CEF News and Press, Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust Units From 07/27/20

Gold and silver prices continued to shine over the past week as gold was flirting with the $1900 level, and silver broke out to the upside in spectacular fashion. Aside from the unprecedented levels of liquidity from central banks and programs from governments worldwide, the US dollar index ...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist The first half of 2020 had come in with a bang, and the market quickly hit all-time highs on February 19th. This was even as COVID-19 was beginning to spread around the globe. After reaching those all-time highs, the market quickl...

I meet with Florian Grummes , fellow Seeking Alpha author, regarding the economy and precious metals markets. We discuss the following points: Negative interest rates and what the Fed may do; Why gold becomes more attractive as interest rates fall; Gold's chart is overbought now but h...

Monday got off to a good start on Wall Street, as major market benchmarks moved higher. As we've seen on several occasions recently, the Nasdaq Composite reasserted its dominance in the current market move higher, soaring more than 2.5% to close at a new record high. More-muted gains for the ...

I discuss the silver futures market, and the signs that COMEX data is giving us about the direction of silver prices. How open interest has exploded in a very small market How the contracts standing for delivery of 69 million ounces for July dwarf previous data How JPMorgan (JPM) moved...

In the chart below, we show the year-to-date performance through last Friday of several different commodities. Fitting for a year with a pandemic ravaging the globe, vitamin C is in demand as orange juice is actually the top performing commodity year to date with a gain of 33.6%. Behind OJ, ...

Gold's Stock-To-Flow Ratio Gold's stock-to-flow model simply tries to measure the scarcity or abundance of gold. It does this by understanding the "stock" and the "flow" of gold. The stock is the amount of gold that has already been mined and currently exists in the marketplace. The "flow"...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Dividend cuts for closed-end funds were something that we certainly anticipated throughout this latest sell-off. Not only is that playing a role in CEFs, but will in ETFs and individual stocks just the same. This might be more pre...

Precious metals investors have cause for being optimistic after this week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting. With bad news in abeyance in recent weeks, gold has lacked a headline-related catalyst and consequently was stuck in neutral. However, the Fed’s recently stated intention t...

A new bull market in equities has removed some of the sheen from gold, leaving some to wonder if the gold bull is dying. But while worries over the U.S. economic outlook are dwindling, worries over U.S. and global social unrest have emerged to keep gold’s safety factor intact. At the sa...