Kitco NEWS

The bond market just delivered a sharp rejection to the Federal Reserve’s latest rate decision, pushing 30-year Treasury yields to 19-year highs as inflation fears persist. Meanwhile, three top macro strategists—Gareth Soloway, Willem Middelkoop, and Mike McGlone—issue three completely conflicting calls on where gold, bonds, and energy go from here.

In this episode of "This Week in Focus," Senior Anchor Jeremy Szafron breaks down the breakdown in traditional market correlations. From the World Gold Council's latest Q2 demand report showing central bank buying surging 62% year-over-year to Big Tech's massive earnings divergence and breaking developments in cur...

Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, tells Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron the Fed's next move is a series of 50 basis point cuts rather than hikes, and that it ends in a recession. He also says gold and silver have become sock puppets to the US stock market.

The US struck Iran again overnight and crude fell anyway. According to McGlone, that is not a contradiction, it is the story, because pricing power in oil has shifted away from OPEC and toward the Western hemisphere. He expects crude to gravitate toward $70, says gold at $4,100 is...

The stock market whiplashed after a hawkish 9-3 Federal Reserve hold, but the real story is the massive unwinding in the semiconductor sector. Recorded midday Pacific, July 29, during the post-Fed reversal. Markets sold off into the close, with the Nasdaq 100 ending in correction territory. South Korea's KOSPI has crashed 33% this month, and memory chip giants like SanDisk are down 57% in just 30 days. Is the AI CapEx bubble bursting?

In this episode, Gareth Soloway, Chief Market Strategist at Verified Investing, breaks down exactly why the tech unwind is spreading and shares the exact trendline where he is contrarian-buying...

Willem Middelkoop says the monetary reset isn't coming. It's already underway, quietly, in the accounting. He also argues China is now the dominant force in the gold market, buying on every dip while the West still trades paper.

Kitco's Jeremy Szafron sits down with Willem Middelkoop, author of "The Big Reset" and founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund, for a wide-ranging hour on why both Washington and Beijing may want a cheaper gold price, the state gold buyers that don't show up in official numbers, gold overtaking US Treasuries as the world's top reserve asset, the move...

Gold spent the week whipsawing around $4,000, and four very different experts gave Kitco four very different reads on why, and what happens next. They don't agree on the path. They do agree it's about something bigger than gold.

In this week's This Week in Focus, Kitco's Jeremy Szafron pulls the threads together: technical analyst Gary Wagner on the two levels that now define the range and why he walked back his $6,000 call; veteran trader Clem Chambers on why he thinks the bottom isn't in and why "gold is for war"; former BlackRock portfolio manager Ed Dowd on...

The U.S. national debt has reached nearly $40 trillion, and the interest alone now rivals the entire military budget. Constitutional scholar William Watkins argues the dollar today is backed by little more than the coercive power of the government, and that the drift from the founders' hard-money design is why the debt keeps compounding.

Kitco's Jeremy Szafron talks with William J. Watkins, Jr. of the Independent Institute about how the spending guardrails came off (from the founders' "few and defined" powers to the New Deal-era Butler decision), why he calls the 1933 gold call-in unconstitutional, how Civil War...

Edward Dowd, Founding Partner of Phinance Technologies, joins Kitco News Senior Anchor Jeremy Szafron to break down why the real estate market is completely frozen and why private credit funds are beginning to gate withdrawals. Dowd outlines the exact macro sequence that he believes will drive gold prices to $10,000 by 2030.

Dowd details that the U.S. housing market is currently experiencing a "buyer strike," with 75% of real estate agents failing to make a sale in the past year. He argues that home prices are roughly 30% overvalued and will need to reset lower. Turning to the stock market...

Gold has fallen below $4,000 and silver is down more than half from its January high. Clem Chambers, who warned Kitco viewers in May the decline had another leg down, now calls the bottom, roughly $3,500 gold and $50 silver, and the level that finally puts him back in as a buyer.

