Viewed as both an industrial and precious metal, silver can offer versatile risk protection for market participants. Silver is a valuable precious metal that has been used as a form of currency and store of value for thousands of years. Like gold, silver offers a historically low correlation to assets like stocks and bonds. When […]
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In the past three months, gold purchases totaled 219 tonnes and the WGC sees a string of fourth quarters for more buying. The World Gold Council (WGC) reports that in August, central banks bought 77 tonnes, 38% more than in July. China, Poland, and Turkey headed the list of buyers. Reports say that the
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Losses on Treasury bonds with maturities of 10 years or more had notched 46% since March 2020, while the 30-year bond had plunged 53%, Bloomberg reported. Those losses are nearly in line with stock-market losses seen during the worst crashes of recent history – when equities slumped 49% after the dot-com bubble burst and 57% in the
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Your investments, which you think you may own, can be absorbed into the failing financial system without your knowledge. We are in a doom-loop -collapsing collateral values – over $400T nominal in interest rate swaps – this crisis is forcing bond liquidations. In a test case in the New York courts concerning Lehman’s failure, JPMC
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One important economic indicator that’s currently flashing hasn’t appeared since the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression. A growing amount of data indicates that a gigantic economic crisis could be right around the corner. The latest economic data shows the annual M2 money supply growth rate has been negative for the past three quarters, meaning
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“In my book is incoming stagflation and that’s been holding gold up at these levels,” he said. “We have said before, but now is the time to be patiently bullish on gold.” The gold market has room to fall further and even test support at $1,800 an ounce after falling below $1,900 for the first time since
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I’m not sure if the world is prepared for 7%. Deutsche Bank economists put the odds of a U.S. recession “near 100%,” and warned that “avoiding a hard landing would be historically unprecedented.” Bank of America said last week that investors were dumping stocks at the fastest pace since the end of 2022 amid concern that higher-for-longer rates would raise
Inflation is bound to whipsaw next year as the US deals with two seismic shifts shaking the economy, according to BlackRock. Inflation is bound for a resurgence in 2024, BlackRock strategists warned in a recent note. The economy is reeling from two seismic changes and the pace of disinflation will soon slow. Strategists previously warned
Stock investors aren’t paying attention to “demons on the horizon,” Jeffrey Gundlach says. The DoubleLine Capital boss sees a recession next year as companies and consumers feel the squeeze. “The economy is only growing because we have a budget deficit that is 8% of GDP,” he said. “It’s about the same today as the depths
Commercial real estate is confronting significant challenges due to lower occupancy rates and higher interest rates. Even in cities like Boston, you find lots of vacancies, up to 40% of buildings. A market correction is about to happen because of rising rates, and we’ve got to refinance these buildings, and many of them have no
