Welcome to a very brief overview of the recent performance in the markets. The essentials are captured in the table below and each week we will show a chart of interest. Gold slipped just below the lower boundary of its 2020 uptrend last Thursday and has yet to regain the band. Essentially the price has […]
Weekly markets round-up for Coininvest
This week we are doing something slightly different for our final note before the Christmas break, taking a look at gold in a negative interest rate environment. We wish all our readers a very happy Festive season and a happy peaceful and profitable New Year. The tone of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference last […]
Weekly markets round-up for Coininvest
Welcome to a very brief overview of the recent performance in the markets. The essentials are captured in the table below and each week we will show a chart of interest. When we last wrote two weeks ago, silver had mounted an ebullient challenge on the $19 level and we noted how volatile this particular […]
The story of the central bank
A central bank is the term given to the authority responsible for policies that affect a country’s supply of money and credit. The story of the central bank goes back to the seventeenth century during these early years the central banks helped fund the government’s debt and primary focus was to stabilize and control the […]
The D word haunts everyone — FIU
Deflation is the scariest word! The FOMC statement last night managed somehow to avoid saying what surely should be what is on every member of the FOMCs’ lips- DEFLATION. The recent Federal Reserve Bank regional surveys have shown that inflation is falling and quickly, and the recent Business surveys from ISM in the US have […]