CEF News and Press, Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust Units From 12/13/19

As macro forces are changing the world and the US dollar’s status as world’s reserve currency is in question, investors are going to need an asset that is no one else’s liability, Electrum Group Chairman Thomas Kaplan told Real Vision in an interview with Dan Tapier...

As a start, let's look at how gold correlates with other markets. This helps us to better understand which driver is the most important for gold at the moment. Gold is a protective asset and, therefore, a fall or a rise of the stock market should have an effect on its value. But there is no ...

Gold broke out to the upside in June 2019 when the US Fed told markets that interest rates would decline by the end of the year. The price moved out of a $331.30 trading range that had been in place since 2014 when it broke above the post-Brexit peak at $1377.50 per ounce. Gold proceeded to ...

Author's note : This article was initially released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on Nov. 7, 2019. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence...

Americas Gold and Silver Corporation ( USAS ) is a company that explores for silver, lead, zinc, and copper. Gold is a small bonus for the company as it is present in the ores. The company has been around since 1998 and changed its name in 2019. USAS's headquarters are in Toronto, Ontario, Can...

Introduction: Sprott Inc. ( OTCPK:SPOXF ) is an asset management company focused predominately on managing funds, ETFs, and other investment products in the precious metal space. The organization is headquartered in Toronto, was founded in the 1980s by Eric Sprott, and is listed on the ...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on November 11, 2019. In an earlier blog post I discussed the relationship between gold and inflation expectations. Contrary to popular opinion, gold tends to perform relatively poorly when inflation expectations are rising and relati...

In a September report, the World Gold Council ((WGC)) pointed out that some investors are underexposed to gold. The gist of the study is that investors may assume they have adequate exposure to gold because they’re invested in a fund that tracks a broad-based commodity index. The proble...

Commodities are an alternative asset class. Stocks and bonds tend to attract most investors. Commodities have a reputation as volatile assets that can experience wide price variance. Raw materials are global assets. Production comes from regions of the world where the crust of the earth cont...

Growing evidence of an economic downturn despite unprecedented monetary inflation since Lehman means a new credit and systemic crisis is becoming increasingly certain. In an attempt to prevent a new crisis developing, this time the scale of monetary inflation by the authorities will have to b...