Silver Wheaton Corp. (SLW) has made a comeback in the stock market in the past three months: Shares of Silver Wheaton rose by 21.5% since the end of July (up-to-date). Nonetheless, during September the company’s stock fell by nearly 6%.…
The prices of gold and silver rallied during last week. The latest FOMC meeting ended with Bernanke keeping the monetary policy unchanged even though many had expected the Fed will start tapering its asset purchase program. As a result gold…
The high volatility of gold and silver prices during Thursday and Friday resulted in gold and silver only slightly rising during the week compared to last week’s prices: Gold rose by 1.85% and silver by 0.94%. The highly anticipated FOMC…
Following yesterday’s FOMC meeting, in which it was decided to maintain $85 billion a month asset purchase program. From the FOMC’s statement: “…the Committee decided to await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its…
The FOMC concluded its two day meeting with the decision to keep its $85 billion a month asset purchase program unchanged. This means, the FOMC won’t start tapering this month. This news is likely to pull down the USD and…
The highly anticipated FOMC meeting will take place this week. The main issue that many expect is whether the FOMC will start tapering QE3 soon. Many expect the FOMC could start tapering by roughly $10 to $25 billion a month…
Leading commodities prices have changed direction and tumbled down during last week: Oil, gold and silver plummeted last week after they had rallied during most of August. The highly anticipated FOMC meeting will take place this week and could stir…
As anticipated the FOMC left its policy unchanged in the last meeting, which ended today July 31st. In the released statement, the FOMC stated it will maintain its current $85 billion a month of long term securities until the U.S…
The Fed left its policy unchanged for June. Nonetheless, in the press conference that followed Chairman of the Fed, Ben Bernanke, said the Fed may start to scale back its current $85 billion a month of long term securities by…