A combination of geopolitical events has dampened earlier gains in gold futures. The precious yellow metal traded to a high of $1501 per ounce before softening on the close. As of 4:10 PM EDT gold futures are currently trading up $1.50 on the day and fixed at $1495.60. Today […]
Gold rose to daily highs on Tuesday afternoon as markets digested Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments that the U.S. central bank will start expanding its balance sheet “soon.” December Comex gold futures were last trading at $1,510.10, up 0.38% on the day after briefly touching Tuesday’s high of $1,515 an […]
With December Gold continuing to consolidate recent gains above $1500, investors have begun to move quickly into the cheaper safe-haven option of silver which has surged 12% this month and touched an over two-year high of $18.76 on Thursday. Unless there is a harsh selloff later today below $17.50 in “poor […]
As a long-term bull market in gold is underway it is important to keep an eye on the critical levels of support and resistance. For those of you holding physicals or investing in non-leveraged products these twists and turns might not mean as much as someone using futures which allow speculators to […]
Although we have been bullish gold since the $1,280 level and achieved our first target of $1,500. All week we wrote that gold would churn around this level before finally breaking out. However, with all of the troubles around the globe and all central banks cutting rates Gold exploded on Wednesday trading […]
I have always been amazed by our collective ability to forget history. This applies to everything from politics, to war, to economics. The same things repeat with varying predictable patterns throughout the centuries. As Mark Twain is reputed to have said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” I […]
After 20 years and three renewals, the signatories to the Central Bank Gold Agreement (CBGA), a cartel like syndicate of central banks in Europe, have just announced that they will not be renewing the Agreement when it expires this coming September. While the real purpose of the CBGA was always […]
Gold prices edged up after U.S. existing homes sales missed expectations in June, according to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Existing home sales decreased 1.7% last month to a seasonally adjusted and annualized rate of 5.27 million units, compared to May’s annualized rate of 5.34 […]