Kitco's Jeremy Szafron talks with Clem Chambers about why he thinks this was a bubble unwind, the real reason gold fell (the collapse of the China-Taiwan war premium, not just the Fed), the silver liquidity trap that left sellers 70% below the screen price, what Moonshot's AI shock means...

Gold dropped below $4,000 for the first time in months. Kitco technical analyst Gary Wagner breaks down where gold's new support levels sit, why this has become a Federal Reserve and interest-rate story more than a geopolitical one, and the two lines that decide gold's next move.
 
Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron speaks with Gary Wagner of The Gold Forecast about gold's break below $4,000, his revised downside support near $3,900, the $4,200 level that would flip the chart back to the bulls, why silver is falling faster than gold, whether a rate hike is now more likely than a rate c...

The story this week wasn't a price target. It was discipline. Gold ran to the moon, then corrected hard, and split the room down the middle. From the Rule Symposium in Boca Raton, Jeremy Szafron sits down with six of the biggest voices in metals and macro: Rick Rule, Adrian Day, Keith Neumeyer, Lynette Zang, Bob Quartermain, and Dr. Nomi Prins.

Greed, fear, a $3,600 warning, silver, copper, and the Fed. Tested, not just repeated. Not investment advice, you decide.

Recorded July 9, 2026.

Disclaimer:  
The videos are not intended to provide trading advice, and t...

Gold's brutal 40% miner selloff was a "classic washout," not a breakdown, says Brien Lundin, and what comes next could leave Wall Street watching from the sidelines.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026, the Gold Newsletter editor and New Orleans Investment Conference host said the June 24 plunge to $4,000 "really felt like capitulation," and that level has held as a floor since. He likens today's sentiment to 1999 and 2000, the bottom that launched the entire 2000s bull. And he argues the market has changed hands: no longer driven purely by central banks, "the Western market is making the...

Everyone says the West dumped gold this quarter. The World Gold Council's data says that's wrong, the selling was narrow, American, and almost entirely paper.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026 in Boca Raton, WGC senior market strategist Joseph Cavatoni said North American investors fled gold ETFs on rate fears while Asia bought "at a record pace." Gold's worst quarter in 13 years, he argued, was the work of short-term traders, not a broken thesis, as a safe haven, gold "cuts both ways," sold for cash and margin calls after a 160% run to January's record.
<...

Lobo Tiggre is holding the biggest cash position of his life, roughly 80%, and even after gold's correction, he still isn't buying.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026, the Independent Speculator publisher said his system triggered a broad sell into the rebound after gold's peak, not at the top, and not in January as is often assumed. That left him "locked and loaded" for the next cyclical low, and unmoved by gold near $4,000. "Less high is not low," he said, noting the miners were built on sub-$2,000 gold and are "printing cash" today.

His...

Gold-stock sentiment just hit a level Adrian Day has never seen in 50 years of managing money, one day two weeks ago, not a single investor surveyed was bullish.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026 in Boca Raton, the Adrian Day Asset Management chairman said miner bullishness has collapsed to around 7%, against a typical 60/40 split. He calls it "the worst sentiment I have ever seen in my 50 years managing money in any sector at any time," and argues it has left the big producers historically cheap, a Scotiabank study places them in their lowest valuation quartile...

The spot gold price everyone watches all day may tell you almost nothing about whether you can actually get an ounce in your hands. That gap, Lynette Zang argues, is the real story.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026, Zang said the paper-physical split is now visible worldwide, from premiums paid in the East to Hong Kong and Singapore building their own gold clearing systems. She traces it to the 1970s spot market, which she says trained the public to treat gold as a trade rather than money. Her message: "you need to think about...

Rick Rule sold most of his physical silver this year and moved the money into silver mining stocks, a lesson in how a 50-year veteran actually positions.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026 in Boca Raton, Rule said he sold roughly 80% of his physical silver after its parabolic run and rotated into the miners. "You need to sell parabolic up charts because they resolve to the downside," he said. The stocks were "priced discounting $35 silver in a $75 market," offering better upside, sideways, and downside than the metal itself.

