GLDW News and Press, SPDR Long Dollar Gold Trust From 03/20/20

My sense is that yesterday marked the extremes of panic, despair, capitulation, short-covering, and anguish. As emotions cool, even as Covid-19 cases soar and deaths rise, we are beginning to see the light at the end of this tunnel. There are several drugs that are now available as therapeut...

Gold underperformance during periods of panic is not new. If you look at the Great Financial Crisis, you'll see that the same happened then. The gold price peaked in July and then went on to lose 27% of its value. (Source: Seeking Alpha ) More interestingly, gold then started a rally unti...

We will be discussing John Exter’s pyramid and its role in assessing market investment value and risk. However, though I like Exter’s pyramid from a macroeconomic perspective, it is not necessarily designed to help individual investors plan their portfolios around market liquidit...

The 2008 financial crisis in the US and around the world was a period where the housing and mortgage-backed securities meltdown and European sovereign debt crisis caused investors and traders to scurry to the sidelines as prices fell precipitously. The prices of almost all markets across all a...

Original Post By Stuart Burns The price of all precious metals plummeted on Friday and again on Monday as investors sort to liquidate profitable positions to raise cash. Gold, in particular, has been the victim of its own success, rising strongly this quarter on the back of growing...

Everybody is blaming coronavirus for the collapsing financial markets. This is not the reason. The reason is the reckless Federal Reserve. Imagine a situation when an individual has AIDS and he/she dies from a light cold. It is not the cold that killed the person. It is AIDS that caused the ...

The close price relationship between silver and gold is nothing new. The silver/gold ratio dates back to 3000 BC when the first Egyptian pharaoh Menes declared that tow and one-half parts silver equal one-part gold. Silver and gold began trading on the futures exchange in the 1970s. Until rece...

US economic growth caused the Federal Reserve to tighten credit from December 2015 until mid-2019. Last year, the trade war between the US and China and a sharp correction in US stocks and other markets in the final quarter of 2018 caused the Fed to pivot to a policy of monetary policy easing....

Risk-off periods in markets are nothing new. The first significant case was the stock market crash of 1929 that heralded in the Great Depression. Since markets reflect the global economic and political landscapes, there have been many examples of times when the stock market and other asset pri...

Gold investors need to be prepared for this upcoming week as it has the potential to change gold market sentiment significantly. Source: US Global Investors While we were writing this article, the Federal Reserve made an emergency rate cut and introduced QE5 to try and add liquidity to...