IAUF News and Press, iShares Gold Strategy ETF From 08/15/19

During the early morning of August 13, it looked like gold was poised to make another big move up again, after hitting a high of ~$1,534/oz. However, it was not meant to be as the yellow metal promptly sold off shortly after market open and is now currently trading at ~$1,501/oz. Source: G...

Last year at this time, the US Fed was still on a path of increasing short-term interest rates and reducing its swollen balance sheet. The period of tightening began in December 2015 when the Fed Funds rate lifted off from zero percent. The Fed then rolled out a rote program to reduce the lega...

By Paul O'Connor Paul O'Connor, Head of the UK-based Multi-Asset Team and Portfolio Manager on the International Opportunities Strategy, reflects on the recent developments in the U.S.-China trade war and discusses the potential impact of geopolitical uncertainty on economic and market se...

I am simply amazed at the articles I read about gold of late. It seems many have not learned from history. Yet, since anyone can publish an article on the internet, truth and intellectual honesty is no longer an impediment to publication. I am again hearing about how the Fed lowering the int...

We have recently written several essays about the fallacious concept of Gross Domestic Product. Among GDP's several fatal flaws, it goes up when capital is converted to consumer goods, when seed corn is served at the feast. So we proposed - and originally dismissed - the idea of a national ba...

My introduction to working in the commodities market came during the summer of 1977, when I worked delivering telex messages at the leading raw materials trading company in the world. In the days before email and computers, telexes or cables connected the traders and traffic clerks with counte...

David Morgan: "This is the real move in gold and silver… it's going to be multiyear." Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason. Coming up David Morgan of The Morgan Report joins me to break down the recent move in the metals, explains why he believes the move...

By David Brady, CFA It is healthy now and then to take a step back from the short-term charts and look at the big picture. Given the recent massive rally in metals and miners, and the peak in the dollar, now seems like as good a time to do so as any other. Prior to the 1929 crash in stoc...

It is always interesting to see how gold correlates with other markets. This helps to better understand which driver is the most important for gold at the moment. But the current situation deserves to be considered unique. Over the past five years, the gold price has shown a negative corre...

Preamble Gold is at the starting gate of a major bull run, it is now ‘ Game On ’. Talking of games, in the game commonly known as Rock, Paper, Scissors, rock beats scissors, paper beats rock and scissors beat paper. Gold has constantly lost to paper as evident by the...