Gold is a different bucket...

Keith Neumeyer says silver's run to $121 this year pushed the physical market to the brink, and that the metal has now found its floor.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026, the First Majestic Silver CEO, who called $100 silver back in 2012 when it traded in the teens, said the spike exposed how thin the real market is. "The whole system was really on the verge of breaking," he said, pointing to surging lease rates, margin calls, and refiners that stopped buying.

After a roughly 50% correction to around $60, Neumeyer said, "I think we've seen the...

Aris Mining pulls gold out of the ground for about $1,500 an ounce and sold it last quarter for about $4,445. So while the Rule Symposium 2026 debates royalties and streaming deals, Oliver Dachsel gives a one-word answer to whether Aris needs outside capital: no.

The SVP Capital Markets at Aris Mining joins Kitco News from the symposium, on the day the company reported first-half production up 31% and revenue topping $680 million.

Dachsel calls the sector "a little bit like a coiled spring," arguing the drivers of the debasement trade "if anything, have intensified." He walks through the path...

Bob Quartermain says the world's great gold deposits are getting harder to find, and the price will have to rise to make up for it.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026, the Dakota Gold CEO and newly named Order of Canada member said the remaining deposits are deeper, lower-grade, and far costlier to find. "Those elephants at depth are rare, and they cost hundreds of millions of dollars to find," he said. "We're just gonna have to see a higher gold price to achieve the amount of production that we're currently seeing now."

...

Dr. Nomi Prins says the forces driving capital into hard assets are accelerating, and the Fed has become the only backstop for U.S. debt.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026, the Prinsights Global founder and Permanent Distortion author reaffirmed her call for $6,000 gold by year-end. "Does the United States have a debt crisis? The United States has a Fed," she said.

Prins also pushed back on the market's read of the new Fed chair: "I think ultimately the Fed will have to reduce rates in order for us to service our debt...

Gold just had its worst quarter in over a decade, and the man who moves real physical metal across the counter says buyers did the exact opposite of what makes sense. When the metal went on sale, they walked away.

Rich Checkan, President and COO of Asset Strategies International, has spent 30 years on the order counter, the buying, the selling, the panic that never shows up on a price chart. He joins Kitco News from the Rick Rule Symposium 2026 for a ground-level read on what retail actually did through the sell-off.

Checkan argues that "gold...

Gold just had its worst quarter since 2013 while stocks had their best since 2020, so where does a $3.5 billion money manager invest now? Jeff Sarti of Morton Wealth on what to do after the gold pullback, the new Fed chair, and the AI trade.

Jeff Sarti, chief executive of Morton Wealth, joins Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron for his first appearance on the channel. He explains why he's underweight stocks near "1999 dot-com" levels, why he calls passive investing a "mindless, price-agnostic" force driving the market, why the gold community shouldn't write off new Fed chair Kevin Warsh, why "...

Gold just closed its worst quarter in more than 13 years, then roared back above $4,100 as the new Fed chair signaled he may ease off. Is the gold selloff over, and is gold a buy now?
This week in focus: what actually turned gold around, why the world's central banks never stopped buying, and what happens next, with Rick Rule, Jeff Sarti, and Chris Vermeulen. Plus, Kitco goes live from Rick Rule's Natural Resource Investing Symposium in Boca Raton on Monday.

Anchor Jeremy Szafron breaks down the week: gold's worst quarter in 13 years and the sharp reversal...

Technical trader Chris Vermeulen sold gold above $5,000 and silver near $111, and right now he's sitting in cash, waiting for one specific price to buy gold back. With gold breaking below $4,000 for the first time since November, he tells Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron exactly where he thinks this selloff ends, and where the next big move begins.

Vermeulen, chief market strategist at The Technical Traders, breaks down the chart of gold and the level he's watching ($3,600), why he thinks the long-term target is still $8,000 to $8,600, why the violent swings aren't algorithms or manipulation but plain emotion, his...

