Gold's Flash Crash And Limited Follow-Through Greenback Gains

A flash crash saw gold drop more than $70 an ounce in early Asia. Silver was dragged lower too. The precious metals have stabilized at lower levels, but it signals a rough adjustment to a higher interest rate environment as a hawkish BOE and strong US employment data suggest peak monetary stimulus is at hand.

by Marc Chandler

Motivated Reasoning About Silver

The dollar has (by far) the greatest quantity, and yet, far from the least purchasing power. It is one of the strongest currencies, despite - or perhaps because of - this fact. Also, the price of silver measured in dollars does not go up as a function of increases in the quantity of dollars.

by Keith Weiner

Rerating: Top 50 mining companies double in value from covid low

Despite gold losing sight of last year’s record, a cooled copper price and iron ore markets that will struggle to move higher from current levels, MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 most valuable miners marched to a new high of $1.47 trillion at the end of the second quarter.

by Mining.com

Gold And Silver Miners Are Generating Record Cash Flows

Last month we explained why we like containership operations like Danaos Corp. (DAC) and Zim Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM) that are having the best time they've had in years, allowing them to generate significant cash flows.

by The Fortune Teller

Inflation, Commodities, Housing, And Silver

For all the talk about the pullback in lumber and copper prices and the comfort some in the ‘transitory’ camp are taking in that, the CRB raw industrials index has rallied back to within .3% of its 10 yr high

by King World News

Almaden Minerals: Waiting For The Permit To Soar

Almaden's Ixtaca gold-silver project has an after-tax NPV(5%) over $800 million at the current metals prices, which compares very favorably to its enterprise value of less than $60 million.

by Peter Arendas

The Value of Knowing the Value of Information

Very important blog piece from Erik Wetterling - the Hedgeless Horseman on risk vs reward and a bunch of other important topics. Must-read.

by Erik Wetterling

Peak Stupidity Will Lead to Market Crash

An overview of all the weird things going on in the market place, and how that could affect gold, silver & mining equities.

by Bob Moriarty

The FOMC and half-year take-down

This week saw a massive sell-off, sparked by three factors: the approaching half-year end, the FOMC admitting that inflation may become a problem (but they still don’t think so), and the implementation of the Basel 3 net stable funding ratio. Consequently, from last Friday’s close gold in the UK’s time zone this morning was trading at $1792, down $85 from last Friday’s close, after a low of $1768 yesterday (Thursday). On the same time scales, silver fell $1.47 to $26.40, after a low of $25.78.

by Alasdair Macleod

A look at the silver price chart

Technical analysis on the price chart of silver with a few suggested stop limits and some interesting findings.

by Florian Grummes