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August 18, 2026
The best-performing precious metal for the past week was silver, up 2.07%. Both gold and silver gained this past week following a series of economic data pointing to easing inflation, steady initial jobless claims, weaker-than-expected PPI, and a surprising 0.6%...
Where do we get our gold? Last year, mines globally produced 3,672 tonnes of gold, according to the World Gold Council. It was a new record, but only about 11 tonnes higher than the 2025 total.
August 17, 2026
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August 16, 2026
Since my last article from mid-July, Gold has seen a very nice rally, with the metal running up to a test of the low-end 4500's, which is up some 500 points off the late-June trough. Near-term, the metal looks to be setting up for a sharp decline, with U.S. stocks...
Gold and silver finished out another volatile week with both metals moving higher Friday, as investors digest softer inflation numbers, a weakening U.S. dollar, and growing evidence that the Federal Reserve may be able to stay on the sidelines.
Should you regularly read the website’s daily Prescient Commentary, you already know that Gold this past week (on Monday, 10 August at precisely 18:31 GMT) provisionally eclipsed the 4434 price requisite to finally flip the seemingly endless weekly parabolic Short...
Where to begin with this week? Writing about the markets, in an interesting manner isn’t easy. Not much changes from week to week, or even since April, these past four months in the Dow Jones Bear’s Eye View (BEV) chart below.
August 15, 2026
Gold sector cycle is up. Trend is up for USD and for gold & gold stocks. A recovery rally is in progress.
2025 was a stellar year for the precious metals, as gold bucked the bearish market trends of late winter and spring, followed by the miners and eventually, silver. After silver wrestled leadership from gold it was up up and away for the precious metals, critical...
Despite gold trading sideways in the second quarter after its big price correction in the first, Chinese physical gold investment demand remained robust.
August 14, 2026
Despite a rough quarter for gold, its major miners just reported their second-best results ever. While their metal suffered a serious drawdown exacerbated by Fed-rate-hike fears, the miners still earned fat near-record profits. Those combined with gold stocks’...
Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. Policymakers, pundits, and economists use this data to gauge the current inflation situation. For instance, the July CPI cooled a bit, raising hopes that the Fed will not raise...
One of the largest national precious metals dealers and depositories in the U.S. has again teamed up with the nation’s leading sound money public policy group to recognize state legislators championing sound money policies.
Money Metals Midweek Memo host Mike Maharrey opened this week’s episode with an old-fashioned banking analogy: Imagine somebody repeatedly claiming to have $100,000 in the bank but refusing to produce a statement or even balance the checkbook. The money might be there...
August 13, 2026
As Trump’s “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth demands a fifty-percent increase to the war budget—topping an eye watering $1.5 trillion—it may be instructive to remember that war spending has always and everywhere been the primary enemy of sound money. Some advocates of...
August 12, 2026
The mid-year correction is over: Gold, silver, platinum, and miners all formed major lows, setting the stage for the next leg of the precious metals bull market. The biggest gains may still be ahead: We expect much higher prices into 2030–2031, with the most explosive...
The best-performing precious metal this past week was silver, up 10.28%. Silver outperformed the complex due to its higher beta sensitivity to gold prices, supported by an unexpected decline in U.S. payroll data that pushed Treasury yields lower and reduced...
This month marks 55 years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window,” severing the last link between the US dollar and gold. Under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, foreign countries pegged their currencies to the US dollar, which was then pegged to a fixed...
Sen. Rand Paul has become Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s pawn. A few weeks ago, Bessent insisted all the gold is in the vaults at Fort Knox.
Platinum and palladium have participated in the broader precious-metals rally, but beneath the price action, important differences are emerging.
China’s official gold buying accelerated further in June, and the Chinese central bank is beginning to bring some of that gold home. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) officially purchased 640,000 troy ounces of gold in July. The nearly 20-tonne increase in reserves was...
August 11, 2026
The narrators say all that matters for gold is that America’s biggest fiat money soup kitchen (the Fed) might raise rates a quarter point, and that’s incredibly negative for gold.
It’s all been bullish after the summer swoon, as anticipated. While one reliable indicator we track (a smoothing of the Equity Put/Call ratio using moving averages) has failed to crack SPX into a proper correction, indexes like the SOX and NDX did crack hard. SPX...
Friday gave metal bulls something to celebrate, with gold confirming a major breakout and silver finally pushing above its consolidation.
In this latest edition of Gold Matters, VON GREYERZ Partner Jonny Haycock and Alasdair Macleod, Strategic Advisor at VON GREYERZ, discuss many of the dislocations appearing in markets.
According to many, the key cause of a general increase in prices is inflationary expectations. For instance, if there is a large increase in the prices of oil, individuals, it is held, will start forming expectations for higher inflation ahead.
It was almost exactly six months ago today, on February 2nd, that I put the Precious Metal Stocks Trades Portfolio back to 100% cash after an important measured-move price objective was reached on most of the precious metals complex.
August 10, 2026
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