Gold slipped below $4,000 this week for the first time since November, the AI trade came roaring back, and a major bank pulled its gold target. So what happens next? In the debut of This Week In Focus, Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron breaks down the week with four of the sharpest voices in markets, an economist, a former Fed insider, a financier, and a fund manager, and what they make of the selloff.

You will hear former Fed insider Danielle Di Martino Booth on the new Warsh Fed and the private-credit risk she says is already building...

Rick Rule says gold's drop below $4,000 rhymes with 1975, when the metal crashed 50% and then rose 8x, and the investors who panic-sold at the bottom missed the entire move. So is this gold selloff the buying opportunity of the decade, or a warning that more pain is coming?

Legendary resource investor Rick Rule, founder of Rule Investment Media, joins Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron to break down the gold selloff after the price cracked $4,000 for the first time since November and Bank of America pulled its $6,000 gold target. Rule explains why he's pessimistic on gold in the very...

Cory Klippsten says Bitcoin's Wall Street era ran straight into a gold-sized reality check: the ETFs and institutions arrived, and it still trades like a high-beta tech stock, down about 30% year to date and roughly 52% off its high, while gold held up far better. So did Wall Street adoption change Bitcoin, or did it just attach it to the same risk cycle?

Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten joins Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron for a straight conversation in front of a gold audience: why a man from a gold family still owns Bitcoin, why he says crypto's...

David Rosenberg says the gold selloff is not the end of the bull market, it is another buying opportunity, and the central banks driving it are only about halfway through their shift out of the dollar and into gold. So is the gold bull market over, or just getting started?

David Rosenberg, president of Rosenberg Research and the economist who called the 2008 housing crash, joins Kitco News senior anchor Jeremy Szafron to explain why this is the 12th correction in gold since 1999 and not the end of the bull, why China kept buying the dip while Western...

Legendary precious metals investor Lawrence Lepard says this gold selloff is a pause, not the peak. With gold off its highs and the mainstream calling the run finished, he explains why he is still buying and why he believes the real move is still ahead. Is the gold bull market over, or is this the dip before the next leg higher?

Gold ran to a record 5,589 dollars and silver cleared 121 dollars before both pulled back hard, and this week new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivered a hawkish hold that surprised the market. Larry Lepard, founder of Equity...

Kevin Warsh just concluded his first meeting as Fed Chair, and while the vote was unanimous, the underlying data points to severe economic stress. Bankruptcies are up 38.4% year-over-year, margin debt has hit a record $1.42 trillion, and the Fed is officially forecasting that inflation will stay stuck at current levels.

Kitco News Senior Anchor Jeremy Szafron sits down with Fed insider and QI Research CEO Danielle DiMartino Booth to break down why the Fed's refusal to signal rate cuts is accelerating a debt crisis. DiMartino Booth exposes the real labor market numbers, warns of a looming private credit...

Mining financier Frank Giustra says the gold selloff is being completely misread. The smart money, the central banks, never sold. It was the speculators and the loose hands bleeding out, while the structural buyers that drove this bull market never flinched. So is the gold bull market over, or is this the pause before the next leg?

Frank Giustra, founder and CEO of the Fiore Group, joins Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron for a wide ranging conversation on gold, the dollar, copper, and the slow rebuilding of the global monetary system. Giustra has founded and financed gold...

Former Wall Street FX Chief David Woo breaks down the real financial impact of the US-Iran deal, why the AI bubble is the market's biggest threat, and how it all sets up the next major rotation into gold.

Jeremy Szafron, Senior Anchor at Kitco News, sits down with David Woo to cut through the mainstream relief rally. Woo explains why the recent Middle East peace deal is a strategic blow to dollar dominance, how government regulation and Chinese commoditization (DeepSeek) are creating cracks in the "House of AI," and why incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will be...

Gold futures tested the key $4,000 psychological level this week under intense selling pressure before catching a late Friday bid. Gary Wagner joins Jeremy Szafron, Senior Anchor of Kitco News, to break down the technical damage and explain why he sees a "60% to 70% probability" that gold has established a firm technical floor.

