The Gold Report

Several zinc mines have shut down in the past few years due to depletion, and the warehouse inventory levels of the base metal have been steadily declining. The market is finally waking up and starting to look at zinc companies again. Thibaut Lepouttre of Caesars Report profiles Darnley Bay Resources, one of the companies hoping […]

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger reflects on the cause of this week’s decline in precious metals markets, and contemplates the factors that will help him determine a bottom. Given the big down move this week in the precious metals, it would certainly follow that the activities of the Commercials would be no surprise. They matched

MAG Silver appears to have the Midas touch: Everything it drills turns up silver—with a gold byproduct and lots of zinc, lead and copper thrown in for good measure. MAG’s first drill hole discovered the Juanicipio vein and hole #16 discovered the Valdecañas vein, both world-class deposits. In this interview with The Gold Report, MAG

Investors are increasingly turning to commodities as prices rally. Dow Jones reported that the S&P GSCI Index, a measure of commodity futures, was up 28% last year: “many commodities have continued to rally this year. Oil and natural-gas prices have soared more than 50% over the past 12 months. Precious metals like silver and materials

Citing the uncertainty caused by China dumping U.S. Treasuries, an impending debt ceiling crisis, the upcoming French elections, and more, Wealth Research Group editor Lior Gantz advises investors to make sure their portfolios are diversified. Each of the last five major U.S. recessions were preceded by a shrinking global trade as a percentage of GDP.

Tom Beck of Portfolio Wealth Global believes the “Trump Trade” is overblown and recommends investors bulletproof their holdings. The number one lesson I learned from Warren Buffett is that the market is not who to look to for advice. There are more than 150 million Americans who own stocks, and 140 million of them will

Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold chronicles the career of Dr. Keith Barron and his latest foray in Ecuador. In 2001 you could count the number of people in the world who believed we were starting a gold bull market on one hand even if you were missing fingers. Everyone hated gold, you couldn’t give it

Technical analyst Jack Chan finds the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data alarming and explains what the COT charts predict for the gold and silver markets. We interrupt our regular update with this special report. COT data has been instrumental in guiding us and helping us navigate market conditions during a bull and bear market.

Looking at the charts, technical analyst Clive Maund sees copper “riding for a fall.” We have already observed how oil and precious metals are looking set to turn lower, especially oil, and the medium-term bearish outlook for these commodities is confirmed by the negative setup that we will now examine on the latest charts for

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts changes that portend a “brutal decline” in both the oil and precious metals markets. This quick update on oil is to point out that the latest oil COTs and Hedgers positions were at frightening extremes, as oil has struggled and failed, thus far, to break higher. This is viewed as