Category: Gold & Silver 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Friday, November 06, 2009
Gold Breaks $1,100 New High / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
In afternoon trading on Friday the gold price momentarily breached the $1,100 an ounce level for the first time. Although its time at this level was brief it concluded what has been a very bullish week for gold.The bullish sentiment towards the yellow metal has been built on a very strong base. Central banks have underpinned the price with revelations during the week that the Reserve Bank of India has become a sizeable holder of gold, buying 200 tonnes.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Gold at Both Ends of the Economic K Wave Cycle / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Now that the 10-year cycle has peaked, fear will become the dominant emotion in the financial marketplace in the years ahead. Risk aversion is on the rise since the credit crisis and investors must look to those assets which tend to benefit from fear. Gold is of course the chief beneficiary of fear and has the added feature of being a hedge against a hyper-deflationary environment. Hyper deflation will be the order of the day in 2012-2014 when the final leg of the 60-year cycle descends.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
The Technical Alignment of Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
The Macro Trader’s view:
Gold rallied hard on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, after India announced it had purchased $6.9B worth of Gold Bullion from the IMF, approximately half of the IMF’s annual sales.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Gold Gains 5% on Week to New All Time High of $1095 / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE PRICE OF GOLD rose sharply from a fresh all-time Gold Fix of $1095 per ounce in London on Friday after new data put US unemployment at a 26-year high of 10.2% in October.
Average hourly wages improved – up 0.3% month-on-month – but the average working week held at 33.0 hours.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Gold Closes In on $1,100 as Markets Wait for U.S. Employment Report / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Gold held firm overnight and traded between $1,088 and 1,090 which was higher than the previous night’s trading. On the back of last night’s performance has shifted upwards this morning and is currently trading at $1,095 /oz. In EURO and GBP Terms Gold is trading at €735/oz and £659/oz respectively.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
India Buying 200 Tons of Gold, What does it Mean? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
India’s central bank, Reserve Bank of India, announced on Nov. 2, 2009 a purchase of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF):
Read full article... Read full article..."The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has concluded the purchase of 200 metric tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under the IMF’s limited gold sales programme. This was done as part of the Reserve Bank’s foreign exchange reserves management operations. The purchase was an official sector off-market transaction and was executed over a two week period during October 19–30, 2009 at market based prices."
Friday, November 06, 2009
Events Shaping the Gold Price and Gold Mining / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
There were those last week who mentioned a word of caution. A caution about a gold price bubble!! If gold were a person he’d start to feel dizzy by his extraordinary growth. In fact he’d have felt dizzy since 2001, when this bull market started. But we can’t help but think that many analysts and economists all missed the credit crunch. What’s to stop us all from miss interpreting this bull market in gold? Could this be a bubble?
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Friday, November 06, 2009
The Role of Gold in the World Monetary System / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
What Is India and China Doing That Malaysia Has Neglected To Do?
On 27th August 2009 I wrote an article, “An Appeal To Malaysia’s Prime Minister ***** Finance Minister – Re-Examine the Country’s Strategy For Foreign Reserves”, to urge our Prime Minister to examine the critical need to diversify our foreign reserves, specifically to increase our holdings of gold.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Gold Market Reaching The Breaking Point / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Back in January, I wrote about the significance of gold breaking above $1000 again.
Gold - Rising demand for physical gold is a threat to the dollar because it signals a growing loss of confidence in the paper currency. It is also key to understand that gold prices aren't rising because of the changing fundamentals of gold, but because of the changing fundamentals of the dollar. In other words, gold isn't rallying, THE DOLLAR IS FALLING.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Silver, The Past Decade / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Ellis Martin: Today we’re joined by the silver guru, David Morgan of The Morgan Report. His Web site is silver-investor.com. Mr. Morgan is one of the world’s preeminent world experts, not just in silver, gold, and precious metals, but related issues in the mining sector. David is also an author, having penned the book Get the Skinny on Silver Investing. He’s a teacher, lecturer, and world traveler. David, welcome back to The Opportunity Show. Can you tell us, please—how has the precious metals markets, the sector, changed in the last five to ten years?
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Gold's Last Hurrah? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Although we haven't added to our gold position in some months at Investophoria, it's still fun to watch.
Gold Bugs are one-of-a-kind type people. When they are right, they are right. When they are wrong, they will be right. And here's the funny thing. Although most of the outside investing world goes through periods of scoffing (think late 1990's to early 2000's), to periods where telling someone "gold is going down" gets you looked at like you are some amorphous blob of alien goo that ejected itself from a UFO exhaust, they hold true to their gold-buggery through the high times and the low times. Gold bugs are one of the rare breed of individual who never lets go.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Barrick Gold Earnings Report Doesn’t Add Up / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Canada’s news may not always get in the limelight, but yesterday’s earnings report from Barrick Gold struck home with me. It just doesn’t seem to add up.
Barrick Gold, the world’s biggest gold company, undertook a strategy to hedge on its gold production by locking in on future gold prices.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
US Interest Rates to Remain Exremely Low for an Extended Period of Time / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Gold dipped slightly overnight but found support at $1,084/oz in the early hours of this morning. It has since recovered and is currently trading at $1,090/oz. In EUR and GBP terms gold is trading at €735/oz and £659/oz respectively.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Gold Targets $1100 as Beijing Insider Says China Can't Buy Enough Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
THE PRICE OF GOLD in wholesale 400-ounce form held steady Thursday morning in London as world stock markets slipped.
Trading near $1090 and €735 an ounce for US and Eurozone investors, gold was up 4.3% and 3.5% respectively for the week so far.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Gold Price Collapse and Market Behaviourism / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Behaviorism -From New World Encyclopedia
“Behaviorism is an approach within psychology based on the proposition that behavior, human as well as animal, can be researched scientifically and understood without recourse to inner mental states. Three major figures led to the development of this approach: Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and B.F. Skinner. Their research produced theories of learning based entirely on reactions, or "responses," by the organism (human or animal), directly to stimuli in the environment through processes of conditioning.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
The Significance of the IMF India RBI Gold Sales / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Much has been written in the last two days about the surprising purchase by the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) of some 200 tonnes of gold bullion, valued at about $6.7 billion, from the IMF (International Monetary Fund).
Is this really a significant event?
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
London Bullion Market Association 2009, The Last Word on Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Utterly bullishly, London rules but rocks, while central banks star in "buying gold" shocker...
RHONA O'CONNELL did it on the train home, John Reade managed it before the conference finished, and Ross Norman's team were at it throughout.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Current Gold Silver Ratio Screams Buy All Things Silver! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
This article suggests that silver is undervalued compared to gold by anywhere from 10% to 50% based on historical gold to silver price relationships.
With primary secular bull or bear trends easily running from 10 to 20 years of the average investor’s 40 year investing lifespan it is crucial to identify optimal accumulation points within these primary trends to avoid prolonged periods of under-performance and potentially negative returns and to avoid dramatically reducing the number of productive years in which to build one’s fortune.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Why Gold Has a LONG Way to Go Higher / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
A couple weeks ago, I had my TV tuned to a business show that loves to give predictions on the markets and the economy. On that day, one of the program’s regular guests declared it was time to “short” gold, that it had reached its top, and that the precious metals bull market was over. I’ll try to be nice in my rebuttal.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
The Best Three Gold Coins to Buy Right Now / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Tom Dyson writes: "What if my bank account gets wiped out?"
My friend has nightmares about a virus attack on the global computer network. He says terrorists are developing programs that will wipe out bank databases. Account records will vanish, he says, and no one will know who owns what or how much. It'll wreak havoc on the financial system.