Category Archive: 6a) Gold & Monetary Metals

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Bank of England Rigging LIBOR – Gold Market Too?

2017-04-14

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2017-04-14

Bank of England implicated in LIBOR scandal by BBC. “We’ve had some very serious pressure from the UK government and the Bank of England about pushing our Libors lower.” “This goes much much higher than me”- UBS’ Tom Hayes. Libor distraction as all markets are manipulated today. Central bank’s “rigging” bond markets and likely gold.

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Gold – An Overview of Macroeconomic Price Drivers

2017-04-13

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2017-04-13

stock-to-flow ratios of gold and silver compared
Fundamental Analysis of Gold. As we often point out in these pages, even though gold is currently not the generally used medium of exchange, its monetary characteristics continue to be the main basis for its valuation. Thus, analysis of the gold market requires a different approach from that employed in the analysis of industrial commodities (or more generally, goods that are primarily bought and sold for their use value).

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Mea Culpa – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-04-11

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2017-04-11

Garbage in Garbage Out
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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Time to Hedge State Reserve Funds with Gold?

2017-04-09

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2017-04-09

Financially prudent individuals set aside surplus funds to protect against unforeseen expenditures. This way, when faced with loss of income, house repairs, car trouble, or anything else, they will have a buffer against unanticipated downturns. In the same vein, almost every state in the United States has established a “savings account” for government operations.

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BLICK besucht Börsenguru Marc Faber auf seinem Anwesen in Thailand

2017-04-08

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Der Schweizer Investor Marc Faber hat BLICK auf sein riesiges Anwesen in Chiang Mai, Thailand, eingeladen. Bei einem Rundgang durch seine Villa zeigt er seine Bücher- und Bildersammlung wie auch seine imposante Thron-Toilette.

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Gold Silver Oil Spike After U.S. Bombs Syria

2017-04-08

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2017-04-08

Gold Jumps
Gold silver oil spike after U.S. bombs Syria. Gold and silver spike 1% as oil rises 1.4%. Gold breaks 200 day moving average, 4th week of gains. Stocks fall after U.S. strikes in Syria rattle markets.  U.S. missiles hit airbase; Lavrov says no Russian casualties; Russia deploys cruise missile frigate to Syria.

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Strange Moves in Gold, Federal Reserve Policy and Fundamentals

2017-04-07

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2017-04-07

Something odd happened late in the day in Wednesday’s trading session, which prompted a number of people to mail in comments or ask a question or two. Since we have discussed this issue previously, we decided this was a good opportunity to briefly elaborate on the topic again in these pages.

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Dr Marc Faber: Coordinating Central Bankers Desperate to Keep Colossal Global Debt Bubble Inflated

2017-04-07

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Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, Editor & Publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report https://www.gloomboomdoom.com/, Dr. Marc Faber. During this 25+ minute interview, Jason asks Marc if he thinks the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates 2-3 times more in 2017? Marc thinks the Fed will only raise …

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Marc Faber Warns of A Looming Deflationary Collapse in 2017

2017-04-06

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Marc Faber Warns of A Looming Deflationary Collapse I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)

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Gold, Silver Best Performing Assets In Q1, 2017

2017-04-06

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2017-04-06

YTD 2017 Relative Performance
Gold, silver two of the best performing assets in the first quarter of 2017 with gains of  8% and 14% respectively. Gold outperforms benchmarks – S&P 500 up 6%, MSCI (All Country World Index) up 6.4% (see tables). Nasdaq and German DAX rise 11.8% and 7.6%. Silver best performing currency in quarter. Five best performing currencies in Q1 are in order – silver, bitcoin, Mexican peso, Russian ruble and gold.

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The Balance of Gold and Silver – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-04-04

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2017-04-04

King Cnut the Great
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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German and Swiss Precious Metals Refiners join forces as Heraeus acquires Argor-Heraeus

2017-04-04

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2017-04-04

Singapore Germany Silver Bullionstar Bar 1kg
German precious metals group Heraeus Precious Metals (HPM), part of the Heraeus industrial group, has just announced the full acquisition of Swiss precious metals refining group Argor-Heraeus. Heraeus is headquartered in Hanau, just outside Frankfurt. Argor-Heraeus is headquartered in Mendrisio in the Swiss Canton of Ticino, beside the Italian border.

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Brexit Gold Buying – UK Demand for Gold Bars Surges 39 percent

2017-03-30

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2017-03-30

Gold Bars and UK GBP, Jan 2008 - 2017
As the UK triggered its formal departure from the European Union yesterday, gold demand from UK investors remained ongoing and robust with increased numbers of British investors diversifying into physical gold in order to hedge the considerable uncertainty and volatility that the coming months and years will bring.

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Putting Pennies in the Fuse Box – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-03-28

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2017-03-28

fuse box double taps
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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Safe Haven Gold Rises 2.5 percent As Stocks Fall and ‘Trump Trade’ Fades

2017-03-27

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2017-03-27

Gold and Silver March 2017
Gold and silver jumped another 1% overnight in Asia, building on the respective 1.5% and 2.2% gains seen last week. The ‘Trump trade’ is fading, impacting stock markets and risk off has returned to global markets with the Nikkei, S&P 500 futures and European stocks weakening.

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Gold ETFs or Physical Gold? Dangers In Exchange Traded Funds

2017-03-25

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2017-03-25

Considering the public’s waning trust in the banking system, many investors find themselves wondering how GLD stacks up to owning the real thing. When you look at both assets more closely, it’s clear that gold ETFs and gold bullion are very different investments.

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Peak Gold – Biggest Gold Story Not Being Reported

2017-03-22

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2017-03-22

South Africa Gold Production
Peak gold – Biggest gold story not being reported. Gold ‘Mining Zombie Apocalypse’ caused miners to slash exploration budgets. Decline in gold production at world’s top 10 gold mining companies - Byron King. “No new big mines being built in the world today” – Glencore CEO Glasenberg. Primary global gold output declined in 2016 – Thomson Reuters via Mining.com.

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Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-03-21

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2017-03-21

Gold Future April 2017
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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The Best Ways to Invest in Gold Today

2017-03-20

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2017-03-20

Gold Britannias
The cost of buying and selling gold. How to buy gold on the cheap. How to avoid paying capital gains tax (CGT) on your gold. Open an account with one of the online bullion dealers – the likes of GoldMoney, GoldCore or Bullion Vault. Gold Sovereigns and Gold Britannias make for a considerable saving on cost because of the CGT exemption.

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Physical Metals Demand Plus Manipulation Suits Will Break Paper Market

2017-03-20

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Read the full transcript here: https://goo.gl/R659Nt Craig Hemke of the TF Metals Report speaks out on the technical situation for the metals, whether or not the economy his headed towards a recession and reveals something that could ultimately break the paper markets for gold and silver and get us back to free and fair pricing …

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