Rafi Farber

Articles by Rafi Farber

It may not look that way now, but gold and silver are actually in great technical positions for the next advance. Gold is showing support at the 2011 highs, which until now has been resistance. Silver is sitting right on top of its 50 and...
Nearly 30,000 silver futures contracts have closed out since June 22. That's 1 out of every 5 contracts, and that most likely means a major trend change is imminent. Longs are bowing out, shorts are covering, and we are now below 120,000...
 

The bad news is that the silver price is getting walloped. The good news is that so are the Comex physical silver stocks. One vault in particular - Malca Amit - put its entire stock of over 3 million ounces up for sale against...
Silver remains in a tight trading range as open interest in silver futures nears a 6 month high.

That suggests a price smash ahead for paper traders is a strong possibility in order to get those numbers down. The possibility of a spot...
The big news in the silver space this week was that there was another large withdrawal from the COMEX registered silver supply, bringing the registered category down to 28 million ounces.

There's been a steady drop in that inventory...
With the Treasury down to $68 billion and a debt ceiling deal just around the corner, few are considering what happens to banks when a deal finally is struck and the Treasury has to raise $1 trillion in short term cash in a matter of weeks...
Short term Treasury markets are predicting a temporary debt ceiling breach as the spread between 1M and 3M yields has blown up to the highest level ever this week.

That means short term money is piling into the most liquid and short...
Want to hear something hilariously ridiculously ludicrous? Get this. The Chair(man) of the Fed(eral Reserve) actually said that Silicon Valley Bank was an irresponsible "outlier" because - get this - it bought too many US Treasuries!...
Well, it's happening. The Federal Reserve is bailing out regional US banks to the tune of $2 trillion according to Bloomberg. This as the "systemically important" Credit Suisse gets a bailout from the Swiss National Bank consisting of SNB'...
Something is rotten in the State of New York. Specifically, in the silver vault of JPMorgan. The megabank has put up over 7 million ounces of silver for sale in the past two days alone, moving them from eligible storage to registered....

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