With euro zone economy stumbling this year, risks to financial stability are on the rise, the European Central Bank said on Wednesday...
The U.S. Treasury added Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam to a watchlist for currency manipulation, putting their foreign-exchange policies under scrutiny.
Ripples from Australia and New Zealand are often among the earliest signs of trouble for the northern hemisphere.
Investors need to wake up and realize not all is well in these markets right now.
Gold gained on Wednesday as investor concerns grew about a global economic downturn driven by U.S.-China trade tensions, which also sent U.S. Treasury yields lower.
Not only does this tell us that the bear trend (which began in February) may be reaching a point of conclusion, but it also tells us that we...
The fear trade for gold continues to gain fundamental strength. The technical picture is also solid. Stewart explains...
Josh Sigurdson talks with David Morgan of The Morgan Report about the many questions many people have asked in recent days regarding silver. One of the most notable questions regards the lack of silver bullishness in recent years as silver has under-performed with little upside.
Gold was quiet and steady last night, trading narrowly and either side of unchanged between $1282.40 - $1286.60 and fading modest movements in the US dollar. It slid to its $1282.40 low during Asian and early European time...
While debt was a problem in 1929, it was generally confined to corporate borrowers and speculators. Today’s context of Fisher’s nightmare is in record levels of government, corporate and consumer debt.
Despite a treasure trove of public information and a prospectus, some folks still promote false narratives about the GLD manipulating the price of gold...
Bond yields are sending a message about the economy, and that could mean trouble for stocks.
Markets were decisively in "risk-off" mode last week. Following weak manufacturing news last Thursday, the yield on the 10-year Treasury sunk to its lowest level since October 2017. The spread between the 10-year yield and three-month yield, in fact, inverted once again, with the shorter-term bond yield higher by 6 basis points.
Policymakers pulled out all the stops to fix the financial crisis, but may even have to get more extreme when the next downturn hits.
In late 2018, the US stock market tanked, in effect holding a gun to its own head and threatening to pull the trigger unless the Fed stopped raising interest rates.
The grand total of these programs in terms of annual spending is roughly US$697 billion. The issue here is that these programs are continuing to increase in scale and scope despite the so-called 'strongest economy, ever' ...
GDX needs to be avoided. The major gold miners that dominate its weightings are struggling too much fundamentally, unable to grow their...
In February 2019, the national debt hit an eye-popping $22 trillion. The projected annual deficit for this year alone is almost $1.1 trillion -- that’s more than the GDP of Singapore, Norway, and New Zealand combined.
The stock market and economic outlook in the United States is "deteriorating," according to Morgan Stanley's chief stock strategist.
U.S. companies counting on China for a major part of their growth have targets on their backs as Beijing and Washington ratchet up trade-war tensions.