DSLV News and Press, Credit Suisse AG From 05/15/20

A recent spate of news concerning the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China has sent investors scurrying to the safety of the precious metals. In this report, we’ll look at how financial market weakness and geopolitical concerns involving China typically result in higher go...

The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will likely become clear by the end of the second quarter. The unemployment rate is already an astounding 14.7% (and in reality closer to 20%). Initial claims remain at stratospheric levels, though they have come down in recent weeks. GDP growth fell to...

At the end of last week, the price of silver was sitting around the $15.80 per ounce level on the active month July futures contract on COMEX. Meanwhile, gold was just below $1720 per ounce. To say that silver has underperformed gold over the past months would be an understatement. Silver ca...

We met with Stuart Englert, who has spent his career as a writer, reporter, and publisher. He documents in his new book, Rigged: Exposing the Largest Financial Fraud in History , how he came to believe that the precious metals futures markets were rigged using publicly available information a...

Original post By Stuart Burns Something peculiar is going on in the precious metals markets. The Financial Times reports on the dramatic rise in silver ETF holdings as investors bet on a rally in silver after the gap between gold and the industrial metal soared to its widest...

The price of gold dropped $29 and the price of silver dropped $0.27. We'll get back to where we think the prices are likely to go in a bit. In recent reports , we've looked at the elevated bid-ask spread in gold (though not nearly as elevated as some goldbugs would have you believe) and the...

The ProShares UltraPro Short S&P 500 ETF ( SPXU ) is one of the most popular instruments to short the broad market for trading or hedging purposes. However, its daily leverage factor is a source of drift. It must be closely monitored to detect changes in the drift regime. This article expl...

Video Transcript Hello and welcome to Asset TV. The coronavirus health crisis has led to historic sell-offs and a flight to safety. Joining us today to discuss gold is Joe Foster, Portfolio Manager at VanEck. Joe, thanks for being with us. Joe Foster: Hello, Jenna. It's nice to be h...

Silver is powering higher in a new bull market after getting clobbered in March’s stock panic. Investors have been flocking back to silver in the aftermath of that ultra-rare extreme-fear event. That brutal selloff also utterly wiped out speculators’ upside bets in silver futures...

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 ...