DUST News and Press, Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bear 3X Shares From 01/29/21

The major gold miners’ upcoming Q4’20 financial and operational results ought to prove spectacular. Average prevailing gold prices last quarter stayed at their second-highest levels ever despite gold’s healthy correction. Meanwhile gold production likely continued...

The commodity price rally experienced throughout much of the third quarter accelerated significantly in the last quarter of 2020. Renewable energy markets received massive confidence boosts from advancements in "green" initiatives. In a very welcome turnaround following a year mar...

World gold production dropped by 5.4% in 2020 according to preliminary estimates released by GlobalData last week. Historically, mine production has generally increased every year since the 1970s. The pandemic notwithstanding, the biggest problem facing miners is that the easy to ...

The fate of the stock market and the outlook for gold are more intertwined than most realize. A bear market in U.S. equities seems inevitable within a short enough time frame to warrant acquiring meaningful exposure to uncorrelated assets such as gold. Gold mining stocks possess v...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority pegs the HKD to the USD at a range of 7.75-7.85. A rise in US yields threatens to disrupt this rigid currency peg. Hong Kong yields/rates would have to also rise as the HKMA buys HKD (reducing local HKD liquidity) and to prevent carry trade outflow...

I believe that there's a relatively high probability of another big move in the precious metals sector is coming. Without question, both metals could, and probably will, move much higher before some type of reset occurs that reincorporates gold and silver in the global monetary system...

Gold stocks’ young upleg remains intact despite January’s sharp selloff. While that did redraw and moderate GDX’s uptrend, this leading sector benchmark is still carving higher lows and higher highs. Unless that changes, there’s no reason to doubt this uple...

One aspect of the markets that is not mentioned in the mainstream media is that gold turned in its best year since 2010. The deteriorating health of the economy and financial system was exacerbated by the virus crisis. Currency depreciation through an expansion in the money supply...

Gold’s sharp Jobs-Friday plunge was fueled by cascading gold-futures selling by speculators. Their collective upside bets were relatively high heading into that day, with total longs above the gold-futures-selling-overhang threshold. So when gold started selling off overnight w...

Gold gained 25.1% or $381/oz in 2020, its largest annual percentage gain in ten years. Gold stocks also tumbled as investors sought to raise cash for margin calls, redemptions and risk-off positioning. Gold miners' performance outpaced gold for most of the year, despite some conso...