The gold market has been mired in a four-and-a-half year basing pattern. The rally that began late last year has taken prices up toward a major resistance zone. It's make or break time!Also, on the cusp of a potentially big move is the bond market.Bonds haven't been making headlines like the stock market, but where the bond market heads next could be crucial for stocks as well as metals (not to me...Read More

While Gold is very close to a major breakout(in price) its strength has not filtered down to Silver yet. Gold is 3% awayfrom a major breakout and comfortably above its long-term moving averages.However, Silver is well below its 2016 high and is currently battling its200-day moving average. But that is okay. Silver typically lags andunderperforms Gold until Gold gains momentum or breaks key resista...Read More

CloseGain/LossGold $1334.60+$2.40Silver$17.01-$0.01XAU88.31+0.38%HUI197.66+0.37%GDM663.51+0.15%JSE Gold1268.77-28.92USD90.39-0.28Euro122.60+0.41Yen90.10-0.32Oil$63.49+$0.1210-Year2.660%-0.001T-Bond148.75-0.25Dow26214.60+0.55%Nasdaq7408.03+0.98%S&P2832.97+0.81% The Metals: Gold waffled between $1335.60 and $1328.60 in Asia before it climbed back up to $1335.50 in late morning New York trade...Read More

Every week there is some news to for traders and investors to think about. Long term and medium term investors need not scrutinize news in a big way. Short term investors and day traders have to look at each and every news item as it is difficult to predict a reaction after any news. One should have key technical support before hand with him. One should also look for breakout price points and th...Read More

The financial media is finally catching on to something we've been screaming about for years...That the Fed's preferred metric for measuring inflation is a complete joke.Making matters more difficult, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge does a pitiful job of capturing the quandary facing many households that live paycheck to paycheck. The so-called core PCE is the central bank's go-to inflation me...Read More

History has a funny way of sneaking up on you and biting you in the behind. The philosopher, George Santayana said, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." There are many paraphrases of the same statement.And so it is with markets. Markets are driven by two things-fear and greed. These two fundamental human emotions play themselves out over and over again. The study of mar...Read More

Import prices for steel billet and slab in Southeast Asia held steady over the past week, with end-users of the former and non-Chinese mills being slow to react to lower offers from China, while the rainy season dampened demand for the latter.Metal Bulletin's assessment of import prices for billet in Southeast Asia was $530-545 per tonne cfr for the week ended Monday January 22, unchanged from a w...Read More

"I don't believe in overuse [of technology]. I'm not a person that says we've achieved success if you're using it all the time. I don't subscribe to that at all."Continue...Read More

Hello EveryoneIt is much fun having the opportunity again to make a presentation here in Vancouver on behalf of The Gold Anti- Trust Action Committee ... in order to expose the manipulation of the gold/silver markets by The Gold Cartel.My first trip here was 19 years ago for an arranged meeting at the airport with Normandy Mining Chairman Robert Champion DeCrespigny on his way back to Australia....Read More

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - MGX Minerals Inc. ("MGX" or the "Company") (CSE:XMG) (FKT:1MG) (OTCQB:MGXMF) is pleased to report that joint venture partner Power Metals Corp. ("Power Metals") has completed initial drilling and intersected lithium mineralization on the Northeast Dyke at the Case Lake Property in Ontario (see figure 1). The Winter 2018 drill progra...Read More

In the forests of Colombia, a record-breaking discovery was made.A 1759-caratemerald was uncovered from the Coscuez mine. It is now part of the collectionof the Banco Nazionale of Columbia. The massive jewel could be worth as much as$17 million, based on current per-carat estimates. And the mine where it was found has only been partially excavated. Whichmeans there could be hundreds, maybe thousan...Read More

By Stefan Gleason The gold market has been mired in a four-and-a-half year basing pattern. The rally that began late last year has taken prices up toward a major resistance zone. It's make or break time!Also, on the cusp of a potentially big move is the bond market. Bonds haven't been making headlines like the stock market, but where the bond market heads next could be crucial for stocks as we...Read More

Pension Crisis And Deficit of ?2.6B At Carillion To Impact UK Pensions- Carillion collapses leaving a ?900 million debt pile and 30,000 pensions at risk- Carillion PLC share price has collapsed 94% in last twelve months- Private analysis of Carillion's pension deficit reveals it to be as high as ?2.6 billion- Figure adds to the UK's ongoing pension crisis, both private and state are severely...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices charted a strong rebound on Monday January 22 on big gains in the billet market over the weekend. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,900-3,950 yuan ($609-617) per tonne, up 100 yuan per tonne Northern China (Beijing): 4,000-4,030 yuan per tonne, up 180 yuan per tonne The price of billet rose 50 yuan per tonne during the weekend on active trading, which sparked bulli...Read More

Full Article: Recipe calls for a broad commodities rally in 2018By: Frank HolmesAt the beginning of every year, we update what's typically one of our most popular pages, the Periodic Table of Commodity Returns. I encourage you to explore 10 years' worth of data on basic materials such as aluminum, zinc and everything in between. A word of warning, though-the interactive feature makes the table...Read More

By Avi GilburtFor those that follow me regularly, you will know that I have been tracking a set up for the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), which I analyze as a proxy for the metals market. I believe that the GDX can outperform the general equity market once we confirm a long term break out has begun, and I think we can see it in occur in early 2018.Since I have been on vacation for the la...Read More

We have been discussing the consumption of capital. We again must say:"We see people eating more of the seed corn."Right now as we write this on Saturday afternoon, the US government has "shut down", due to a political impasse on the legislation to fund its continuing operations. Government funding is a mix of taxing and borrowing. Government borrowing provides a segue into another mechanism of ca...Read More

The latest ferro-tungsten and ammonium paratungstate (APT) transactions, bids, offers and assessments in Europe, Vietnam and China. Blue tungsten oxide (BTO) and yellow tungsten oxide (YTO) deals are taken into consideration.To view the latest price quotations, follow the links below:China- APT, fob China- Ferro-tungsten, fob ChinaEurope- APT, cif Rotterdam- Ferro-tungsten, in-warehouse RotterdamF...Read More

By Frank HolmesStrengths? The best performing metal this week was platinum, up 1.92 percent as traders boosted their net long position. Gold traders remain bullish on the yellow metal for a second week as gold reached the highest since September on Monday, reports Bloomberg. The U.S. dollar posted five straight weekly losses, even as U.S. Treasury yields rose. Earlier in the we...Read More

"This year, right after the Fed rate increase we've had an upward slope. If we extrapolate out what happened in the past two years, I think we can hit a $1,425, assuming the $1,365 level gets taken out." Read More