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Melek: Data suggests oil demand we expected in Q3 and early part of Q4 may not materialize indicating markets are a lot less tight than we thought. Melek: Oil inventories drawdowns likely to abate. Melek: We still like oil around US$66-68/barrel. For further details see: ...
The upcoming week is all about the Federal Reserve’s symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Government regulatory risk continues to dominate China equity markets, this time with President Xi pushing an agenda of wealth redistribution from rich to poor. Global macro weakness ha...
After the pandemic’s initial spending splurge, the bill is due, and global growth is mean-reverting again. Treasury yields are confirming the disinflationary ride as we thought that they should. Similar trends are unfolding in the great hot north, with Canadian government b...
Contrary to the popular belief, Gold has been and continues to be an excellent addition to equity portfolios. As risks for the existing monetary regime continue to mount, the case for holding the precious metal over the long term strengthens. Knowing when to add to existing positi...
The monetary system is in the process of resetting itself. Since last March when the pandemic broke the system, we have been in a time of change and resetting. A tremendous amount of stimulus has come into the market on top of a $28+ trillion debt load, which seems to be having little...
My reading of the current environment is relatively clear; both the longer term and shorter-term leading growth indicators are pointing toward the heightened possibility of slowing cyclical growth. As a result, these downward trends suggest investors ought to be rotating out of the re...
St. James Gold is a Canadian-based gold exploration and mining company. CEO George Drazenovic discusses historical context of properties in two of the hottest regions in the world - Central Newfoundland and the Yukon. Capital structure, expected uplisting and being a diverse explo...
Numerous multi-decade extremes support a bearish conclusion for U.S. equities. The media has featured numerous articles about how there has been a rotation among equity sectors. The assumption which underlies almost all of these analyses is that we are in a bull market and that the se...
2 things that always happen at or prior to the start of a boom-to-bust transition for the US economy. One is a clear-cut widening of credit spreads. The other is pronounced weakness in the Industrial Metals Index (GYX) relative to the gold price. There are many different credit-spread...
Per the Morningstar performance data, gold’s 10-year return turned negative this week, to -0.21% as of Friday, August 13, 2021. In the worst decade for the S&P 500, since the 1930s, in the years from 2000 to 2009, when the S&P 500’s “average, annual”...