Silver Editorials & Commentary

Read the latest silver market commentary, editorials, essays and reports about investments and trends in the silver market and the economy in general.

 

August 26, 2024

The global economic landscape has undergone a seismic shift over the past few decades, with the outsourcing of jobs from the United States to India playing a pivotal role. This transformation has had far-reaching consequences for both nations, reshaping their...

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August 24, 2024

Our benchmark SP500 is on long term BUY signal. Oil sector is on a long term SELL signal. Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds.

Current data suggests overall lower silver prices. Cycle is down. Trend is up. We are neutral.

August 23, 2024

Move over, gold. There’s a new metal in town stealing the spotlight, and it’s none other than our trusty friend silver. While gold has been hogging all the attention with its recent price surge above $2,500, with headlines like “400 oz Gold Bars Now Worth $1 Million...

According to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, “The Federal Reserve's monetary policy independence is an important and broadly supported institutional arrangement that has served the American public well.”

August 22, 2024

There's been a lot of retail silver selling over the past years. With dealers reporting customers are in need of cash, or have been sitting on silver that they've been waiting for years to sell at a profit.

August 21, 2024

As we head towards the election, the rhetoric is heating up. Especially as the candidates talk about their economic ideologies. And in particular how they plan to respond to the inflation that has left its mark on the world over the past 4 years.

August 20, 2024

Industrial demand for silver has been surging in recent years. Solar panel manufacturers were largely behind the 11% jump in demand for 2023 versus the prior year. Forecasters predict another 9% jump this year.

There's just been a significant change in the wholesale silver premiums.

August 19, 2024

The purpose of this update is to bring to your attention that silver is on the verge of commencing a massive unprecedented bull market which will “officially” kick off with it breaking above the key $30 level, which is important for reasons that will soon become...

Matt Riley of silver wholesaler EF Bullion reports on how silver is now being melted down to meet industrial demand.

August 17, 2024

Our cycle indicator is DOWN. SILJ is on short term buy signal. Silver is on a long term BUY signal.

Kamala Harris is going to fix price inflation. As she explains it, greedy corporations are arbitrarily raising prices and causing inflation. She will stop this “price gouging” and inflation will go away.

August 16, 2024

Our benchmark SP500 is on long term BUY signal. Oil sector is on a long term SELL signal. Gold sector is on a long term BUY signal.

August 15, 2024

The white metal’s performance has been really poor since it failed to hold above the $30 level. I had warned about this failure, so it didn’t come as a surprise to you. But even though silver has been in a rather short-term decline, there are still quite many voices...

Not surprisingly, Bitcoin has experienced significant market fluctuations over the last few weeks. While Bitcoin spent most of spring with a boring sideways consolidation, volatility has exploded in recent weeks. Hence, the exuberant ETF euphoria is gone and...

August 14, 2024

Rapidly increasing industrial and military demand for silver is depleting global inventories, and the rate may well accelerate quickly.

China has been at the heart of the growth of the industrial demand for silver. Yet even despite the stunning amounts of silver they have consumed in recent years, particularly for solar panels, they still want more silver than they have.

August 12, 2024

Last weekend's selloff freaked out enough Wall Street derivative paper pushers to the point that an emergency Fed rate cut was actually being discussed.

August 10, 2024

Our cycle indicator is now DOWN. Speculation has set a new high. Cycle is down. Trend is down.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is now down. Cycle is down. VIX is now up, caution is advised.

August 9, 2024

Chris Vermeulen, Chief Market Strategist at The Technical Traders, joins the show to discuss the dynamic shifts in the stock market. There is major uncertainty and Chris is here to discuss it all!

Now that gold and silver have sold off, we're seeing a change in the positioning in the market. There's been short covering by the banks on the silver side as the price came down $5 after trading over $32.75 at its peak this year.

August 8, 2024

Despite the Fed's string of interest rate hikes over the past few years the stock markets have continued to soar. Reaching new all-time highs, before pulling back in volatile fashion over the past few weeks.

August 7, 2024

Recent articles trumpeting silver’s outperformance relative to gold and some ridiculous price projections are a bit too much. Missing from most of the extremely positive commentary is a dose of reality. Below are three charts (source) which should provide some...

I've been watching the commercial real estate (CRE) sector as a potential catalyst for the next financial crisis. So far, it has managed to hold together, but there is still trouble brewing under the surface.

The Nikkei recovered in Tuesday trading, rising 10.2% the day after sinking by 12.4%. But as is often the case, the stock market rally doesn't mean the underlying issues have been. And in this morning's show, Vince Lanci examines the volatility in Japan, how it...

August 6, 2024

As you've probably already seen by now, we just witnessed an historically volatile night in the financial markets.

August 5, 2024

As the BRICS move forward their efforts to de-dollarize away from US financial infrastructure, where does that leave the silver market?

In the midst of a chaotic election season, a Fed meeting, and more progress by the BRICS on their 40% gold backed 'Unit,' who better to check in with than Dr. Jim Willie.

August 4, 2024

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with Michael Pento, the president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies (PPS), to discuss the current state of the economy, the precious metals market, and effective investment...

August 3, 2024

Our cycle indicator is UP. Speculation has set a new high. Silver is on a long term BUY signal.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is now down. Cycle is down. VIX is now up, caution is advised.

August 2, 2024

The Federal Reserve unfurled the white flag during the July FOMC meeting and set the stage to surrender to inflation. 

August 1, 2024

Rafi Farber, The End Game Investor, returns to the show to discuss the current chaos in the markets and the dilemma faced by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

July 31, 2024

We're only a day away from this week's Federal Reserve meeting, and this is set to be one of the more impactful ones in recent years.

July 30, 2024

It now looks like silver has completed a classic 3-wave correction from its May highs, following its strong advance in the Spring. On its latest 6-month chart we can see that it appears to be conforming to a classic Elliott wave pattern which consists of 5 waves up...

The 2024 Summer Olympics kicked off over the weekend. Thousands of athletes from all over the world have converged on Paris with one goal in mind. Win silver!

As China's industrial demand for silver has grown rapidly in recent years, and is on pace for another record year in 2024, we're now finding out that they've begun making deals directly with South American silver producers.

July 29, 2024

Gold took a big hit, and silver took an even bigger hit this week. Check the past two silver reports and Rafi Farber has been warning about this, tipped off by both open interest and bullion bank short positions in the nosebleed section.

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