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COT Report Is Short Term Bearish For Goldby Financial Tap, Zentrader.ca The Gold Cycle looks fairly easy to read; once you strip out any biases you may carry. Quite simply, it’s screaming Investor Cycle top and warning of a significant decline. Su… more »

Gold, silver and crude oil prices are closely related to the movement of the U.S. dollar. After a healthy consolidation, gold began to move up in August 2012. At the same time, deteriorating expectations for crop yields in the American Midwest moved corn… more »

Perennial gold bull Citi analyst Tom Fitzpatrick reportedly told King World News this past week: We see no reason why this gold trend cannot perform as well as the last bull market in gold between 1970 and 1980. The longer gold consolidates, the more… more »

Money Morning Article of the Weekby Peter Krauth, Global Resource Specialist, Money MorningSpeculators hate silver... For the past year, the positive silver headlines have been few and far between. Ever since the poor man's gold peaked near $50 in… more »