Consolidating
Posted: 14 May 2016, 23:59
American stock markets once more finished a lackluster week with fractional losses. By now the S&P barely quotes break-even year-to-date, while the DJI saw its gain dwindle to 0.63%. Nasdaq is down almost 6% YTD. For precious metals, advances alternated with declines, yet on balance gold is down 1.16% to $1272.8/Oz. More damage among the white precious metals with silver giving back 2.06% to $17.08. Platinum slid 2.7% over the week to $1049 and Palladium also is down 2.5% to $591.
It won't come as a surprise that the HUI index slid over 2% to 221.5 while HUI/Gold eases marginally to 0.174. You find updated graphs on the gold miner pulse blog page. The Miner Performance page also was updated.
Among our benchmark ETF's GDX and GDXJ show declines around 1.4% while GLDX and SIL keep their feet dry with timid advances over the week. Our contributor driven explorer & junior miner spreadsheet is teaming up with the winners, adding 2.35% over the week and cutting its long term loss to 7.6%. We have advances (12) outnumbering declines (5) with Sandstorm Gold flat over the week. Prospect generator Mirasol advanced over 15% making the difference this week. Other advances and declines are single digit. Over the long haul we have 7 list components up while 11 still are in the red.
Reservoir Minerals and MAG silver doubled and make the difference for the long term performance of our list. In our spreadsheet you also find BTG and long term losses have been mitigating. BTG is a minor component in GDX. As such, its fundamentals and performance are better tracked than those of any other junior to mid-tier miner. Adam Hamilton of Zealllc made a nice table on these GDX components yesterday.
It won't come as a surprise that the HUI index slid over 2% to 221.5 while HUI/Gold eases marginally to 0.174. You find updated graphs on the gold miner pulse blog page. The Miner Performance page also was updated.
Among our benchmark ETF's GDX and GDXJ show declines around 1.4% while GLDX and SIL keep their feet dry with timid advances over the week. Our contributor driven explorer & junior miner spreadsheet is teaming up with the winners, adding 2.35% over the week and cutting its long term loss to 7.6%. We have advances (12) outnumbering declines (5) with Sandstorm Gold flat over the week. Prospect generator Mirasol advanced over 15% making the difference this week. Other advances and declines are single digit. Over the long haul we have 7 list components up while 11 still are in the red.
Reservoir Minerals and MAG silver doubled and make the difference for the long term performance of our list. In our spreadsheet you also find BTG and long term losses have been mitigating. BTG is a minor component in GDX. As such, its fundamentals and performance are better tracked than those of any other junior to mid-tier miner. Adam Hamilton of Zealllc made a nice table on these GDX components yesterday.