Precious metals news

Will the cryptocurrency go down as one of history’s most infamous bubbles, alongside tulipmania and the dot-com craze?

Bitconnect essentially closes its doors following regulatory troubles, bad publicity.

More than $200 billion has been wiped off the value of global cryptocurrencies at the peak of the recent sell-off, which extended into Wednesday morning.

"Gold and related investments are off to a very positive start in 2018.  I don’t expect any major pause in the action until..."

Economist Jerry Robinson tells Silver Doctors the biggest moves in the crypto space are yet to come...

Bill Fleckenstein: “Once the speculative fever starts to pickup, silver is going to go wild.

While Americans Pile Into Stock & Crypto Bubbles

Chinese authorities are reportedly aiming to completely ban centralized trading of virtual currencies as well as individuals and businesses that provide related services.

Last Friday, all three major stock markets hit new record highs ignoring the storm clouds on the horizon. In his latest podcast, Peter Schiff said this reminds him of 1987.
The stock market is rising despite the fact that there are very, very negative factors that are building, that are hiding in plain sight, that everybody is ignoring."
When it comes to the economy, most people aren't worried about anything when there is everything to worry about.

The World Gold Council has released a report highlighting four market trends that will impact gold in the coming year. Although the WGC tends to embrace a pretty mainstream economic point of view, there is some good food for thought in the report, and some reason to be bullish on gold in 2018.
The WGC notes that gold performed remarkably well in 2017.  Investors continued to add gold to their portfolios. It pointed to inflows of $8.2 billion worth of gold into gold-backed exchange- traded funds as one example of strong gold demand. In fact, gold outperformed many asset classes in 2018, despite a rising interest rate environment and surging stock markets.

Germany’s central bank has decided to add the Chinese currency to its foreign exchange reserves, according to Bundesbank board member Andreas Dombret. The move could further boost the international status of the yuan.

Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro has invited members of the regional ALBA-TCP bloc to join him in launching a new cryptocurrency. Named petro, the cryptocurrency will be backed by the country’s oil, gas, gold and diamond riches.

Bill says that relative to other assets, the downside to gold & silver is limited, yet the upside, even with all the manipulation, is extraordinary...

More than $100 billion dollars in market cap have been lost in just a few hours.

The CA Supreme Court will rule on pension cuts. Curiously, the court's ruling will be irrelevant in case of bankruptcy.

Over the weekend, the Cleveland Fed released its media Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for December 2017. The result? The Median CPI rose 0.3% in December, an annualized rate of 3.5%. Put simply, core inflation is rising rapidly… and the Fed is WAY behind the curve. Small wonder the US Dollar is collapsing, breaking through

Bix says that nobody needs Bitcoin to be "digital gold" because real money is "math based cryptocurrency". Here's what else Bix says...

(Deficits and Debt Are What Is Scary) M2 Money growth is NOT causing Weimar or Venezuela like inflation. But Gold is still a good alternative to Fiat currency.

For market bears to be proven right, according to Albert Edwards, it will take one or more of several triggers.

The seemingly unstoppable stock market rally is based on emotions not fundamentals, Zell says.