Barry Stuppler

The yellow metal is up from Hong Kong trading hours, but is still just slightly down from yesterday . . . .

The first-ever industrial public-private partnership investment project undertaken by partners from all BRICS member states has been pioneered in the gold mining sector against the backdrop of the BRICS Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa . . . .

Russia‘s U.S. dollar reserves have shrunk from $96.1 billion in March to just $14.9 billion in May, according to the Russian Central Bank . . . .

In this article I point to the pressures on the Fed to moderate monetary policy, but that will only affect the timing of the next cyclical credit crisis . . . .

Gold prices are moving slightly higher today and are currently around the intraday highs . . . .

The case for China raising its gold holdings seems compelling . . . .

Trading activity is fairly uneventful given the lack of major news topics affecting the markets . . . .

One of my buddies likes to bug me about my gold views . . . .

It appears that all the precious metals are in positive territory today . . . .

With a narrow $10 trading range, Gold has been fairly calm in the US trading markets . . . .