Weekly Market Analysis

The failed breakout and reversal back below the long-term declining trendline at $1,280 for gold this past week is a negative development for the entire precious metals complex. From a technical st...

The “800-pound gorilla” in the investment world is not the US stock market or the gold market. It is the US treasury bond market. The US bond market, at over $40 trillion in value, is much larger t...

Gold closes higher by $14 (1.2%) to finish at $1,268 for the week. The precious metal is now close enough to its fundamental long-term 2011-2017 downtrend. We can again call this advance another at...

The big news across the currency markets this week was the significant drop in the US dollar. It fell over 2% against a basket of currencies representing the US dollar index. The decline came on th...

Let's review the primary operating motive of this series of articles. There are hundreds of fundamental factors driving the precious metals markets. (Currency debasement; potential stock market dec...

The gold market price fell $41 from a week before. $1,227 as of the final trade on the New York COMEX on Friday afternoon. This price represents a 3.3% drop from the close a week prior. A bounce is...

The gold to silver ratio (GSR) is the number of ounces of silver you need to purchase one ounce of gold. The timeline of the more aggressive move lower we were anticipating over the last several mo...

Given the turbulence in the world political scene surrounding the French election let us take the opportunity this week to update our perspective on gold in foreign currencies. There has been saber...