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TOP NEWS Something is Brewing in the Silver Market
While the silver price has moved less than gold this year, there has been a decisive move by investors. You and I don’t buy paper silver products, but this is where much of the mainstream first goes when wanting exposure to precious metals. Check out the jump in net purchases of SLV (iShares Silver Trust) last month: Net purchases by SLV holders surged to two-year highs last month. And July is on track to be even higher, as that data is only through the 16th.
Silver’s Breakout Moment?
I sat down today to write a thoughtful piece about how silver’s low prices will inevitably beget higher prices. And two things caught my attention. First, Jeff Clark has expertly covered that already. Second, silver is spiking for the first time in a while.Four-month highs are in the bag, and if silver is rapidly approaching the $16 resistance point.Is this THE breakout? Is this the beginning of the giant ramp? I can’t tell you how badly I want to say “YES, THIS IS IT.”
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Gold Traders’ Report - July 19, 2019
Gold was pressured by a further gain in the DX (97.03), which was helped by softening in the yen (107.20 – 107.73, risk on) and the euro ($1.1282 - $1.1229, miss on German PPI, Italian politics). Global equities...
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Central Banks Return to Gold
"In 2018 alone, central banks bought 651 tonnes of gold, up 74% compared to 2017 and the highest level since 1971"...
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Major Gold Bull Markets Are Rare, Investors Are Betting One Is Here
The metal is trading above $1,400 per ounce for the first time since 2013 and is up more than 12% year to date. That also represents a rally of more than 35% since it broke below $1,100 per ounce in late 2015.
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MMT’s Kelton Sees Central Banks Quietly Yielding to Governments
The world’s central banks are likely to start following the lead set by their governments, according to the economist who’s become the public face of Modern Monetary Theory ...
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James Rickards: Who Bails Out Central Banks in Coming Chaos
Rickards covers a lot of ground in this in-depth interview that is more than one hour in length. Rickards talks about the new gold (and silver) bull market, what everybody, especially the small investors,
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Blackrock CEO Fink Says ECB Must Buy Equities to Stimulate Euro Zone
BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink said on Friday the European Central Bank will need to purchase equities to stimulate Europe's economy, and that leaders should find ways to have investors embrace an "equity culture" there.
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QQQ Volume Showing Us Sign of a Top
This week’s chart shows a 10-day simple moving average of daily trading volume in QQQ. This indicator has dropped to its lowest reading in almost 2 years, as prices have been pushing up to higher levels.
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Are Central Banks Losing Their Big Bet? - El-Erian
Central bankers are now facing a lose-lose proposition.
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The Most Dangerous Game - NorthmanTrader
Yesterday the Fed went full circus. It was stunning to watch and I suspect they made a couple of mistakes by revealing things they shouldn’t have.
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Trump Bashes Fed's Williams
Says US Economic Growth "No Thanks To Federal Reserve", Sees "No Inflation"
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Gold Is Making a Comeback to the World Financial System
LAST year, 22 central banks, situated largely to the east of Germany, bought the largest amount of gold since 1967 - the year that the London Gold Pool collapsed.
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Gold Extends Rise, as Yellow Metal’s Monster Rally Persists
Gold futures rise on Friday, adding to a powerful push toward fresh six-year highs, amid a backdrop of lower rates and monetary-policy easing that bulls deem...
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The Gold Rush Heats Up as Sub-Zero Yields Spread
Gold, once mocked for its lack of yield and practical use, offers something the growing pile of negative-yielding bonds doesn’t -- inflation protection.
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The "Final False Dawn" Looms
...selling UST’s is an act of geopolitical defiance rather than the sustained monetary incompetence which, when truly discovered, will actually point the world in the direction of actual rather than imagined recovery. The final false dawn.
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The Three Ds of Doom: Debt, Default, Depression
"Borrowing our way out of debt" generates the three Ds of Doom: debt leads to default which ushers in Depression.
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Biggest Bull Market Ever - yet Disaster Looms for Millions of Retirees
The coming ‘tsunami of poverty’ for retirees — and what to do about it...
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NY Fed Backpedals That Market Took as Signal of a Rate Cut
Earlier, Williams said in a speech that "it's better to take preventative measures than to wait for disaster to unfold."
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Japan's Core Inflation Hits Two-Year Low, Push BoJ to Ease Again Soon
With the global economy slowing and factory production faltering in the face of the Sino-U.S. trade war, BOJ officials have said they remain ready to expand stimulus,...
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Cybersecurity Is Biggest Threat to Global Economy over the Next Decade
CEOs see cybersecurity as the number one threat to the global economy and business growth over the next five to ten years, a new report has claimed.
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