Gold demand grew modestly to 1,107.9t in Q3 2019 as a surge in ETF inflows outweighed weakness elsewhere in the market.
The outlook for Gold, Silver, and the miners is extremely favorable...
There's trouble brewing in the U.S. largest oil company while most investors remain in the dark. ExxonMobil added a record number of wells in the Permian during the first three quarters of 2019, only to see the company's oil production plateau. What a difference in a year when Exxon bragged that its Q4 2018 Permian...
Inflation would have to soar to force the Fed to increase the federal funds rate...
Investors may assume they have adequate exposure to gold because they're invested in a commodities fund. But many of these funds have a relatively small weighting in gold, and so their gold exposure is much smaller than they realized.
Investors do not feel fully comfortable placing their eggs in one basket—the equity markets—and this is keeping the gold price higher.
There’s one big reason bankruptcies have skyrocketed among older Americans, and how to bounce back.
Up $250 Billion Since Repo Crisis. For US commercial banks, it's "mission accomplished."
Gold’s self-reinforcing ‘new-high' psychology could really unleash a much-larger-than-normal winter rally...
Why The Federal Reserve Monetization is Just Getting Warmed-Up
Gold was mixed last week (XAU +0.6%, LBMA -0.3%) ending around $1,514/oz, as the Fed delivered its expected 25 bp rate cut, and the US dollar weakened.
The Fed swooped in, offering $75bn-worth of overnight funding, and both rates came back down. But it has had to keep lending to stop them rising again.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s operating profit jumped 14% to a record as Warren Buffett’s conglomerate saw gains from its railroad and got some long-awaited earnings from Kraft Heinz Co.Operating earnings climbed to $7.86 billion in the third quarter,...
Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google owner Alphabet and Facebook are the largest companies in America. These firms have a collective market value of $4.5 trillion. This means that popular passive index ETFs are heavily concentrated in just a few names.
Unemployment is rising in four of 10 key swing states, a trend that could become a factor in next's years election if it gets worse.
In the bond market, it can sometimes feel as if the more things change, the more they stay the same.Consider the following two articles about the massive amount of triple-B rated corporate debt:“A $1 Trillion Powder Keg Threatens the Corporate Bond Market”...
UBS's Global Real Estate Bubble Index tracks the risk of property price bubbles in global cities. It also looks at the cost of living around the world, and where professionals "need to work the longest" to afford an apartment in their city.
And 70% don’t know what is backing it.
Monday’s amount was slightly higher than the $73.13 billion in repos awarded on Friday.
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan just provided a sound reason to expect a recession sooner rather than later.