(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Debt troubles in China and Washington, D.C. helped boost safe-haven demand for precious metals early this week.
By Thursday, however,...
Credit risk out of China and debt ceiling drama in Washington are driving precious metals markets this week.
Gold and silver attracted some significant safe-haven...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) The gold and silver futures markets were designed to increase volatility and discourage physical ownership of precious metals, as...
Mega investors have been talking up the merits of gold ownership lately.
For example, the billionaire hedge fund manager who executed the “greatest trade ever”...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Clients often ask when they should sell precious metals.
We usually suggest one basic rule around the timing. After that,...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Precious metals markets are rallying on some early Friday remarks from Jerome Powell.
The Federal Reserve chairman is speaking at...
Is America becoming a nation of gamblers?
The lure of potential cash windfalls is driving rampant speculation in financial markets and record traffic to casinos.
The...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.
After getting off to a rough start to open the...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) The precious metals futures markets launched shortly after Richard Nixon closed the gold window and removed the last vestige...
(Mike Gleason, from the Money Metals News Service podcast)
As the U.S. Senate moves closer to passing a trillion-dollar spending bill that includes some infrastructure...
While Olympic athletes in Tokyo are going for the gold, investors are going for anything that might provide positive real returns.
In a yield-starved environment...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Jerome Powell, after last week’s FOMC meeting, said inflation has run hotter than expected.
However, he wants to assure Americans...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Washington DC politicians are busy cobbling together yet another bi-partisan bill to raise the federal borrowing limit.
Congress imposed the...
(Jon Styf, The Center Square) A videotaped encounter between a school resource officer and a parent at James B. Edwards Elementary in Mount Pleasant has...
