Money Metals' Weekly Market Wrap Podcast
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Gold Holds Firms as World Braces for Financial Turmoil, War
November 03, 2023 17:17 - 6 minutes - 9.54 MBAs the Federal Reserve puts a hold on interest rates, investors have to ask themselves whether the elevated inflation rate is also on hold. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Inflation Deception Allows Cheerleaders to Claim Economy Is Growing
October 27, 2023 18:05 - 6 minutes - 9.22 MBWell, if you believe the reporting coming out of the mainstream financial media, then the economy is going gangbusters. The Fed has succeeded at crushing the bond market, freezing the housing market, and plunging many sectors of the stock market into deep downtrends. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Gold Flirts with $2,000 on Middle East Conflict, New Spending Demands
October 20, 2023 17:14 - 6 minutes - 8.68 MBAs financial markets gyrate, investors are finding safe haven in precious metals. The stock market sold off on Thursday on interest rate fears. It’s not so much the threat of additional rate hikes by the Federal Reserve that has investors scared. It’s more the spike in longer-term bond yields. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Hot War in Middle East Bolsters Gold and Silver Prices
October 13, 2023 17:32 - 6 minutes - 9.53 MBA hotter than expected inflation report helped trigger a spike in bond yields and a selloff in stocks. Precious metals, meanwhile, are garnering some safe-haven buying as the threat of a larger-scale war grows pitting the United States and Israel against Hamas, Iran, and other avowed enemies of the Jewish state. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Speaker McCarthy Got Fired, but Will the Debt Spiral Slow?
October 06, 2023 17:16 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MBWell, the shift in the calendar has so far failed to produce any shift in the trend for precious metals markets. Gold and silver are extending their recent price declines here in the first few trading days of October and of the fourth quarter. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Looming Federal Government Funding Deadline Grabs Headlines
September 29, 2023 18:02 - 5 minutes - 8.18 MBPrecious metals markets got hammered earlier this week as interest rates continued their relentless march higher. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Biden Administration Expands War on Critical Natural Resources
September 22, 2023 19:26 - 6 minutes - 9.58 MBFears of inflation remaining stubbornly high, and interest rates going higher, rattled financial markets this week. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Leveraged Assets Beginning to Buckle under High Rates
September 15, 2023 17:55 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBPrecious metals markets are trading quietly this week even as inflation data comes in hotter than expected. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Something Isn't Adding Up as U.S. Debt Soars to $2 Trillion in 2023
September 08, 2023 16:21 - 7 minutes - 8.14 MBPrecious metals markets are retreating this week as official U.S. employment data comes in surprisingly strong. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
More Americans Are Realizing the Fed’s Role in Causing Higher Prices
September 01, 2023 16:27 - 6 minutes - 9.21 MBPrecious metals markets enter trading for the month of September with bulls hoping positive seasonal forces kick in. Gold and silver markets have traded mostly lower since late spring. They did rally, though, during the second half of August. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Monetary Elite from Multiple Camps Plot Currency Strategies
August 25, 2023 17:01 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBPrecious metals markets are rebounding this week as central bankers from around the world gather at Jackson Hole. Investors nervously awaited remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. Fears of a hawkish tone to this year's conference helped drag down the stock market on Thursday. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Talking Heads Predict No Recession While Shrinkflation Clips Consumers
August 18, 2023 17:10 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MBPrecious metals markets are extending their losing streak as the U.S. dollar pushes higher. The Dollar Index rose for a fifth straight week through Thursday's close. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
U.S. Mint Bureaucrats Undermine the Once-Great American Eagle Brand
August 11, 2023 18:37 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MBThe upshot of soft market conditions for gold and silver is favorable buying opportunities for bargain hunters. Not only are spot prices down, but so are premiums on popular bullion products available through Money Metals. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Secretary Yellen Whines about Fitch’s Downgrade of U.S. Credit Rating
August 04, 2023 17:41 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBCredit ratings agency Fitch this week issued a surprise downgrade of the U.S. government’s once vaunted AAA credit rating. Recent political brinksmanship surrounding the debt ceiling helped prompt the move. But broader concerns about the size and sustainability of the national debt itself also figured into the downgrade. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Fed Expects No Recession as Inflation Negates Actual Economic Growth
July 28, 2023 17:41 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MBRate hike concerns are weighing on precious metals markets this week. The Federal Reserve lifted its benchmark funds rate by a quarter point as expected on Wednesday. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Interest Rate Markets Flash Warning Signs
July 21, 2023 18:39 - 17 minutes - 24.4 MBAs the U.S. dollar continues to lose purchasing power at home and prestige around the world, a major presidential candidate is calling for a return to sound money. Also, let's review this week's market action in precious metals. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Inflation Data Has Given Federal Reserve Excuse to End Rate Hikes
July 14, 2023 16:45 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MBA potentially pivotal week of trading is seeing precious metals markets push higher. The main catalyst is a breakdown in the U.S. Dollar Index. On Thursday, the dollar slid to its lowest level in more than a year versus a basket of foreign currencies. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
New Warnings on Silver, Platinum, and Palladium Mine Supply
July 07, 2023 16:53 - 7 minutes - 10.7 MBAs President Joe Biden touts “Bidenomics,” ordinary Americans continue to feel the pinch of “Bidenflation.” Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve’s ongoing efforts to fight inflation have Investors fearing more rate hikes to come. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Certain Residential & Commercial Real Estate on the Brink
June 30, 2023 18:19 - 6 minutes - 9.41 MBPrecious metals markets continue to probe for support levels as the summer doldrums set in. Gold futures tested the $1,900 level on Thursday before getting a bit of a bounce. As of this Friday recording, the monetary metal checks in at $1,928 per ounce, up slightly for the week. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Congress Criticizes Fed; Chairman Powell Worrying about Gold Currencies
June 23, 2023 17:25 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MBWelcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason. Hawkish posturing from Jerome Powell is putting downward pressure on precious metals markets. The Federal Reserve chairman testified before Congress this week on the subject of U.S. monetary policy. Powell said persistently high inflation remains a top concern. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Fed Pauses Interest Rate Hikes, but Claims More May Come
June 16, 2023 17:22 - 7 minutes - 10.6 MBAs the Federal Reserve begins to back off on tightening, the U.S. dollar is becoming increasingly vulnerable to selling. The Fed left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at just above 5% at this week's policy meeting. It was the first time in over a year that central bankers decided not to hike. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Feds Sharpen Attacks on Crypto Market as CBDC Backlash Grows
June 09, 2023 17:38 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBPrecious metals markets are getting a bit of a lift this week as investors anticipate a pause in the Federal Reserve’s rate-hiking campaign. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Asset Managers, Industry Aggressively Snap Up Silver
June 02, 2023 19:50 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MBWell, after months of political melodrama, Congress finally did what it was always does in the end - and that is to authorize more deficit spending. On Thursday night, the U.S. Senate approved the deal hashed out by Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy to raise the debt ceiling through 2024. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Looming Debt Ceiling Deal to Leave Dollar Locked in Downtrend
May 26, 2023 17:56 - 7 minutes - 9.89 MBAs the debt ceiling fight in Washington heads down to the wire with the risk of a technical default looming, investors are growing nervous. Some are fleeing to physical precious metals as a safe haven from risky financial assets. But on the futures exchanges that determine spot prices, a wave of selling took place this week. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
More States Opposing Biden’s “Digital Dollar” Plan to Regulate All Spending
May 19, 2023 17:02 - 6 minutes - 9.36 MBAfter knocking on the door of new record highs over the past few weeks, the gold market is pulling back. Bulls had faced a lot of overhead resistance in futures trading. It finally proved to be too much to overcome -- at least for the near term. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Dave Ramsey Goes Off: “The Golden Rock Has No Magical Qualities…”
May 12, 2023 18:21 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBWell, it looks like gold bulls will have to wait at least another week for any sort of upside breakout to occur. Gold continues to contend with resistance selling whenever it approaches its former all-time high near $2,080. That was the case again this week. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Epic Fail as Fed Chairman Powell Claims Banks "Safe & Sound"
