Gold & Precious Metals

Will Gold Stocks Continue To Climb Higher?

Posted by Adam Hamilton

on Monday, 6 January 2020 9:47

Gold miners’ stocks blasted higher this past week, breaking out of their correction downtrend. Rapidly-improving psychology fueled such strong upside momentum that sector benchmarks are challenging months-old upleg highs. Most traders assume this is righteous, that gold stocks’ next upleg is starting to accelerate. But key indicators argue the contrarian side, that this breakout surge is a head fake within a correction.

In early September, a major gold-stock upleg peaked after soaring higher on gold’s decisive bull-market breakout in late June. The GDX VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF, this sector’s leading benchmark and trading vehicle, had powered 76.2% higher over 11.8 months. It crested the same day gold’s own upleg did, hitting $30.95 on close. That major 3.1-year high proved the apex of that impressive gold-stock upleg…CLICK for complete article

Gold Trend Bullish – Short and Long Term

Posted by Martin Straith/The Trend Letter

on Thursday, 2 January 2020 10:59

Gold’s current strength is driven primarily on the short-term weakness in the $US and this short-term trend will likely continue until mid/late January, when we could see the effects of a Repo crisis start to affect all markets. We will be watching the next month very closely and subscribers can expect Flash Reports should things start to unravel. Investors need to understand that although gold does act as a safe-haven play it is usually the $US where the first wave of safe-haven capital flows to.

While gold and the $US typically move inverse to each other (gold up when $US down, gold down when $US up), there are times when gold…click here for full article.

Cancer cure – can we afford it?

Posted by Martin Straith, Trend Disruptors

on Monday, 23 December 2019 10:46

The biomedical community has a lot to be excited about as the “cure” for cancer gets closer than ever. It may now be in sight, with just a bit more testing, fine tuning, and approvals required. The new treatments are achieving cure rates above 80%, and achieving it with patients who have not responded to more traditional treatments, like…click for full article.

Druckenmiller on 2020 Outlook, Monetary Policy, U.S. Election

Posted by Erik Schatzker, Bloomberg

on Friday, 20 December 2019 11:11

Watch Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller as he discusses his economic and market outlook for 2020, the direction of monetary policy, and the upcoming U.S. election. He speaks exclusively with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker in New York.

How Clean Is Natural Gas?

Posted by Irina Slav

on Thursday, 19 December 2019 10:30

When former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in 2013 that the natural gas boom was helping America fight climate change, not everyone was convinced, with methane leaks cited as cause for concern. As it turns out, those concerns might be warranted, according to new research that takes a lot of the green out of our precious natural gas.

“My look at the evidence to date suggests that this [methane leaks] in no way eliminates the significant advantage of gas over coal for CO2 emissions,” Moniz insisted.

Fast-forward to 2019 where research from Stanford University found that the surge in natural gas use in many parts of the world has helped to drive carbon emissions to a record-high over the last two years. Now, we’re on track to break this record and this, according to the Stanford researchers, is because of gas.

On the face of it, all looks good.

Coal use is falling in all the major emitters—the United States, China, and the European Union—and renewables use is rising. Along with it, natural gas use is rising, too. The closer look taken by researchers at natural gas, however, shows that growth in its consumption globally was responsible for 60 percent of carbon emissions growth in the last few years…CLICK for complete article