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The global gold market was ravaged by COVID-19 disruption throughout the year, while record high prices were a mixed blessing. Jewellery demand in 2020 dropped to its lowest annual level on record, decimated by the combination of the global pandemic - with its resultant market lockdow...
Silver mining equities as well as silver itself got a big pop yesterday and is seeing follow-up today. As of this Friday recording, spot silver checks in at $27.30 an ounce, up 6.3% for the week. Gold prices meanwhile are flat for the week to trade at $1,864 per ounce. Platinum pr...
What is Dr. Copper telling us about global growth outlook? Will gold break $2,000/oz in 2021? The bullish case for silver. For further details see: Commodities Rally In 2021: Is It Silver's Time To Shine?
So long as the fiat-based monetary system continues with accelerated money-printing, the US trade deficit will continue to widen. The continuing deferral of a dollar collapse seems increasingly difficult to achieve, given current and prospective accelerations of monetary inflation. ...
Gold prices rallied 25% in 2020 after having gained 19% the year before. Real-interest rate expectations are a combination of long-term rates (10-year yields) and the market's long-term inflation expectations. As nominal interest rates were already very low in early 2020, there wa...
I am not a permabull on silver (I was bearish in summer 2016) but right now I see that silver's bullish momentum is justified and supported by multiple other indicators. Rallies often begin with short covering, and as long as the silver rally continues and more shorts are forced to co...
If there is one catalyst that drives the price of gold higher, it's negative real rates. Bond yields are at historical lows creating a condition for deeper negative real rates as inflation heats up. I forecast inflation to run 3%+ by Spring and that would potentially create negati...
The fundamentals for precious metals are highly favorable. Yesterday Fed Reserve Governor Powell said they are going to leave interest rates as is. We are going to see low rates for a long time. There's tremendous cheap money available and the markets appear to have taken a bullis...
In short, assets can be both priced and valued, commodities can be roughly valued but are mostly priced and currencies and collectibles can only be priced. The broad commodity indices (WCI and GSCI) saw significant drops between February 14 and March 23, and recoveries in the months a...
World gold production dropped by 5.4% in 2020 according to preliminary estimates released by GlobalData last week. Historically, mine production has generally increased every year since the 1970s. The pandemic notwithstanding, the biggest problem facing miners is that the easy to ...