RING News and Press, iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF From 03/24/23

2023-03-24 10:59:46 ET As gold ( XAUUSD:CUR ) closes in on the $2,000/oz level, the world's largest spot gold exchange traded fund has jumped to a one-year trading high. The SPDR Gold Shares ( NYSEARCA: GLD ), with its $57.98B assets under management, now trades near $18...

2023-03-24 03:30:00 ET Summary Gold is coming off extremely overbought levels on both the RSI and the MACD. Silver needs to close above $24.37 to confirm it's on its way to $30. The Fed opened the door for higher metals and miners, but the technicals and sentiment suggest one ...

2023-03-22 05:00:00 ET Summary The Fed would provide 1-year loans to banks in trouble and take the banks’ US Treasury bonds as collateral at face value. Gold, silver, the miners, and bitcoin are all rallying strongly and will continue to do so. I am cautious in the very...

2023-03-21 03:00:00 ET Summary Another major bullish sign is that margin rates were raised this week and it did absolutely nothing to blunt the move higher. Silver has not seen margin rates rise nearly as high as gold. The gold-silver ratio has once again become overextended i...

2023-03-18 14:39:34 ET The S&P materials sector index was down -3.51% , and the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF ( XLB ) -3.42% this week, weighed down by the worst financial crisis in 14 and a half years. During the week, two U.S. regional banks - Signature Bank ( ...

2023-03-11 11:38:07 ET The S&P materials sector index fell -7.64% this week and the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF ( XLB ) -7.59% . Sentiment was dampened by Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's hawkish testimony to the Senate and the House, and hot jobs market ...

2023-03-04 12:25:30 ET The materials sector had a dismal week, with the S&P Materials index down -3.49%, and the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF ( XLB ) -3.33%. The wider market grappled with stronger-than-expected inflation data in the form of the PCE price index report fo...

Summary Gold had seen a terrific run from November through January and such a pullback was hardly an outlandish call. Gold and precious metals generally perform best during periods of financial repression and easy monetary policy conditions that see the debasement of currency. For m...

Summary After gold broke through solid resistance at $1800, it didn’t waste much time blasting through $1900 before running out of gas at around $1950. Silver led gold higher and then led it lower. Any short-term traders in the precious metals have gotten beaten up badly over...

Summary Despite a 15% decline from its January peak, the GDX is by no means cheap, with a PE ratio of 28x and a price-to-free cash flow ratio of 38x. Even at current gold prices, miners are barely able to generate enough free cash flow to raise their dividends, and recent gold price dec...