Category: Gold and Silver 2013
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Friday, October 18, 2013
The Key Factor To Drive Gold and Silver Prices to Extreme Values / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
The precious metal investors are actually sitting on gold mine, and they don't even know the real reason why this is true. Many analysts are focusing on the huge amount of debt and fiat money in the system to be invested in gold and silver, but the fundamental root cause continues to go unnoticed.
While the massive amount of debt, derivatives and fiat money are indeed excellent reasons to own the precious metals, they are the mere symptoms and not the disease itself. The advanced societies of the world were built on an economic system that can only survive if it continues to grow. Without growth, the $100's of trillions in derivatives and debts would implode -- along with it the Suburban Retail-Commercial-Housing economy.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
Is Rising Stock Market Bullish or Bearish for Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
On Thursday, the S&P 500 closed at a new high and its intraday record of 1733.45 broke the all-time high set Sept. 19. Over 80 percent of stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange rose. According to FactSet, companies in the S&P 500 index are on track for third-quarter earnings growth of 1.1% from last year. Excluding J.P. Morgan Chase's loss, they would be on pace for 3.6% growth. Please note that at the beginning of earnings season, analysts expected earnings growth of 3%.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
Gold Is A Reserve Of Safety Says ECB President / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,317.00, EUR 962.09 and GBP 813.16 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,308.50, EUR 959.87 and GBP 813.09 per ounce.
Gold climbed $40.20 or 3.14% yesterday, closing at $1,319.70/oz. Silver rose $0.53 or 2.49% closing at $21.80. Platinum jumped $44.84 or 3.2% to $1,432.74/oz, while palladium soared $23.50 or 3.3% to $737.50 /oz.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
Silver Prices and the Flow of Physical / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
The ultimate lynch pin for the silver market is the flow of physical metal to support ongoing price suppression. The flow of physical metal is mostly an illusion nearly equal to (and in some ways parallel with) the perceived strength of the paper currencies used to measure its value. Actual or threat of default in physical silver delivery to the COMEX could very likely lead to default across the asset spectrum.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
Gold and Silver Today’s Similarities with 1976 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. We often see that in the capital markets. The big decline in Gold this year is reminiscent of that of 1975-1976. Yet, aside from that there are several other similarities between today and 1976. Gold, gold stocks, the stock market and commodities appear to be in a similar position today compared to 1976. We note and discuss the four similarities.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
The Jim Rogers View On Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
If October has held any surprises for anyone so far, it has to be the bears. While volatility has been in evidence, the crash that some analysts were predicting has so far failed to materialize.
One reason for this was the increase in short interest leading up to the start of the month. According to short interest data provided by Consensus Inc., bullish sentiment has been declining for the last few months and recently hit a low for the year to date. Investors and advisors alike, it seems, have been growing more bearish and had a less-than-favorable outlook for the market heading into the debt ceiling limit debate.
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Gold Resurrection From Financial Disaster, Gold Trade Settlement $7000 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Take a whirlwind tour with graphics and photos. Absorb the images. They are profound, broad, and ugly. The central bank concept is the Matrix in embodiment, but the Eastern nations led by BRICS and G-20 have a key to unlock the USDollar prison. A quick look at the Australian banking system reveals four global banks who own outsized portions, their reach extending to the largest gold producer in Oz as well. Incest is best. The fast decline in Money Velocity is the most convincing proof of the failure of monetary policy. It does not provide stimulus, but rather capital destruction. The foreign dumping of USTreasury Bonds actually accelerated this past summer, amidst the Taper Talk trial balloon offered by the hapless desperate Bernanke Fed. His legacy will be one of disproving his own PhD Thesis, since liquidity in torrents does not repair insolvency, and no traction comes to soaked ground. A grand game of shuffling gold bars has begun, actually accelerated in a final phase.
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Central Banks Gold Holdings - The Bullion Market's Big Issues / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Remember when gold reserves were all the rage for central banks...?
Putting gold into your investment portfolio typically signals a lack of faith in other people. Or at the very least, a healthy question mark.
Yet even as governments everywhere give investors new reasons to find doubts, the trend is no longer for those enormous investors, the world's central banks, to keep buying. Not according to analysis of the latest IMF data.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Silver Price 4 Cycles in 12 Years / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
During the past 12 years silver prices have bottomed, rallied sharply, collapsed, and then languished for a year or more. The patterns are not identical, but there are obvious similarities as shown in the following chart. (Note that it is a weekly line chart, from close to close, log scale, with high and low bars not shown. For example, silver might have bottomed on a Wednesday but only the Friday close is plotted.)
