Financial markets

This week, we'll look at a couple more Copper charts that suggest the commodity boom is just getting started. When Copper is outperforming stocks, we've historically seen all commodities do very well, especially Gold and Silver.

To increase pressure on the physical market, a call for silver purchases has been launched for March 31, in the spirit of the first Silver Short Squeeze. A real supply problem could force short sellers to cover their positions on the market - propelling the silver price to new heights.

China launched a pilot program allowing certain insurance companies to invest in gold as part of their medium to long-term asset allocation strategies. On March 25, Chinese insurance companies have conducted their first gold transaction at SGE.

Gold has played an increasingly important role in the international financial system. To better understand this dynamic and its implications, we turned to macro strategist Tavi Costa, focussing on the main forces driving the gold and silver markets today.

With unprecedented levels of debt and rising interest rates undermining bond markets, confidence in sovereign debt is eroding. In the face of this systemic risk, gold is once again the safe-haven asset par excellence.

If you spend much time listening to the political pundits, you'd think that our monetary inflation over the past few years was a "transitory" phenomenon, one caused exclusively by COVID, and a problem no longer worth worrying about as it fades into our rearview mirror. Unfortunately, I'm here to...

In the USA, inflation is set to rise again due to disruptions in supply chains. But for Europe, the situation is even more critical: in addition to these supply tensions, it will have to contend with soaring interest rates, a further factor in inflationary pressure. The risk of worsening stagflat...

US and Europe are showing signs of weakness. The price of gold is benefiting from concerns about growth, and is riding a wave of record highs.

It appears that the run in the Dow Jones is out of steam and it is now time to rotate into commodities - namely, gold and silver.

Since the crisis in 2020, the US stock market has grown at a sustained rate of +20% per year. Since 2022, this rise has been further accentuated by the rise of artificial intelligence. Despite the momentum of innovation and continued growth in the US, the strength of this bull market is raising q...