For what seems like an eternity for the bulls, the gold market has suffered from a strange cognitive dissonance, stubbornly refusing to react to the signs of the times.

At a time when interest rates everywhere fell to historical lows, signs of a synchronized slowdown of the global economy abounded while trade wars and geopolitical tensions continued to rise, the gold market remained a snoozefest as investors’ love affair with the stock market endured.

But reality appears to have hit home–finally.

Gold prices have hit the highest level since 2013 as declining housing market sales, intensifying geopolitical risks and a retest of key levels worked in tandem to fuel a massive rally…CLICK for complete article