IAUF News and Press, iShares Gold Strategy ETF From 10/06/19

Gold is a commodity and a currency. The yellow metal has a myriad of industrial applications. At the same time, it has a long history as money. Central banks around the world hold gold as part of their foreign currency reserves. At the turn of this century, central banks were net sellers of ...

The silver futures market moves higher or lower on sentiment. Silver has a long history as one of the most speculative markets. Its price variance tends to be higher than the other precious metals that trade on the world's futures exchanges. In 1980, the price of silver rose to its all-time ...

The past year has been somewhat surreal in the gold market, as we have the rare occurrence of the U.S. dollar rising in somewhat slow fashion, while gold bullion has appreciated about $300 per ounce to trade near $1,500. Historically, a rising dollar and rising gold bullion haven't gone togeth...

The precious metals sector of the commodities market was the best-performing sector in the third quarter of 2019 and so far for the year with gains in all of the metal. The composite of the four precious metals that trade on the COMEX and NYMEX divisions of the CME dropped by 8.10% in 2014. ...

In a previous article , I explained that the yield curve would revert to positive territory when the Treasury runs out of money in September 2019. That prediction is slowly coming to fruition. Earlier this week, the repo market showed symptoms of liquidity problems where the Federal Reserve...

This week, the prices of the metals fell further, with gold -$18 and silver -$0.73. On May 28, the price of silver hit its nadir, at $14.30. From the last three days of May through September 4, the price rose to $19.65. This was a gain of $5.35, or +37%. Congratulations to everyone who bough...

Gold market participants are well aware of the outsized role of the U.S. dollar on the metal's price trend. Less widely known is the impact which interest rates play in determining gold's near-term direction. In this report, we'll examine the sensitivity gold has shown of late to fluctuations ...

The gold market has calmed since reaching its most recent high at the beginning of September. December gold sitting at around the $1500 per ounce level on September 17. The ECB cut its deposit rate by ten basis points to negative 50 basis points at its September meeting. They also restarted ...

Gold may be off its 52-week highs, but the precious metal is still up more than 15 percent for the year through September 17. This appears to put gold on a path for its best year since 2010, when it gained just under 30 percent. Buying the dips in gold right now could turn out to be a wise i...

I've written a couple articles this year here on Seeking Alpha about why, in addition to investing in a variety of normal equities, I began allocating a portion of my portfolio into gold and gold stocks starting in the autumn of 2018. And in my most recent article, Recession Obsession , I e...