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Rate Hike Possibility Pressures Gold After the strongest first quarter in over 30 years, gold has pulled back from some of its recent gains. The culprit for this recent turnaround is a change in the messages from various members of the Fed. This has caused expectations to...
Gold prices have continued their impressive rise long enough for the hedge funds to take notice. The prices for gold futures are up an impressive 20% so far in 2016. This has been mostly fueled by the 17% run during the first three months of...
Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Funds attempt to match the progress of the underlying stock market indices for each fund. It should not come as a great surprise to investors that if the stock markets are down in general, these funds will largely follows suit. In...
Performance of Price since start of year Gold has had one of the best starts to the year, with a jump of 16% in the first quarter, which also happens to be the largest increase in Q1 for the past 42 years. The YTD is also...
Despite the fact that plenty of investment banks had lined up against gold's prospects over the past months, gold managed to post its best quarter in thirty years for the first three months of 2016. Gold prices roared 16% higher in January, February, and March,...
Precious metals have had an attractive return so far for 2016, and continued volatility in the stock markets is only helping. On Friday, Non-Farm Payrolls were released for the previous month of April; the market had been expecting a number around 200k. The actual number...
The Puerto Rican debt disaster has again reared its ugly head. The ticking time bomb that is the Puerto Rico situation still has the potential to be an explosive mover for the yellow metal in the near future. These are all good reasons to include...
The US dollar lost 2.15% against the Japanese yen in the space of 15 minutes after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) announcement on interest rates. The spin-off from this turmoil provoked a fall in the S&P 500 of 0.7% within the same space of time;...
A look at various commodity prices since beginning of year Commodities have had a remarkable first quarter in 2016, and the turnaround has been substantial and not limited to just Crude Oil and Gold. Soybeans, Silver & Cocoa, have seen their prices grow sharply over the...
Stocks have had an amazing rally since they bottomed out in March 2009 at 735. Over the next 6 years, the S&P 500 reached a new high in May 2015 at 2107, which represented an 186% increase from trough to peak. This sustained rally created...
Canada has been selling its Gold reserves for decades so that fact alone does not surprise. What does surprise, however, is that it has sold almost all the remaining Gold coins in its coffers. In February Canada sold 28,851 ounces of Gold. It currently only...
Last week's column, "Is the 'Crowd' too Bearish?" discussed whether excessive pessimism on Wall Street had set the stage for corrective countertrend moves in various markets. As of now, the question remains open. After a choppy week, equities and Treasury bond yields ended a tad higher,...
In light of recent market turbulence, one question investors might naturally be thinking about is how concerned should they be? Before answering, it is worth considering two things that old Wall Street hands try to keep in mind.The first is the fact that the investing "crowd" may not be...
Gold makes strong start to the year Gold has put on a great rally since the beginning of the year after having reached a most recent low at the beginning of December last year. Since its close on December 31st it has risen nearly 14%. That...
Gold has gained more than 15% to just over $1,200 an ounce since hitting multi-year lows in December. The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) has fared even better, rallying roughly 40% over the span. The question now, of course, is what happens next.For the...
A number of fixed-income markets have been on a tear in recent weeks. Treasurys, for example, have rallied sharply, pushing yields lower across the board. So, too, have some municipal and higher-rated corporate bonds. Does that mean what I argued previously is wrong? Perhaps, but...
With all of the chaos raging in the global central bank money system and its runaway money printing operations, the majority of the world economies, and the global oil markets lately, it is really not that hard to understand why an increasing number of savers...
Precious metals are generally seen as a store of value, a hedge against inflation and a safe haven during times of trouble. As such, they are an important defense against threats that are known or seem imminent. However, gold, silver and platinum can also serve as insurance against developments that few...
Gold price has had a bumpy ride down to its most recent lows in December last year. Many factors came into play that took away the lure of the shiny metal. Stock markets have had a particularly strong performance in terms of both dividends and...
The real estate sector's solid performance in recent years has convinced many investors that it is an attractive alternative to traditional investments. For some, it seems, property is a safer haven than gold and other precious metals.However, there are reasons to believe this might not be the case going forward. Arguably, one rationale stems from...
