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Your Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – August 24, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates As we suggested last week, metals markets continued to consolidate after a big run up. Further consolidation or pullbacks are likely but long term, we expect precious metals to remain in a bull market. In the September issue of our client newsletter, the “You May Not Know Report”,…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – August 17, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates As we suggested might happen on our “Portfolio Watch” live webinar last week, both gold and silver pulled back after big, parabolic moves up. It would not be unusual to see the pullback continue for a bit or to see these markets consolidate. From a fundamental perspective, we…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – August 10, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Silver continued its monster breakout last week, rising 15.54%. All markets were higher with the exception of US Treasuries and the US Dollar Index which were mostly unchanged. When discussing the performance of markets, it’s important to remember that market performance is measured in US Dollars. As US…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – August 3, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Metals continued their breakout last week. Gold advanced another 3.85% while silver jumped more than 7.5% on price. As we stated last week, we expect that this trend will continue over the long term as the Federal Reserve will likely continue its easy-money policies. Given the big run-up…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – July 27, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Metals broke out last week. Gold rallied 5.58% while silver advanced nearly 18%. We believe this move is largely related to the extremely easy monetary policies currently being pursued by the Federal Reserve. Historically speaking, gold prices reflect the true rate of inflation. Silver prices are also correlated…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – July 20, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates All markets advanced once again last week, except the US Dollar, and the Dow to Gold ratio remains between 14 and 15. We are holding to our long-term forecast of a Dow to Gold ratio of 2 or 1 as unlikely as that may seem present. It’s highly…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – July 13, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates All markets advanced last week and the Dow to Gold ratio remains between 14 and 15. Here in the pages of “Portfolio Watch” each week, we present evidence as to where the financial markets and economy may be going in light of the extreme economic conditions that now…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – July 6, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates All markets advanced last week with the exception of the US Government long bond which saw its yield rise to 1.43%. The Dow to Gold ratio remains between 14 and 15. As we note in this month’s “You May Not Know Report” which will be mailed in about…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – June 29, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Stocks fell last week while precious metals advanced. That affected the Dow to Gold ratio, reducing it to 14.10 from 14.83 last week. As we have been reminding readers of “Portfolio Watch”, we have been predicting the Dow to Gold ratio will eventually fall to two, or perhaps…
Click Here for MoreYour Portfolio Watch Weekly Update – June 22, 2020
Weekly Market Update by Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Stocks and gold both advanced last week, leaving the Dow to Gold ratio unchanged at 14.83. All markets that we track here in “Portfolio Watch” were higher with the exception of the US Treasury long bond which slightly declined as yields rose 2 basis points to 1.47%. As…
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