Gold’s inflation utility
Gold is okay, but not yet unique There are times when gold is an okay inflation hedge, while under-performing the likes of industrial metals, oil/energy, materials, etc. During those times,…
Gold is okay, but not yet unique There are times when gold is an okay inflation hedge, while under-performing the likes of industrial metals, oil/energy, materials, etc. During those times,…
Gold is now bouncing vs. most risk 'on', inflation-sensitive and/or cyclical markets/assets Since first noting the very spark of an initial hint in NFTRH 653 and then again in this…
Daily and in-day pictures of the gold price The daily chart looks like a normal day in gold. The rally has now come to the target established in March. Simple…
Commodity bulls are running rampant. It's "inflation all the way, Baby!" and everybody knows this. There are jingles and promotions aplenty out there, of everything from the latest alt. coin…
The title is a trick question. Gold is always useful, even when its heavy ass is going down in price or going down in relation to economically correlated assets like…
Gold is not for inflation, but for what comes after the 'good' inflation runs its course It has been one big trade on inflation. Notice how SPX, DJW and copper…
Gold and long-term Treasury bonds are risk 'off' bedfellows If you think that the heretofore inflation signaling 30yr bond yield is approaching an upside limit maybe you think the same…
Hulbert's HGNSI joins other sentiment-based positive indicators for Gold Just as ole' Jim Cramer above signaled an imminent short-term rally recently in the stock market, bleak views coming out of…
Man stares at charts of gold and provides the bearish news... [unnamed, because he's technically the competition] Man who stares at charts and uses his TA discipline to advise the…
I love the chart below, and others like it. They force me to think outside of the... ...and consider reasons for what I see. The reason gold is confounding to…
When inflation works to cover up the economy's weakness, gold under-performs Still we see them blaming manipulation and conspiracy, and still they are wrong. Is gold manipulated? Yes. Are other…
The reflated raft of assets floats one way, gold the other It's simple. Everything is herding in the northerly direction at the behest of the Fed's anti-USD monetary policy as…
Just kidding. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway may or may not own copper stocks. I did not dig deep enough to find out. For the purposes of this post it does…
With much fanfare, Warren Buffett has dumped his GOLD stock We highlighted the latest installment of the Buffett/Barrick Gold drama yesterday. Today IBD takes that positive contrary indicator and gives…