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It was an interesting options expiration week for equities that’s for sure. We saw some very choppy price action with large waves of buying and selling as the bulls and bears fought for control. Both Gold and Oil closed lower for the week which is not a good sign considering the US Dollar dropped like … Continue reading

* Gold managed to hold this week with a low higher than last week’s low.  However, GLD did not.  Sooooo…. with that bit of ambiguity, I’ve got to think we likely have not seen the bottom in gold as of today. * A couple of possibilities for the bottom.  First, let’s look at them with … Continue reading

I think a big and fairly fast move down is coming over the next month in all stocks, including Gold stocks. Keep in mind that I am biased as I am heavily invested in puts on equities (the DRN and UPRO ETFs) and I am waiting in cash to buy Gold miners if they get … Continue reading

Another day, another pre-market shellacking of gold. I’ve seen enough of these suspicious pre-market sell-offs over the years to know that going long into deep selling is profitable. Bull markets always overpower short-term selling pressure. Sentiment in the gold space is currently the exact opposite of exuberant. Go up to 10 random people and tell them to … Continue reading

Zero Hedge recently posted several insightful pieces from Hinde Capital, among which the fund’s presentation on the ECB’s role as the European Commission’s whore, and more recently, its presentation on Gold as the “currency of first resort” (recreated below). Last week, fund manager Ben Davies, who previously ran trading for RBS Greenwich Capital in London … Continue reading

It’s true that GLD’s (NYSE: GLD) assets just passed the $50 billion mark, and that it’s the second largest U.S. ETF. Yes, mints had difficulty filling orders when the Greek crisis broke. And yes, the gold price is up nine years in a row…..

Source: http://timiacono.com/index.php/2010/07/16/one-step-closer-to-de-flation/#more-6331 The Labor Department reported that consumer prices fell 0.1 percent in June, down for the third straight month, paced by further declines in energy prices. On a year-over-year basis, the government’s measure of annual inflation fell from 2.0 percent in May to just 1.1 percent in June, the lowest level since last October … Continue reading

In 2004, Analyst John Lee founded Mau Capital Management, a hedge fund based in Vancouver that invests mostly in junior mining companies. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Lee deflates the deflation argument, discusses why he favors…

  This essay is based on the Premium Update posted on July 16th, 2010 We live in an era of unparalleled confusion on monetary and economic issues. It’s almost like a shoot-out among the economists in the Old West, except that here you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys. You read so … Continue reading