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The strategies Merk offers include gold and gold mining.
Insights & Reports
Gold Miners: Bargains or Peaking Out?
CIO Axel Merk with Portfolio Managers Peter Maletis & Jamie Holman
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Webinar held Nov 13, 2025
Tweets
US Treasury to buy back up to $6bn in longer-dated debt.
Market reaction not kind: 10Y and 30Y up by 4bps . S&P dropped a little on the news, gold down and dollar stronger..
Src for intra-day 10yr chart: BBG
Gold up. Oil up. The negative correlation is breaking down.
Particularly noteworthy as geopolitical tensions and bond yields are both up, suggesting market is moving on from gold-down-due-to-supply-shock-syndrome.
Below: rolling 60 day correlation in lower pane. Source: BBG
A timely history lesson worth watching.
@aroberts_andrew, author of superbly researched "Churchill: Walking with Destiny," debunks distortions—and explains why Churchill would have understood, and known how to handle, Hamas and Iran.
@p_m_robinson, thanks for a great interview. x.com/p_m_robinson/s…
Warsh: moved the needle
Waller: noise
Chart shows rate hike probabilities for September FOMC meeting based on futures. Source: BBG
The winner of a regional election in Germany is... Vladimir Putin.
Record turnout gave the populist AfD a near-absolute majority. To govern, a small far-left party is courting AfD. Its socialists embrace Putin; with Russia-friendly AfD members, this could be a Faustian pact. x.com/Schuldensuehne…
Q: What can we do to get to...double the economy?
A: We've known the answer since Adam Smith: get the hell out of the way...
99% of what policy does is get in the way....
@JohnHCochrane x.com/LawEconCenter/…
The new normal in Europe? 2 recent attacks on Germany's power grid never made it to US headlines. The attacks caused intra-day prices to briefly surge to EUR 4,500/MWh. x.com/Frank_Stones/s…
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