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Despite its strong ties to geopolitical events, gold is still driven by supply and demand.
Remember a couple of months ago when I told you about the stolen toilet? Well, they still haven't found it.For those of you who missed that one, you're probably wondering why on earth anybody would steal a toilet. Well, it was made out of gold. Eighteen karat gold to be precise. The golden potty was valued at about $6 million. Theives stole it from the Blenheim Palace in England.
Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg expects negative growth to hit the U.S. economy sooner than Wall Street anticipates.
The Zimbabwean government is determined to ensure that the country successfully de-dollarizes after a decade of using the U.S. dollar as its main trading and transacting currency
Bitcoin’s sell-off deepened on Friday, putting the digital token at the lowest level since May, after it dropped below yet another key support level.The world’s most-traded cryptocurrency declined as much as 9% to $6,914, dragging with it a host of peers from Ether and Litecoin to XRP.
The highest earners saw confidence surge in November, but low income Americans declined...
With rates likely staying in negative territory for years, the ECB warned this week that bubbles may already be forming.
"Although up on lows seen in the summer, business expectations for the future are still well below levels seen earlier in the year, reflecting heightened anxiety regarding trade wars and geopolitical uncertainty..."
It's been a pretty dreary week on Wall Street with another round of trade war pessimism. Otherwise, there hasn't been a lot of economic news to roil markets and precious metals have remained pretty much rangebound. But host Mike Maharrey has a silver lining for you on this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, along with a little Fed analysis.
The entire episode is a reminder of how, behind the scenes, modern central banking is very much an experiment. And experiments often bring about unintended side effects.
“So if you ask me whether this is the right way to go, I clearly would say no, we should find different ways.”
Craig brings to our attention something we need to be wary about regarding gold positioning on the COMEX...
Ray Dalio's firm paid $1.5 billion - or roughly 1% of its $150 billion net worth - for the options, which have a notional value of $100 billion.
OECD: The global economy is stuck in a rut that it won’t exit unless governments revolutionize policies and how they invest, rather than just hoping for a cyclical upswing.
It is hard to think of a retailer that is doing so much to save itself, and has so little to show for it, as Macy’s Inc.The department store giant reported Thursday that comparable sales sank 3.9% from a year earlier in the quarter, or 3.5% including licensed departments...
The latest flareup in trade tensions came after President Donald Trump imposed punitive tariffs last year on billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese exports to the U.S.
Blackstone Group sold the last of its stake in Invitation Homes, the company it created after the housing crisis to scoop up foreclosed single-family properties...
America’s states are increasing their spending at the fastest pace since the end of the Great Recession. Their budgets swelled by 5.9% in the 2019...
“I don’t see any reference to independence in the legislation that has defined the role of the Federal Reserve for the United States,” Shelton told Siegenthaler, according to a transcript of the interview.
Yellen: 'There Is Good Reason to Worry' US Economy Sliding into RecessionNov 22, 2019 - 03:49:23 PST
While the former Fed chair doesn't see a recession on the horizon, she also noted that the risks are piling up.