The bullion market is still on a roll with gold and silver gaining nearly 2% last week, as the USD devalues against the Yen and long term interest rates fall – the 10yr Treasury yield fell to 2.31 on Friday…
Despite the range bound of U.S. long term treasuries – e.g. 10 year bond yield has been trading mostly around 2.4-2.5 for the past couple of months – gold and silver have gained some momentum and are up by 7.6%…
Gold and silver continued their upward trend as the growing concerns over how the Trump administration is shaping up are starting to raise the unrest in the markets. The talks over fiscal policy, trade policy and border adjustment tax, just…
The recent FOMC meeting ended, no surprise there, with no change in policy all awhile keeping the boat of from rocking. And even though the NFP report showed a higher than expected gain in jobs – 227K jobs compared to…
The markets are slowly realizing that perhaps the U.S. fiscal stimulus may not come anytime soon and perhaps some of its – mostly in the form of tax cuts – will be executed in 2018. But for now, the markets…
So the Trump train is still flat on its tracks as the “risk-on” mode in the markets is slowly dissipating. But this doesn’t mean, it’s going to be smooth sailing for gold and silver even though both metals have rallied…
The bullion market is slowly recovering as long term treasury yields – which had risen up until a couple weeks ago following the U.S. elections over expectations of higher inflation pressures – have started to decline again. This shift in…
The year has kicked off to a bullish start mainly in equities. Gold and silver, unlike bonds, also had a solid start, even though the markets are slowly adjusting to the Fed raising rates 2-3 times this year. The latest…
The U.S. non-farm payroll fell a bit short of market estimates regarding the headlines figure of number of jobs added: 156K vs an expected growth of 175K (The ADP estimated a gain of 153K jobs) during the month of December;…
Winter is coming but the markets are likely to heat up…and the same can be said about precious metals: Even though gold and silver will continue to face downward pressures — if the USD were to keep strengthening and yields…