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Russia and South Africa are the two primary sources of world palladium supplies. If palladium availability gets squeezed, then automakers and other industrial users may be forced to switch to platinum...
Mike Gleason
July 18th, 2014
The only types of assets that require no faith in executives, politicians, bankers or counterparties are raw commodities with intrinsic value, such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper. P...
Mike Gleason
July 11th, 2014
The government, the banks, even the stock market have all become dependent on the central bank to help them grow artificially large. The government, banking, and stock market sectors are comprising g...
Mike Gleason
July 3rd, 2014
A new law, known as FATCA, the law is already causing thousands of foreign accounts held by expats and offshore investors to be closed....
Mike Gleason
June 27th, 2014
Investors who are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the Fed to stop tapering or announce more QE before adding to their precious metals positions are making a big mistake....
Mike Gleason
June 20th, 2014
As major cities in Iraq came under siege by Islamist militants, oil prices surged to new highs for the year. The Obama administration indicated U.S. military airstrikes in Iraq may be forthcoming. M...
Mike Gleason
June 13th, 2014
The European Central Bank has announced that it would slash interest rates paid to banks on their deposits with the ECB to below zero. That's right, negative interest rates! Banks will have to pay 0...
Mike Gleason
June 6th, 2014
Coming out of the 2008 financial crisis, it hardly seemed fathomable that a third mania in U.S. stocks would begin. The really strange thing about this particular stock market boom is that there is v...
Mike Gleason
May 30th, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China to seal a $400 billion natural gas export deal with the energy-hungry nation. The agreement will give Russia an outlet for bypassing sanctions imposed b...
Mike Gleason
May 23rd, 2014
It was announced on Wednesday that the London Silver Market Fix will shut down. The London silver fixing has been used as a benchmark price for over 100 years. But with 24-hour spot market quotes no...
Mike Gleason
May 16th, 2014
Well, just when precious metals markets seem ready to start warming up for a late spring surge after testing support levels… the Federal Reserve throws cold water on the rally before it can get goin...
Mike Gleason
May 9th, 2014
Although gold and silver moved to the downside this week, Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee policy announcement didn't provide much of a push or pull to the metals -- or any of the major asset...
Mike Gleason
May 2nd, 2014
Will precious metals reassert themselves as a safe haven from rising geopolitical tensions in Russia and the Far East? Perhaps, but investors would be wise to take a step back and assess the bigger p...
Mike Gleason
April 25th, 2014
The moment of truth for silver prices may be at hand – at least as far as the intermediate-term outlook is concerned. Silver's retreat over the past few days has brought prices back to test a major ...
Mike Gleason
April 18th, 2014
Fed policymakers now unanimously support abandoning the unemployment and core CPI thresholds they had previously said would cause them to tighten monetary policy....
Mike Gleason
April 11th, 2014
For long-time followers of the gold and silver futures markets, this type of trading pattern is all too familiar. The metals spend the day rallying, breaking a downtrend or poking above resistance lev...
Mike Gleason
April 4th, 2014
If you own 1-ounce bullion coins but don't yet own a variety of fractional sizes, it may be time to consider diversifying.Adding fractional sizes of bullion will make your metals stash more versatile ...
Mike Gleason
March 28th, 2014
Janet Yellen gave her first press conference on Wednesday, and she vowed to continue gradually unwinding Quantitative Easing while keeping rates at ultra-low levels for the meantime....
Mike Gleason
March 21st, 2014
Copper pennies could be worth three, four, or five times face value in the years ahead – maybe more....
Mike Gleason
March 14th, 2014
If the U.S. Dollar Index continues to weaken, that should help lift precious metals prices and stimulate investment buying....
Mike Gleason
March 7th, 2014