Wagner outlines the critical resistance levels gold must break to save its broader bullish trend, noting that a return to record highs will be a "hard climb back up." The analysis also covers silver's resilience as it reclaims its 200-day moving average, outperforming gold during the...

Tech, gold, and silver are plummeting together today in what 40-year veteran floor trader Todd 'Bubba' Horwitz calls a "100% margin call." In this interview with Kitco News, Bubba breaks down why the simultaneous liquidation across safe havens and risk assets is a warning sign of a system-wide flush. He explains why the massive $2.3B insider liquidation at AI giant CoreWeave is a distraction from the real structural rot in the economy, warning that true unemployment is already sitting at 8.5%. While Bubba forecasts an eventual 40% to 60% market crash, he explains his exact options strategy for staying long the market, the...

Gold prices are facing a major live test as the market digests hot jobs data, rising yields, and a sudden U-turn in Federal Reserve rate hike expectations. But is this current selloff a sign that the gold bull market is over, or simply a "base camp" pause before the next leg higher?

Jeremy Szafron, Senior Anchor at Kitco News, sits down with Ronald-Peter Stöferle, Managing Partner at Incrementum AG and co-author of the 20th anniversary In Gold We Trust report. Stöferle breaks down why Western investors are panic-selling, how the $140 trillion bond market is rotating in...

Is the recent 7% drop in silver a warning sign, or the final shakeout before a massive repricing? Kitco News Senior Anchor Jeremy Szafron sits down with Michael Oliver, founder of Momentum Structural Analysis, to break down why his $300 to $500 silver target remains intact despite hot U.S. jobs data and a shift in Fed rate expectations. Oliver unpacks his long-term momentum charts, detailing how silver was "caught in a box" for 50 years and why it is now poised to enter a new price reality. He also warns of a brewing government bond crisis, a potential landmine for the S...

Gold is holding support near $4,500 an ounce following a 30-day pullback, but Dr. Marc Faber says investors focusing on day-to-day volatility are missing the larger structural shift. In this interview with Kitco News Senior Anchor Jeremy Szafron, the publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report explains his 50-year strategy for holding physical gold, why he hopes prices fall further to accumulate more, and his warnings about the tightening liquidity squeeze in private credit and broader markets.

Faber also breaks down central bank gold accumulation, his assessment of the AI technology capital spending boom, and why storing precious...

Retired US Navy Commander Phil Ehr joins Kitco News to break down why the global copper market is rapidly transitioning from a basic industrial story into a critical national security risk.

Commander Ehr details how maritime chokepoints, specifically the Strait of Hormuz, are threatening the sulfuric acid supply chains required for copper refining. He unpacks the looming 2027 Pentagon procurement deadlines restricting materials from adversarial nations and warns that the defense sector will likely take priority over the consumer grid and AI data centers as critical mineral supplies tighten.

"Copper is the glue that holds it...

Is the "Build Phase" of the AI revolution creating a structural inflation shock the market is ignoring? Tavi Costa, Founder and CEO of Azuria Capital, joins Senior Anchor Jeremy Szafron to map out the collision between massive global debt, shrinking physical metal supplies, and the scramble for strategic resources.

They break down why the math behind central bank reserves is shifting, with gold surpassing U.S. Treasuries as a primary reserve asset. Tavi argues this isn't just a political statement, but a calculated response to a Treasury market increasingly behaving like an emerging market. The discussion moves...

The S&P 500 just hit all-time highs while inflation runs at 3.8% and real incomes fall for the third consecutive month. At the same time, gold has pulled back 12% despite ongoing geopolitical turmoil, and global bond yields are hitting multi-decade highs. Kitco News Senior Anchor Jeremy Szafron sits down with Peter Boockvar, CIO of OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners and author of The Boock Report, to decode the market's most glaring contradictions.

Boockvar breaks down the reality of this morning's PCE inflation print and explains why the long end of the bond market has officially seized control of monetary...