The Wall Street Journal just published the kind of article gold bugs dream of seeing in the mainstream press. Here’s an excerpt: Coronavirus Sparks a Global Gold Rush Epic shortage spooks doomsday preppers and bankers alike; ‘Unaffordium and unobtanium.’ It’s an honest-to-God doomsday scenario and the ultimate doomsday-prepper market is a mess. As the coronavirus […]
Get Your Gold And Silver Now Before They’re All Gone — Oops, Too Late
Precious metals advocates have been warning for years that the time to load up on a safe haven asset is before it’s needed, because by the time it is obviously needed it won’t be available. That seemed a bit hyperbolic in a world of smoothly functioning markets and apparently infinite horizons of steady growth and […]
This Is Why You Should Own High-Quality Gold Miners
A long list of companies ranging from cruise ship operators to retailers to airlines to restaurants are on life support. Many others (we’re looking at you, IBM) have spent billions buying back their own stock with borrowed money and now, even if they survive, look ridiculous. Is there anyone left out there with good year-ahead […]
Mike Maloney: Shortage Of Physical Gold and Silver Will Send Prices Much Higher
I was sitting here writing a post about how even though gold and silver prices are down, dealers are facing shortages of one-ounce bullion coins — and how in the past such imbalances have produced bull markets in precious metals. Then this video from Mike Maloney pops up, in which he tells the the story […]
Feeling Adventurous? Consider Silver
Silver is getting crushed in the pandemic-driven flight to safety — which might have created one of those blood-in-the-streets opportunities that contrarian investors dream about. To understand why, lets start with the gold/silver ratio. The relationship between the prices of these two monetary metals tends to fluctuate within a wide band running from 20 to […]
Great Times Coming For Gold Mining Stocks
Gold mining can be a terrible business. The metal’s price is volatile. Environmental and political risks are ever-present. And operating costs (especially energy) tend to rise even when gold’s price is falling. The result is a combination of low margins and high risk that causes most miners to consume more wealth than they produce. But […]
Gold Mining Stocks Broaden Their Appeal — With Dividends
No one interested in current income buys gold mining stocks because those stocks are traditionally all about capital gains. As ‘leveraged plays on the price of gold,’ the miners work this way: Let’s say gold is $1,000 per ounce and a hypothetical miner produces a million ounces annually, eking out a net profit of $10 […]
This Is Great News For Gold
The 2010s were not kind to precious metals, in either nominal or relative terms. Gold and silver are down from their 2011 highs and waaayyy down versus equities and other favorite assets of the 1% like fine art and trophy real estate. But this imbalance has begun to reverse, in two ways. First, stocks have […]
Marin Katusa: Is It Time for Silver Stocks To Blast Higher?
Excerpted from Katusa Research: These days, silverbugs have every reason to shout from the rooftops. Even with spot silver trading mostly rangebound, many silver stocks are at or near levels not seen in 3 years. Volume is picking up, momentum is picking up and the top silver companies have performed very well in 2019. So, […]
Gold Seasonality Turns Positive – Prepare For A Big January
The gold market has a saying — “sell in May and go away” – for a good reason: Asians like to give gold jewelry as wedding gifts and tend to hold most of their weddings in the Spring. Asian jewelers therefore have to load up on inventory – in the form of gold bullion – […]
Wells Fargo Tries To Diss Gold, But Fails
Major US bank Wells Fargo has apparently been getting a lot of client inquiries about gold, and has responded pretty much as you’d expect: Hold Some But Not Too Much Gold, Says Wells Fargo (Kitco News) – Wells Fargo is once again cautioning investors from buying too much gold as prices continue to trade north […]
This (Completely Reasonable) Change In Investor Behavior Would Send Gold To The Moon
Mark Mobius took over for the legendary John Templeton at Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Fund back in the 1980s, and filled those big shoes well for three decades. Now running his own shop, he recently made what seems like a completely reasonable suggestion about gold — one that if adopted by the broader investment community […]
Check Out The Epic Battle In The Gold Market
It is generally, if grudgingly, accepted that the “paper gold” markets – that is, the people trading futures contracts and options – are able to dictate the metal’s price and have used this power to suppress and delay gold’s inevitable trip to the moon. It’s also generally believed (at least by gold bugs) that demand […]
Marin Katusa: This Gold Bull Market Is For Real
In his latest report, commodities analyst Marin Katusa lays out the case for a sea change in gold’s relationship to the overall market. Here’s hoping he’s right: Gold Just Had Its Biggest One Day Influx EVER On Friday June 21st, the largest gold focused Exchange Traded Fund (GLD) saw over $1.5 billion flood into the […]
If History Still Matters, Silver Is Poised For A Huge Move
It’s been a pretty good couple of months for precious metals, but more so for gold than silver. Both are up but gold is up more, and the imbalance that this creates might be one of the major investment themes of the next few years. The gold/silver ratio – that is, how many ounces of […]
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