IAUF News and Press, iShares Gold Strategy ETF From 09/02/19

The dollar is the king of currencies. The US currency is the reserve asset of choice for central banks around the world because the political and economic system of the wealthiest nation on earth is stable. The dollar is accepted legal tender around the globe. In the past, the value of one c...

Ankit Sahni, president and head of research at Exante Data, told viewers of Real Vision's Trade Ideas that the decline in real interest rates will continue to boost gold over the next 3-6 months. "You can think of gold as being a currency which has no inflation and zero interest rates,"...

After a welcome breakout from a 2-week trading range, a summer rally for the precious metals sector continues to gain strength even as the global equity market stumbles. The recent plunge in U.S. small cap stocks is a reflection of the internal weakness plaguing equities; it’s also one ...

Investors should adjust their portfolios to emphasize gold and commodities and reduce their holdings of stocks and bonds. We believe the future performance of bonds over the next decade is likely to be in the low single digits and the benefits of declining interest rates are diminishing. The...

Intense Price Action The price action was pretty intense last week, most of it on Friday. The statement by President Trump, not to mention Fed Chairman Powell's hint of further rate cuts, impelled people to buy gold and silver, whose prices went up $14 and $0.29. 10-year treasury note y...

Friday, August 23, was a wild day in markets, which many market participants had expected. However, the price volatility came from an unexpected source. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell gave a speech at the central bank's annual retreat at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The address, as well as interviews wi...

By John Corcoran, Senior Client Portfolio Manager The changing dynamics in the market and economy have fared well for gold and precious metals. Gold and precious metals mining equities - as represented by the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index ((XAU)) - are performing solidly in 2019...

The first mention of gold in the old testament of the Bible comes from Genesis, "And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The Bible, old and new testaments, mention gold hundreds of times. In Job 28, the Apostle Peter said ones' faith is "of greater value than gold...

In the 1980s, when I traveled behind the iron curtain or to developing countries around the world, this boy from Brooklyn learned the power of the US dollar. A mentor taught me that before venturing outside of the United States to some of the more challenging parts of the world in those days, ...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on August 20, 2019. [This post is a modified excerpt from a recent TSI commentary] Gold tends to lead the industrial metals sector at intermediate-term bottoms, i.e., the US$ gold price tends to make an intermediate-term bottom and ...