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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The End Of Trust, And Rise Of Real Money |
| In last week’s “historic market manipulation, setting the stage for catastrophe” – as well as dozens of other articles and podcasts – I demonstrated, in painstaking detail, the gross misallocations, inequities, and fraud caused by the artificial “support” of “favored” asset classes like stocks, bonds, and real estate – whilst the “unfavored” gold and silver markets were mercilessly suppressed, to equally deleterious global effect.
This weekend’s “wide world of PiMBEEB” demonstrated ten such situWednesday, May 31, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Cyber Wars Could Crash Markets and Threat To Humanity – Buffett and Rickards |
| Cyber wars are a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons, the world’s richest and most famous investor Warren Buffett, presciently warned a few days ago.
"I do think that's the number one problem with mankind," Warren Buffett warned during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting on May 6th.
"I'm very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally although I don't think that nuclear probably is quite as likely as either primarily biological and maybe cyber," Buffett said duriWednesday, May 17, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| U.S. Gold Exports To China and India Surge In 2017 |
| U.S. Gold Exports To China and India Surge In 2017
Gold Exports From U.S. - Something Big Is Happening
by SRSRoccoReport.com
Most Americans didn’t realize it, but something BIG changed in the U.S. gold market in the beginning of 2017. While precious metals sentiment and buying in the U.S. has dropped off considerably in the first quarter of 2017, the East continues to acquire gold, HAND OVER FIST.
How much gold? Well, let’s just say…. U.S. gold exports have nearly doubled during JAN-FEB 2017 Friday, May 12, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| Morning Snapshot: Gold firms modestly after French election |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/05–8-17
Gold is slightly higher, having stabilized after yesterday’s French election turned out in line with expectations. With Macron’s victory, Frexit is off the table, much to the relief of the eurocrats in Brussels.
The new President now faces the challenge of forming a government that will allow him to implement his agenda. French parliamentary elections are June 11 and June 18. The present Socialist majority of outgoing President Francios Hollande is widely expected to Monday, May 8, 2017 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| Silver Elevator Keeps Falling, Report 7 May, 2017 |
| The dollar moved strongly, now over 25mg gold and 1.9g silver. This was a holiday-shortened week, due to the Early May bank holiday in the UK.
The big news as we write this, Macron beat Le Pen in the French election. We suppose this means markets can continue to do what they wanted to do before the threat of Frexit, shutting off trade between France and the rest of Europe, and who knows what else Le Pen was plotting to do to the French people.
This will be a short Report this week, as Keith has Monday, May 8, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| The Daily Market Report: Gold Stabilizes Post-NFP, French Election in Focus |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/05-05-17
Gold has stabilized near unchanged on the day. There was some modest volatility around the jobs report, but intraday upticks have proven unsustainable thus far.
The rebound in nonfarm payrolls to +211k — which was above expectations of +188k — and the downtick in the unemployment rate to 4.4% reinforces the existing tack of Fed policy; incremental, data dependent rate hikes. Apparently however, some data can be dismissed as transitory (see Q1 GDP).
The euro continuesFriday, May 5, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| Daily Market Report: Gold Weighed by Expectations of June Rate Hike |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/05-04-17
Gold has extended to the downside, setting a new 7-week low at 1224.90. The yellow metal is being weighed by revived June rate hike expectations. These losses come despite persistent geopolitical risk and a weaker dollar.
The weaker dollar is more a function of euro strength, which has garnered support from increased confidence that Emmanuel Macron will soundly defeat Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s Presidential run-off election. Polling in the wake of their final debate Thursday, May 4, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| LePen Euro Frexit Panic Over – “For Now” |
| by John Stepek, Editor of Money Week
OK, drama’s over.
The French election has turned out pretty much exactly as expected.
For all that some of the papers are leading with “French revolution” headlines, the reality is that a face-off between the right-wing Marine Le Pen of the Front National and independent/socialist candidate Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! has been on the cards for months now.
LePen and Gold bars (Metalor 100g). Concerns about Frexit and the end of the euro has seen strong demaTuesday, April 25, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| The Daily Market Report: Gold Pressured on Revived Risk Appetite |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/04-24-17
Gold remains lower on the day, as “risk-on” seems to be the order of the day following the French election results. However, the yellow metal is already more than $10 off the intraday low, buoyed by persistent geopolitical risks and a weaker dollar.
The outcome of the French election was pretty much as expected, with Macron and Le Pen advancing to the May 7 run-off. Europhile centrist Macron is widely expected to be the winner of that contest, which has reignited risMonday, April 24, 2017 |
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| Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| To Frexit or Not to Frexit, Report 23 April, 2017 |
| This was also a holiday-shorted week.
As we write this, the big news comes from the election in France. The leading candidate is a banker named Emmanuel Macron, with about 24% of the vote in a 4-candidate race. The anti-euro Marine Le Pen came in second with just over 21%. From the sharp rally in the euro, which was up about 2% at one point, we assume that observers believe the odds of France leaving the euro have just gone down.
