Showing posts with label strong dollar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strong dollar. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

When the going gets tough, the weak have to sell their gold, or hinder its purchase

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  As gold’s tumble continues, traders bet the pain may last for two more years ... “Turkey’s central bank is selling gold and buying dollars...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Everything sold off today

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Stocks were down across the board, with the NASD 100 notably down 4.77%. The equal weight S&P 500 is down 0.52% month to date. The Tech ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Attention all you weak dollar lunatics

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 Nominal broad dollar index average values Obama II, first year // 1Q second year // April 2014: 92.75 / 94.51 / 93.99 Trump II, first year ...

The total value of all foreign-owned U.S. Treasury securities is up 3.25% year over year in March 2026, and CNBC says Japan and China retreat from owning them

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The big retreat was actually in the BRICS.  The value of Japanese-owned UST is up 5.4% year over year in March, lol. Meanwhile the value of ...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Silver is still up 6.14% year to date, gold 5.09% even as energy prices march higher

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 But SPX is up 8.02% ytd. WTI is up 84.01% ytd. VGENX is up 20.88% ytd.   Investment grade corporate securities:   VWESX is down 1.54% ytd. ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Why the world has the petrodollar, not a petroyuan

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Don’t call time on dollar dominance just yet, say analysts as ‘petroyuan’ call sparks debate   ... “Oil is not priced in US dollars simply b...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Some foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities are selling them to buy oil, which is denominated in DOLLARS, not in yuan

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 Thank you for your attention to this matter. DXY:  99.893   Foreign central banks sell US Treasuries in wake of Iran war  
Friday, February 27, 2026

CNBC doesn't mention that the dollar rallied in the last month along with bonds and gold

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 Gold heads for seventh straight monthly gain on safe-haven demand ... The metal has climbed 6.5% so ⁠far in February, bringing gains for th...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

The New York Times on the global economy had me and then it lost me

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Because it, like too many commentators, uses an obsolete dollar index in DXY, which measures dollar strength or weakness relative to just SI...

Yes, the dollar weakened in January 2026, but within a big picture environment of a strong dollar not a weak dollar

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The nominal broad U.S. Dollar Index last averaged below 120 in December 2023. Gold and silver climbed to all time highs in January 2026, def...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Gold bug Peter Schiff's problem is that gold represented at best only about 18% of the value of total global international reserves, and that was yesterday before gold started this price plunge

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"The dollar is going to collapse", he said. "The dollar is going to be replaced by gold", he said. Central banks "a...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

The dollar is crashing is the stuff of hysteria

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Chart showing US dollar crashing...   They do not remember 2008. And they use an index, .dxy, which many now consider obsolete.  The dollar ...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Yet more gold and silver record highs this week in the strongest dollar environment in years: Gold to $4,887.82 per ​ounce on Wednesday, silver to $95.87 on Tuesday

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 -- CNBC But the media and the so-called experts prattle on about dollar weakness.  
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

The dollar remained strong in Dec 2025 at the same time that the metals have been surging

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Monday, December 22, 2025

Stories like this about China destroying the U.S. Dollar just make me want to howl

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But hey, what do you expect from MarketWatch? China quietly destroying the dollar... ... As more commodities get priced in yuan instead of d...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Year to date spot gold is up ~54%

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By comparison, Total Stock Market Index VTSAX is up 14.83% ytd through yesterday. Total Bond Market Index VBTLX is up 6.4%. ... The [gold] r...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Oh yes, the poor, poor dollar, that old thing

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Dollar heads for worst week since July; yen underpinned by BOJ
Friday, September 19, 2025

I keep hearing that gold is soaring because of continued dollar weakness lol

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On the contrary, gold has risen despite continued dollar strength. The enormous gains for gold in 2024 and 2025 are not explained by a round...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

If only Trump understood anything about the dollar, he wouldn't waste his time embarrassing himself like this

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

On lowering the Federal Funds Rate when the economy is just fine

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