Gold and especially gold mining stocks rebounded on Wednesday and trended higher into the weekend. This is giving some investors renewed hopes that the bull market that began roughly 18 months ago is about to reassert itself. We cannot know for sure yet but what we can say is precious metals are nearing a […]

On June 21 China announced that the Budapest Stock Exchange is expected to begin pricing gold using the futures price determined at the Shanghai Gold Exchange, and will make Hungary the first market outside of China to use a pricing mechanism for the precious metal that is not of either London or the Comex. This […]

The expiration of the June contracts and the roll into September positions appears to have boosted activity in the currency futures, and may obscure the signaling effect.  Of the 16 gross positions we track, speculators add to exposure in all but four positions.  There speculators covered gross short Swiss franc, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand […]