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By Jesy Beeson During geopolitical events, market participants turn to CME Group futures and options in larger-than-usual numbers to manage the risk posed by the changing investment climate. The impact of such events can be seen in short-term impacts to prices of equities, particularly E-m...

Gold and silver have been around as means of exchange or hard currency for a lot longer than all of the currencies issued by governments as legal tender. The instruments that trade in the global foreign exchange market have the backing of the full faith and credit of the countries that print t...

In general, three main factors affect the price of gold in the long run: (1) the dollar, (2) the U.S. level of inflation and (3) monetary policy in the United States. Dollar The gold price stably negatively correlates with the Dollar Index. And it is actually normal because gold is dollar-...

SARS Helped Pump Up the Price of Gold One way to attempt to predict the future is to look to the past for similar analogies. For the recent coronavirus outbreak, a similar analogy might be the SARS outbreak of 2002. SARS might tell us something about how a pandemic might affect the price o...

Looking at the market's response to the coronavirus this past week, I can't help but see that the outbreak in China has exposed a seeming disconnect between the financial markets and science. We don't know how bad the crisis will get or how bad economically it will affect the world. However, s...

The topic of gold's year-ahead outlook has been the subject of some fairly contentious debates lately. A high-profile precious metal forecast for 2020 has been recently released, and while opinions on what price levels gold will ultimately reach this year vary sharply from analyst to analyst, ...

The two co-chief investment officers of the biggest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, can't seem to agree with each other about whether the boom-bust cycle as we know it still exists. Even so, both seem to agree - if in an oblique and convoluted way - that gold is headed much hi...

A healthy market often makes a statement. Last week while other commodity prices and markets across all asset classes were moving lower, gold displayed incredible strength. During the height of the global financial crisis, the price of gold dropped like a stone. The price had just made a new h...

Virus Fears Increasing As we begin the month of February 2020, I wanted to look at the news that appears to be predominantly spurring the metals rally for the past week. Voters in the Kitco Gold Survey remain bullish on the metals. Traders and analysts cite ongoing worries about the fa...

A sign of a bull market is when the price of an asset has many reasons to move lower, but the price remains stable or even moves higher. Over recent sessions, the world has become focused on a virus spreading in China and to other countries around the world. When China catches an economic cold...