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The metals may have fallen off the front page but gold (NYSEArca:GLD) is having a good year. Despite several near technical breakdowns, the yellow metal has risen in-line with the S&P 500, up over 8% year-to-date. For it’s part the most popular Read more…
Dr. John Chapman: Introduction: The Prologue to Today and the Current Situation Summarized: On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon unilaterally terminated U.S. obligations under the 27-year old Bretton Woods monetary framework, and with it the U.S. Dollar link to gold. The world became at once a Read more…
Jared Cummans: The SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) is one of the most popular exchange traded products in the world, as it is home over $68 billion in assets and an average trading volume topping 16 million shares. This fund features a physically backed exposure to gold while charging fees of just 0.40%. Read more…
Adrian Ash: With the gold price dipping to nearly its lowest level in 2012 as world stock markets and commodity prices also fell. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In a recent episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser’s nose for bank fraud demonstrates, not only how the Fed and its 21 primary dealer network steal via insider trading throughout the U.S. central bank’s ‘Quantitative Easing (QE)’ programs, but that record purchases of Agency Read more…
Larry D. Spears: With few exceptions, most leading financial gurus agree that every portfolio should include some physical gold. But while the yellow metal itself is great as a long-term hedge against turmoil and inflation, it’s a lousy trading vehicle. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Fearful of desperate governments taking desperate actions during the coming currency crisis, Gloom Boom Doom editor and publisher Marc Faber advises investors to Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski: The recent precipitous plunge in precious metals was one of the biggest sell-offs in recent memory. The gold “Flash Crash” even prompted a serious newspaper such as the Financial Times to run a headline stating “Flash Crash Rouses Suspicions of Witchcraft.” Read more…
Adrian Ash: Was the People’s Bank of China really buying gold at the rate of 1 ounce in every 8 sold worldwide last quarter…? SO THOSE MILITANT crazies known to the mainstream media as “gold bugs” – and to the FBI as subversives – got the headline they’ve been longing for, apparently, last week. Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: Similar to what we saw in silver last week, Gold rallied up off a critical support level as seen on the Daily Chart. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: No investment topic elicits as divergent, impassioned, and occasionally violent opinions as gold. Many investors will readily admit to having no strong views on stocks, bonds, or real estate, but gold almost always elicits an opinion. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: If those words sounds familiar, that’s because you may have read it somewhere on the Web some time in January of 2011. “Not owning gold is a form of insanity,” Robin Griffiths of Cazenove Capital (believed to be the private broker for the British royal family) told Read more…
Jordan Roy-Byrne: With Gold’s failure at $1800, it should be obvious that the market is in a protracted consolidation. This is actually similar to 2006-2007 and it is something we wrote about in a missive in early January. At the time, Gold had bottomed and had the luxury of very strong support nearby. Read more…Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: “The incredible gold scandal,” the German newspaper BILD began its article about the disposition of Germany’s mysterious gold holdings following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2009. Read more…
Jack Barnes: SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEArca:GLD) experienced a major pullback on Leap Day last week, dropping almost exactly 100 points on the day. Read more…
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