No doubt Gold Bugs have been enjoying the price action in gold instruments recently. It has been a profitable few months to be long just about anything shiny -- even silver!
Last week, gold posted new multi-month highs. So did silver and platinum, hitting their highest levels since the spring of 2022.
Not a bad start to 2023 for these shiny rocks. And it gets better!
Gold broke out to new all-time highs relative to bonds last week. The yellow metal is not only showing strength on an absolute basis – it’s also outperforming its alternatives.
These are classic bull market characteristics and two critical pieces of evidence suggesting gold is in the early stages of a new structural uptrend.
If gold is on its way to new all-time highs, gold mining stocks will be participating.
And it just so happens they are…
If gold prices rise, companies that remove gold from the ground and sell it will surely benefit. Simple!
Over the last week, we've seen momentum flow down the cap scale in crypto markets. Many altcoins have posted sizeable gains coming from historically skewed levels.
This is happening in the context of a tightening volatility regime, where price stability in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most alts were at some of the highest levels in recent history.
Here's the performance of each of the Sectors since the new lows list on the NYSE peaked in Q2. Notice how Consumer Discretionary is the best performer. How can consumer discretionary stocks doing so well possibly be a bad thing?
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @AlfCharts
Our International Hall of Famers list is composed of the 100 largest US-listed international stocks, or ADRs.
We’ve also sprinkled in some of the largest ADRs from countries that did not make the market cap cut.
These stocks range from some well-known mega-cap multinationals such as Toyota Motor and Royal Dutch Shell to some large-cap global disruptors such as Sea Ltd and Shopify.
It’s got all the big names and more--but only those that are based outside the US. You can find all the largest US stocks on our original Hall of Famers list.
The beauty of these scans is really in their simplicity.
We take the largest names each week and then apply technical filters in a way that the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.
Based on the market environment, we can also flip the scan on its head and filter for weakness.
Let’s dive in and take a look at some of the most important stocks from around the world.
The Bloomberg commodity index $BCOM is breaking down, approaching fresh 52-week lows.
Somehow Gold and Copper didn’t get the memo. They must be too busy printing new highs.
But when we review other major commodity indexes (including our own equal-weight index of 33 individual contracts), they look poised to roll over.
Check out the triple pane chart of the Bloomberg, CRB, and our equal-weight commodity indexes:
It’s interesting to note the differences between these indexes. The weighting structures vary, as do their support levels. But the CRB index and our equal-weight commodity index challenge their 2022 lows while the BCOM has undercut its respective lows.
