Comex Gold JOLTed Again

by Craig Hemke Sprott Money

Last month, we wrote about how employment is usually the ultimate lagging indicator of recession, and when the JOLTS jobs report was issued on April 4, the slowdown in hiring “jolted” gold prices higher. The latest report is having the same impact.

As we often do in these weekly columns, let’s begin this one with a reference to that last time we covered this topic. Here’s a link to the article of four weeks ago along with a snippet of the first three paragraphs: