Remarks from the Federal Open Market Committee meeting after an expected rate cut rocked the markets, with major indexes falling across the board. Let’s take a look at where prices stand as of December 18:The price of gold dropped to $2,560, or over $100 from a week ago. However, it’s still holding above the November lows and nowhere near longer-te…

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Rapid Middle East Re-Shuffle With Assad's Exit Invisible Hand Of Free Markets VS Tariff Strategy Send Questions For Q&A Program To info@mcalvany.com"There's a long period of status quo. It was upturned quickly. In this case, you had the Gaza conflict in Israel's engagement with Hamas and Hezbollah. And then we have the Russian invasion of Ukraine, …

Precious metals slow down their climb, but continue to show strength after the Thanksgiving break in the US. Let’s take a look at where prices stand as of December 4:The price of gold inched up about $12 from the previous week, still hovering around $2650.The price of silver is up 4% or $1.20 from a week earlier, to around $31.50.Platinum up about …

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Precious metals continue to follow the playbook laid out by our analysis of a Republican presidential win. Let’s take a look at where prices stand as of November 20:The price of gold is up about 4.3% or $108 to $2,650 from last week, a really nice bounce up in a week.The price of silver is up 3.9% or around $1.15 at $30.86 from a week earlier.Plati…

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This week it’s more than just a weekly recap but also a bit of a look ahead. There’s been a lot of price action in the last week. So let’s take a look at where prices stand as of November 13:The price of gold is down about 3.9% or $85 from last week. It is down $211 or 7.6% from its high on October 30.The price of silver is down 2.7% or around $0.8…

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This week, the markets breathed a sigh of relief after a contentious election season. Let’s take a look at where prices stand as of November 6:The price of gold is down about 4.5% or $125 from last week.The price of silver is down a little over 10% or around $3 from a week earlier.Platinum is down about 7% or $74 from top to bottom over the week. I…

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This week, we see a small bump up in gold and a stronger move up in silver. Let’s take a look at where prices stand as of October 30:The price of gold is up about 1.5% or $68 from last week. However, gold did hit a mid-week high at $2,790. It is inching up to the $2,800 mark. The price of silver is up about 6% or around $2 from a week earlier. At o…

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This week, we see a small bump up in gold and a stronger move up in silver.. Let’s take a look at where prices stand as of October 23:The price of gold is up about 1.5% or $40 from last week. However, gold did hit a mid-week high at $2,750. The price of silver is up 6.5% from a week earlier. At one point on Tuesday, it was up over 10% since our rec…

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We're looking at primarily increasing prices in the major precious metals indicators. Let’s take a look at where prices stand as of October 16:The price of gold is up about 2.25%, a $60 rise this week and flirting back with those all time highs again at $2,685. The price of silver is up about 4%, or $1.25 to around $31.60. It is still lagging behin…

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Precious metals prices declined over the last week after a lot of movement in recent weeks. Let’s look at where precious metals stand as of October 9, 2024. The price of gold is down about 3% from the $2,685 top it reached.The price of silver is down about 7.5% from the $32.95 top that it reached. However, it is still holding above $30. Platinum is…

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Precious metals had a lot of movement on the heels of the Federal Reserve last week, but things have kind of calmed down gold, silver, and platinum. Let’s look at where precious metals stand as of October 2, 2024 Gold, silver and platinum were flat week over week. The price of Palladium declined 4%. Although there was a little jump up initially las…

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There’s been quite a range of movement in the price of precious metals over the last week, following on the heels of the Fed announcement. Let’s look at where precious metals stand as of September 25: The price of gold is up 4.8% or up $122 to $2,672 from the previous week. The price of silver has increased by 8.5% or $2.50 to around $32.60 from th…

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Let’s take a look at our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for September 18.As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand: The price of gold is up about 1.5%, or around $2,560 per ounce from a week earlier. At one point, it was up about 3% or nearly $2,600. The price of silver is up about 4.5% or just over $30 from a week earl…

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Let’s take a look at our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for September 11.As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand: The price of gold is up $20 to around $2,500, relatively flat from a week earlier. The price of silver is down about 50 cents or 1.5% to around $27.76 from last week. Palladium rose up about 9% or around $…

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Precious metals have declined slightly over the week, but that’s not the whole story. Let’s take a look at our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for September 4. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand: The price of gold has declined about 1% or $20 to around $2,485 from a week earlier. The price of silver is down about …

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The precious metals market is relatively unchanged over the past week. Let’s take a look at our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for August 28. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand:The price of gold is flat at around $2,508, after rising and falling about $30 intra-week. The price of silver is down 11 cents at $29.49…

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It’s been a strong week for all the precious metals. So let’s take a look at our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for August 21. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand:The price of gold is up over 2.3% to $2,511, after hitting a new all-time high of $2,530. The price of silver is at $29.60 or up 6.5%, which is a big ru…

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Here’s our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for August 14. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand:The price of gold is up 2.8% to $2,450, from $2410 a week ago. The price of silver is up 4% to $27.54 since last week. Platinum is gaining ground, up 1% to $922.Palladium had a good week, up 6% to $916 from $880 a week ear…

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Here’s our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for August 7. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand:It’s been a surprisingly volatile week for precious metals — including gold, with a high and a low difference of about $100. However, gold is the most steady of the metals right now. The price of gold is down about 2% to $2…

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Here’s our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for July 31. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand:The price of gold is up to $2,450, or about 3% for the week. However, most of those gains happened within the last few hours of this recording.The price of silver is just above $29, up around 3.8% from the week before. Still…

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Here’s our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for July 24. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand:The price of gold is at $2,400 down just over 2% — coming off a high of $2455 from a week ago. The price of silver is down 4% at $29, declining from $30.21 last week. The price of platinum is down to $958, sliding 4% from $9…

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This week we take a quick look at the strong movement of gold, breaking through to a new high. The Dow also shows very strong movement this week, climbing up to over 40,000 points. Gold continues showing strong performance and the next step up will be big. Thanks for listening.

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Here’s our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for July 10. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand:Gold is at $2,370, up 1.7% or $40 this week, compared with $2,330 last week. Just before this recording, gold was up over 2% to $2,390. Silver rose up to $30.82 or 4.2% this week, from $29.50 the prior week. That's driven th…

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Here’s our weekly recap of the precious metals markets for July 3. As of this recording, here is where precious metals stand:The price of gold is up 2.7% since our last recording, and it was up 4.7% over the quarter. Year to date, with today's move, gold is up over 15% so far this year. The price of silver is up 6% this week. It was already up 17% …

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