Of course, France (and the other European countries) faces a falseMonday, April 24, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| Morning Snapshot |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/04-21-17
Gold is maintaining a consolidative tone as the week comes to an end. Geopolitical concerns continue to offer support, as does uncertainty surrounding the French election on Sunday.
French election polls have narrowed considerably in recent weeks, turning it into a close four-way race. With anti-euro candidates on both sides of the political spectrum that have pledged Frexit referendums, nobody seems to be considering what happens if those candidates — Le Pen and MelFriday, April 21, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| The Daily Market Report: Gold Consolidates Ahead of French Election |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/04-20-17
Gold is consolidating after tests of the upside earlier in the week faltered ahead of $1300. The highs from Monday and Tuesday at 1292.30/1295.46 now provide intervening resistance.
The underlying bias remains positive, given heightened geopolitical tensions and the looming French elections. The first round is to be held this coming Sunday and the run-off between the two top finishers is slated for May 5.
Of the five candidates, two have pretty strong anti-euro leaniThursday, April 20, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Bullion Hits Trump Highs as Real Bond Yields Fall, Le Pen Win 'Unlikely But Dramatic' |
| GOLD BULLION rose sharply to near 5-month highs in London trade Tuesday morning, setting its highest London benchmark price since 10 November – the day after Donald Trump's US election victory –as major government bond prices also rose, pushing bond yields down to multi-week lows amid growing jitters over this month's French presidential vote.
Benchmark German Bund yields retreated to 5-week lows of just 0.24%, and 10-year US Treasury yields felTuesday, April 4, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices 'Wait See' Before Fed Rate Rise as Euro Bond Yields Ease on Dutch Election Poll |
| GOLD PRICES held below $1200 per ounce lunchtime Wednesday in London as the Netherlands began a raft of 2017 Eurozone elections and new monthly data showed US inflation hitting a 5-year high ahead of today's Federal Reserve decision on interest rates.
Widely expected to take the Fed's key rate to a ceiling of 0.75%, the March meeting will still leave returns to savers far below the 2.7% annual pace of inflation reported by Wednesday's updateThursday, March 16, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Most Overvalued Stock Market On Record — Worse Than 1929 |
| Stock Market Most Overvalued On Record — Worse Than 1929?
The US stock market today has never been more dangerous and overvalued, according to respected Wall Street market analyst John Hussman.
Indeed, Hussman goes as far as to say that “this is the most dangerous and overvalued stock market on record — worse than 2007, worse than 2000, even worse than 1929” as reported by Marketwatch.
For some months now, Hussman of Hussman Funds’ has been warning in his research that investors are ignoring exWednesday, March 15, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| EU Crisis Is Existential – Importance of Tomorrow’s Vote |
| EU Crisis Becoming Existential… Dutch Vote Tomorrow and Why It Matters
The leader of the National Front in France, Marine Le Pen, has hailed Britain’s decision to leave the EU – and has called for France to hold a similar referendum
The EU is facing an existential crisis and does not look like it will survive the massive political and financial challenges it is faced with. This has ramifications for investors in the EU itself and globally as the collapse of one of the world’s largest trading bloTuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Another Scotland Independence Referendum Coming Up: Project Fear Scottish Style Once Again |
| In the midst of various Frexit, Italexit, and Grexit battles, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced she will seek a Second Scottish Independence Referendum.
Recall that Nicola Sturgeon succeeded Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland following his resignation in the wake of the defeat of the “Yes Scotland campaign” in the Scottish independence referendum, in November 2014.
The referendum was supposed to have killed the Scottish independence movement. It didn’t. From the firstTuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
Why The Cartel Is So (Rightfully) Terrified  |
| No event defines how rapidly America’s “leadership” has declined, then last night’s Academy Awards catastrophe. At which, one of its most prestigious accounting firms accidentally handed Warren Beatty the wrong “Best Picture” envelope, causing it to initially be awarded to the wrong movie. Yes, it was a “victimless crime” – but at a time when America’s accounting credibility is at an all-time low, it only adds to the perception of the incompetence that makes it unlikely to become “great again”Monday, February 27, 2017 |
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 | Michael J. Kosares - USA Gold |
| How France scrapping the euro could go beyond a ‘Lehman moment’ |
| CNBC/Karen Gilchrist/2-24-2017
“Make no mistake, there is the world of difference between tearing up bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, and, unwinding a monetary union as far reaching in scope as the EMU (economic and monetary union) project,” Deutsche Bank said in a note Tuesday. “It is the difference between a benign global risk event and something that has the potential to go beyond a ‘Lehman’s moment’.
MK note: Two essential mental plug-ins come to mind. One, Marine LePen who proSunday, February 26, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Fed’s “Third Mandate” |
| Lately, the Cartel has been throwing everything – including the kitchen sink – at Precious Metals; in silver’s case, vigorously defending its latest “line in the sand,” at the 200 DMA of $17.96/oz; and in gold’s, at its 200 day and 200 MONTH moving averages, both of which are roughly $1,266/oz. And despite, as I mocked yesterday, the dollar index “rising” this week – due to heightened fear of a Eurozone breakup – they’ve been having an immense amount of trouble holding them down.
Yesterday, we Wednesday, February 22, 2017 |
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