Precious metals news

Precious metals investors have endured much hardship during the recent bear market but David H. Smith, senior analyst with David Morgan's The Morgan Report, believes that another secular bull market in precious […]

While the short and intermediate trends for gold are greatly influenced by Fed policy, events in China and India are now the key drivers of gold’s primary trend. As important […]

You are literally going to see gold and silver skyrocket well past the Moon and other planets and could go as high as some nearby galaxies next year in 2015 as the “crash […]

In just a little over a week the BRIC summit will take place in Brazil. A couple of key topics at the summit will be the promotion of two major […]

Russia Today spoke with Peter Schiff about the United States' international spy activity and what effect it will have on the strength of the US dollar.
[Europe is not economically dependent on the US.] I think it is the other way around - the US is very dependent on the rest of the world. It is just incumbent on the rest of the world to figure that out. But the US dollar is still functioning as a reserve currency, so the dollar is a part of larger transactions but there is no reason for the dollar to be at the center of these transactions because the dollar shouldn’t be a reserve currency. Maybe at one time when we were the world’s largest exporter, as far as biggest trade surpluses, we had high savings rates, and the dollar was backed by gold. [At] one time maybe the dollar deserved to be a reserve currency, but certainly those conditions have changed dramatically."

It appears Orwell’s feared “memory hole” has begun to emerge in Europe.   This shouldn’t be seen as a surprise considering the region’s devastating youth unemployment rate and angst throughout society. […]

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It may be just coincidence, but stories about multiple rehypothecations of physical metal in China's warehouses have emanated from sources involved with trading in these metals. These traders have had […]

In the latest episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser delivers an epic rant on banksters, gold, & China's commodities rehypothecation scandal.   Max delves into the tangled web of […]

A recent Chairman of that private corporation in control of the finances – perhaps even, the destiny – of the USA for the past 100 years, famously referred to the yellow metal as […]

On April 1, 2013 ABN AMRO sent a letter to its gold account clients that stated ABN AMRO would no longer offer physical delivery of precious metals. After the letter was […]

A lot of people that I talk to these days want to know "when things are going to start happening". Well, there are certainly some perilous times on the horizon, […]

The June edition of the Silver Institute's Silver News is now available. This issue is full of news from the silver industry, highlighting some of the most interesting inventions and applications using silver today. Silver's natural anti-microbial properties are being explored by industries around the world, ensuring demand for the white metal for many years into the future. Among other news, you'll learn about:

Once you can understand the mindset from which the average Wall Streeter is coming from, it can give you an incredible trading advantage that’s almost the equivalent of spotting your […]

In its just released annual report, the Bank for International Settlements has issued a strong warning that  "dangerous new asset bubbles are forming",  & warned that:  "the world could be hurtling […]

Though we’re constantly reassured by financial pundits and the Federal Reserve that the stock market is not a bubble and that valuations are fair, there is substantial evidence that suggests […]

The Timmins gold district is by far the most productive within Canada’s prolific Abitibi greenstone belt.  It has produced in the neighborhood of 70m ounces of gold, and operations are […]

"I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them," declared Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street 20 years ago. The same response to the charge of […]

Gold and silver spent most of last week consolidating recent gains by moving broadly sideways, but their underlying strength was a notable feature. The increase in open interest tells us […]