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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...

Preamble Investors and speculators alike awaited with bated breath for the latest meeting of the central bankers to be concluded. Given a less than positive economic future the bankers are looking to more financial stimuli in an attempt to cushion the upcoming recession. Some news ou...

Introduction Before discussing gold ( GLD ) and the above pyramid, a few comments to set the scene are in order. Whether as physical bullion or via a fund such as GLD (there are many alternatives to it) is more than anything else "money of the mind," in Jim Grant's phraseology . (Grant ha...

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 my last Seeking Alpha gold report on August 19, 2019, I said that because the market closed above the average price as we came into the week at $1,520, it activated the sell 1 (S1) target of $1552. I said, if the market reaches $1,552 and closes above it using the 15-minute bar, it acti...

China has partially lifted restrictions on gold imports, loosening curbs that had stopped 300-500 metric tons worth $15B-$25B at current prices from entering the country since May, Reuters reports. More news on: SPDR Gold Trust ETF, iShares Gold Trust ETF, Sprott Physical Gold Trust, Co...

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, ...