GLDW News and Press, SPDR Long Dollar Gold Trust From 04/29/20

What a few weeks it has been in the commodities markets. Crude oil fell 50% from early April to its current price while gold has continued its march higher. Looking longer term, we had to adjust our y-axis on the continuous prompt-month WTI chart below as the May contract collapsed below $0 ...

After a more than 50-year bear market in gold stocks, things are coming together to create virtually perfect conditions for gold stocks. Gold prices are at (or near) all-time highs in most currencies, and will likely continue to rise over the coming years. Commodity prices are at lows and st...

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 ...

Now that the bullion banks are covering their decades-old short gold derivatives positions, it's time to buy gold. If the banks don't want to be short, it's time to go long. The recent blowout of the COMEX April 2020 futures contract price above the London spot price is evidence of this action...

By John Hathaway Gold continues to deliver strong relative performance and is up 12.97% on a year-to-date basis through April 22, 2020, versus -12.84% for the S&P 500 Total Return Index. 1 As of April 22, 2020 * Average annual total returns. Source: FactSet. COVID-19: The P...

The gold miners' stocks surged to a major bull-market breakout this week! Powering decisively above their years-old secular resistance is a hugely-important technical event. It proves this gold-stock bull is alive and well, greatly improves sentiment, and puts this high-flying sector on countl...

The coronavirus outbreak and the effects of COVID-19 have gone deeper and wider than most people would have expected. That applies just as much to markets as anywhere. Whether it's a tech sector that is supporting our new work from home or re-rating as expensive EV/Sales multiples make less se...

During the 2008 financial crisis the Fed significantly increased the US monetary base to keep the system from collapse. They are currently in a similar situation, and have done (is doing) the exact same thing. Here is a chart of the US monetary base to illustrate the similarity: With the...

Gold coin demand makes up a small part of total demand, and thus doesn’t have much impact on the gold price. Demand for gold coins must be seen as a retail sentiment indicator. In the gold space, it is often assumed that whenever demand for gold coins rises and the premiums thes...

Gold’s “fear factor” is stronger now than it has been at any time since the 2008 credit crisis. Investors are more interested in capital preservation than in capital gains, and with investors facing the genuine threat of economic depression, gold is poised to attract even ...