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The silver-gold ratio has ticked back up to historically high levels of late.As I write this article, the ratio stands at just over 88:1. That means it takes 88 ounces of silver to buy an ounce of gold. To put that into perspective, the average in the modern era has been between 40:1 and 50:1.In simple terms, silver is historically extremely underpriced compared to gold.
Most pundits at the time turned a blind eye to some of the more concerning aspects of the market, and our view of a pending implosion was very much in the minority.
It is striking that one of today’s titans of finance has given us what appears to be another version of “this time it’s different,” which the famous investor Sir John Templeton once described as “the four most expensive words in investing.”
U.S. presidential candidates get asked many questions about the country’s state of affairs — one of which is what they will do about “entitlement programs.”
More and more Americans are struggling to pay their rent.According to a report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, one in four renters are paying more than half their income on housing. This equates to 10.9 million renters.
Private payrolls add 291,000 in January, vs 150,000 expected: ADP/Moody'sFeb 5, 2020 - 05:18:43 PST
Private payrolls were expected to rise by 150,000 in January, down from the 202,000 claims reported a month earlier, according to ADP and Moody's Analytics.
Macy's will shut 125 stores over the next three years and slash about 2,000 corporate jobs, as it shutters its tech offices in San Francisco and its Cincinnati headquarters, the department store chain announced Tuesday.
China’s biggest health crisis since at least 2003 has worsened the outlook for defaults in the world’s second-biggest bond market, likely tipping a raft of distressed borrowers over the edge...
China National Health Commission said that as of Tuesday night, a total of 24,324 cases have been confirmed and 490 people have died in the country.
The spread of the coronavirus could lead global central banks including the Federal Reserve to leverage their policies to stem the weakness, says Benn Steil, international director of economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Singapore’s central bank said on Wednesday that its currency has room to weaken as an outbreak of coronavirus hits its economy but added that its current policy stance remains appropriate.
Global central bankers are mainly biding their time as the coronavirus fallout reverberates through the world economy, which they had hoped was stabilizing after its worst year since the financial turmoil of 2009.
A degree of calm has returned to the foreign exchange market, with the robust actions of the Chinese central bank tending to reassure investors that the coronavirus outbreak will not have as severe an impact on the markets as previously feared.
3,000 + People Quarantined on Cruise Ship in Japan Amid Coronavirus FearsFeb 5, 2020 - 04:26:27 PST
The quarantine of 3,711 people aboard the Diamond Princess is part of a global health emergency that seems to worsen by the day.
A reported "significant breakthrough" by scientists at Imperial College London in the U.K., who claim to have reduced a stage of the development time for a coronavirus vaccine from "two to three years to just 14 days."
Nor would your analyst be astonished that following such a surge in inflation the ratio would plunge through the 2011 lows. One day, in other words, radical central bank policies seeking inflation will ‘work’.
Dual-listed Endeavour Silver is forecasting better performance from its operating mines in 2020, with a slight decrease in consolidated production owing to the suspension of mining at El Cubo.
The big price jump was a double-edged sword, DataTrek noted: it attracted investors but kept consumers on the sidelines.
China could easily enter a technical recession as the country's coronavirus outbreak weighs on growth, an economist told CNBC Tuesday.
The government has already made clear that state intervention is on the table. The central bank on Monday said it would inject billions of dollars into the financial system by buying short term bonds to help keep bank lending flowing.