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Max Keiser explains why only gold, silver and bitcoin can save you now   During volatile market conditions, investors should be looking for assets that represent stores of value, like gold, silver, and bitcoin, this according to Max Keiser, host of the Keiser Report. “The next alternative hard money, aside from silver, is bitcoin, and that’s why you see interest in bitcoin right now, it’s up this year. It’s one of the few markets in the world that’s up in…

Now is the time to hold a 'significant' position in gold – former Bear Stearns analyst The first quarter saw gold prices massively outperform equity markets and this trend is expected to continue, according to one former Bear Stern’s analyst. Jesse Felder, publisher of the Felder Report investment newsletter, reiterated his long-term bullish outlook for gold, saying in a recent report that gold prices could easily push above its 2011 all-time highs. Gold prices are starting a new trading week…

COVID-19 has profound impact on U.S. jobs which declined over 700,000 The long-awaited U.S. labor department’s jobs report was released today indicating that employment in the United States declined by 701,000 individuals last month. Along with payrolls declining by over 700,000 which was 600,000 above the estimate provided by economists which predicted 100,000 jobs would be lost last month, the jobless rate rose to 4.4%. The last time the unemployment rate was as high was back in 2017. The numbers…

Market forces move gold lower While we have gold, prices come under substantial pressure over the last two weeks it had still managed to hold above key level of $1600 per ounce. This is in conjunction with U.S. equities markets trading under great pressure as they have lost value throughout this month. According to Reuters, “Wall Street’s three major indexes tumbled on Tuesday, with the Dow registering its biggest quarterly decline since 1987 and the S&P 500 suffering its deepest…

Plenty of gold sitting in 'wrong location' and in 'wrong form' — Scotiabank There is no shortage of gold out there, but there are some serious "physical bottlenecks" for certain gold products that are just sitting in wrong locations, Scotiabank said in its latest update. "If there were a major shortage of physical gold, spot gold prices would be trading at a premium to futures prices, which is not the case," Scotiabank commodity strategist Nicky Shiels said on Friday. This…

Gold edges lower as investors opt for cash amid deepening virus fears Gold prices edged lower on Monday as a flight to cash to cover losses in equities overshadowed measures by global central banks to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus epidemic. Spot gold was down 0.2% to $1,614.46 per ounce by 0346 GMT after Friday's 0.7% drop. U.S. gold futures fell 0.4% to $1,646.60 per ounce. "The worse the situation gets the stronger the link between stocks and…

Conditions are ripe for the price of gold bullion to double Gold bullion has not done what it did during the past month since 2008. The Midas metal GC00, +0.34% shows rapidly rising relative performance against the CRB Index as industrial commodities are crashing due to the coronavirus effect. Gold bullion is staying firm, close to a multiyear absolute high. This dynamic has caused bullion to register a relative all-time high compared with the CRB Index (see chart). What happened…

COVID-19's toll to rattle gold prices next week as U.S. becomes new epicenter A massive three-day bounce in stocks has proven to be only temporary as equities tumbled Friday, once again dragging gold down with it. One of the biggest news to drive markets next week will be that the U.S. has become the new epicenter for the COVID-19 outbreak, surpassing China and Italy with the number of people infected. The number of cases in the U.S. surged to more…