DSLV News and Press, Credit Suisse AG From 04/27/20

Sound money advocates have been proclaiming that “the Fed can’t print gold” pretty much since the end of the last gold standard in 1971. But no one outside our little echo chamber paid attention, fixating instead on what the Fed could print: trillions of dollars ...

Open interest is the total number of open long and short positions in a futures market. The metric can be a useful tool when it comes to understanding the behavior of market participants. In silver, speculative interest tends to drive the price. Sentiment is a powerful force in the precious me...

The coronavirus outbreak and the effects of COVID-19 have gone deeper and wider than most people would have expected. That applies just as much to markets as anywhere. Whether it's a tech sector that is supporting our new work from home or re-rating as expensive EV/Sales multiples make less se...

Gold coin demand makes up a small part of total demand, and thus doesn’t have much impact on the gold price. Demand for gold coins must be seen as a retail sentiment indicator. In the gold space, it is often assumed that whenever demand for gold coins rises and the premiums thes...

Silver is known as "the poor man's gold" because it has always been cheaper than its yellow cousin due to its relative abundance. There is approximately 19 times more silver in the earth's crust than gold. Back when both metals were money, it took 16 to 25 ounces of silver to buy one ounce of ...

Editors' Note: This is the transcript of the video we posted April 13th. Please note that due to time and audio constraints, transcription may not be perfect. We encourage you to listen to the video as well as a combined podcast featuring two other interviews along with this one, embedded b...

The price of gold has been up steadily for the last 30 days (with a few zigs and zags), now re-attaining the high it achieved prior to the big drop in March. Gold ended the week at $1,662. Alas, it's not quite the same story in silver, whose price drop was bigger. Now its price blip is smaller...

by Daniel Shvartsman We recently published a roundtable discussion on the macro environment, and our panel agreed generally that whatever this market has become, we're still in the early phases of how that plays out. And with a bunch of unknowns that are knocking each other about - an un...

Which would you choose? There are many commentators suggesting that the gold silver ratio is nearing a top at present. Here and here are good examples. I am not of that opinion and consider that it will keep climbing for the next 10 years at least. Below is a chart of the gold silver rat...

Silver is blasting higher after mid-March's stock-panic-spawned near-crash. This normal oversold mean reversion looks like the start of something much bigger though. Speculators' positioning in silver futures utterly collapsed, leaving massive room for them to buy back in. And silver investmen...