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By Sachin Patel At a Glance China's appetite for gold continues as use in jewelry, electric cars and central bank reserves increase Retail investors in China purchased 10.7 million ounces of gold bars and coins in 2018 Gold has long enjoyed deep cultural significance in China, wh...
There are many factors that can be blamed for slumping precious metals prices in recent months. Yet one of the biggest factors has been none other than the Federal Reserve. The steadfastness of the U.S. central bank in holding interest rates steady has kept the dollar strong, which in turn has...
Just when it looked like gold futures - which still, unfortunately, dictate the price of physical precious metals - were ready to turn bullish, last week's Commitments of Traders report ((COT)) revealed that commercial traders (usually right at big turns) had gone massively short, while specul...
The spot price of gold got off to a great start this year and briefly clipped $1,350/oz back in February before failing (yet again) to break through heavy resistance that resides in that same region. Although for a brief period of time gold looked to be gaining strong momentum as there was cer...
The new year got off to an impressive enough start for silver and in particular silver mining stocks, with many companies seeing their share prices climb steadily higher into the double-digit range during Q1 before starting to fizzle out at the start of Q2. Now, as we enter deeper into mid-M...
John Maynard Keynes called it a barbarous relic. Warren Buffett said it has no utility. It’s a curious yellow metal that miners dig out of the ground only to melt down and bury again in carefully guarded vaults. So why invest in gold? As Ray Dalio once said, “If you don’t ...
The only constant in the market (any market) is emotion. Specifically, fear; fear of losing and fear of missing out (greed). Repetitive market patterns that are connected in some way to human emotions are the best chance we have of understanding the present and, perhaps, improving our predicti...
The divergence between the stock market and the underlying economy has gotten ridiculous. While most of the productive economic indicators are falling, the stock market keeps rallying after each correction. The market does not pay attention to fundamentals anymore and is largely driven by po...
Gold’s luster is gradually returning after months of underperforming equities and other risk assets. Yet despite the metal’s improved prospects in the immediate term, there are still several key factors which haven’t lined up in gold’s favor yet. These factors, whic...
The yellow metal has mostly been anchored amid the trade-related market shake-up of the past few days, but it's catching something resembling a bid today. More news on: SPDR Gold Trust ETF, iShares Gold Trust ETF, Sprott Physical Gold Trust, Commodities news, Stocks on the move, News on ET...