Commentaries

On the US monetary inflation front, the news is that there isn’t much in the way of news.

Briefly: In our opinion speculative short positions (full) in gold, silver, and mining stocks are justified from the risk/reward perspective.

We sent out 2 Gold & Silver Trading Alerts yesterday and the situation at this time remains just as we described it in the second of them.

Gold and silver prices gained modestly over the week, during which the latest FOMC minutes were released

I am often asked whether or not western governments are likely to confiscate gold, and my answer has invariably been on the lines of “unlikely at the moment, because so few people own gold”.

Next month marks the 3-year anniversary of the bear market in silver that started in May 2011

The gold bull is just taking a giant breather during a very long bull market, which is the good news.

The gold price continued the previous week’s fall into Monday, which was the end of the first quarter of 2014

I have been revisiting estimates of the quantities of gold being absorbed by China, and yet again I have had to revise them upwards.

Briefly: In our opinion short speculative positions in gold (half), silver (half) and mining stocks (full) are justified from the risk/reward perspective.