Metals

China is replacing its US Treasury holdings with GOLD

by Arsenio Toledo, Natural News: China is accelerating its selling of United States Treasury securities and replacing its holdings with more gold. Since 2008, the communist nation has been one of the largest foreign holders of U.S. Treasuries. It started selling off its U.S. Treasuries slowly in 2018, right around the same time when the country […]

“Fundamentals and technical analysis are two sides of the same coin”

by Claudio Grass, Claudio Grass: Interview with Laurent Halmos For most die-hard physical gold investors and students of history like myself and most of my readers and clients, technical analysis is often seen as a bit of a taboo, or at best something irrelevant to our worldview and investment approach. Nevertheless, to paraphrase the old […]

Bill Introduced in Wisconsin House Would Repeal Sales Tax on Gold and Silver Bullion

by Michael Maharrey, Schiff Gold: A bill introduced in the Wisconsin Senate would create a state sales tax exemption on the sale of gold and silver bullion. By effectively repealing the sales tax, the bill would relieve some of the tax burden on investors, and take a step toward treating precious metal bullion as money instead of a commodity. […]

Central Bank Gold Reserves Chart Second-Highest Increase Since 1950 in 2022

by Peter Schiff, Schiff Gold: Central banks closed out 2022 with reported net purchases of 28 tons of gold in December. Including large unreported purchases, this brought total central bank gold buying in 2022 to 1,136 tons. It was the second-highest level of net purchases on record dating back to 1950, and the 13th straight […]

Gold tests $1960

by Alasdair Macleod, GoldMoney: After trading sideways until Wednesday, gold broke out above its recent consolidation level following the Fed’s 0.25% rate increase on Wednesday. And yesterday morning, gold rose briefly to $1959.7 before falling back to $1911. In European morning trade, it was at $1910, down $17 from last Friday’s close, and silver was […]