Precious metals news

Consider the Fed the Starship Enterprise: It went where no central bank had gone before, & now must plot the journey home.

… and it’s now affecting the euroThe battle of words between Germany and the European Central Bank (ECB) is heating up....

Checkmate! Governments will have no moves. Inflation will soar, the yield curve will steepen to record wides, the inflationary reset will be upon us.

"If Mr. Trump starts trade wars, the whole world's going to collapse. I mean it – it's over," warned Rogers.

9 Years After the Derivatives Market Came Within 60 Minutes of Taking Down the Global Financial System, Jim Willie Joins SD For An Urgent Alert: The Interest Rate Swap Derivatives Market […]

Lloyds Banking Group has revealed it will be shutting 100 bank branches this year. The group owns Lloyds Bank, Halifax & Bank of Scotland, all of which will see branches shut down.

Everything just changed...

There is every reason to argue that higher inflation is coming in the near future

The Fed’s ability to drive liquidity has never been more potent. At the same time, the Fed is also well aware of the unique liquidity risks in the markets these days.

Deutsche Bank AG, the German lender losing market share across the world to its biggest rivals, has held on to a key group of clients: junk-bond billionaires.

Households face the end of free banking if the low-growth, low-interest rate environment persists, according to the International Monetary Fund.

More Americans 50 years & older are copying younger generations and eschewing marriage, opting instead to live with their partners, according to new research. In 2016 about 18 million Americans were cohabiting...

U.S. payroll gains slowed in March while the jobless rate unexpectedly dropped to the lowest in almost a decade, suggesting the labor market is returning to a more sustainable pace of progress.

With both bad loans & interest rates on the rise, financial institutions are becoming more selective in doling out credit for new-car purchases

The battered American retail industry took a few more lumps this week, with stores at both ends of the price spectrum preparing to close their doors.

Market waves sparked by a U.S. missile attack on Syria gradually dissipated, with haven assets trimming gains and stocks paring losses before jobs data gives an insight into the strength of the world’s largest economy. The South African rand slumped after another credit downgrade.

Heavy civilian casualties and a likely ground invasion make a pre-emptive strike on North Korea a far more risky proposition.

American military action against a Syria-government airfield late Thursday will do significant damage to relations between Russia and the U.S., according to the Kremlin quoted by the Interfax news agency.

The actions of tonight have sparked a much more considerable move in stocks (lower), bonds (lower in yield) & gold (higher)...

It's important to remember gold is money, but as we focus on gold’s monetary and investment properties, it’s easy to forget the yellow metal has inherent value in and of itself with amazing practical uses.
NASA is currently developing a new telescope scheduled to launch in October 2018. The power of the James Webb Space Telescope  (JWST) will dwarf that of the Hubble Telescope, offering unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. According to an article in Forbes, the telescope’s ability to “see” deep into the infrared spectrum will allow it to image the distant universe to as far back as the first galaxies and even the first stars. Gold will help make this amazing imaging possible.