Another week passed, and the number of jobless claims increased further. That was clearly not expected by the Fed, as the recent minutes shows. What does it all mean for the gold market? Unemployment Claims Rose Further Initial jobless claims have become one the most im...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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April 14, 2020
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Strengths The best performing metal this week was gold, up 0.92 percent. Gold traders and analysts were split between bullish and neutral outlooks on gold ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve meeting, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. Commodity...
Frank Holmes
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January 27, 2020
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The Trump administration will seek an additional $250 billion to support small businesses hurt by the widespread economic shutdown and slowdown. Will the government and the Fed save the US economy? What would be the consequences for the gold market? US Epidemiological Upda...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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April 9, 2020
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We may very well be headed for a recession—some economists believe it’s already here —but we’re most definitely in a bear market, normally defined as occurring when stocks are off more than 20 percent from their peak. Not only that, bu...
Frank Holmes
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March 18, 2020
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The copper story has had its ups and downs. Currently it’s trading at around US$3.80. Copper’s high point came in March 2022 at US$5.02 a pound. With optimism on higher prices at the start of the year, expectations have not been met as Chi...
Coreena Robertson
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August 9, 2023
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(Robson Square, Vancouver | Image via New Age Metals) Two months ago, investors were dubbing palladium the hottest precious metal as prices reached US $1,600/oz. Today, they’re above US $1,800/oz. The continued upwards momentum for the metal is ...
Omri Wallach
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December 2, 2019
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As I sit here on a Thursday evening, contemplating the logic behind my most recent additions to a highly tentative short position on the SPY:US (the exchange-traded fund [ETF] tracking the S&P 500), I am doing everything in my power to not take my quote machine and proj...
Streetwise Reports
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June 30, 2020
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Last Thursday, the New York Fed added more than $80 billion in fresh temporary liquidity to the financial markets. Move over folks, nothing to see here – but what does it mean for gold prices? Repo Crisis Is Not Over Last week on Thursday, the New York Fed added $83.1 ...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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January 16, 2020
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I’m just going to come right out and say it: The United States is not equipped to deal with a pandemic. The nation of 327 million, despite having the number one economy in the world, and by far the most powerful military, is shockingly ill-prepared, not only ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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March 31, 2020
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Let's take a closer look at the chart below (chart courtesy of www.stooq.com ) and assess the likely crude oil price path ahead. Yesterday, we wrote: (…) On Friday, crude oil futures bounced off the green gap, which brought about quite a sharp move to the upside....
Nadia Simmons
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November 20, 2019
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