Gold & Silver

The world is heading down the toilet yet demand in the official gold coin market is DOWN drastically. Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coin sales were DOWN 35% - yes, 35% - in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the same period a year ago and American Gold Eagle coin sales were DOWN a staggering 51% - yes, 51% - year over year! What gives?

Gold peaked in 2011, bottomed in June and December of 2013, and should rally for several, and probably many, years into the future. Here's why.

Jim Rickards explains in his new book "The Death of Money - The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System" why a US dollar collapse could be coming and why gold would probably emerge at the heart of a new global monetary system as the only money that you can really trust.

Some market commentators are touting gold as a great portfolio diversifier, convincing investors that the precious metal could benefit their portfolio but there may be better alternatives than gold if the motivation is to find a hedge for economic uncertainty or political unrest.

I am 100% confident that 1) precious metals will bottom this year and resume a new leg to the upside, 2) the extreme emotions right now regarding gold and silver are typical at major turning points and 3) all the underlying fundamental, cyclical and technical conditions for a new bull market in gold and silver are in place. Here's an update on the latest action in gold, silver, platinum and palladium

Before gold can rally, it has to first turn the trend from down to up. We see no evidence of a change in trend. The bearish spacing is repeated, again, as a reminder that it represents a weak market within its down trend. How anyone can posit a bullish scenario from what the charts show flies in the face of known facts, as depicted in the charts.

Should gold stock investors and speculators worry about the effect of a decline or cyclical bear market of the S&P 500 on the mining sector? You'll be surprised at the answer!

The words "sex", "gold" and "collapse" are three of the most googled and, as such, many articles are posted daily on munKNEE.com regarding the future for the price of gold, possible economic and financial collapse and the odd article on sexual behaviour around the world. Below is a summary of a number of such articles.

While not widely reported or analyzed, over the past several months there has been an enormous amount of buying in the various markets for physical silver - both one-ounce sovereign-minted coins and refined bars. Along with some standard trading signals I'll discuss below, I believe the activity in the market for physical silver is signaling the potential for a large upside move sometime this year. Let me explain.

Lifted by a continued surge in Asian gold sales, consumer demand for gold reached an all-time high in 2013 at 3,893 tonnes. Amazingly, 54% of this demand came from two places: India and China. However, it is only recently that the East has dominated global demand for the yellow metal. In this infographic, we look at India and China specifically to see why demand keeps expanding in the East.