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Gold’s Recent Behavior Shocks Traders
Gold traders were left feeling schizophrenic over the weekend as gold broke up through 1300 on ongoing trade war concerns and recession fears. Seems like no one is ever happy these days. Aggressive gold traders got caught calling
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Gold Rises As the Fed Ponders Rate Cut
What a whacky world we live in. Once upon a time, the Federal Reserve’s job was to make sure banks were stable institutions that people could trust. And, to a lesser extent, to keep an eye
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Silver Pundits Turn Sharply Bullish
As silver struggles to hold 14.40 (USD), more silver pundits swung sharply bullish this week. Maybe it’s the hangover from the holiday weekend. Or more likely it’s because people like to buy when things look cheap,
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Rethinking the ‘Gold Standard’ of Today
Some days you wake up and there’s just so much news you can’t process it all. That’s how it felt this morning at Gold Enthusiast HQ. As is so often the case, shuffling off to the coffee
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Gold Speculators Lower Bullish Bets
Gold traders are always looking for signs telling whether the market is gaining or losing strength. One of the key signals for the short-term is speculative positioning by short-term traders, and right now that signal isn’t
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Gold vs Bitcoin: Which One Is the Big Winner?
The debate over gold vs Bitcoin rages on. We’ve talked about this before, maybe it’s time for an update. As you probably know Bitcoin fell off the cliff back in November (2018) and spent the first quarter
Read More »Are Big Miners Giving Away Silver?
With silver prices hovering at 14.40, a lot of investors are wondering if this is the bottom. And many seasoned watchers are wondering if the current price is now below the cost of production. You would
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A Fast-Growing ETF You Should Know About
There’s a young upstart in the gold ETF sector with a catchy name. BAR is an unleveraged ETF based on gold, just like GLD. But BAR has a share price around 13 instead of 120. Which
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A Look at China’s Economy From a Commodity Demand Perspective
Silver fans despaired last week as international silver prices dropped below support at
Read More »This Country Sold Another 15 Tonnes Of Gold
Venezuela just can’t stay out of the news. We last reported in late April that Venezuela sold $400 million of gold, somehow finding a way around sanctions imposed by the US and other countries.
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