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US economic growth caused the Federal Reserve to tighten credit from December 2015 until mid-2019. Last year, the trade war between the US and China and a sharp correction in US stocks and other markets in the final quarter of 2018 caused the Fed to pivot to a policy of monetary policy easing....

Risk-off periods in markets are nothing new. The first significant case was the stock market crash of 1929 that heralded in the Great Depression. Since markets reflect the global economic and political landscapes, there have been many examples of times when the stock market and other asset pri...

Gold investors need to be prepared for this upcoming week as it has the potential to change gold market sentiment significantly. Source: US Global Investors While we were writing this article, the Federal Reserve made an emergency rate cut and introduced QE5 to try and add liquidity to...

On Sunday night, March 8, when all hell was breaking loose in markets across all asset classes, a flight to quality wave took the price of two assets higher. US bonds rose along with the price of gold. Gold broke out to the upside in June 2019 when it rose above the July 2016 high and level of...

Fundamentals Most markets have an equilibrium based on supply and demand. What drives the market to extremes is speculation. Recently, that speculation has been driven by fear based on the coronavirus. People who have been in the market for a long time, who just got into the market recen...

Russ discusses the reasons why gold can be an effective hedge going forward. The point of owning insurance is that it will pay when needed. For investors suffering through one of the most abrupt corrections on record, their insurance policies have had a mixed record. In early February I ...

Overview: An informal Wall Street definition of a bear market is down 20% from the highs. As of now, that’s what we’ve entered. Yes, it’s been brutal for the longs and in many respects unprecedented. But by and large, the markets always confront an array of similar...

At the turn of this century, the price of gold was fighting to remain above the $250 per ounce level. The Bank of England, in its infinite wisdom, decided to sell half of its gold reserves in the late 1990s, declaring the yellow metal a barbarous relic of the past. Most central banks employ th...

Gold futures ( GLD -3.8% ) tumble below $1,600/oz. , as the stock market selloff prompts traders to sell positions in the metal to fund margin calls; April Comex gold -4% to $1,576.90/oz. More news on: SPDR Gold Trust ETF, iShares Silver Trust ETF, iShares Gold Trust ETF, Commodities ...

Gold mining can be a terrible business. The metal's price is volatile. Environmental and political risks are ever-present. And operating costs (especially energy) tend to rise even when gold's price is falling. The result is a combination of low margins and high risk that causes most miners to...