Financial markets

Overall stocks have been a great investment for the last 100 years due to the massive credit expansion and money printing worldwide.

All currencies will reach their intrinsic value of ZERO in the next few years. Something that has fallen in value by 87-98% is guaranteed to complete the journey until it has lost 100%.

Investors in the US would have made $262,000 more by investing in gold than in the S&P. In the UK, an investor would have made £448,000 more by investing in gold instead of the stock market.

Gold bulls wagering the bullion rally has more room to run may have history on their side with the arrival of a new U.S. president.

2017 has just started but some longer-term trend changes already seem to develop.

At the beginning of a new year it would be totally natural to forecast what the likely events and trends will be for 2017. A lot of experts around the world will predict a number of “new” events as if a lot of things will change just because we are entering a new year.

The U.S. gold futures market was created in December 1974 as a result of collusion between the U.S. government and gold dealers in London to facilitate volatility in gold prices and thereby discourage gold ownership by U.S. citizens

Gold, futures, global sharemarkets: How markets performed for 2016

We are now approaching the final mania in markets. The Dow seems to be on its last swansong. Investors have been determined to take it up to 20,000. So far, the market has been twelve points from this magic level. At the same time treasury bonds are crashing.

The next Federal Reserve policy meeting is not until December 14. Nonetheless, the US 3-Month Treasury Bill market is already pricing in a hike to the key interbank lending rate. Why is this important for precious metals investors? Because it was the first Fed Rate hike in nearly a decade last D...