DGZ News and Press, DB Gold Short ETN due February 15 2038 From 06/15/21

The global commodities complex continued to receive strong investor support over the past month as the world economy entered unfamiliar territory. All forms of transportation are experiencing delays (some intermittently), including ocean freight, air freight, trucking and rail. Ri...

There has been ample talk and plenty of anecdotal evidence of inflation this year, none of which has seemed to elicit much of a response from gold…until this month, that is. Market measures of five-year inflation expectations are currently in the 2.5% to 3.0% range, which is in...

We expect the price of services to join the bull market in commodities soon. Bitcoin is considered an inflation hedge and store of value due to its guaranteed scarcity. Could Bitcoin turn on a dime and head higher? Bitcoin may be a paradise for traders comfortable with big swi...

Regardless of the inflationary rhetoric we hear, the 10-year note is down to 1.53. Interest rates are not going up on the short end of the market, which is bullish for gold. We are seeing shortages in almost every sector of the economy. Food prices are also rising, globally. The k...

If the Federal Reserve’s recent intervention in both the stock and the bond markets is more extreme than Ben Bernanke’s, doesn’t that mean the reaction to any future tapering would be more extreme, too? It sure could be, given the subdued volatility we have seen i...

According to the US Treasury, the federal government owes $28.2 trillion. The debt was just under $25 trillion at the end of April a year ago. Purchasing power is strong, indeed. However, government debt is on an unsustainable trajectory. What if debtors could replace their dollar...

Gold formed a double bottom low at the end of March and has advanced in a very persistent narrow volatility range without pausing at any resistance levels. Gold mining equities have recovered similarly to gold bullion from the March lows. Comparing historical inflation expectation...

While it’s true that the RSI can become “embedded” above 70 for a time in a bull market, this is the exception, not the rule. When the RSI hits 70 or above, it is overbought, and the vast majority of the time, price falls thereafter, especially when accompanied wi...

The imminent introduction of Basel 3’s net stable funding ratio is going to have a major impact on the global banking system. The other side of a rising gold price is a falling purchasing power for the dollar. And it is unlikely to be restricted to gold. There is little dou...

The major asset classes delivered across-the-board gains for a second month in a row in May. Everything apart from cash was up last month, led by a sizzling rally in foreign inflation-linked government bonds. The FTSE Russell World Inflation Index ex-US surged 4.0% last month, the...