RING News and Press, iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF From 10/10/22

Summary The US, UK and Europe now report ‘official’ inflationary figures at around 9% to 10%. The Bank of England blinks and purchasers more bonds, which could herald in a new phase of quantitative easing. In the coming months we anticipate that the Feds along wi...

Summary Over the last two weeks Federal Reserve officials delivered 37 speeches, all of the speakers competing to see who could be the most hawkish. The big problem with the Fed’s plan to kill inflation by reducing economic growth and raising the unemployment rate is that t...

Summary Gold dropped 2.6% in September on the back of the twin headwinds of a surging US dollar and higher bond yields. Gold remained resilient despite these challenges alongside pressure from futures net shorts and ETF outflows. The US dollar surge has been a major headwind f...

Summary The last several years demonstrate a consolidation trend in the gold mining industry which reveals some opportunities for investments in stocks and bonds. In the case of complimentary M&A deals merged companies are perceived by the investment community as more sustaina...

Passive buy and hold Investors, in general, are starting to panic: XLU, dividends, bonds. It has been an interesting year, with stocks down nearly 25% and the bond ETF TLT down over 40% since the 2020 highs. The passive buy-and-hold investor is becoming panicked, and we can see this...

Summary One of the key points I’ve been discussing for the past two years is that the commodity markets are facing a unique set of policy-driven imbalances. When it comes to shortages across the fossil fuel space, the multi-year low in oil inventories has been only temporar...

Summary Why China's challenges are global mining companies. The strong U.S. dollar is still the dominate factor for commodities markets. Are the conditions in place for another commodity supercycle? Concerns about a recession and slowing growth in China have ...

Summary The market is now oversold which could lead to a short-term bounce. Open interest is at multi-year lows, and likely only increasing slightly in recent days due to shorts entering the market. The gold miners have been very consistently leading the price of gold in both ...

Summary Companies were hit by the combination of falling metals prices and rising costs - leading to earnings misses and cost revisions. Inflation is driven by excess demand and/or a lack of supply. The markets are more concerned with rising rates than they are about inflation...

Summary Gold has rarely seen more shorts than longs over the past decade and is the only precious metal currently positioned net long (+22.29%). With a net 9.24% of open interest positioned short, that is the most pessimistic positioning reading since May 2019. As speculators ...