Barry Stuppler

GOLD Gold continued its move back to $1,800 per ounce today. At 11am PDT gold was selling for $1,792.00, up $10.70 per ounce on active trading. Yesterday’s statements from the meeting between the heads of France and Germany failed to quell Wall Street’s fears about euro zone leaders’ ability to contain the region’s sovereign debt woes. As a result, gold...

GOLD Today we are seeing gold build an excellent trading range from $1,763 to $1,787 on solid volume.  At 11am PDT gold is trading at $1,781.30 up $18.10 per ounce on the day. After this morning’s comments by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on euro zone proposals the gold market rallied higher as the Stock Market fell dramatically. As our country...

GOLD Last week was another extraordinary period for gold. Up $90.80 (5.5%) in just five trading days, gold closed the week at $1,742.60 on the heaviest trading for the month of August I have ever seen. Average volume was over 300,000 contracts a day, which is astonishing considering this is historically the weakest time of the year for gold trading...

Albanian Minerals President and CEO Sahit Muja said “Silver demand in China and India is set to rise 40 per?ent in 2012″.

China said its net imports of silver nearly quadrupled to more than 3,500 metri? tons in 2010, boosted by sharp in?reases in demand by the industrial se?tor and the jewelry industry.

Silver demand in China and India has in?reased sharply in re?ent years as more investors use silver as a store of value.
About 70% of China’s silver demand ?omes from the industrial se?tors...

GOLD Gold opened $10 lower in Asia before sizeable buying came into the market.  After the extraordinary trading last week that virtually set new record highs daily, it is nice to see gold stabilizing and trading in a narrow band.  Gold has traded in a $20 range today, holding at $1,753.20 per ounce, up $8 from last Friday’s close.  Today’s...

GOLD Overnight trading in Asia was very supportive to the current price range. Finally, we are seeing stability in the gold trading which had a 2 ½ % trading range in the last 24 hours.  The low to high trading range for gold was $1,724/$1,769 with excellent volume. I would be very happy to see Gold stay in this trading...

GOLD Gold is trading at $1,740.22 per ounce this morning at 11am PDT, down $36.28 per ounce on normal volume. At one point in overnight trading in Asia gold hit an All-Time high of $1,815.40. What the gold market could use right now is a week or two of stabilization so it could build a nice base for the next...

GOLD  Another day, another All-Time high for Gold.  WOW what a run, and all information is pointing to continued demand.  At 11am PDT Gold is trading at $1,776.50 per ounce, up $34.00 on very, very active trading. At this current pace, my $1,900 year end prediction looks low.  J.P. Morgan’s commodity analyst Colin Fenton was on CNBC stating he felt...

GOLD At 11am PDT gold is trading at $1,742.50 per ounce, up $27.50 on very active trading. Gold did hit a new all-time high at $1.782 in overnight trading in Asian markets. This is a pivotal point for the U.S. Dollar & Gold, and yes, gold has gone parabolic as it enters Phase II of the bull market. The downgrading...

GOLD Rating agency Standard & Poor’s says it has downgraded the U.S. credit rating from its top rank of AAA to AA+. Rating agencies analyze risk and give debt a "grade" that reflects the borrower’s ability to pay the underlying loans. The safest bets are stamped AAA. That’s where U.S. debt stood for years. This downgrade of U.S. bonds and...