CEF News and Press, Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust Units From 04/17/20

I've been a bear on this market since the beginning and have taken opportunities to move into cash and increase my positions in gold and silver trusts ( PSLV ) ( PHYS ) and ( CEF ). I've been the one pounding the pavement that, regardless of the outcome, people will be loathed to head back t...

The precious metals sector of the commodities market posted a loss over the first quarter of 2020 despite gains in palladium and gold. Rhodium moved higher, but silver and platinum both fell sharply. The spectacular rise in digital currencies throughout 2017 came to a brutal end in 2018 as...

Commodity demand reflected in futures - and ETF - prices. No doubt about it: the COVID-19 outbreak has wreaked havoc on worldwide markets. While demand surges, albeit raggedly, for safe-haven assets such as gold, equities have been slammed. A double whammy has been dished on the oil market...

Macro News Global: The past few weeks were marked by radical changes in monetary policy conducted by central banks around the world. The Fed, which has already cut its benchmark rate by 150bps into 0 percent, announced an open-ended QE that will include purchases of corporate bonds and loa...

Coronavirus continues to spread around the world. Dozens of "second world" and first world countries are now where the U.S. was three weeks ago. Three weeks ago, most of America had not come to grips with what was about to happen. Most of the world hadn't. Three weeks ago, the S&P 500 ...

This has been a historic month for global markets across almost all asset classes, representing the conclusion of a bull market in U.S. equities that lasted for more than a decade. It might also be at or near the conclusion of a 40-year bull market in U.S. Treasuries that began in the early ...

Well that escalated quickly! When I originally sat down to write this on Friday afternoon, the Federal Reserve had just announced the day before that it planned to inject further liquidity into markets, and did so barely over week after it announced a 50-point cut to its benchmark rate. I ...

Original Post By Stuart Burns The price of all precious metals plummeted on Friday and again on Monday as investors sort to liquidate profitable positions to raise cash. Gold, in particular, has been the victim of its own success, rising strongly this quarter on the back of growing...

The close price relationship between silver and gold is nothing new. The silver/gold ratio dates back to 3000 BC when the first Egyptian pharaoh Menes declared that tow and one-half parts silver equal one-part gold. Silver and gold began trading on the futures exchange in the 1970s. Until rece...

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...