Mining

Dan Popescu exclusive interview with Willem Middelkoop (founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund and author) about the war on gold and the financial endgame.

Exclusive interview with Marc Faber on gold, the US dollar, China and the Swiss gold Referendum

Help your enemies underestimate your capabilities”. This military strategy is perfectly applicable today to the gold market. The Western press and pundits for the current financial status quo are doing all they can to divert investors from physical gold

Parabolic moves always end in capitulation. Is it possible to go even further into this panic selling which now seems to feed itself, with long-term investors capitulating?

After the original drop in gold price from the top of $1,920 per ounce in 2011 to $1,180 per ounce in 2013, gold has started a sideways consolidation triangle pattern. Is this a correction, or is it just a pause within a move that will retrace the whole move since 2009? What does sentiment tell us?

If we look at the global gold demand it mostly splits in two: investment demand and jewellery demand. But is this a correct description of the actual gold’s demand?

The longest running gold index - the BGMI - recently hit new lows vs gold.

The gold miners’ good performance in 2014 bodes well for gold not having to worry about a bear market taking place, like in 2013, or about testing again its major $1,178 bottom.

Yesterday, the daily volume on the GDXJ Junior Miners Index beat all records, exceeding by 33% its highest historic value, and producing a 5.78% hike, five times the performance of gold!

Can we predict the price of gold by observing the gold mining index? As a reference for this article, I have chosen the Barron’s Gold Mining Index (BGMI), since it has been published since 1940 and thusly provides a long basis for analysis.