Tag: precious metal
5 Shining Silver Stocks To Buy Today
Don’t ignore shining silver from your portfolio. The metal is red-hot these days. When it comes to precious metals, gold captures most of the spotlight. However, silver could be the real money metal in our current market. That’s because silver has the best of both worlds. On one hand, silver is seen as a precious […]
5 Gold Stocks To Buy Today
Given the market’s shake-up gold stocks have appeal It’s no secret that things have gotten a bit heady in the markets. Volatility has returned in a big way. And with the threat of a full-blown trade war brewing, gold and gold stocks are looking pretty good these days. The precious metal managed to finish up […]
7 Best Gold ETFs And Precious Metal Hedges For 2018
Precious metal investments can be a hedge against market declines and rising inflation Gold ETFs and other precious metal trades are in favor for good reason. Gold ETF investments can be a hedge against market declines and rising inflation. In 2018, a lot of investors are worried about a market decline. Stocks started the year […]
Metals To Show Their Mettle In 2018?
While 2017 was a year when equity market performance took centre stage, metals also delivered a decent return to investors – with the S&P GSCI Industrial Metals Total Return index up 24% into year end. 1 Overall, 2018 is forecast to be a year of significant growth in global industrial output – a positive sign for nearly all […]
Gold Breaks Through Resistance Level & Continues Rising
Several important factors are affecting demand for gold, and the price of gold accordingly. For starters, tensions with North Korea are looming large. Various experts are cautioning that the price of gold could surge to record levels – as high as $10,000 per ounce, owing to an imminent war with North Korea. Whether this comes to pass […]
6 Myths About Precious Metals (And The Facts)
Note From Kalen: I have limited knowledge in the precious metal arena. So I’m happy to bring on Stefan Gleason, President of Money Metals Exchange, to take some common myths, and replace them with the facts. Check it out! Gold attracts its fair share of detractors, but the most common objections to gold as money, and […]
World Powers Are Stockpiling Gold
Last week, I talked about my husband’s adventure in the emergency room with his collapsed lung. Let me say that it’s not an experience I would wish on anyone. But as doctors and nurses were rushing about preparing the chest tube and snapping X-rays, there was one person who I wasn’t worried about in this chaos. […]
How Silver Can Pay You Dividends
Silver straddles the line between a precious metal and an expensive industrial commodity. The vast majority of gold (over 85%) is used for jewelry and bullion, which makes it rather immune to recessions. Silver, on the other hand, while still used for jewelry and bullion, has industrial uses for its majority demand, so its price tends […]
The Commodity Cycle: What It Means For Precious Metals Prices
The cycle for any commodity follows the same basic pattern… When prices are low, production falls. As new supplies diminish, the market tightens and prices move higher. The higher prices incentivize producers to invest in production capacity and increase output. Eventually, the market becomes oversupplied, prices fall, and the cycle starts all over again. Of […]
Gold’s Line In The Sand: Next Downside Target Is Around $700, Even If It Breaks Up First
Many analysts have been so excited that gold broke to new highs, above $1,262, in late February. I was excited as well, but for a different reason. I’d forecast that gold could bounce back just above the July 2016 highs of $1,373, to around $1,400 or $1,450. And ANY bounce, no matter how high it […]
