European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi may follow the U.S. lead and fire off his own bazooka. Requesting broader spending powers, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson famously told Congress that he needed “a bazooka” to head off the financial crisis. German magazine Der Spiegel reports that the ECB is now considering
There are plenty of reasons to buy gold; buying gold just because Paulson and Soros bought gold is a fool’s game. For years, I have analyzed Form 13F Reports filed by institutional investment managers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). An institutional investment manager exercising discretion over $100 million
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Gold and silver are running up on overnight comments from Chinese premier Wen that indicated higher likelihood of stimulus in China. Interestingly gold trading data from Shanghai overnight shows that Chinese investors dismissed Wen’s comments. However, American gold momo
Astute long-term investors are getting increasingly tired of quantitative easing (QE) or similar monetary moves from the Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, and the People’s Bank of China. In an environment where assets are artificially inflated, investors have increasingly turned to gold.
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Gold and silver are falling hard this morning. As of this writing gold is at $1596 and silver is at $27.65. The reason behind the fall is that economic data both from the U.S. and Europe has come out better
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert As of this writing extremely aggressive buying is seen in gold. Dollar is weakening but not enough to justify the move in gold. The reason appears to be a rumor from Europe. If there is any credibility to the rumor, we
The markets are in a party mode and have forgotten the approaching dark cloud of the “fiscal cliff.” The fiscal cliff refers to the expiration of Bush tax cuts and simultaneous significant reduction in government spending in the United States at the end of the year. The Congressional Budget Office
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert SYMBOL SMART MONEY BUYING IN MILLIONS OF $ SMART MONEY SELLING IN MILLIONS OF $ GLD 5.78 SLV 1.23 ABX 4.82 NEM 7.86 GDX 3.34 GDXJ 1.63 GG 0.62 SLW 0.02 PAAS 0.07 CDE 1.56 Smart Money in our parlance is
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert From the emails we have received, there appears to be a strong interest among our subscribers in gold and silver miners. Yesterday we commented that for the first time Smart Money was buying precious miners in a long time. Here
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Gold and silver are being downgraded from neutral with no bias to neutral with negative bias. The reason is Draghi’s failure to act immediately.