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Gold Jumps 2.9% on US Debt Downgrade Risk / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
LONDON GOLD moved in a $10 range Wednesday morning around $1281 per ounce – the early August low, down more than 10% from that month's peak – as both the US House and Senate were due to meet in what headline writers called "a last ditch attempt" to resolve the government's debt-limit deadline, set for tomorrow.
US debt will likely be downgraded from its AAA status, the Fitch ratings agency warned yesterday, if the government hits a technical default when it reaches the current debt ceiling of $16.7 trillion on Thursday.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
More Evidence of Gold Price Manipulation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Michael Lombardi writes:
While I avidly follow the actions of central banks to see where the gold bullion prices may be headed next, when I look at them today, their actions are speaking louder than words.
Central banks have pretty much stopped selling gold bullion, which is very important. In 1999, a number of central banks in Europe formed an alliance and agreed that they would not sell more than 400 tonnes of gold bullion per year. The agreement was called the Central Bank Gold Agreement (CBGA). In 2004, the CBGA was renewed again; this time the limit was 500 tonnes. Once again, it was renewed for another five years in 2009, and the limit is back to the sale of no more than 400 tonnes of gold bullion per year.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Who Says Gold Is Money? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Who is right? Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger and many more say you shouldn’t own gold. Ray Dalio, David Einhorn, Jim Rogers, John Paulson, George Soros, and I (among many others) own some gold—but that doesn’t mean you should own it.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Disappointing Gold Price Hits 3-Month Low on U.S. Debt Limit / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
The WHOLESALE price of gold bounced hard Tuesday lunchtime in London from new 3-month lows, regaining $10 per ounce from $1255 as European shares rose but US stock futures pointed lower.
The Dollar rose, knocking almost 1 cent off the Euro, as word spread of an apparent US political deal to avert technical default at the debt limit's deadline on Thursday.
Monday, October 14, 2013
Gold and Silver Through the Looking Glass / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
"A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face." Alexandre Dumas
It was capping all the way today as stocks rallied back from overnight lows to close on the highs, while gold and silver were pushed down and went out near the lows.
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Monday, October 14, 2013
Gold - Goldman Sachs Strikes Again / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Call it the revenge of the gold bears. Jeffrey Currie, the Goldman Sachs chief commodity analyst whose name inspires dread on all gold bugs who hear it, has made yet another bearish prediction for the gold price.
Last week Mr. Currie stated that gold is a "slam dunk" sell because of his expectation that the U.S. economy will extend its recovery after Congress extends the debt ceiling. The price of gold, as if on cue, promptly declined after Currie's remarks were widely published and it appears that gold is indeed poised for another leg down.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Gold and Silver - Western Bankers [Forced] Bowing To China / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
On Friday morning, gold trading was shut down for 10 seconds in a "stop logic" event, as the CME explains. In essence, when there is an overload of orders that cleans out stops, the market halts, [10 seconds???] "designed to prevent exaggerated price movements." In a sorry-ass explanation that defies common sense, except to protect the criminal exchange behavior, we give this CME propaganda no further consideration.
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
Gold and America's Fake Debt Default / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Gold just isn't working as advertised as Washington flirts with disaster...
There's no denying that precious metals are falling even as the US debt-limit deadline draws so near, you can see that it's wearing a wig.
In fact, the mere hint of a short-term fix to avoid default next Thursday knocked gold prices below $1300 this week, with a further plunge as US trade opened on Friday.
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Friday, October 11, 2013
U.S. Gold and Debt Ceiling - Here We Go Again / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
Since the U.S. shutdown began last week gold has been trading in a tight range between $1,277 and $1,330 per ounce. Although investors have believed that worries over the debt ceiling would be only short-lived, it seems that each day that passed without an agreement tested their nerves.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama agreed to consider a proposal from Republican lawmakers to avert a historic debt default. U.S. House of Representatives Republicans plan to offer President Barack Obama a short-term increase in the federal debt limit if he agrees to negotiate with Republicans on matters, including funding to reopen the government.
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Gold - The Situation Is Hopeless, But Not Serious / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By Shannara Johnson, Chief Editor
"After listening to some of this morning's speakers, I made sure to program the number of the suicide hotline into my cell phone," real estate expert Andy Miller joked at the beginning of his speech.
And legendary natural-resource investor and chairman of Sprott US Holdings, Rick Rule, quipped, "It's amazing—I actually get to be the positive guy here."
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Gold Price Sinks 1.8% in 2 Minutes on U.S. Debt Deal Hope / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
WHOLESALE and futures prices for gold dumped 1.8% inside 2 minutes Friday lunchtime in London, extending the week's losses to $50 per ounce at a 3-month low of $1265.
The move came on suddenly heavy volume in the gold futures market, which had previously been quiet after Thursday's fall through $1300.
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