PBUG News and Press, Barclays Bank PLC ZC SP ETN PERPETUAL USD From 05/04/22

Gold would seem to be more abundant, first with a higher price. Now, the gold basis is showing that it still looks abundant, even at a lower price. The silver basis also rises around the same time. But it has fallen back to around the same level as before, under 1%. This may be a ...

During the last Fed rate raising cycle, it took the Federal Reserve five years to raise the fed funds rate to 2.50%. The Fed kept rates far too low for far too long and now we are dealing with the consequences. Both fiscal and monetary policy have been highly inflationary, and we are ...

The major markets’ technical review will help readers understand the underlying technical conditions for potential opportunities and risk management. This helps refine not only decision making about what to own and when but what to overweight or underweight to achieve better pe...

The stagflation scenario got a little more traction last week with the release of a negative Q1 GDP print on Thursday and hints of more inflation on Friday. April was a really rotten month with everything down but the general commodity indexes. Investing is mostly an exercise in s...

The phenomenal rise in the US monetary inflation rate from early-2020 to early-2021 set in motion an economic boom. Over the past few decades, a boom-to-bust transition for the US economy didn’t begin until after the monetary inflation rate (the year-over-year True Money Supply...

As silver makes an upside breakout on good volume above $30, initially confirmed by several closes above that price, the number of investors will immediately begin to shrink. My back-of-the napkin guess is that less than 20% of those with positions in that market took even close to 50...

Barclays (NYSE:BCS) announced that it has halted further sales of 30 iPath ETNs. The move comes as the company plans a restatement of financial details, triggering a regulatory requirement that it stop selling the investment vehicles. The suspension went into effect at the open of trading on ...

The Ukraine invasion and surging inflation were key factors driving both the gold price and demand. Gold ETFs had their strongest quarterly inflows since Q3 2020, fuelled by safe-haven demand. Tough new lockdowns imposed to contain a resurgence of COVID-19 had a marked impact on d...

Only one major asset was up last week: REITs. There were some negative developments that might explain the selling. With the drop in commodities and fears about the impact of the China slowdown, the immediate effect should be for inflation and growth expectations to moderate. We didn&...

Real yields and Gold are inversely correlated. Real yield and gold rose together, which is atypical but not extraordinary in the short term. Financial markets are reaching extremes that could precipitate a systemic collapse or another reversal by the Fed to more stimulus. Fo...