Category: Gold and Silver 2012
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Gold Records 5.7% Annual Gain for 2012, Still No Deal on Fiscal Cliff / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE gold bullion prices touched their highest level since Christmas at $1669 an ounce during Monday morning's London session, before easing slightly towards lunchtime to record a 5.7% gain for 2012 at the final gold fix of the year.
Silver failed to hold gains from Asian trading, falling back towards $30 an ounce.
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Gold and The Fiscal Cliff / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Clif_Droke
The price of gold has been hit by selling under concerns over the upcoming U.S. "fiscal cliff." At least that's what the news media's explanation for gold's decline has been. Here's what Reuters had to say in a recent news article:
"U.S. stocks sold off late in the day to close at session lows on Wednesday as talks to avert a year-end fiscal crisis turned sour, even as investors still expect a deal....
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Silver Junior Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Zeal_LLC
Silver mine production is expected to come in at nearly 800m ounces in 2012, an all-time record and the seventh consecutive year of growth (per the U.S. Geological Survey). At 2012’s average silver price, this total represents a value of nearly $25b. There’s a lot of money to be made mining this shiny-white metal!
With a massive capital carrot supported by structural fundamentals that are still great, there ought to be a ton of mining companies targeting silver in their exploration endeavors. So in my latest silver-stock research project I took a close look at the companies on the ground floor of silver exploration, the juniors.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
A Gold and Silver Paper Default in the Wake of an EU Collapse / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The EU has failed to recapitalize its banking sector, which still remains massively over-leveraged. They have not yet had their "Lehman moment" of truth.
Furthermore, governments of the Eurozone adopted the Euro as a common currency in part because by doing so, they could collectively borrow at much lower interest rates than they were used to when they printed their own money.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Future Silver Prices and Inflation- Bernanke Says Don’t Worry / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The aftermath of dramatic balance sheet expansion is bound to be a rebound in inflationary pressures, but Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said the central bank is not going to react to a short term increase in current inflation.
Basically, if the FOMC is convinced that a rise in inflation today is going to be reversed in the future, they are not going to do anything to offset it with a rise in benchmark interest rates.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Gold Trades Higher as Japan, UK and US Face Fiscal Abyss / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,658.75, EUR 1,259.68 and GBP 1,031.37 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,655.25, EUR 1,247.65 and GBP 1,022.96 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $30.16/oz, €22.97/oz and £18.79/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,533.70/oz, palladium at $701.00/oz and rhodium at $1,040/oz.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Gold Market Overhang Poses Risk of Another Price Fall Into Year End / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
THE SPOT MARKET gold price fell back to $1660 an ounce Friday morning, close to where it started the week, as stock markets also edged lower, ahead of talks in Washington aimed at avoiding the $600 billion "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax rises due within days.
Gold will break its four-week losing streak today if the spot price ends the week above $1657 an ounce, while spot silver needs to close above $30.03 an ounce to do likewise.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Will Gold Follow What it Did This Time Last Year? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jesse
As you can see, gold had a 'tap tap' bottom at the end of last year, with a final intraday low on the 29th, the second last trading day of the year.
It rallied in January back to where it had been at the beginning of December.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Gold and Silver Under Pressure Ahead of Year-End / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
U.S. DOLLAR gold prices traded above $1650 an ounce Thursday morning, in line with where they started the week, as the London market reopened following Christmas.
Silver meantime hovered either side of $30 an ounce, while stock markets edged higher and the Dollar fell, following news that the US Treasury is to take extraordinary measures to avoid hitting the federal debt ceiling next Monday.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Gold Regains Some Ground / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
ON THE FINAL day before Christmas, gold prices edged higher Monday morning, climbing to $1665 per ounce and recovering some of the ground lost last week.
Friday afternoon's London gold fix was $1651.50 an ounce, a 2.6% weekly fall and the biggest weekly drop since June.
