Precious metals news

While the gold and silver prices have broken out higher, precious metals investors are wondering if the rally will continue throughout the rest of the summer.

Beaty, chairman of Pan American Silver said he believes the precious metals has legs to go even higher in value than the last high it hit in 2011.

Here we go again: Cash-out refi hype is back full-blast, and for the first time since early 2006, people are doing it in large numbers

The residential real estate market is less affordable now than anytime since before the financial crisis.

The presidential primaries were viewed by many as a referendum on Macri's painful economic reforms.

It is healthy now and then to take a step back from the short-term charts and look at the big picture...

Bill Murphy, Chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) is most bullish on silver. Murphy says, “For anyone that wants to get involved in precious metals, silver is going to be a home run.

The global political picture is spinning out of control quickly. And the precious metals are here to tell us just how quickly.

Last time this indicator peaked, we had a recession in 8 months. Is this time different?

A few months ago many of us read about the conspiracy theory of “the nuclear option”, according to which China could generate a huge debt crisis in the United States and destroy the US economy if it sold its treasury holdings.

Walmart Inc. prides itself on rock-bottom prices for everyday goods, but as soda, snack and toothpaste makers boost what they charge retailers in response to rising costs and looming tariffs, something’s got to give.The question is where. Investors will get a sense of that give-and-take

"The Fed may need to start open market operations sooner rather than later to inject reserves into the US banking system."

Global growth outlook darkened by trade wars and central banks say they can’t dispel the clouds on their own

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, one of the main stock indexes in the U.S., experienced its worst day of the year on Monday dropping by 760 points or 2.9 per cent.  After such a dramatic drop, many investors wonder, is there a recession or bear market coming?"  

In a podcast a couple of weeks ago, Peter Schiff said we now have all the elements of a gold bull market. Well, it looks like the mainstream might be starting to catch on. A headline at Bloomberg on Friday proclaimed "Hedge Funds Go All-In on Gold."
According to the Bloomberg report, hedge funds increased their gold net-long position by 23% to 285,082 futures and options, this according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission data that was published on Friday. This figure measures the difference between bets on the price of gold going up and bets on a decline. It was the highest since July 2016.

Cycles are carrying gold higher into September...here is why.

Investors have turned increasingly bullish on gold with the spot price of 1 oz of the precious metal increasing nearly 7% to $1,497 in the past 30 days.The post Investors are bullish on gold amidst $15 trillion in negative yield debt and currency, economic uncertainty appeared first on The Block.

Gold’s spectacular rally is just getting started if hedge funds have their way.

The economic outlook has deteriorated worldwide as the trade dispute between the United States and China escalates, a survey showed on Monday.

Australians could soon be paid to borrow money from banks for the first time in history, as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) says it’s prepared to take extraordinary steps to stimulate the economy.