By Steve St. AngeloThe world is standing at the edge of the financial abyss while most investors are entirely in the dark. However, specific indicators suggest the market is one giant RED BLINKING LIGHT. One of these indicators is the amount of margin debt held by investors. What is quite surprising about the level of investor margin debt is that it has hit a new record high even though th...Read More

Source: Jack Chan for Streetwise Reports 07/02/2018 Jack Chan's updated charts for the precious metals markets include a look at how the Canadian dollar relates to gold and silver prices. --> Our proprietary cycle indicator is down. The 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. The gol...Read More

By David HaggithEven the best day of the year for stocks in the United States struggled to pull this market into better shape. While summer is a down period overall for stocks, July 2nd holds the position of being historically the most bullish day of all for the S&P 500. Why? The S&P 500 shows an average return of +.32% on July 2nd and is, at least, positive 83.33% of the time. The Dow turns in...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:GoldCore's daily blog today reprints analysis by Jim Rickards in his latest Gold Speculator letter arguing that the great "global monetary reset" often speculated about is already underway, as indicated by the recent close correlation between the gold price and the International Monetary Fund's super-currency, the Special Drawing Right, which began shortly after the...Read More

What a fall! The price of gold dropped about $100 since mid-April, or about $50 since mid-June. What is happening in the precious metals market? World Is Dangerous, but Gold Falls in Q2 Let's analyze the chart below. As one can see, the second quarter of 2018 was not good for gold. The yellow metal lost almost 6 percent. June was particularly negative for gold, which dropped more than 4 percen...Read More

Via GEFIRA,The new Italian government will increase public spending and public debt.It promised to reduce taxes, introduce basic security and reform pensions. Italy's Northern League's leader Mateo Salvini surged in the polls and the party is now the strongest in Italy.A couple of years ago it was inconceivable that this regional group could become Italy's leading political party. We should exp...Read More

Gold needs to trade over $1236 for the whole day to prevent a crash. Silver needs to trade over $15.60 to prevent a sell off. Copper needs to trade over $2.91 to prevent a sell off. Crude oil will zoom if it manages to break and trade over $75.20. Trading volumes in the USA session will reduce. Financial markets will not sleep. Volatility will remain on the higher side. Economics & Trump trade...Read More

Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has reduced its rebar prices for Russia's Central region, following similar action by fellow steelmaker Severstal, which decreased its offers last week.Metal Bulletin's domestic prices for Russian 12mm A500C rebar narrowed downward on July 2 by 1,000 roubles per tonne to 37,000-37,500 roubles ($585-593) per tonne cpt Moscow, including...Read More

Zinc prices on the London Metal Exchange struggled at the close of trading on Tuesday July 3, falling 1.1% over the afternoon and dipping below $2,800 per tonne for the first time since August 2017 amid broadly bearish trading conditions. "The base metals complex this morning remains uninspiring, with most metal prices struggling to attract dip-buying interest. The LME zinc price is still trading...Read More

CIS export rebar and wire rod prices remained largely unchanged in the week ended Monday July 2 because buying activity was reduced.Metal Bulletin's weekly assessment of rebar export prices from the CIS widened downward by $5 per tonne to $545-575 per tonne fob Black Sea on July 2.There were not many offers of rebar because most mills have almost closed their order books for July.Several market pa...Read More

Prices in the steel billet export market in the Black Sea region continued to fall on Tuesday July 3, with customers in the major outlets still showing little interest in imported material.Metal Bulletin's CIS billet export index was $510 per tonne fob Black Sea on Tuesday, down by $6 per tonne day-on-day.Offer prices of the material varied mainly within the range of $515-520 per tonne fob Black S...Read More

The latest metal markets news and price moves for the start of the North American day on Tuesday July 3.Base metals on the London Metal Exchange edged higher during morning trading, supported by a downtick in the dollar index, while turbulent trade relations between the United States and major economies continue to destabilize commodities.Here's how base metals prices looked at 11:56am London time...Read More

Good morning from Metal Bulletin's offices in Asia as we bring you the latest news and pricing stories on Tuesday July 3.Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were little changed to slightly stronger during Asian morning trading on Tuesday, with a firmer dollar following healthy data releases from the United States putting a cap on any price gains. Lead was the outperformer of the SH...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jul 3 (SMM) – Manganese producers in Songtao county, Guizhou province are likely to resume production in early July after they failed to resume as scheduled in late June as inspections were incomplete. Only one producer resumed operation after inspection, but was suspended again on June 29, SMM learned.  On June 29, the Songtao environmental bureau ord...Read More

Even when gold ran to $1,370 in early April, gold mining stocks were trading like garbage. Many of us were baffled at what was going on. Aren't the mining stocks supposed to lead the metals? Well, yes they are and they still do! Apparently the gold/silver shares were trading poorly because they were forecasting a weaker gold/silver price...what a concept!What has definitely been missing with these...Read More

When the price of silver finally takes off and starts to outperform gold, those gains can be life changing. Here's why...Daniel Ameduri interviewed on Silver Bullion TVDaniel also shares about how silver demand from electric vehicle applications and renewable energy will rise.Discussed in this interview:Gold price and Fed rate hikeGold is a cash position, not an investmentBullion vs mining stocksB...Read More

Harvey says there is a scramble to get silver from the U.S. as supply dwindles around the rest of the world. Here's the details...by Harvey Organ of Harvey Organ BlogJULY 2/ANOTHER RAID WITH GOLD DOWN $12.15 TO $1240.90 AND SILVER DOWN 31 CENTS TO $15.83/THREE HUGE COMMENTARIES THAT YOU MUST READ TONIGHT: 1. NICHOLAS BIEZENEK ON EFP'S/ 2. ROB KIRBY ON DEUTSCHE BANK'S PROBLEM AND HOW THEY ARE BEING...Read More

Zinc prices on the London Metal Exchange struggled at the close of trading on Tuesday July 3, falling 1.1% over the afternoon and dipping below $2,800 per tonne for the first time since August 2017 amid broadly bearish trading conditions. "The base metals complex this morning remains uninspiring, with most metal prices struggling to attract dip-buying interest. The LME zinc price is still trading...Read More

Peter KrauthThe price of silver has been punished since the last Fed rate hike, but are we close to a bottom?Thanks to a strong rally in the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY), where it climbed 180 basis points in just two weeks, silver prices have been stuck in the doghouse.Silver followed gold lower, succumbing to historic selling pressure. That's caused already negative sentiment to get even worse.However...Read More

Comex copper prices were slightly lower on Tuesday July 3 morning in the US, with trade shallow ahead of the Fourth of July holliday.Copper for September settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange inched down 0.10 cents or 0.1% to $2.9430 per lb. The contract now sits at its lowest point since August 2017.Base metals have...Read More