carbonate Price2018 gain: flatGain since 2017: 30%Source: ZacksVanadium is used in redox flow batteries, which are superior to lithium batteries in storage capacity, discha...Read More

Investing.com – Gold prices slipped on Tuesday as the dollar recovered from an overnight plunged amid reports of FBI raiding the office of U.S. president Trump’s lawyer.Gold futures for June delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange slipped $2.30, or 0.17%, to $1,337.8 a troy ounce by 11:56AM ET (03:56 GMT).The U.S. dollar index that tracks the greenback agains...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts a gold explorer with an active drill season coming up.Aben Resources Ltd. (ABN:TSX.V; ABNAF:OTC.MKTS) looks like a very attractive speculative gold investment here for three big reasons one is that, as we will see, it is at the support of a long-term trendline that goes back years, two is that its drill programs in the northern wastes are highly weather depende...Read More

Technical analyst Jack Chan updates the gold and silver charts and finds buy signals for both gold and silver.Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. Gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.Gold sector is on a short-term buy signal. Short-term signals can last for days and weeks, and are more...Read More

Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in our good friend David Morgan of The Morgan Reports. David it's always a real pleasure to have you on and welcome back, how are you sir?David Morgan: Mike I'm doing well, thank you very much for having me on the show.Mike Gleason: Well David we've seen a tremendously tight trading range in the metals markets over the last several months, especially...Read More

It's a relatively quiet trend, but the most active of investors-hedge funds and traders-are aggressively putting gold hedges in place.It shouldn't really be a surprise, given the recent spike in volatility in the stock market. It hasn't been reported much in the mainstream, but an increasing number of people who make their living from investing are betting on gold.We've shown this data before, but...Read More

It's impossible to read the headlines or view a financial news channel without hearing about the debt crisis.We hear that the U.S. is facing a debt crisis because budget deficits are out of control. We hear that China is facing a debt crisis because of wasted infrastructure investment, bank Ponzi schemes and bad loans to money-losing state-sponsored enterprises.Next we hear that emerging markets a...Read More

Strengths ? The best performing metal this week was gold, up 0.62 percent. Gold posted its third quarterly gain last quarter, for the longest run since 2011, according to Bloomberg. The weekly Bloomberg survey of trader sentiment showed that most gold traders were neutral this week, while last week they were bearish on the yellow metal. The Perth Mint released sales figures showing...Read More

There's been an abundance of commentary on the net long position of the "Swap Dealers" in Comex silver futures per the COT report. As of the latest COT report, the Swap Dealers are net long almost 22k silver contracts. This is unprecedented. At the same time, the "Large Speculators," the majority of which is comprised of the "managed money" (hedge funds) sub-component, are net short nearly 1...Read More

By Ira EpsteinGold going sideways.https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More

Cuban doesn't mince words when it comes to his opinion of gold.Considering how far off base his supply side argument was, it gives his other statements on gold zero credibility.There are times to hate gold, this is not one of them.Mark Cuban...billionaire, Mav's owner, investor, philanthropist, and future U.S. Presidential candidate?...doesn't mince words when it comes to his opinion of gold....Read More

By Ed Steer07 April 2018 -- SaturdayYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM The gold price was up about seven bucks or so by around 9:20 a.m. China Standard Time on their Friday morning, but at that moment, the dollar index was turned higher -- and gold turned lower. By shortly before 9 a.m. BST in London, the price was down a bit over four dollars. It didn't do a lot until about...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund states that both COTs and the silver-to-gold ratio are at record extremes.We now have the most bullish setup for silver that we have ever seen. After trading sideways/down for over 20 months now, investors have completely lost interest in it, which is, of course, the perfect breeding ground for a huge rally that seems to come out of nowhere. As we will proceed to see,...Read More

. . . And a season for every activity under the heavens. So too, a time for the bull and a time for the bear and it would seem we are in for a change of the seasons. A change of that nature is not a one day affair, but is spread over time. We are well aware of the changes of day and night as these happen visibly and according to the cycle of our activities as informed by our watches. Yet, even usi...Read More