Precious metals news

LAST year, 22 central banks, situated largely to the east of Germany, bought the largest amount of gold since 1967 - the year that the London Gold Pool collapsed.

Gold futures rise on Friday, adding to a powerful push toward fresh six-year highs, amid a backdrop of lower rates and monetary-policy easing that bulls deem...

Gold, once mocked for its lack of yield and practical use, offers something the growing pile of negative-yielding bonds doesn’t -- inflation protection.

...selling UST’s is an act of geopolitical defiance rather than the sustained monetary incompetence which, when truly discovered, will actually point the world in the direction of actual rather than imagined recovery. The final false dawn. 

"Borrowing our way out of debt" generates the three Ds of Doom: debt leads to default which ushers in Depression.

The coming ‘tsunami of poverty’ for retirees — and what to do about it...

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As gold has rallied over the last few months, silver has lagged behind. The silver-gold ratio spread to near-record levels.  This tells us that silver is extremely undervalued compared to gold. But last Tuesday, that spread began to narrow ever-so-slightly and silver crossed a key price level on Thursday. Could this be the beginning of the breakout in silver we've been expecting? On this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, host Mike Maharrey breaks down what's going on in the silver market along with the big leg-up in gold this week. He also highlights the ever-growing levels of consumer debt and tells you the latest on China's move to dump US bonds.
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With the global economy slowing and factory production faltering in the face of the Sino-U.S. trade war, BOJ officials have said they remain ready to expand stimulus,...

The smartest and most successful minds in finance are talking about gold. Here's why it matters...

CEOs see cybersecurity as the number one threat to the global economy and business growth over the next five to ten years, a new report has claimed.

Fed President John Williams sent ripples through financial markets by arguing that the central bank’s limited room for stimulus...

The Fed is widely expected to reduce interest rates this month. That probably means its campaign to shrink its balance sheet is over,...

Anxiety has manifested in the T-bills curve around October maturities, which is when the Treasury Department's "extraordinary measures" are expected to run out

The world’s almost $13 trillion pile of negative-yielding bonds is looking like “quicksand” that risks engulfing much of the fixed-income universe, including the U.S.

Powerless policy makers: The truth is, it’s getting harder to ignore the big-picture risks facing the global economy.

The odds of a 50 basis point rate cut on July 31 topped the 70% mark in the wake of a dive in leading indicators.

Dave Kranzler says the world can hardly know where to go when it isn’t permitted to know where it is. Here's why...

Gold futures notch a fresh six-year high on Thursday, then extend their gains into the electronic trading session on the back of dovish comments from a...