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The fast food world gave us an interesting case study in supply and demand last week. By now you’ve no doubt heard about The Chicken Sandwich, the surprise superstar menu item from Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ([[QSR]]) that’s launched 1,000 blog posts, op-eds and thought pieces. Ac...
Gold: Fear Trade Or Something More? If there was an "asset class of the summer", it would have to be the gold complex. The price of physical gold has jumped +20% since May. The weekly chart of gold looks attractive for chartists. A three-year basing pattern then clean break above 2016 an...
Over the past few weeks, we have received questions about whether gold or gold stocks are the best way to access the current bull market, so we thought it would be helpful to review how this bull market compares with those of the past. Bull markets can be classified as either secular (long-t...
The dollar is the king of currencies. The US currency is the reserve asset of choice for central banks around the world because the political and economic system of the wealthiest nation on earth is stable. The dollar is accepted legal tender around the globe. In the past, the value of one c...
In June, gold broke out of the $331.30 trading range that had contained the price action since 2014. For more than half a decade the precious metal consolidated after its decline from the all-time peak in 2011 at $1920.70 to what turned out to be a bottom in December 2015 at $1046.20. The 50% ...
With all hell breaking loose in markets across all asset classes, the quest for a safe harbor has a select group of assets higher over the past months. The escalating trade and currency war between the US and China have been the most significant factor when it comes to increased price volatili...
It isn't inflation which is driving gold higher, at least not the current levels of inflation. According to the latest update from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation calculation, the PCE Deflator, continues to significantly undershoot. Monetary policy ex...
The reason for persistent strength in the price of gold can be found in the changing relationship between time preference for monetary gold, and a new round of interest rate suppression for the dollar. Evidence mounts that the forthcoming recession is likely to be significant, even turning in...
Ankit Sahni, president and head of research at Exante Data, told viewers of Real Vision's Trade Ideas that the decline in real interest rates will continue to boost gold over the next 3-6 months. "You can think of gold as being a currency which has no inflation and zero interest rates,"...
After a welcome breakout from a 2-week trading range, a summer rally for the precious metals sector continues to gain strength even as the global equity market stumbles. The recent plunge in U.S. small cap stocks is a reflection of the internal weakness plaguing equities; it’s also one ...