Weekly Market Analysis

The US dollar has been rising in a counter-trend rally since mid-April. It is up nearly 6% on the dollar index over the past five weeks. There is speculation that the Federal Reserve will again rai...

The unspoken behemoth in world markets continues to be the United States bond market. The market is gathering momentum downward in a sign of having solidified a long-term generational top. It follo...

There is a battle playing out in the gold to silver ratio.  It continues to deserve our attention. As for resolutions lower in the ratio over the past two decades they signify the commencements of ...

This Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting came and went without significant impact. Indeed, interest rates held steady, as expected. The language out of Fed chair Jerome Powell’s accompanying statem...

The US dollar has begun a counter-trend rally which should last for several months.  As precious metals investors, why should we care about what happens to the dollar? The coming advance may put do...

In early March, we proposed that the gold to silver ratio was forming a significant topping pattern. So, for the ongoing precious metals to advance to remain healthy, this pattern needed to break l...

The CRB (Commodity Research Bureau) index, a basket of 19 commodities which is our preferred measure to follow the entire commodity sector as an average. CRB includes gold, silver, platinum, palla...

Gold has just broken a new all-time quarterly record for volume – again. With Q1 2018 in the record books, we can see below that gold has just exceeded its previous record volume. This volume was i...