Sunday 25 September 2016

More State and Fiscal Policy action using free money - Turning points for Bonds?

Ambrose Evans Pritchard highlighting enormous global debt levels, issues with free market capitalism and encouragement by global institutions to government spending and investment, fiscal policy to take the baton from monetary policy, or be supported by monetary policy.

Acting Man reviews moves by the Japanese Central Bank targeting 10 year bonds to 0% giving governments free long term money to enact plans. Do the Central Banks have such control or can the bond vigilantes influence?

Sunday 11 September 2016

Steve Saville - Explaining Moves in the Gold Price

Gold price drivers / correlations  

These are traditional flight to safety associations. 
The question will be if bonds turn as interest rates rise, if the Yen weakens due to central bank actions will gold automatically fall?

Jeff Gundlach at DoubleLine
“This idea that fiscal stimulus may be coming seems to be getting sniffed out by the bond market,” Gundlach said. More debt spending may increase the cost of government borrowing by adding supply and making investors demand higher yields...........Gundlach told Reuters this summer that his firm went “maximum negative” on Treasuries on July 6 when the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note hit 1.32 percent. The 10-year now yields around 1.60 percent. All told, Gundlach said he turned short-term negative on gold and gold miners but has not sold any of his firm’s positions.


















Sunday 4 September 2016

Gold and Silver Miner Fundamentals - 2016-Q2

Reviews from Adam Hamilton at Zeal
GDX     GDXJ     SIL

A point of particualar note; acquisition activities over the past few years have seen the "Silver Miners" become increasingly gold weighted.
A company like Silver Standard which was an ounces in the ground silver play has acquired gold mines.
Plenty more to the analysis of these companies in particular reserves and resources.
An ETF 'fundamentally' weighted by sales or production would be an interesting comparison in a bull market.






































































Canadian Venture Holds the 50 Day?

Worth keeping a close eye on this as we move into what are usually the best seasonals for gold and miners, but following an extremely big run this year.
A lot of the bigger indices and ETFs haven't done this.
Will the Venture lead or fold?