Precious metals news

Budget gridlock in Congress? Fed raising interest rates? How about a volaliity rollcoaster? Dow futures were down last night, then rose up over 300 points are opening, now has retreated to up 150. Now is back over 200 points. The VIX is mean reverting. Don't panic. Its just mean reversion.

"Without a wholesale turnaround by the federal government but particularly the Federal Reserve...the Fed will be 'the market' and 'the market' will essentially cease to have any meaningful function."

Hopes for a resurgent Q4 GDP may be stymied as the US trade balance dropped to a new post-Trump wide deficit in December of -$53.1bn (worse than expected $52.1bn) as trade imbalances with Europe and China both worsened.

Stock market crashes have directly correlated to extreme outperformance for the gold price.

VIX is spiking again, Bitcoin and the stock market are dropping, and gold & silver are coming under pressure pre-market. Here's an update on the turmoil...

Mario Draghi said that the European Central Bank still can’t claim success in its struggle to restore inflation, and defended its policies from complaints that they widen inequalities.

During the last market crash in 2008, gold took a temporary setback before rising 4x the amount the stock market fell.

It's a bloodbath, with the Dow set to open 750 points lower "thanks" to the +377 fair value, but it could have been much worse...

Investment firms T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and Vanguard Group apologized to customers for sporadic outages on their websites during the Dow industrials' 1600-point downturn,

The huge increase in market volatility Monday will fuel further outflows from systematic strategies in the days ahead, adding up to around $100 billion.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 1,597 points, the worst part of the downdraft felt to many like the machines run amok

European stock markets are heading lower as lunchtime approaches, as investors fear another day of losses on Wall Street.

Jack Chan says that gold & silver are on long-term "buy" signals, but in the meantime, they are going through a pullback. Here's the details...

"As China buys fewer U.S. Treasuries, the most likely substitute asset class is gold..." Here's why...

Gold can serve as an important diversifier and increase returns for "buy-and-hold" investors such as pension funds, endowments, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds.

They call it the business "cycle" for a reason. Cycles repeat.
As Peter Schiff pointed out in a recent podcast, the financial crisis was triggered by rising interest rates on the debt that had been accumulated in the years prior as a result of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates at 1% for a year-and-a-half and then slowly raising them back up over the course of another year-and-a-half.
Friday, the Dow Jones fell more than 600 points. It was the third big drop in a week. Most analysts mention nervousness about sharply rising bond yields as one of the reasons for the selloff. And what do rising bond yields reflect? Rising interest rates. So, are we seeing the beginning of the next big downturn in the business cycle?

Inflation and wage increases continue to undershoot expectations at the same time the central bank confronts forces pressuring it to credit tightening.

"Something seems about to break in the American markets."

"Gold returns were around 15 percent on average in years when inflation was 3 percent or higher year-over-year."