Precious metals news

U.S. Office Real Estate At "Cyclical Tipping Point" That Will Devastate CMBS​ Market

“Tax reform could be yet another catalyst to make the housing-inventory crisis even worse than it already is,”

Walker said the Republican Study Committee is pushing a set of proposals to cut as much as $1 trillion from entitlement spending.

European shares tracked declines across Asia and U.S. stocks looked poised to open lower as investors continued to lock in 2017 gains amid a broad risk-off mood. The dollar steadied and Treasuries climbed as focus turns to efforts to avert a U.S. government shutdown on Saturday.

Stewart Thomson says the market feels solid right now. Here's why...

Last week, Pres. Donald Trump nominated Marvin Goodfriend to fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. When we reported the news, we called him "another swamp creature" - a member of the Washington D.C./Wall Street clan Trump promised to drain away.
We're not alone in our thinking. In an article on the Mises Wire, Tho Bishop called Goodfriend's nomination "a dangerous act of outright betrayal to Trump’s core constituency of working-class voters."
It's true Goodfriend's views on monetary policy don't fit in with the current Fed status quo. But that's not a good thing. Goodfriend isn’t a fan of the conventional radical policy of quantitative easing. He’s actually a proponent of an even more radical policy.
Following is Bishop's analysis in its entirety.

We think of platinum and palladium as the "industrial metals," but in 2016, there was more gold used in industrial applications than either of these two metals.
According to a report released by the World Gold Council, demand for gold in electronics has been growing since the fourth quarter of 2016. On top of that, other emerging technologies in the health and energy sectors are also driving up the industrial demand for gold. All of this could have a positive impact on overall gold demand in the future.

The heavy hitters in the gold market may finally be able to break the COMEX and London. Here's why...

“Shutdown or no shutdown, the Fed has painted itself into a corner and there’s no way to escape the room”...

This lawsuit could not only derail Puerto Rico’s current debt restructuring attempts, but it could also call into question the constitutionality of its status as an “unincorporated” U.S. territory.

The War On Gold Intensifies: It Betrays The Elitists' Panic And Coming Defeat

Captain Ewave says that the stock market is "in danger of a very big collapse", but either way, it's a scary market for the gold bulls. Here's why...

Let’s hope some sense dawns amongst the powers-that-be & the bail-in provision is thrown into the dustbin​.

Rick says that gold has held it's own despite US dollar strength over the last couple of years .Here's what's next for the yellow metal...

“Such steps will make it possible to remove the dollar from mutual settlements and use only yuan and rubles (mostly yuan for the moment) in the mid-term, if more specialists from the Russian financial sector work in this direction

Cryptocurrency close to record high despite news Treasury plans to end traders’ anonymity

The US Treasury 10Y-2Y slope keeps on dropping. Over the long haul, it is rapidly approaching inversion.

China is likely to top US as the world's largest consumer due to the switch to a more consumer-focused economy - analysts

as U.S. imports record amount of goods from China, Mexico, Europe

Investors should be more concerned about an overheating financial market, according to the global body for central banks.