The Case for Gold Today

A down day for (most) stocks... Yields were up... The magnificent one and the rest... The 'magazine cover indicator' (again)... Gold has done its job... Is $4,000 per ounce next?... The bullish case... [Stansberry Research Logo] Delivering World-Class Financial Research Since 1999 [Stansberry Digest] A down day for (most) stocks... Yields were up... The magnificent one and the rest... The 'magazine cover indicator' (again)... Gold has done its job... Is $4,000 per ounce next?... The bullish case... --------------------------------------------------------------- The volatility arrived early... [Yesterday]( I (Corey McLaughlin) warned to expect some volatility in the market later this week. That's when another round of GDP and inflation data is due out. Well, the volatility arrived a day or two earlier than I suspected... The major U.S. indexes all moved lower today, with the small-cap Russell 2000 Index down the most at 1.5%. The benchmark S&P 500 Index has traded slightly lower since making a new all-time closing high last week. It was down 0.6% today. The catalyst appeared to be bond yields moving higher... Today, the 10-year Treasury yield moved to 4.61%, back to where it was around the start of the month and reflecting a general trend. The five-year yield is now close to 4.64% after a reported weak auction of five-year Treasury notes. Tomorrow morning, a "revised" GDP number for the first quarter will also come out. And on Friday, the April update for the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge – the personal consumption expenditures ("PCE") price index – could change investors' expectations for monetary policy moving ahead. Stronger inflation numbers than expected could put pressure on stock and bond prices, but weaker numbers or even data in line with expectations could be bullish, since it would keep the status-quo idea of the Fed cutting rates later this year in place. As our Ten Stock Trader editor Greg Diamond [wrote today]( "We'll see if bonds hold up through the barrage of inflation numbers coming out in the next few days." That could go for stocks, too. In short, after a run of headline earnings reports, uncertainty around the path of inflation and interest rates is at the forefront of investors' minds again. So don't be surprised if the markets experience more volatility. The magnificent one... and the rest... While almost 450 of the S&P 500 stocks finished in the red today, chipmaker and AI darling Nvidia (NVDA) was up less than 1%. A few other popular growth names like Netflix (NFLX) and Apple (AAPL) were also up modestly. It's a similar story to what we saw [last week]( when Nvidia was up nearly 10% the day after its latest blockbuster earnings report, and the major U.S. indexes were down. So this trend could be worth keeping an eye on... Another example of the 'magazine cover indicator'... Regular Digest readers are familiar with the magazine cover indicator. Whenever a subject, theme, or stock hits the cover of a mainstream financial news outlet or magazine, it usually means sentiment around that thing has hit an extreme... either bullish or bearish. So it's probably wisest to take the opposite action than what that cover is suggesting. As Stansberry Research senior analyst Brett Eversole shared yesterday [in an issue of the free Health & Wealth Bulletin](... By the time the mainstream financial press covers a big story, the trend is closer to the end than the beginning. Once everyone is finally talking about an idea – and no one is left to buy – it shows us a reversal is likely. This is especially true when the headlines say an asset is about to stop doing what it has always done. Those claims have a history of being dead wrong. Remember when FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried landed on the cover of Fortune in August 2022 with the headline "The Next Warren Buffett?" He wasn't. His cryptocurrency exchange got caught up in a major scandal three months later. Another example? Here's a Bloomberg headline Brett saw last summer... That's quite a claim. It came amid investor frustration that the metal wasn't soaring in value given the pace of inflation. These were the facts... But gold did rise to new highs in the summer of 2020 in advance of 40-year-high inflation. It rose again to around those same highs in the spring of 2022 after Russia went to war in Ukraine, which I would certainly count as "bad times." Around that same time, as interest rates soared from the Fed's efforts to "fight" inflation, gold did what it was supposed to do if you believe in it as a hedge versus stocks, bonds, and other assets. As Brett writes... From January 2022 to last year's October lows, stocks and bonds both suffered – while gold quietly did its job. Take a look... Gold might not have soared the way investors expected [given inflation]. But it was the perfect crisis hedge. The metal did a darn good job of protecting investors since the pain began in early 2022. We've seen stronger performance since then, too. Heck, the metal continues to hit new all-time highs. In the meantime, we're still looking for a confirmation of a bottom in Treasurys, which many people have looked to as a hedge against the downside in stocks. But that didn't work out this last bear market. As interest rates rose, bond prices fell along with stocks. This behavior caught many investors off-guard after decades of steadily declining rates and relatively lower inflation, though it shouldn't have surprised our readers, as [we wrote in 2021 about this likely situation]( – bonds and stocks falling – unfolding before it happened. The case for gold today... As we explained yesterday, Brett and gold-research icon John Doody believe that the recent rally in gold is the start of something much larger... with inflation sticking around, the Fed bent on cutting interest rates, and geopolitical tensions mounting. As Brett wrote in a new special report, available to Stansberry Alliance members and True Wealth Systems subscribers [here](... Gold is in a raging bull market. But nobody seems to care... A few months ago, the metal finally topped $2,000 an ounce – a level it has struggled to break through for years. Gold has catapulted above $2,400 since then. All told, it has soared as much as 33% from its low last October. The crazy part is, retail investors aren't interested. Instead, this gold boom is an insider's rally... Central banks worldwide have driven the run-up so far. They bought nearly 1,100 tonnes of gold in 2022 – the most ever in a single year. Purchases surpassed 1,000 tonnes in 2023 as well. You don't often find investor apathy in the middle of a boom. And you definitely don't find it when insiders are buying at the fastest pace on record. Yet that's exactly what's happening today. This situation will play out the way it always does... with the mom-and-pop crowd clamoring to buy only after savvy investors have made the easy money. And that means the current gold boom is only in its infancy... Brett and John share more details in [a brand-new free presentation]( including why gold could soon soar to $4,000 and why many gold stocks are extremely undervalued today, which offers a tremendous buying opportunity. They also share the ticker symbol of one gold stock just for tuning in. [Check it all out here](. And if you're a Stansberry Alliance member or True Wealth Systems subscriber, you can find Brett's full research [here](. In this week's Stansberry Investor Hour, Dan Ferris and I talk with Chris DeMuth Jr. of Rangeley Capital, an "event driven" hedge fund. Chris offers insight into his investing strategy, the names of a few businesses that intrigue him today, and how it's possible to essentially buy some small banks for free right now... [Click here to watch the interview now](... and to hear the full audio version of this week's Stansberry Investor Hour (in which Dan and I talk about Nvidia and the bifurcation between the stock market and the economy), visit [InvestorHour.com]( or find the show wherever you listen to your podcasts. --------------------------------------------------------------- Recommended Links: [Gold Passes $2,400 – DO NOT Miss This Boom!]( Central banks and many of the world's financial elite are piling into gold. And now a renowned precious metals expert is stepping forward with his No. 1 recommendation for readers: "Today, I'll show you the best possible way to play the current surge in gold." 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