GDXX News and Press, ProShares Ultra Gold Miners From 02/22/20

The dollar is the king of currencies. As the world's reserve currency, the US greenback is the foreign exchange instrument that central banks around the world hold as part of their reserves. At the same time, the dollar is the benchmark pricing mechanism for most commodities. Raw materials are...

Brazil and gold are two markets going in opposite directions. The Brazilian market has suffered for years because of political corruption. The election of Jair Bolsonaro in October 2018 raised hopes that the economy of South America's leading nation would improve. President Bolsonaro ran on an...

Central Banks were sellers of gold around the turn of the century, with the price of the precious metal below $300 per ounce. The Bank of England sold half of the United Kingdom's gold reserves via an auction that pushed the price to a low of just over $250 in August 1999. After a double-botto...

The gold miners' stocks are still stalled, mostly grinding sideways despite higher prevailing gold prices. This lack of progress is really frustrating traders, slowly shifting herd psychology towards apathy. That's the mission of high consolidations, gradually rebalancing sentiment by bleeding...

It is hard to believe that back in the early 1980s, a US 30-Year Treasury Bond offered an almost 20% yield. In the days when inflationary pressures were roaring, a $100,000 investment in a US Treasury bond paid the holder a coupon of $20,000 each year over the thirty-year life of the fixed inc...

Gold and silver have been around as means of exchange or hard currency for a lot longer than all of the currencies issued by governments as legal tender. The instruments that trade in the global foreign exchange market have the backing of the full faith and credit of the countries that print t...

The bull market in gold did begin in 2019. At the turn of this century, the Bank of England was in the process of liquidating half its reserves of the yellow metal. The central bank sold around 300 metric tons of gold via an auction that sent the price down to a low of $252.50 per ounce in Aug...

A healthy market often makes a statement. Last week while other commodity prices and markets across all asset classes were moving lower, gold displayed incredible strength. During the height of the global financial crisis, the price of gold dropped like a stone. The price had just made a new h...

A sign of a bull market is when the price of an asset has many reasons to move lower, but the price remains stable or even moves higher. Over recent sessions, the world has become focused on a virus spreading in China and to other countries around the world. When China catches an economic cold...

Silver has been volatile in 2020 as the precious metal has traded in a range from $17.28 to $18.895 on the nearby March futures contract since the end of last year. Like gold, silver is money and one of the oldest means of exchange in the world. Gold has been attracting buying during the lates...