AAAU News and Press, Goldman Sachs Physical Gold ETF From 12/23/21

The gold market put in a modest rally on Wednesday to erase earlier losses. As of this Thursday, gold prices are little changed for the holiday-shortened week to come in at $1,814 an ounce - up about 0.5% since last Friday. White metals are outperforming. Silver shows a weekly advance...

Inflation is sizzling hot. Gold has historically served as an inflation hedge. So, why hasn’t gold caught a bid? Taper tantrums and fear of Fed rate hikes have generated massive confusion in the markets. People are selling gold when they should be heavily buying gold in the dip...

As inflation surged and real interest rates plunged in April, the Fed began to claim that all of these issues would be "transitory", and they maintained this position all the way to December. The hedge fund managers and institutional traders that make up the majority of the "Large Spe...

Ireland has bought gold for the first time in over a decade. Predictably, most voices in the gold community see this as a bullish sign. But what of the opinions of those who sold their gold to Ireland? Surely, these people believed the price will go down? One theory of what drives the...

Popular measures of inflation such as the CPI and the PPI are backward-looking, but the financial markets are always trying to look forward. An implication is that prices in the financial markets are influenced to a far greater degree by changes in the expected future CPI (inflation e...

Gold dropped to a low of 1754 just prior to the Fed’s announcement. Gold held 1760 support on a “closing” basis for the third time in a row. While encouraging, we have not broken any meaningful resistance yet. We need to at least take out the prior high of 35....

Gold disappointed despite soaring inflation. Speculative positions will probably remain a headwind for the next few months. Another big selloff is likely before sentiment aligns with fundamentals and ignites the next bull run. For further details see: Fool's Gold Revisit...

Investors who are bullish on gold may be interested in the gold miner sector given that gold miner performance typically magnifies the directional movement of gold prices. In addition to cost pressures, gold mining companies are also affected by other company-specific risks that are i...

The iShares Gold Trust ETF (IAU) provides excellent exposure to the physical gold market at competitive share prices. Total assets under management exceed $27 billion, but share amounts less than 50,000 shares are not redeemable for physical gold, less than SGOL's required amount of a...

The producer price index came out with the biggest number in 40 years. Gold is down 6% or 7% for the year and silver is down 14% or so for the year against these levels of inflation, which are at 40-year highs. The past few meetings, the Fed has just talked the markets down but ha...