The Warning Signs Keep Building
Until last nights price action, gold and silver had remained largely stuck within its recent trading range, and on track to a record a flat monthly return for September....
27 September 2018
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10 Years Since Lehman Crashed
Gold is currently trading at USD $1203oz, whilst silver is at USD $14.30oz, with the precious metal market continuing its recent consolidation. In Australian dollar terms...
14 September 2018
What’s Up With Silver?
With the recent dramatic sell-off in the silver spot price, we no doubt have many investors scratching their heads as to what is happening in the silver market, and quest...
06 September 2018
Will the Yield Curve Save a “Dying” Gold Market?
The gold price in USD fell by 3% in the first half of August, declining below critical support at USD $1200oz, though it has since bounced back above this level. The sava...
26 August 2018
Is Gold Dying?
Depending on how you look at it, given what’s happened to precious metal prices in the past five weeks, as a gold market commentator, I either picked the very best or ver...
23 August 2018
Metals Capitulate on Flight to USD
Precious metals have had a volatile week with the gold price in USD breaking south of 1,200 per ounce and absolute chaos in Forex markets saw the AUD/USD plummet to aroun...
16 August 2018
Gold Oversold! Here's what it means
Gold remained heavily oversold this week with a favourite long-term indicator well and truly in the buy zone with gold in the $1630 range. The longer-term chart in AUD is...
09 August 2018
Gold Sell-Off, When Will It End?
Despite the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates on hold, Gold prices continued to ease this week, with further falls in our currency providing somewhat of a floor for...
02 August 2018
Venezuela Trumps Weimar
In news this week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the inflation rate in Venezuela could top 1,000,000% by the end of the year, as the country is in...
26 July 2018
China and Commodities Crunched
Gold prices have fallen by over 1% this week, re-testing the USD $1240oz level, whilst silver has also declined, trading closer to USD $16oz, as renewed selling pressure...
13 July 2018
Has Gold Bottomed?
Gold prices have rallied this week, with the precious metal complex possibly having completed its multi-month corrective period. The yellow metal, which had fallen by app...
05 July 2018
Gold Soft as Trade Tensions Escalate!
It’s been a difficult two weeks for precious metal bulls, with gold failing to hold support at the all important USD $1,300oz level late last week, before plunging to USD...
21 June 2018
Podcast: Free money is the enemy of free markets
David Stockman, director of the Office of Management of Budget under President Reagan and master of mazy budgetary arithmetic, joins Jim Grant for a scintillating discus...
18 June 2018
Gold: It’s Worse than it Looks!
Precious metal prices have consolidated this week, with gold still battling to decisively reclaim the USD $1,300oz level. Silver has had a better time of it, rising nearl...
07 June 2018
In Gold We Trust - 2018 Edition
Incrementum AG this week released their 12th annual “In Gold We Trust” report, titled “Gold and the Turning of the Monetary Tides”, a must read report for any follower of...
01 June 2018
Aus Property: You Don't Need a Catalyst For a Crash
In any discussion of the Australian housing market, it’s impossible to avoid discussion of a catalyst. “We see no immediate catalysts for a crash,” has become the cry of...
30 May 2018
'Major financial crisis' could be on horizon, warns billionaire
A surging US dollar and a capital flight from emerging markets may lead to another "major" financial crisis, investor George Soros said, warning the European Union that i...
29 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 25 May 2018
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27 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 16 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 15th
15 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 14 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 11thCOMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS:A mixed bag on Friday as the week drew to a close. Europe took XAU/USD up to technical resistance at th...
15 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 11 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 10th COMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS: A mixed day’s trade saw the US dollar weaken, US equities strengthen, crude oil prices dip before rec...
14 May 2018
The Stockmarket Superbowl - and Why Buffett is Wrong
Long dubbed ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’, or the Stockmarket Superbowl as we prefer, last weekends Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting offered plenty of insights for investo...
10 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 10 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 9thCOMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS:The fallout continued yesterday from Tuesday’s decision by US President Trump to abandon the Joint Compr...
10 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 8 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 7th COMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS: A quiet start to the week with a UK Bank holiday impacting liquidity and markets holding station withi...
08 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 7 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 4thCOMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS:Gold stayed away from its week’s lows on Friday after the eagerly awaited US Bureau of Labor Statistics...
07 May 2018
Has Gold Hit a 10 Year Low?
Gold prices have largely stabilised around USD $1310oz this week, arresting a slide that has seen the yellow metal pull back from the USD $1360oz region over the past thr...
03 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 4 May 2018
Softer US Treasury yields, a softer US Dollar and weaker US equities on concerns surrounding the ongoing trade negotiations between the United States and China, assisted...
03 May 2018