"[Gold's fall] opens up a move to the next major support, which are the lows in the $1520s," says Friday's technical analysis note from Scotiabank.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Silver Recent Price Drop is Just a Storm in a Teacup / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Clive_Maund
Many silver longs were upset by the rather sharp drop over the past week or so, but as we will now see, this drop looks like a 'storm in a teacup' on longer-term charts.
On its 12-year chart, which goes back to the start of the bullmarket, we can see that the top boundary of the uptrend from 2004 is defined by the line drawn across 4 important peaks, and it is from this line that the parallel supporting trendline beneath is derived.
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Gold Market Rehypothecation Fraud: Banks Pledge Same Gold to Numerous People / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Washingtons_Blog
Banks Pledge Same Collateral Numerous Times
Big banks pledged the same mortgage to numerous people.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Gold Bugs Christmas Cheer / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jeff_Clark
While the price of gold has languished in a trading range much of the year, leaving some investors scratching their heads, many have been buying – and in some cases, really loading up.
It's a tad puzzling that gold hasn't broken into new highs, despite enough catalysts to move a herd of stubborn mules. But that's the hand we're dealt right now. We can't get up from the table until the game reaches its conclusion. Besides, I think the stall in prices is giving us one last window to buy before prices break permanently into higher levels for this cycle.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Gold in Doesn't-Beat-Stocks Shocker! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Adrian_Ash
Gold in 2012 is set to underperform the US stock market for the first time since 2004...
SO the WORLD DIDN'T END on the shortest day of 2012, as forecast by no-one beyond lazy journalists and internet frauds.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Why QE3 is so Bullish for Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Zeal_LLC
Silver has been selling off relentlessly since the Federal Reserve expanded its third quantitative-easing campaign last week. As that decision was highly inflationary, silver’s subsequent weakness has really vexed traders. But its counter-intuitive selloff had nothing to do with fundamentals. As the Fed’s past QE campaigns demonstrated abundantly, QE3 will eventually prove to be very bullish for silver’s fortunes.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Silver Prices and the Return of the Yen Carry Trade / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
In the futures pits, silver traders are seeing prices move downward as a result of the expression of market structure.
Nevertheless, that market structure and its macro economic back drop is now changing, as the currency wars heat up once again as the world moves into a new year.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
HFT and Gold and Silver Price Management Getting Easier Every Day / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Regulation within a market tends to make it harder for legitimate traders to operate because every 'edge' they identify essentially becomes insider information. Nevertheless, the powerful electronic traders are still allowed legal access to front run pricing and large orders on the exchanges by being permitted to locate their servers onsite.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Gold from the Non U.S. Dollar Perspective / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: P_Radomski_CFA
This was a week of declines for precious metals, very strong ones, indeed. It seems that the main culprit was not the U.S. dollar, that should have actually helped the whole sector, as it declined heavily too, but the fears concerning the “fiscal cliff”, that we discussed some time ago, and the lack of any solutions from the government so far. We believe that as soon as the problem is solved, the whole sector will rally strongly. That is even more likely, as gold and silver are currently extremely oversold, as we’ll see in the technical part of this essay. To see the true magnitude of the plunge, and try to guess where we can go from this point, we’ll have a look at the yellow metal from the perspective of different currencies. But first things first – we’ll start with the usual long-term chart of gold priced in USD (charts courtesy by http://stockcharts.com.)
Friday, December 21, 2012
Gold and Silver Head for 4th Straight Weekly Drop But / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE gold bullion prices hovered around $1650 an ounce Friday morning in London, having earlier hit fresh four-month lows, while stocks edged lower and US Treasuries gained despite little evident progress in Washington to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
Silver traded either side of $30 an ounce meantime, having yesterday dipped below that level for the first time since August, while oil prices dipped slightly and copper ticked higher.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Iraq Quadruples Gold Reserves In Two Months - First Time In Years / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,648.25, EUR 1,246.97 and GBP 1,014.56 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,667.00, EUR 1,259.25 and GBP 1,024.96 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $29.89/oz, €22.73/oz and £18.49/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,551.25/oz, palladium at $673.00/oz and rhodium at $1,040/oz.
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