After the recent collapse in gold and silver, some mega bears are coming out of the woodwork. Several have targets that are scary for investors in gold, with them predicting a fall below $1000 for gold, with $800 appearing to be a favorite number. (I have seen targets as low
Recent world events tell us that gold and silver have lower to go. The events on which gold and silver should have gone higher, precious metals staged only weak bounces. The events on which precious metals should have shown slight weakness, gold and silver fell out of bed. First let’s
The plunge in gold and silver and massive outflows from popular ETFs like the SPDR Gold Trust, the iShares Silver Trust, as well as popular miner ETFs like the Market Vectors Gold Miners and Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF have investors clamoring for the answer to a simple question,
The set-up for gold and silver to be slaughtered was perfect yesterday. There have been considerable outflows from popular ETFs like SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), iShares Silver Trust (SLV), Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX), and Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners GDXJ. The selling today was quite different from the typical patterns over
I always get a large number of emails from investors asking questions about gold and silver. Yesterday the email volume spiked. Basically investors were asking the same question, “Why is gold down on North Korea warning that its military has been cleared to wage a nuclear attack against the
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. February Retail Sales ex-auto were 1.0% vs. consensus of 0.5%. In our models we exclude autos because autos are very volatile and distort the results. This is indeed good news and proves the skeptics on the American consumer wrong. Due to
On Wednesday, I received numerous emails from investors who are mostly in cash wanting to know what to do now. It appears that the floodgates for such emails opened when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high. A typical email also contains links to contradictory pronouncements from gurus,
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes from January 29 -30 were released yesterday afternoon. Within the Federal Reserve System, the FOMC is responsible for making key decisions about money supply and interest rates. One paragraph in the minutes spooked gold and silver bulls, as well as stock and
We have received a flood of emails asking the same question, “Why are gold and silver falling?” The answer lies in our prior posts. Here are the links: MOSCOW COMMUNIQUE LEADS TO GOLD AND SILVER FALLING OUT OF BED GOLD IS AT A CRITICAL JUNCTURE GOLD AND SILVER DOWNGRADE IN
There is much debate about the effect of currency wars on gold and its future direction. Currently, the fundamentals of gold are muddled. On the one hand, central banks continue to print lots of money, and some believe currency wars are imminent. On the other hand, inflation is stable, and