January 29, 2020 | AG, Daily JAM, GLD, GOLD, Perfect Five-ETFs, Volatility |
Gold held by ETFs (exchange-traded funds) hit the highest level in seven years on Tuesday as investors and traders piled into the traditional hedge against uncertainty and stock market volatility. Worldwide gold holdings in ETFs rose to 2,561.2 tons as of Tuesday, the...
September 5, 2019 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Stock Alerts |
It's by no means a guarantee of gains, but owing shares of a company that is riding the wave of positive macro and micro trends does indeed usually result in solid profits. On the macro side, Barrick Gold has global trends pointing toward toward higher gold prices as...
June 27, 2019 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Morning Briefing, VGIT, VGSH |
Today with the yield on the 10-year Treasury down to 2.02%, a drop of 2 basis points, two Wall Street heavy weights are predicting that we haven't seen a bottom in yield yet. Not by a long shot. Goldman Sachs today cut its forecast for the year-end yield on the...
June 21, 2019 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Stock Alerts |
It hasn't taken much--fears of war with Iran, a trade war with China, and signals of at least 50 basis points in interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve--but gold has finally broken out of its 5-year trading range. Gold shot higher on June 20, testing the March...
September 25, 2018 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Stock Alerts |
Gold mining is a depressed sector so maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise that Barrick Gold's (ABX) acquisition of Randgold Resources (GOLD) didn't come with any premium. The all-stock deal valued Randgold at $6.5 billion, approximately its market capitalization...
September 5, 2018 | ALB, Daily JAM, GOLD, Notes You Need |
In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don't justify a full post. I've decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I'm calling Notes...
August 23, 2018 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Stock Alerts |
I'm on vacation through August 26. I'm using this downtime to post on some of the earnings results that I missed during the very busy second quarter earnings season. The relentless downward trend in the price of gold took a big bite out of shares of Randgold Resources...
May 14, 2018 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Stock Alerts |
My criteria for adding a gold stock to my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio have been reasonably consistent over the years: I've looked for a gold miner that was growing gold production and reducing production costs. Up until my latest revision of this portfolio in early...