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By SchiffGold Total holdings of gold in gold-backed ETFs grew for the fourth straight month in January. Globally, ETFs added 72 tons of the yellow metal to their holdings last month, according to the latest data released by the World Gold Council. This brought the total amount of gol...
By Philip Lawlor, managing director, global markets research After the market rout in late 2018, our Market Maps report for January showed a strong rebound in a wide range of risk-on assets. The rise was almost a mirror image of December's falls: cyclical stocks outperformed defensive, US ...
Original post By Taras Berezowsky Last month, we wrote that winter was apparently "just heating up" for the Global Precious Monthly Metals Index ((MMI)). Turns out we were right. The subindex tracking a basket of gold, silver, platinum and palladium prices from four different g...
We have a seasonal trade coming in the April gold futures any day now. Our seasonal approach is a bit different than most in that we go beyond determining seasonal bias and create a thoroughly thought out trade, including a realistic risk to reward profile. Gold tends to exhibit a broad tren...
Gold did very well in January. The price of the yellow precious metal grew by 3%, fueled by the global political uncertainty, U.S. government shutdown, and the expectations that the Fed will ease the tempo of interest rate hikes. Along with the gold price, share prices of ETFs holding physical...
I am often asked by many to see the type of analysis I provide to our members of the Market Pinball Wizard. So, rather than write a separate public article on metals this week, I am going to re-publish my analysis posted to my members over the past weekend. However, I am leaving the charts out...
What do 72 countries - including developed nations such as Canada, Australia, Japan, and Sweden; emerging giants such as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, India, Iran, and Russia; and small countries such as Burundi, Haiti, Myanmar, Syria, and Tonga - all have in common? Not much, you migh...
Something big is happening in the gold market right now, and nowhere is that more apparent than in central banks of emerging economies. Last year was a watershed in the size of official gold purchases, as banks added an incredible 651.5 tonnes (worth some $27.7 billion) to their holdings, acco...
Overview I have written several articles on the economy and the Fed recently, but I wanted to specifically focus on gold in this article. Precious metals have broken through important technical levels but look a bit overbought in the short term. Regardless, the recent weak economic data and ...
Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason. Coming up Axel Merk of Merk Investments joins me for a terrific conversation about gold, the Fed, stocks and the dollar. And find out why he believes investors will soon realize that it DOES matter again about where you put y...