CEF News and Press, Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust Units From 03/16/20

Risk-off periods in markets are nothing new. The first significant case was the stock market crash of 1929 that heralded in the Great Depression. Since markets reflect the global economic and political landscapes, there have been many examples of times when the stock market and other asset pri...

By Dimitry Dayen, CFA and Jeffrey Schulze, CFA In a flashback to the 2014 Thanksgiving massacre, the OPEC+ deal to further cut crude oil production was blocked last week by Russia, which refused to cut its own production significantly under an ultimatum from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco init...

The price of nickel rose to highs in 2019 as the world's leading producing nation, Indonesia, moved forward its mineral export ban of the metal to January 1, 2020. Source: Nickel production top countries 2019 - Statista While Indonesian output leads the world, the Philippines is the ...

Gold has been moving aggressively higher since breaking to the upside above the July 2016 high at $1377.50 last June. The most recent high in the yellow metal came on Sunday night, March 8, at $1704.30 per ounce as gold touched a level that was $326.80 or 23.7% above its level of critical tech...

As it has become tradition, Goldmoney's leadership team - Roy Sebag, James Turk, Alasdair Macleod and Stefan Wieler - were joined by a special guest, former Member of the European Parliament Godfrey Bloom, to film the Goldmoney Roundtable and Outlook video on February 29, 2020. A myriad of t...

Platinum is a rare metal. The overwhelming bulk of annual production comes from two countries, South Africa and Russia. In South Africa, the output comes from primary production in mines that are deep in the crust of the earth. In Russia, platinum and other platinum group metals are byproducts...

In 2019, the precious metals sector of the commodities market was, by far, the best-performing area in the asset class. The composite of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium rose 28.93% last year. The rise was almost double the level of the second-leading sector, which was energy with a gain ...

The two co-chief investment officers of the biggest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, can't seem to agree with each other about whether the boom-bust cycle as we know it still exists. Even so, both seem to agree - if in an oblique and convoluted way - that gold is headed much hi...

The prices of two of the three platinum group metals have been on fire over the past years. In 2016, the price of platinum traded to a low of $812.20 per ounce. On Friday, January 31, the nearby April futures contract was at $963 per ounce, a gain of 18.6% over the past four years. Platinum ha...

This is the story of how the Chinese central bank manipulates premiums on gold traded over the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Evidence suggests that since 2017 the Chinese central bank is artificially elevating premiums on gold traded at the Shanghai Gold Exchange ((SGE)) by roughly 0.5%. A Reu...