Precious metals news

The Silver Institute forecasts that demand for industrial silver will increase by 142 million ounces by 2018 – a 27% rise from 2013 levels. The majority of this growth will come from the electronics sector, where silver is used as one of the most reliable and efficient electrical conductors on earth.
However, every major application of industrial silver will experience considerable growth by 2018. These include batteries, ethylene oxide (EO), photovoltaic power, automative, brazing and alloys, bearings, printed silver inks, medical, and water purification. Here’s a break-down of silver demand by geographical region:

The Doc and Eric Dubin from SilverDoctors & SD Bullion joined the SGTReport this weekend to talk about all things silver. We discuss the new record in silver eagle sales and the […]

Here's what Silver looks like in the major currencies ... This is the “Handle” part of the giant “Cup and Handle” you'll see in the first posted chart below. The […]

“I expect you’ll wind up saying something like this: “My generation gave former tenured economics professors discretionary authority to fabricate money and to fix interest rates. We put the cart […]

Is the petrodollar on the way out?   More frequently, the signs say yes.   Is a gold-backed currency standard waiting to replace it? Beliefs, at least in the PM community, remain […]

Are we about to see U.S. stocks take a significant tumble?  If you are looking for a “canary in the coal mine” for the U.S. stock market, just look at […]

The foundation for collapse is already well established.   Hyperinflation is fluid process.  It is a becoming. A great tsunami dislocating, destroying in that sense it is already here.   […]

Most of the oil shale/fracking stocks that went  public over the past few years have come crashing down – even harder than junior mining companies. The difference between the two […]

After a fierce run up to over $17.00 yesterday, the bankers in the Asian time zone knocked silver down to $17.00 at midnight.  By 3 am (London’s first fix) it […]

In his latest commentary with Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff digs into all the poor economic data that the mainstream news completely ignores. He just brushes the surface, but there are far more than the few he mentioned in his podcast on the topic last week. Peter reminds us that there is more to an economy than GDP and jobs.

The United States Mint has officially sold a record amount of silver two years in a row. As of Monday, US Mint sales of American Silver Eagles for 2014 reached 42,864,000, surpassing the total annual sales of 42,675,000 in 2013. The US Mint temporarily sold out of Silver Eagles earlier this year and had to begin offering them on an allocated basis.
As you can see in this chart from Smaulgld, US Mint silver sales really took off seven years ago and have remained robust. We have every reason to believe that this record demand will continue in the coming years.

In his latest commentary from Casey Research, Jeff Clark poses some serious questions to gold bears. Mainstream economists insist that the gold price is going to continue to fall, but as Clark points out, demand for physical precious metals remains robust. And it's not just gold bugs that are buying – everyone from central banks to mainstream investors are taking advantage of the low prices in precious metals.
Clark's questions for bears boil down to one central question: "Do you know of any bear market in any asset that's seen this kind of demand?"

Could rapidly falling oil prices trigger a nightmare scenario for the commodity derivatives market? The big Wall Street banks did not expect plunging home prices to cause a mortgage-backed securities […]

Before being replaced by programs, the floor traders were a close-nit gallery of regular people with an affinity for dealing and managing emotions. The markets were fast, efficient, imperfect, but […]

Retail sales during the four day Thanksgiving weekend were down a whopping 11 percent from last year. This is a “make or break” time of the year for many retailers, […]

Ann Barnhardt of the former Barnhardt Capital Management joins Finance & Liberty for a MUST LISTEN interview. Barnhardt unleashes an epic rant on the usurpation of the United States by […]

Game over, Japan. Hara-kiri seems to be the only option at this point.

In silver, the open interest fell by a small 823 contracts with yesterday’s rise in price of  $0.02.  Looks like some of the shorts are vacating the arena. For the past […]

The US stock market has lost upside momentum, and the falling price of oil threatens to create an “Armageddon” type of event in the junk bond market, yet gold looks and feels […]

Notice the abrupt halt to the precious metals “rally”.  If the price spike was caused by enormous Speculator long buying enthusiasm, we would still be watching PM prices shoot or drift […]