Central banks

Over the past fifty years, sharp declines in consumer confidence have always coincided with periods of gold buying. It is almost as if gold is anticipating fiscal or monetary intervention in response to this famous engine failure.

Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, swap thoughts on the bearish decline of U.S. risk assets along side an equally painful rise in inflationary forces.

Investors who exited the stock markets early enough will have to re-invest their cash somewhere. However, the stocks are falling and so are the bonds. The safety is certainly to place them in the precious metals, whose charts and fundamentals are extremely reassuring.

The intensity of the bond market's decline is unprecedented. Bloomberg's Aggregate Index, which measures a basket of more than 28,000 bonds, has lost more than 15% since the beginning of the year, a drop not seen since the 1970s.

Inflation is here to stay. But the question now is: can it degenerate into hyperinflation?

The recession forecasts is leading many speculators to bet on the coming fall in commodity prices. this strategy of short selling on commodities is coming up against a problem of physical supply. In metals, reserves on the London Metal Exchange have never been so low, and the latest correction ha...

This article will discuss if investors in coming years really have more than the Hobson’s choice of one. Gold has been one of the top performing asset classes in this century and still nobody owns it with only 0.5% of world financial assets invested in gold.

Gold is logically regaining its stable monetary value in an increasingly tense geopolitical context, at a time when the energy future of the European continent poses many questions and when the risks of stagflation have never been so great since the Second World War.

Gold remains a strong competitor. The yellow metal is particularly popular with countries that want to de-dollarize. Central banks that bypass the dollar system of financing are the ones that have bought the most gold over the last twenty years. The acceleration of de-dollarization will therefore...

The risk is there: "the most fragile countries are not Italy or Spain, but France, Greece and perhaps Portugal." What the Greeks experienced in the 2010s - and they are still paying the bill - could soon happen to the French.