The ‘registered’ for delivery silver bullion at the Comex licensed facilities dropped by 7,792,110 troy ounces yesterday. This takes the total from 36,322,409 to 28,530...
The last 10 years have exposed a very important reality for any global asset allocator – US Treasury Bonds are the ultimate safe haven investment. For decades we have heard sto...
With each passing rally hope has bloomed that the bear market in precious metals may be over. The long and deep “forever bear” has to end but it hasn’t yet. Under the surface...
At what point do we accede back to logic and rational thought? The Bank of Japan is “forced”, not my word, to unleash negative nominal interest rates and that is taken as a pos...
The Federal Reserve’s announcement of its decision to leave monetary policy unchanged said nothing about stock market and commodity market volatility. And that speaks volumes. ...
The BEA “Advance GDP” estimate for 4th quarter came in today at +0.7% vs. an Econoday Consensus Estimate of 0.9%. Consumer spending is the central driver of the ec...
The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that U.S. real GDP grew at a 0.7% annual rate in the fourth quarter. That’s a bad quarter to be sure, and real GDP is up only 1....
We know that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is off more than 10% since July 1 in a correction that has investors all over the world rattled. But here’s the thing… IR...
This week wasn’t a good week for my core market health indicators. My measures of market quality, trend, and strength all fell even as the market rallied on Thursday and Friday. ...
The latest NYSE margin debt figures came out this week showing another drop during the month of December. Moreover, the level of margin debt has now spent a few months below its 12...