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The last trading week for the year saw the price of gold end $24 (1.3%) higher, while the price of silver rose by 26 cents (1.1%) for the week. (As a reminder, I always use the late day close on...

In our increasingly complex world, it’s easy to get caught up in the details of just about any topic. That’s why it’s important to step back every now and then and look at things in the most basic manner possible....

In a trading week featuring both fairly sharp ups and downs, prices managed to close higher; with gold ending up by $3 (0.2%) and with silver finishing higher by 52 cents (2.2%). As a result of silver’s relative outperformance, the...

We’re close enough to the end of 2022 to review the year for any lessons learned in gold and silver. Speaking in round numbers, we’re essentially unchanged price-wise from where we began the year. Of course, there was price volatility...

After surging to fresh six-month price highs in gold and eight-month highs in silver earlier in the week, what looked like typical middle-of-the-night COMEX commercial price-rigging to me caused gold and silver prices to end the week marginally lower; with...

My head is still reeling from contemplating the results in Friday’s Bank Participation Report, for positions held in COMEX gold and silver futures as of Dec 6. As I tried to describe on Saturday, there was a startling lack of...