Gold, Stocks and the Euro All Gain in “Risk Asset Recovery” as Positive Manufacturing Data “Confirms China’s Soft Landing”

THE U.S. DOLLAR cost of buying gold climbed to $1750 an ounce Wednesday morning London time – gold's highest level since early December – while commodity prices also ticked higher and stock markets surged following the release of better-than-expected...

Economic and Gold Stock 2012 Outlook

The expected break out on gold stocks failed to eventuate in 2011 as market leader NCM headed south during September. Most gold equities here finished the year weak and ready for a bounce. The elite stocks held...

Chart of the Day: Gold Miners

This post comes from my friend Tiho at Short Side of Long: Today’s chart of the day focuses on Precious Metals sector, just like the previous post about Silver. The chart below shows that Gold Miners ETF is currently...

Gold Model Forecasts $4380 Gold Price

You’ve probably heard it many times: “Gold is a good hedge against inflation”.

Gold Nears Weekend 2% Down as UK Quits New European “Fiscal Compact”, Politicians “Expect ECB Action”

WHOLESALE MARKET gold prices fell back to this week's low of $1705 per ounce Friday lunchtime in London, as Asian equities closed sharply lower but Eurozone and US equities rallied following news of the "fiscal discipline" being agreed by...

The General Stock Market Reinforces the Bullish Outlook for Mining Stocks

Today’s EU summit has been billed as the best-- perhaps the last-- opportunity to save the euro. As we publish today’s essay, we still don’t know the results, and gold, like most asset classes, will react to headlines coming...

Why Gold Stocks Have Underperformed and What Lies Ahead

Gold is higher by 20% this year but the large cap gold stocks (GDX) are down 6% while the junior gold stocks (ETF) are down 25%. With Gold higher by 20%, we’d normally expect the gold stocks to be...

The Currency War Big Picture Analysis for Gold, Silver & Stocks

I think you will admit that we are in the middle of one major crazy financial mess. The part that makes things really crazy is that it’s not just in the United States anymore but rather serious global...

Is This December Similar to 2007 & 2008 for Gold & Stocks?

Thus far in 2011 the overall stock market movement has been much different from what we had in 2010.

Gold Producers Lead while Developers and Explorers Lag

Back in August we wrote a piece titled: The Catalyst for Consolidation in the Gold Sector. We noticed that the large cap producers had begun to outperform the rest of the sector which consists of small producers, developers and...