Precious metals news

If we looked at most investment bank outlook reports for 2021, one of the main consensus themes was a strong conviction on a rapid and robust eurozone recovery. They were wrong.

US Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell gives the impression of being a measured and cautious policymaker. But beneath the grey suit and mild manner is a man pursuing one of the highest-risk policy experiments in economic history.

Pandemic-related stimulus, ultralow interest rates and changes in buyer behavior are turbocharging housing markets from Europe to Asia, raising bubble worries.

The CDC is likely to keep its national moratorium on evictions in effect through June. The protection was slated to lapse in just days.

Biden will separate his sprawling plan to upgrade the nation's infrastructure into two separate pieces that he will unveil weeks apart.

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The European Central Bank must remain a key stabilizer of the euro zone economy as the bloc is at risk of suffering longer-term damage from its pandemic-induced double-dip recession, ECB chief economist Philip Lane said on Saturday.

China's massive arms buildup has raised doubts about America's ability to defend Taiwan if a war broke out, reflecting a shifting balance of power in the Pacific where American forces once dominated, U.S. officials and experts say.

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers reiterated his warning that the U.S. risks rising inflation amid massive government stimulus, easy monetary policy and an expected surge in consumer spending as the Covid-19 pandemic recedes.

The EU's coronavirus stimulus plan has hit a stumbling block after the German constitutional court raised questions about how the new debt is being taken on.

Credit Suisse and Nomura have both warned of "significant" hits to first-quarter results, after they began exiting positions with a large U.S. hedge fund.

The days for China being the global gold mine supply leader are coming to an end.  Yes, it's true... China reached peak gold production and will soon become second-fiddle to the next future mine supply leader.  Just a few years ago, China produced a peak of 464 metric tons of gold...

With the quarter coming to an end in a few days, there are some important technical levels for the markets, metals, and energy.  Also, because the S&P 500 Index reversed on Thursday, from what could have been a larger selloff, and shut up higher on the close Friday, we may likely see new highs...

Farmland is a “holy grail” asset class for many investors.It’s tangible, produces income, and has inherent underlying value — making it a great inflation hedge.It’s supply constrained. Mother Nature isn’t making any more of it… and in total, farm acreage around the world is being lost to development, drought, etc.Historically it’s an asset class that produces double-digit annual returns while remaining largely uncorrelated with the stock market, making it a valuable component for portfolio diversification.

As the world faces the coming ENERGY CLIFF, countries with the largest oil imports will experience greater economic hardship than those who are less dependent on foreign oil.  While the United States was heavily dependent on foreign oil in the past, its net oil imports over the past decade have dropped...

In the field of robotics, metals offer advantages like strength, durability and electrical conductivity. But, they are heavy and rigid — properties that are undesirable in soft and flexible systems for wearable computing and human-machine interfaces.

Of course in recent months the U.S. Mint also has reduced or suspended production of U.S. gold and silver coins, again blaming the virus epidemic.

The only way to stop this madness, to protect yourself against dollar devaluation, in our opinion, is to own gold, the traditional and only true store of value.

Talk about a shocker. You open your checking and savings accounts and see nearly a quarter of a million dollars gone. Poof. Disappeared.

In his 2011 book On Russia, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger used the ancient Chinese game of Weiqi, or Go, as it is also commonly known, as an extended metaphor to conceptualize and explain the decisions of the Chinese regime in both foreign and domestic policy.