Jason talks about how and why DC is so adverse to meaningful change and good ideas.Jason talks about how a small army of highly paid consultants, lobbyists and federal government bureaucrats are leaking, sabotaging and delaying President Trump's policies and working on getting Trump's political appointees fired. Read More
There's many changes afoot in the gold mining sector. The so-called GDX-J appears to be ready undergo another makeover. This time non-cashflowing companies will be removed from the index. Only producers and royalty companies will be included. What about all those exploration companies? How will this impact their ability to raise capital? We talk extensively about Barrick-Newmont-Goldcorp and where...Read More
Jason talks about the how President Trump is lying about how well the US economy is doing based on a really poor Atlanta Fed Q1 2019 GDP number. Construction spend also declined 6% according to the most recent data released. All signs are pointing to serious trouble for U.S. economic activity. There is zero data that supports economic activity is strong or even sustainable, only words.What is trou...Read More
Gold is back above $1300 per ounce to start the week as the market lookgs forward to the next Fed meeting Continue...Read More
Aftergold’s plunge on Thursday, it made a comeback attempt on Friday. But thaterased only half of Thursday’s vigorous decline. The situation in silver and goldminers doesn’t provide much ground for optimism either. The silent scream wewrote about in the Wednesday’s Alert for our subscribers brought seriousrepercussions. Both immediately and step-by-step as in a trainwreck i...Read More
It’s been years since the gold and silver topped out in 2011. We have been waiting for a new bottom form and a new bull market to emerge for nearly 8 years. In this article, I’m going to compare palladium, gold, platinum, and silver and show you which of these precious metals I feel is the best long-term investment and also the best trade for 2019.The analysis presented below is based...Read More
One problem for the gold stock sector was highlighted here and here evidently a little too obnoxiously for the liking of some bugs. The problem was the aggressive bullhorn sounds emanating from every orifice of the gold community the minute the charts broke upward into an obviously bullish technical state.But while the HUI/Gold ratio has been a distinctly positive technical indicator and many bull...Read More
Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.Coming up Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategies joins me for a must-hear conversation on why he believes central bankers must perpetually keep interest rates near zero -- and the massive inflationary bubble economy that will likely result. Also, find out how Michael is approaching gold and gold related investments for h...Read More
By: Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsMy goal is to make you mad. Not at me (though I expect to ruffle a few feathers with this one). At the evil being wrought in the name of fighting inflation and maximizing employment. And at the aggressive indifference to this evil, exhibited by the capitalists, the gold bugs, and the otherwise-free-marketers.So, today I am going to do something I have never done....Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 2.42 percent, despite speculators cutting their bullish view to a four-month low. Gold traders were bullish this week, after two weeks of being neutral on the outlook for the yellow metal, on the expectation that central bank policies will help spur demand, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. Gold climbed back above the $1,300...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerI sourced the chart below from a blog called The Macro Tourist. I added the title and the two yellow trend lines. The chart shows the daily price of gold since the inception of the bull market in 2000-2001. Last Friday (March 8th) gold popped $12 +/- (depending on the time from which you measure). I mentioned to some colleagues that "gold may be starting something special."The...Read More
By: Avi GilburtMany investors maintain beliefs about the stock market which often have them looking the wrong way at the market turns. In fact, I can no longer count how many comments I see about how the Fed is what directs our stock market action, and it just makes me scratch my head.The main argument by Fed watchers is that the Fed's easy money drives the stock market. Yet, the Fed's balance s...Read More
The broad averages have rallied from their Christmas lows almost as steeply as they got there in the fourth quarter. The first 2,000 points of the Dow's trampoline bounce took just seven trading days. At the time, we wrote that the trend would continue until even hardcore skeptics were convinced that new all-time highs were likely. That is what bear rallies are supposed to do. Well, another 1100...Read More
Louis joins Sean on SGTreport for a wide-ranging update on the economy, the markets, gold, silver, the US dollar, and a whole lot more...Louis Cammarosano interviewed by Sean on SGTreportLouis joins Sean on SGTreport for a wide-ranging update including the economy, the markets, gold, silver, the US dollar, and a whole lot more!Thanks for tuning-in to this wide ranging update in its entirety below...Read More
RAPAPORT... Debswana, De Beers' Botswana joint venture, has launched a new project set toextend the life of its Jwaneng mine until 2035. The Cut-9 expansion, which will cost Debswana approximately$2 billion, is expected to produce an estimated 53 million carats of roughdiamonds, the company said Monday. "With global consumer demand for diamonds reaching recordlevels in 2018, the extension wi...Read More
RAPAPORT... A pink diamond from Namibia's offshore drilling programfetched $17,000 per carat at a tender in Antwerp. The 5.71-carat stone fetched $97,076 at the sale, the firstDiamond Fields Resources has held since resuming mining in 2018, it said lastweek. The company also sold 47,298 carats of high-quality whiteand colored rough stones for $1.1 million, it noted. It sold all the diamonds...Read More
RAPAPORT... Mining operations at Alrosa's Mir deposit won't resume until at least 2030, as the company carries out work on the site that could take up to 13 years. It will take approximately five years for the miner to conduct deep-levelexploration and designwork that will enable it to open the site safely. That will costthe company RUB 2 billion ($30.9 million), Alrosa said Monday. Alr...Read More
Albert Milton, the managing director of Botswana's Debswana Diamond Mining, announced that Debswana aims to keep production at around 24 million carats this year, Reuters reported. Debswana is a joint venture between De Beers and Botswana's government. In 2018, Debswana's production increased with six percent, reaching 24.1 million carats, its highest output in the past four years. Th...Read More
Alrosa reported last week that net profit had risen with some 15 percent to reach $1.4 billion in 2018. The announcement followed earlier reports that the company's sales volume had dropped with eight percent compared to 2017. Higher price levels for goods sold, however, caused sales to rise $4.4 billion, a value increase of six percent, the leading diamond miner said. "The key financial d...Read More
LONDON – Russian State-controlled miner Alrosa will assess the quality of Zimbabwe's diamond reserves over the next six months but would only start mining if it can take a majority stake in such a project, the company's chief executive said on Monday.Zimbabwe is seeking to attract investment and has scrapped legislation that restricts foreign participation for some commodities. It ha...Read More