May 05, 2023 18:13 - 7 minutes - 11 MBAs more cracks in the foundation of the banking system appear, gold prices have once again been knocking on the door of new records, although we’re seeing a pullback here on Friday. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Markets Eye Looming New Bank Failures, Debt Ceiling Showdown
April 28, 2023 18:50 - 6 minutes - 8.49 MBWell, investors seem to be brushing aside headline risks in the banking system, the government’s finances, and the economy. The stock market surged on Thursday despite entering the week on shaky footing amid fears of another major bank failure. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Money Metals Helps Secure Sound Money Wins in Arkansas and Mississippi
April 21, 2023 16:56 - 8 minutes - 11.3 MBAs gold bulls defend the key $2,000 level, sound money proponents are scoring big wins in state legislatures. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Bank Depositor Exodus Bolsters Physical Gold & Silver Demand
April 14, 2023 17:40 - 6 minutes - 9.36 MBExcitement is building among precious metals investors as gold prices continue to push up toward record highs. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Wall Street, Dollar Apologists Busted for Ever-Shifting Anti-Gold Arguments
April 07, 2023 17:05 - 7 minutes - 10.7 MBAs the gold market marches toward new records, it is proving the naysayers wrong and vindicating longtime bulls. Gold posted a record high close on a quarterly basis at the end of March. Now the monetary metal has its sights set on setting a new all-time high here in the coming days. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
New Worries America on Verge of Losing Petrodollar Privilege
March 31, 2023 17:26 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBAs gold prices continue to hold firm near the $2,000 level, bulls are eying big developments ahead for the monetary metal along with the global monetary system. Gold’s potential ascendancy to new record highs is coinciding with a decline in the global status of the U.S. dollar as world’s reserve currency. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Exodus from Small Banks Prompts Plea for Full Guarantees
March 24, 2023 16:22 - 6 minutes - 10.6 MBAs interest rates show signs of peaking, the gold prices are nearing new all-time highs. The gold market hit the $2,000 level this week and showed resilience following the Federal Reserve’s quarter point rate hike announcement. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Could Bank Runs Lead to a Run on Gold & Silver?
March 17, 2023 18:24 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBFears of bank runs precipitating a broader financial crisis helped spark a surge in bullion buying this week. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank represents the second largest bank failure in history. While Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted this week that the banking system is sound, many banks clearly are not in sound financial shape. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Gold, Silver, and Rates Gyrate on Bank Runs Occur at Small Banks
March 10, 2023 18:28 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBAs the Fed signals further rate hikes ahead, precious metals markets are probing for support levels. Metals markets struggled after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell delivered testimony to Congress. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Foreign Nations and U.S. States Worry about Rising Dollar Dangers
March 03, 2023 18:24 - 8 minutes - 11.3 MBPrecious metals markets are attempting to stage a rally this week off oversold conditions even as investors remain skittish over rate hikes. Multiple Federal Reserve officials came out and suggested they favor additional interest rate hikes while inflation readings continue to come in hot. Some analysts are calling for a return to 50 basis point hikes. But markets continue to anticipate a pause by the summer. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? ...
Fed President Worries the Fed Risks a Repeat of the 1970s!
February 24, 2023 18:42 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBGold and silver markets drifted lower again this week as investors braced for additional Fed rate hikes to come. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve released the minutes from its latest policy meeting. Policymakers agreed on the need for additional increases in interest rates. They settled on just a 0.25% bump up at their last meeting. But some dissenters called for a larger 0.5% hike. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https:/...
Government Inflation Reading Still Comes in Hot, Tech Layoffs Continue
February 17, 2023 18:18 - 6 minutes - 9.39 MBAs investors digest the latest readings on inflation, employment, and consumer spending, precious metals markets are wavering on fears of further rate hikes. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
50% of Americans Say “Worse Off” Since Last Year
February 10, 2023 17:58 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MBAs official narratives about a strong economy convince some traders to turn bullish on the U.S. dollar, gold and silver markets are struggling to find solid near-term support levels. Gold prices traded essentially flat for the week through Thursday’s close. As of this Friday recording, the monetary metal checks in at $1,865 and is down 0.4% now for the week. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-l...
Federal Reserve Postures in Attempt to Create Perception of Control
February 03, 2023 20:05 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MBAs the Federal Reserve winds down its rate hiking campaign, precious metals bulls are anticipating a favorable environment for gains ahead. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Biden Officials Float $1 Trillion Platinum Coin Scheme to Monetize Debt
January 20, 2023 17:55 - 10 minutes - 10.4 MBAs global elites gathered in Davos this week to discuss their plans for controlling the world economy, the gold market is delivering an alternative message. Among the issues being discussed at this year's World Economic Forum is that of central bank digital currency. A presentation at the meeting based on research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called for central bank digital currency to serve the goal of "redesigning access to money." | Do you own precious metals you would r...
More Citizens and States Look to Depositories, Not Banks
January 13, 2023 18:24 - 8 minutes - 11.2 MBDespite seeing some relief in fuel costs last month, consumers continued to face rising food prices. Price inflation may be moderating overall, but the inflation problem is far from solved. The underlying cause is the depreciation of the currency. The more dollars the government borrows into existence and the more dollars the Fed creates out of thin air to buy government bonds, the less those dollars are worth. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash...
Stagflation to Terrorize the Economy in 2023
January 06, 2023 18:23 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBGold and silver markets got off to a strong start in the first couple days of trading this year before running into some selling pressure on Thursday – only to bounce back again on Friday morning. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Gold, Silver, & Platinum Had a Good Year
December 30, 2022 18:29 - 7 minutes - 9.65 MBPrecious metals markets are finishing out a choppy 2022 on an up note. A strong fourth quarter is pushing both gold and silver prices back up into positive territory for the year. Gold is up 1.1% this week to trade at $1,828 an ounce. That is now just a couple of dollars higher than where it started the year. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Geopolitical Tensions Drive Central Banks to Bolster Gold Holdings
December 23, 2022 18:43 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MBInvestors got some superficially good news on the economy this week. But it turned out to be bad news for markets. Equities and precious metals markets sold off on Thursday following government data showing that the economy grew faster than expected in the third quarter. GDP was revised upward to a 3.2% annual pace from July through September. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Investors Brace for the Fed’s Hard Landing
December 16, 2022 18:12 - 6 minutes - 8.33 MBAs investors hope for a Santa Claus rally in the days ahead, the Grinch is looking to steal their holiday cheer. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell announced another interest rate hike on Wednesday – this time by half a percentage point. Although the bump up in rates was smaller than previous hikes this year, it wasn’t exactly the pivot stock market bulls had wanted. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetal...
Economic Turmoil Resulting in New Sound Money Allies, Initiatives
December 09, 2022 18:32 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MBWell, it was a week of generally positive action in precious metals prices, as gold and silver continue to consolidate their impressive late November gains. As of this Friday recording, the whole precious metals complex is up. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
U.S. Dollar Index Has Called the Fed’s Bluff on Interest Rates
December 02, 2022 18:06 - 6 minutes - 9.36 MBPrecious metals markets are rallying strongly this week on dovish signals from central bankers. Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell said in a statement that the Fed would "moderate" the pace of rate hikes. Investors interpreted that term as a sign that monetary policy is moving in a more dovish direction. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan
Investors Aren’t Buying the Fed’s Hawkish Posturing
November 18, 2022 18:16 - 7 minutes - 10.7 MBAs warning signs for the economy mount, investors are cheering for more bad news. That's because they expect economic weakness will force the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates and eventually re-embrace loose monetary policy. One reliable indicator over the years of an upcoming recession is an inverted yield curve. An inversion occurs when short-term interest rates rise above long-term rates. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Sta...
Collapse of FTX Exchange Poses Warning of Much Broader Risks
November 11, 2022 18:11 - 7 minutes - 9.71 MBInvestors finally got some good news this week on the inflation front. Thursday's Consumer Price Index report showing price level increases moderating somewhat sent stocks, bonds, and precious metals all soaring. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan