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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer spending increased in November, underscoring the economy’s enduring strength, which prompted the Federal Reserve this … Continue reading →

Oliver believes in an imminent stock market crash, emphasizing the potential for a sudden and significant downturn. In a recent interview … Continue reading →

Costa shared his bullish outlook for precious metals, particularly gold and silver. He believes that the US dollar is overvalued … Continue reading →

As the dust has settled after the US election, market dynamics are shifting focus towards monetary policy decisions and ongoing geopolitical tensions.

An exceptionally successful year for precious metals is drawing to a close. The price of gold has risen impressively by 30.9% in USD terms. Silver has recorded an increase of +31.75%. When calculated in euros, the annual balance looks even better, with the gold price currently showing a gain of 37%. Leading the way is the silver price in euros, with an increase of over 37.6%. This outstanding performance once again underscores the strength of these two precious metals, which have proven to be a safe haven in a dynamic and volatile market environment.

12-year high slightly below USD 35 in October

After a bumpy start to the year around USD 23.70, silver initiated its first upward wave from late February, which initially carried prices up to USD 32.5. Following a three-month consolidation period, silver bulls then launched the next ascent starting from a low of USD 26.40 on August 8th.The momentum was sufficient for a push all the way up to USD 34.86.

Starting from this 12-year high, silver prices fell significantly in November. The pullback ended perfectly with a double bottom at USD 29.68 on November 14th and USD 29.64 on November 28th. Since then, a considerable recovery has been recorded, which has led silver prices to the downward trendline of the last seven weeks at USD 32.34 as of last Wednesday. Not surprisingly, this resistance zone forced a pullback, causing silver to take a significant hit towards the end of last week. With prices trading around USD 30.50 the double low is already within sight again.

Silver is trading around the USD 30 mark for 8 months

In the bigger picture, however, silver has been consolidating in a rather narrow range around and above USD 30 for nearly eight months, indicating a period of price equilibrium. This stability suggests the market has found a balance between supply and demand at current levels. Overall, the price is holding above the COVID-era highs around USD 30, which now serve as strong support.

Despite persistent rumors of tight lease rates and multi-year inventory deficits, silver prices have remained relatively steady. The market seems to be discounting these factors for now, as prices are looking for a stable bottom.

At the same time, it appears that gold’s pullback since end of October might be coming to an end. Only if the November lows at USD 2,535 would be taken out, a deeper correction must be expected, The gold/silver-ratio at around 87, however, doesn’t indicate any immediate shift in favor of silver either.

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David Morgan speculates that the Federal Reserve may eventually consider integrating gold into a new monetary system, especially as a backup if the global adoption of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) faces resistance. He suggests that while CBDCs could be the primary currency of the future, central banks, like those in China and India, are accumulating gold as a form of “plan B.” This gold could be used as a reserve to stabilize the financial system if digital currencies fail to gain sufficient trust or adoption. Morgan believes that gold could serve as a “carrot” to encourage compliance with the new system, possibly leading to a CBDC linked to gold. This theory aligns with a broader trend where nations, despite pursuing fiat-based digital currencies, are hedging their bets with gold to maintain monetary stability.
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The best performer of the year of major indices has been the NASDAQ up 32.7%. Gold has outperformed the others up 29.2%. Silver is up 28.8% to date. The S&P 500 has gained 26.9% to date. The TSX Gold Index (TGD) up 25.3% has outperformed the Gold Bugs Index (HUI) up 22.4%. The TGD outperformed the TSX up 20.6% thus far in 2024.

Source: www.stockcharts.com

We are living in a world of chaos: wars, culture wars, deep divisions, rising fascism, increasing intensity and rising costs of storms including wildfires, floods, and hurricanes. The latter is due to climate change, where we are coming off the hottest decade and year on record. Climate change is causing storms to become more intense and costly due to rising sea temperatures which provide more energy to fuel storms, leading to stronger winds, heavier rainfall, and increased storm surges, resulting in greater damage to coastal areas and infrastructure; this trend is reflected in a significant increase in the economic cost of weather-related disasters globally.

As you can see, all these cycles, 90, 18, 6, and 4 are collecting and overlapping in the upcoming period. The odds then favour the upcoming period, given that everything going on behind could be volatile and we see a significant stock market low, if not in 2025, then sometime later in the decade.

Source: www.stockcharts.com

What about gold? Gold does not have the free trading history that the stock market has; therefore, a history of cycles is still developing. Here Merriman emphasizes what he sees as a 7.83-year cycle. From that important low in 1976 we did see important lows in 1985, 1993, 2001, 2008, and 2015. Following the 2015 low, the next 7.83-year cycle low would be due in 2023. We had what has proven to be an important low in November 2022. Could that have been our 7.83-year cycle low? The range would be 7–9 years. If that’s correct, then we know we are in the up phase of the current 7.83-year cycle. That cycle breaks down into three 31.3-month cycles or two 47-month cycles. If it is the 31.3-month cycle, it is due in 2025 centered around June. That suggests to us that the next peak, whenever that comes, could be our temporary top. Once the next 31.3-month cycle low is determined, we should embark on the next up move. We continue to have targets up to $3,600.

Overall, our expectations for gold in 2025 are positive, but it will not be a straight-up move. The 10-year cycle for gold is not much help as we have yet to find any consistency. The record is three up and two down with the two down years coming in 1975 and 2015. We remain concerned that silver continues to lag as do the gold stocks, as represented by the Gold Bugs Index (HUI) and the TSX Gold Index (TGD). Silver is currently down about 36% from its all-time high. The HUI remains down over 50% from its all-time high and the TGD is still down around 18% from its all-time high.

We mustn’t ignore junior mining stocks including the junior gold mining stocks. The TSX Venture Exchange (CDNX) which is made up of roughly 50% junior mining companies remains down an astounding 82% from its all-time high seen in 2007. The CDNX is even down 45% from its 2021 high. Junior miners are unloved and under owned at least by anybody that is not an insider or billionaire Eric Sprott. The current period reminds us of the late 1990’s when tech was all the rage and junior mining stocks were unloved and under owned. By 2000 the rebound was underway and the next seven years saw the CDNX rise 433% from its humble beginnings in 1999. We thought at the time that they would become the next big thing when we witnessed junior miners turning into tech companies. As we know, tech crashed while commodities and commodity stocks rose. 

10-Year Gold Cycle

Annual % Change in Gold

Year of Decade

Decades

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

7th

8th

9th

10th

1961–70

-0.5

10.7

6.2

-8.9

1971–80

16.5

48.9

75.6

60.6

-23.3

-3.8

23.4

36.5

134.8

10.9

1981–90

-32.5

12.7

-14.4

-20.0

6.9

23.1

20.1

-15.7

-1.8

-1.6

1991–00

-10.6

-5.9

17.6

-1.9

1.0

-4.9

-21.5

-0.2

0.1

-6.0

2001–10

2.6

24.8

flat

25.6

18.2

22.8

31.4

5.8

23.9

29.8

2011–20

10.2

7.0

-28.2

-1.5

-10.4

8.6

13.7

-2.1

18.9

24.4

2021–30

-3.5

-0.1

13.5

29.2*

3 up

3 dn

4 up

2 dn

4 up

2 dn

3 up

3 dn

3 up

2 dn

3 up

2 dn

4 up

2 dn

3 up

3 dn

5 up

1 dn

3 up

3 dn

Source: www.stockcharts.com

* To date                                          

Source: www.stockcharts.com

Gold has a history of inversely trading with the US$ Index: if the US$ Index rises, gold weakens and vice versa. Equities tend to be undervalued when the US$ Index is low and overvalued when the US$ Index is high. What’s intriguing here is that since the start of the US$ Index in the 1970s it has had three peaks: one coinciding with the Plaza Accord of 1985, designed to bring down the value of the U.S. dollar, the second at the peak of the tech/dot.com bubble, then triggered lower by the events of 9/11, and the most recent high coinciding with a potential peak of the MAG7 bubble. Each subsequent high has been lower. What this chart suggests is that the odds favour the next move for the US$ Index going down. That in turn would be positive for gold

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Peter Krauth, a renowned precious metals expert, recently warned of a “perfect storm” brewing in the silver market. In a recent … Continue reading →

Tim Marschner warned of a potential ‘Trump Slump’ in bullion buying activity. A sense of unease has settled over the … Continue reading →