Tag Archive: Precious Metals

Goldman, Citi Turn Positive On Gold – Despite “Mysterious” Flash Crash

2017-06-28

Gold in USD - 1 Week - Massive selling at 0400 EST when U.S. markets closed and thin trading amid holidays in Muslim countries including Turkey, Singapore and Malaysia. - Mystery is that "fat fingers" in gold market are always sell trades that push prices lower

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What Is the Fundamental Gold Price? Precious Metals Supply and Demand [extended version]

2017-06-27

by Keith Weiner

2017-06-27

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 Fed Rate Hike and Gold – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-06-20

by Keith Weiner

2017-06-20

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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Jayant Bhandari on Gold, Submerging Markets and Arbitrage

2017-06-17

by Pater Tenebrarum

2017-06-17

We are happy to present another interview conducted by Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable with our friend and frequent contributor Jayant Bhandari, a specialist on gold mining investment, the world’s most outspoken emerging market contrarian, host of the highly regarded annual Capitalism and Morality conference in London and consultant to institutional investors.

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New Gold Pool at the BIS Switzerland: A Who’s Who of Central Bankers

2017-06-13

by Ronan Manly

2017-06-13

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Headquarters

A central bank Gold Pool which many people will be familiar with operated in the gold market between November 1961 and March 1968. That Gold Pool was known as the London Gold Pool.

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The Anatomy of Brown’s Gold Bottom – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-06-13

by Keith Weiner

2017-06-13

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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In Gold We Trust, 2017

2017-06-10

by Pater Tenebrarum

2017-06-10

This year’s Incrementum In Gold We Trust report by our good friends Ronald Stoeferle and Mark Valek appears about one month earlier than usual (we already mentioned in our most recent gold update that it would become available soon). As always, the report is extremely comprehensive, discussing everything from fundamentals pertaining to gold, to technical analysis to statistical studies on the behavior of gold under different economic scenarios.

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Negative Rates: The New Gold Rush… For Gold Vaults

2017-06-09

by Tyler Durden

2017-06-09

Negative interest rates and the populist uprising that spurred the UK to vote for Brexit and Americans to elect Trump has helped reignite a rush into physical safe haven assets like gold and silver, which however has led to a shortage of safe venues where to store the precious metals (unlike bitcoin, gold actually has a physical dimension).

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Stocks, Bonds, Euro, and Gold Go Up – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-06-06

by Keith Weiner

2017-06-06

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 Gold Conundrum

2017-06-02

by Pater Tenebrarum

2017-06-02

We recently (on Thursday last week to be precise) put together a few gold-related charts based on the “keep it simple” principle. The annual Incrementum “In Gold We Trust” report is going to be published shortly and contains a quite thorough technical analysis section, so we will keep this brief and just discuss a few things that have caught our eye.

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Gold Data Science – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-05-30

by Keith Weiner

2017-05-30

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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Gold’s Advantages Over Fiat Currency – An Interview with Claudio Grass

2017-05-28

by Pater Tenebrarum

2017-05-28

Central Banks Produce Dire Consequences for the Free Market. Todd “Bubba” Horwitz has recently produced a podcast with our friend Claudio Grass of Global Gold, which we can be called up further below. Bubba has provided a summary of the topics discussed, an edited version of which you find below as well.

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The Gnome Underpants Gold Model – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-05-23

by Keith Weiner

2017-05-23

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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How to Stick It to Your Banker, the Federal Reserve, and the Whole Doggone Fiat Money System

2017-05-18

by MN Gordon

2017-05-18

Somehow, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke found time from his busy hedge fund advisory duties last week to tell his ex-employer how to do its job. Namely, he recommended to his former cohorts at the Fed how much they should reduce the Fed’s balance sheet by. In other words, he told them how to go about cleaning up his mess.

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A Bumper Under that Silver Elevator – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-05-16

by Keith Weiner

2017-05-16

Book - A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top

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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Will Gold or Silver Pay the Higher Interest Rate?

2017-05-13

by Keith Weiner

2017-05-13

This question is no longer moot. As the world moves inexorably towards the use of metallic money, interest on gold and silver will return with it. This raises an important question. Which interest rate will be higher?

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Silver Elevator Keeps Going Down – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-05-09

by Keith Weiner

2017-05-09

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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Emerging Markets: Buyer Beware – An Interview with Jayant Bhandari

2017-05-07

by Pater Tenebrarum

2017-05-07

Maurice Jackson of Proven & Probable has once again interviewed one of our friends, namely Jayant Bhandari, a frequent and highly valued contributor to Acting Man. Jayant is probably best known to our readers for his strong criticism of the economic and nationalist policies implemented by prime minister Narendra Modi in India since he decreed the demonetization of the bulk of the cash currency circulating in the country (see his most recent article...

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Silver Takes the Elevator Down – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-05-03

by Keith Weiner

2017-05-03

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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Sweden’s Gold Reserves: 10,000 gold bars (pet rocks) shrouded in Official Secrecy

2017-04-28

by Ronan Manly

2017-04-28

In February 2017 while preparing for a presentation in Gothenburg about central bank gold, I emailed Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, enquiring whether the Riksbank physically audits Sweden’s gold and whether it would provide me with a gold bar weight list of Sweden’s gold reserves (gold bar holdings). The Swedish official gold reserves are significant and amount to 125.7 tonnes, making the Swedish nation the world’s 28th largest official gold...

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