Mint State Gold

Large precious metals speculators increased their bullish net positions in the Silver futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday . . . .

Gold supply has been increased by 3.4 percent with 9.8 tons of purchased gold by the BoM . . . .

This article is an overview of the principal factors likely to drive the gold price in 2019 . . . .

On 28 November 2018, the chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed) said that “Interest rates are still low by historical standards, and they remain just below the broad range of estimates of the level that would be neutral for the economy — that is, neither speeding up nor slowing down growth” . . . .

I last wrote an article on Friday November 9th as the Dow Jones closed with a value of -3.13% in the BEV chart below . . . .

GOLD PRICES jumped on Monday as the US Dollar retreated on news of a "ceasefire" in the US-China trade war, agreed at this weekend's G20 summit of world leaders in Argentina, writes Atsuko Whitehouse at BullionVault . . . .

Central banks around the world are increasing their gold reserves at an incredible pace . . . .

In the first six months of the year (H1), central banks increased their gold holdings by 27% or 191 tonnes in comparison to the same period a year ago . . . .

Chairman Powell made two comments regarding the Federal Reserve that dramatically changed the financial markets . . . .

Global debt increased at the fastest rate at the beginning of 2018 . . . .