Financial markets

On Sunday the Biden admin alongside the G-7 announced that they will ban Russian gold imports to "further impose financial costs on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine."

With most asset classes falling rapidly, the world is now approaching calamities of a proportion not seen before in history. What few investors realise is that this is the mere beginning. Before this bear market is over, the world will see 75-90% falls of stocks, bonds and other assets. For the f...

Much like the 1940s, many developed market central banks are trapped. They can’t raise interest rates persistently higher than the prevailing inflation rate, and instead are stuck with slowly moving interest rates up, jawboning forward guidance, yield curve control, and trying to inflate some of...

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.

Gold is known for its rarity and reliability. However, the usefulness of gold has not ceased to evolve over the last few centuries. Both an object of desire and speculation, gold has experienced several panics synonymous with crashes or price explosions. In the 19th century, financial markets wer...

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.