Precious Metals

Gold, silver and mining stocks didn’t do much on Friday, so what we wrote in Friday’s alert is generally up-to-date.

Gold and silver extend their rallies amid escalating Chinese demand for gold

If gold is entering a new bull market then it’s a great time to get in.

In short: In our opinion, no positions are currently justified from the risk/reward perspective.

Our original intention was to explain where we agreed and disagreed with the article by Cullen Roche at “Pragmatic Capitalism” (is there any other kind of capitalism?) titled “The Biggest Myths in Economics”.

The China Gold Association this week released estimates for China’s “gold consumption” for 2013 at 1,176 tonnes.

Gold has now rallied over 10% since December 31. This, in the words of one analyst who achieved widespread publicity was meant to be “a slam-dunk sell”.

The U.S. dollar remains mixed against major currencies after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen signaled that recent soft economic data haven’t swayed the central bank from a strategy of trimming its monthly bond purchases by $10 billion at each of its policy meetings this year.

Since Monday financial markets have consolidated following the emerging market currency shocks of the previous week.

In the past years, the Federal Reserve dropped many inflationary bombs on the markets.