Silver Editorials & Commentary

Many observers have realized that the price of silver will rise dramatically at some point because the amount of paper silver is many times the amount of physical silver.

In 1863, the Rothschild brothers of London wrote to associates in New York introducing their banking method into America that: “The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no...

Hey Dudes!  Looks like this grody correction might be ending and a tubular new bull leg might be upon us.  It might be a good time to listen to the history rhyme before things get crazy again.  Let’s take a trip back in time, shall we, to when the size of hairstyles...

In our previous essay ( http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/recent-price-action-silver-breakout-or... ) we focused on silver’s relationship with the general stock market. Today, we think it would be interesting to revisit the silver-to-gold ratio. However, before...

The US's finances are in big trouble, and it's a similar story in most of the other Western developed countries. Nevertheless, the stock markets are chugging along, suggests Pamela and Mary Anne Aden, editors of The Aden Forecast.

Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,334.00, EUR 1,002.41 and GBP 862.31 per ounce. Gold climbed $23.30 or 1.77% Monday and closed at $1,335.90/oz. Silver surged $0.88 or 4.3% and closed at $21.34.

The technical outlook for gold, silver, and mining companies continues to improve. That’s the daily gold chart, and it looks excellent.

All the signs are that silver’s long correction is now over and that it is beginning a major uptrend. The Commercials have cleared out most of their short positions, for a massive profit of course, meaning that the slate is wiped clean for the game to start over...

The Investment Company Institute (ICI) estimated weekly net cash outflow from bond mutual funds of $13.5 billion during the week of June 12.  This followed a staggering $10.9 billion outflow the previous week.  So began a steady exodus from bonds and bond funds in...

Market close to confirming new correction. The S&P500 has been on a tear since late 2012 with the S&P500 bottoming at 1266. The rally though we have been charting out as part of a “Primary wave 3″ uptrend for this Bull market cycle from March 2009, and we...

How has the bankrupt United States of America kept its entire (paper) house-of-cards from crumbling all around it? Two words: fraudulent accounting.

The good news is:  We saw a down week with no buildup of new lows on the NASDAQ.  The negatives:   The market has been following the typical seasonal pattern for the 1st year of the Presidential Cycle pretty closely and that pattern calls for another

The primary silver mining industry is not sustainable at present market prices.  Financial reports are starting to be released and by the end of the month we should have a pretty good idea on how bad the losses will be.

Silver is giving mixed signals. Short-term the white metal has recently given Buy-Signals. But longer-term silver prices are heading the 200 ema support. Provocatively, Large Specs are at the lowest levels in years.

Many investors who remain cautious on gold wonder whether they should get their precious metal exposure through silver instead. In response, Russ explains why the two metals aren’t interchangeable.

Buying silver or gold may seem easy enough for just about anyone these days, but unless you can completely block out the culture around you, the endeavor to make the monetary metals "fit in" with the rest of the hyper-financialized world seems futile.

Why are Indians Buying Silver? Cheaper silver prices usually mean less demand, or they can also be indicative of an oversupply situation.

Over the last month or so, Silver has been side-winding. This is extremely important to anyone who holds silver bullion as well as any of those thinking about current or new positions in this metal.

Human history is a depressing cycle of repetition. Societies/economies rise; societies/economies crumble. The patterns of these cycles are virtually identical, yet living through thousands of years of this “history”, we have learned nothing.

The NYSE Arca Gold BUGS (Basket of Unhedged Gold Stocks) Index (HUI) is a modified equal dollar weighted index of companies involved in gold mining.

In May 22 testimony to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke issued another of many similar positive interpretations of central bank policy.

Today the dollar broke through 80.40. This is a major development as it signals that the current daily cycle topped in only 2 days, thus confirming that the intermediate cycle has also topped.

Precious metals had a strong month in July. But while gold was up 5%, silver advanced only 1%. A more recent reading of the past 30 days through August 6th, shows gold up 4.9%, while silver is up only 3.3%.

By now everyone has a prediction about where the S&P 500 Index (SPX) is going to be heading in the future. Most of the sell side and their ilk are all rolling out the green bullish carpet and predicting that a major bull run is right around the corner.

Given that the demand for physical gold among private investors has remained strong throughout 2013, the significant price declines in recent months took many investors by surprise.

The largest silver producing country in the world has seen its production decline substantially in the first five months of the year.  Mexico was forecasted to increase its silver production this year, however if present trends continue, total output could fall...

After seeing stocks drop over 50% in both the 2000-2003 and 2007-2009 bear markets, investors are understandably hesitant to redeploy their hard-earned money back into stocks.

Silver closed the month at 19.790 unable to maintain the $20 price level. This month has been a battle between weak precious metals and craziness in the industrial metals markets with Chinese data lackluster and US data spotty we saws ups and downs all month but in...

The good news is most of the major indices closed at all-time or multi year highs on Friday. The negatives:

Silver is giving mixed signals. Short-term the white metal has recently given Buy-Signals. But longer-term silver prices are heading the 200 ema support. Provocatively, Large Specs are at the lowest levels in years.

The Rydex Cash Flow Ratio is one of the sentiment indicators we track, and currently it is showing that investors are unusually reluctant to commit money to the current rally.

The housing and automobile industries are the main driving forces of the economy - in both directions. That makes sense since consumer spending accounts for 70% of the economy, and homes and cars are the biggest ticket items consumers spend money on.

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Most observers know there have been interesting movements in commodity markets of late, much of which has to do with curious developments among some of the largest banks in the world that have been reported in the mainstream media.

One argument against silver's return to acknowledged monetary status has been that because much of the above ground silver has already been used up by industry, there simply is not enough supply to flow around in the economy, which is a primary requirement of a...

I know many of you are viewing the metals and thinking that we are exceptionally bullish, and a long lasting bottom is in place.  But, I am not anywhere near as confident.  Especially when I look at silver.

The good news is:  New lows remained insignificant in spite of a rough week.

The Negatives:  New highs have remained problematic on the NYSE.

Some truly awful economic results were released over the last week.  First and foremost, we discovered that 80% of the US adults struggle with joblessness, are near poverty, or have a reliance on welfare for at least part of their lives.

One of the largest issues many have with technical analysis is linking an understanding of their fundamental “beliefs” with prices on a chart.  By fundamental, we include simply the knowledge of any number of known factors, shortages, record buying of coins, people ...