GLDW News and Press, SPDR Long Dollar Gold Trust From 04/01/20

Commodity demand reflected in futures - and ETF - prices. No doubt about it: the COVID-19 outbreak has wreaked havoc on worldwide markets. While demand surges, albeit raggedly, for safe-haven assets such as gold, equities have been slammed. A double whammy has been dished on the oil market...

Many comparisons are being made between the current predicament that the United States and the rest of the world finds itself in and the Great Depression of the 1930s. This current time will certainly be a period that historians in the future will have a lot to write about, culturally, geopoli...

I received a text message from a CEO of certain junior explorer yesterday: Gold up $100 on ounce - you don't get to say that very often! His moment of joy was swiftly followed by a drop of similar magnitude, which has been less of a rarity of late. In the end, gold settled at around $7...

To better understand the economic consequences of the Corona pandemic, I wanted to interview an expert on economic crises. Namely, Tuomas Malinen. Malinen is the CEO and Chief Economist of GnS Economics, a macroeconomic consultancy. He's also an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Universi...

A black swan is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is usually expected of a situation and potentially severe consequences. Black swan events are rate, have a severe impact, and many people often insist they were apparent in hindsight. The last significant black swan in financial market...

The wrath of the margin call selling spared no one, as safe havens including gold ( GLD ) and Treasuries ( TLT ) were also dumped during the epic collapse of the stock market. Particularly for gold, the slump wiped out 7+% year-to-date gains and turned negative within a matter of 2 weeks. S...

Introduction Global economies are in a state of turmoil, to put it mildly with billions of dollars being wiped off stock markets on an almost daily basis. Our focus is on the precious metals mining ((PM)) sector which has also been battered but a little too much in my very humble opinion. ...

Macro News Global: The past few weeks were marked by radical changes in monetary policy conducted by central banks around the world. The Fed, which has already cut its benchmark rate by 150bps into 0 percent, announced an open-ended QE that will include purchases of corporate bonds and loa...

The London Bullion Market Association and several major gold-trading banks have asked U.S. exchange operator CME to allow gold bars in London to be used to settle its contracts to ease disruption to trading, Reuters reports. More news on: SPDR Gold Trust ETF, iShares Gold Trust ETF, Spro...

The gap between paper and physical gold and silver markets is at extremes. Premiums on physical delivery from retail sellers are very high, delivery delays are long, and supplies are short. The gap between the paper markets and the physical markets cannot last. The gap is bound to close, with ...