Silver Editorials & Commentary

After a two-day flirt with breaking below the short-term bearish technical formation, stocks finally declined yesterday. Well before the closing bell though, the bulls stepped in and erased most of the plunge that happened during the first hour of trading. Has it...

Stocks again made a new intraday 2020 high yesterday, but the bulls were stopped just a point shy of the 3395 mark. Has yesterday’s increase invalidated our reasons to be cautious and take profits off the table? In other words, can we expect the bulls to push...

Just a quick update on the Yen / PM combo we’ve been following. Today the yen is moving lower in its new impulse move to the downside doing away with the positive correlation it used to have with the PM complex. While the yen is moving lower more PM stock indexes...

Over the last half year or so, a number of analysts, well-heeled individuals, and mega-hedge fund managers have been taking a shine to silver. So far the "restless metal" hasn't been letting on that it's noticed.

It appeared that the bears firmly took the reins of yesterday’s session, but most of their gains were history before the closing bell. Have we seen an important turning point for oil?

Stocks reached out for new 2020 highs yesterday, and have marginally overcome futures’ Monday session highs. Yet, they suffered a setback yesterday, and price action left the very short-term rising wedge. But the bulls erased a good deal of previous losses, and are...

Silver bullion is set to outperform gold, other precious metals and the vastly over valued risk assets of stocks and bonds in the coming years. The record nominal high of $50 in 1980 and in 2012 will almost certainly be seen in the next two years.

Stocks are entering the holiday-shortened week on a strong note. There was no selloff on Friday, as has been the case three preceding weeks in a row. This weekend, there were no spooky coronavirus headlines. Stocks finished on Friday close to their yearly highs, and...

The analysis of the precious metals market isn’t just gold analysis – there are times when silver rises to the forefront of everyone’s attention. And we fully expect such a moment of the white metal stealing the spotlight to arrive shortly. What lessons can we draw...

It is my privilege now to welcome back David Smith, Senior Analyst at The Morgan Report and regular contributor to MoneyMetals.com. David, it's good to talk to you as always and how are you my friend?

“The monetary value of silver underpins the vast majority of its price, and if the metal had only industrial demand working for it, the price would be under $5 an ounce,” says Gold Newsletter editor Brien Lundin. “Silver’s precious side means it will outperform...

Employment has been the one stickler in my recession prediction for 2019, and finding a trustworthy measurement from the government’s statistics is like finding a virgin in a brothel. Depending on which official figures you look at, employment has refused to fall...

Silver is on a major BUY signal. SLV is on short-term sell signal. Long-term – on BUY signal. Short-term – on sell signal. Cycle is down as a pullback is in progress.

During its brief and utterly failed attempt to reduce its balance sheet (called quantitative tightening), the Federal Reserve only rolled off securities at a rate of $50 billion a month. It is now purchasing US treasuries at a rate of more than $55 billion a month...

Our equity/bond model - This long-term reliable investing model provides investors with simple decision making in the markets: When the model favors stocks, investors should overweigh in equities for maximum growth. When the model favors bonds, investors should...

This article posits that the spread of the coronavirus coincides with the downturn in the global credit cycle, with potentially catastrophic results. At the time of writing, analysts are still trying to get to grips with the virus’s economic impact and they commonly...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday the central bank would fight the next economic downturn by buying large amounts of government debt to drive down long-term interest rates, a strategy that has been dubbed quantitative easing, or QE.

Plunging global yields have created the perfect scenario for precious metals to thrive.

As the global highly-leveraged debt-based financial system comes under serious stress, investors are going to finally realize that the silver market is very tiny and extremely undervalued.  This is when we will likely see the exponential silver price movement.  And...

Quite a bit has changed in the global markets and future expectations over the past 4+ weeks.  Q4 2019 ended with a bang.  US/China Trade Deal, US signing the USMCA Continental Free Trade Agreement, BREXIT and now the Wuhan Virus.

Stocks rebounded strongly in the previous week, but have wavered on Friday. Their performance today isn’t exactly shaping to be the strongest ever either. So, what is the status of the consolidation, and how will the market most likely proceed when digesting its...

The first part of this article highlighted what we believe is the start of a broad market sector rotation setup in the US and global markets.  This second part will highlight what we believe are excellent examples of sector trade setups for our friends and followers...

The best time to size up the collapse in housing that I called almost two years ago will be when it is over — so we can visualize its full extent. Since it is now over by some measures, though not by others, this might be as good as we get for awhile as a moment...

Silver is expected to begin the 2020s newly burnished, through a combination of higher industrial and investment demand, and tightened supply owing to mine production issues and output cuts. If it does, it would be the continuation of a trend that started last year...

Silver is on a major BUY signal. SLV is on short-term sell signal. COT data suggests speculation has reached levels of previous tops.

What underlies the tremendous run-up in the price of Palladium and now the giant spike in Tesla stock? They are connected. Tesla stock has spiked despite its self-driving cars doing strange things like running people over and spontaneously combusting. The reason for...

It is my privilege now to welcome in Axel Merk President and Chief Investment Officer of Merk Investments and author of the book Sustainable Wealth. Axel is a well-known market commentator and money manager and is a highly sought-after guest at financial conferences...

The long-term signal on the broad market is up. However, the current investing model favors bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over growth.

The silver miners’ stocks are looking interesting.  While they really lagged silver’s surge on gold’s bull-market-breakout rally last summer, their upleg since remains intact.  Gold stocks’ own upleg peaked in early September.  And silver itself remains wildly...

Britain left the EU on the last day of January and is an independent nation once more. The new Johnson government is confident that Britain will do well outside the EU. Free trade will be embraced, and a no-deal outcome, now dubbed an Australian trade relationship,...

We have been writing about the strong potential for a deeper market rotation in the US and global markets for well over 60+ days.  In fact, our researchers predicted an August 2019 breakdown date based on Super-Cycle patterns that, eventually, pushed into 2020 as...

At the recently completed World Economic Forum in Davos, many interesting stories and headlines emerged. Here's one you may have missed.

Price action on Monday found a temporary bottom and then proceeded to bounce back into the 50-61.8% Fib retracement region before rolling back into the expected 3250-3240 support area on the Emini S&P500 (ES).

As the Fed and Central banks continue propping up the financial markets, many precious metals analysts advise owning gold over silver.  They say that gold is the key precious metal that will be used to reintroduce a “Sound Monetary System.”  However, I believe the...

The emerging coronavirus pandemic is already crimping global commerce. In response, the S&P 500 has thus far put in two weeks’ worth of declines (the index fell 2.1% last week) since making new highs to start the year.

Coronavirus anxiety has replaced trade war anxiety as the one-size-fits-all explanation for the stock-market's bad days.  Wall Street initially thumbed its nose at the virus threat, staging a strong rally early last week even as the death toll mounted in China.

Silver has been volatile in 2020 as the precious metal has traded in a range from $17.28 to $18.895 on the nearby March futures contract since the end of last year. Like gold, silver is money and one of the oldest means of exchange in the world.

Silver is on a major BUY signal. Long-term – on BUY signal. Short-term – on sell signal. Cycle is down as a pullback is in progress.

As the coronavirus continues to spread, global financial markets are showing the symptoms of investor unease. Chinese and emerging markets stocks have taken a big hit over the past several days, as have commodities. Crude oil prices have dropped 13% over the past...

The long-term signal on the broad market is up. However, the current investing model favors bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over growth.