Category: Gold and Silver 2012
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Ben Bernanke is Every Gold Bug's Best Friend / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Money_Morning
Frank Holmes writes:
After prices fell 10% in December, many investors wondered if the bull market in gold was running out of steam.
That was before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke swooped in with a "red cape" and fired the bulls back up.
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Waiting to Pounce on Gold and Silver Profits / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Adam_Brochert
Let me start by re-iterating that I am a secular permabull on physical precious metals, particularly Gold. When you're dealing with the end of the road for the current international monetary system (a la the 1930s and the 1970s), there's only one asset that is a complete no-brainer to own. As a hint, that asset is shiny and owned by every central bank in the world "just in case."
However, I also like to trade. When trading, I would sell or buy anything if I though there was a profit to be had. For example, my subscribers and I have been short senior Gold stocks as a "scalp" trade over the past week. Does this make me a traitor? I don't think in those terms, as I am a more practical Gold bug/bull. The more paper I make, the more metal I can buy.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Should Investors Reconsider Cash and Gold as Safe-Havens? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Eric_McWhinnie
The staggering global debt crisis continues to linger on in the financial markets, as a country as small as Greece is unable to successfully deal with its debt addiction. Greece is certainly not alone in this mess, which has investors worldwide seeking out safe-haven instruments such as cash and precious metals. However, as markets and regulations change, investors are forced to rethink their safe-haven choices. Cash is considered to be king, but how well is this notion holding up in today’s market?
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
SILVER: The Illegitimate Child Of The Commodities Family / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: I_M_Vronsky
Since January 1980 the values of US Commodities have been affected by growing demand and the price increasing effects of inflation. All commodities have enjoyed price increases�ALL EXCEPT SILVER, which is virtually flat�even though the demand for the white metal has been explosive in recent years.
The chart below shows the nominal (actual) price increases during the past 32 years (since January 1980 to close of February 3, 2012):
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Gold Increases In Value During Inflation or Deflation Scenarios / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,743.00, EUR 1,315.17, and GBP 1,095.95 per ounce.
Yesterday's AM fix was USD 1,720.00, EUR 1,308.98, and GBP 1,087.56 per ounce.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Gold Holds Steady as U.S. Dollar Hits 2-Month Low / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE MARKET prices for gold bullion held steady just below $1750 per ounce Wednesday morning in London – a 2.2% gain on yesterday's low – after rallying Tuesday following comments from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.
Silver bullion eased slightly this morning after hitting $34.55 per ounce – its highest level since November 16.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Gold Odysseus Journey Continues! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: UnpuncturedCycle
Gold is the Odysseus of the markets, destined to wonder the hinterland of the financial world for years without achieving the deserved safe haven status. Like Odysseus gold will eventually arrive and the general population will embrace it for what it is, the one and only store of wealth that exists today. Loathed and assailed by the mainstream press, gold is deliberately kept hidden in the financial shadows by those that continue to shovel out paper “assets” like so much manure. Right now the Dow is all the rage with the press as they preach the gospel of the US stock market as a port in the storm. They do so with an old time religious fervor that would make a snake oil salesman blush. The object of the message is to pry that last penny from the hands of the last widow and orphan left standing. Value be damned! There is always a greater fool out there who will want your paper asset at some higher price.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Where a Nation's Gold and Your Gold Should be Held / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
Purpose of Holding Gold
Most central banks hold their nation's gold in the vaults of the world's leading financial centers' central bank vaults. These include New York, London, and Canada among others. In a peaceful, cooperative world, this is sensible as one of the prime purposes of central banks holding gold is to cover the nation's international trade payments when their own currency becomes unacceptable and their reserves of foreign exchange are depleted. By positioning the gold outside the country, it's instantly accessible for payments or guarantees of payments.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Gold and Silver Remain Strong as Greece Debt Nears Deadline / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Eric_McWhinnie
Precious metals posted their worst daily performance of the year on Friday. A stronger-than-expected, but highly criticized unemployment report added strength to the U.S. recovery story and the dollar. Now, the U.S. dollar continues to climb higher as Greek politicians struggle to agree on an austerity plan that is needed in order to secure another bailout for the country. Although the euro is giving a boost to the dollar, gold and silver continue to maintain key support levels.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Jim Grant and the GOP Joining Forces to Bring Back the Gold Standard / Politics / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
With two GOP presidential candidates saying they'd add legendary Wall Street pundit Jim Grant to their administrations, bringing back the gold standard clearly has moved up on the Republican agenda.
Ron Paul, for whom returning to the gold standard has been a decades-long crusade, has said he would name Grant chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. In his case, that would be a compromise - Paul has often called for the Fed to be abolished altogether.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Abandoning the U.S. Dollar for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jan_Skoyles
Jan Skoyles looks at the recent stories of countries abandoning the dollar for gold in international transactions. This will have implications for the gold price, but will it have an impact on further debates involving the gold standard. At The Real Asset Co we promote a return to sound money and so developments such as those discussed below always grab our attention.
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Gold Compared to Past Bubbles / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Willem_Weytjens
Bubbles Come, Bubbles Go.
The chart below shows us the “classic bubble pattern”.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Bullish Digestion for Gold, Euro / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Spot gold continues to respect the integrity of its up-slanted channel off of the Dec 29 corrective low at $1522.48. As long as the lower channel support line remains intact in the vicinity of $1700, the uptrend channel will continue to dictate the directional action of gold.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
In the Gold Bullring / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Frank_Holmes
After prices fell 10 percent in December, many investors wondered if the bull market in gold was running out of steam. That was before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke swooped in with a "red cape" and fired the bulls back up. Since the Fed reassured the world that interest rates will remain at "exceptionally low levels" for another two years, gold has jumped more than three percent.
Monday, February 06, 2012
Gold "Rollercoaster" Heads Yet Lower as Greece Hits "Crunch Time for Bankruptcy" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold prices fell further Monday morning in London, reaching $1713 an ounce by lunchtime – a 2.8% drop from last week's high – as stock and commodity markets also ticked lower, while US Treasury bond prices gained.
Silver prices dropped to $33.09 per ounce – 3.9% down on the high from last week – as uncertainty grew over the long-running Greek debt issue.
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Gold, Stocks and Euro Fall As Possible Greek Debt Default Looms / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,717.00, EUR 1,315.31, and GBP 1,090.85 per ounce.
Friday's AM fix was USD 1759.50, EUR 1,335.48, and GBP 1,110.66 per ounce.
Gold has followed the now familiar trading pattern of gains in Asia followed by weakness in Europe. While gold has fallen and is weaker in most currencies gold remains higher in euro terms due to euro weakness on the concern of a Greek default.
Friday, February 03, 2012
Bernanke's Comments "Lend Support" to Gold, But Dips Following Strong US Jobs News / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold prices slipped back below $1750 an ounce while stock markets rallied strongly following the release of better-than-expected US jobs figures on Friday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics nonfarm payrolls report, published on Friday, shows that the US added a net 243,000 nonagricultural private sector jobs last month. In addition, both November and December's nonfarm figures were revised upwards. The unemployment rate fell to 8.3%, down from 8.5% the previous month.
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Friday, February 03, 2012
U.S. Mint Gold Coin Sales Return to Fundamental Driven Demand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: GoldCore
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1759.50, EUR 1,335.48, and GBP 1,110.66 per ounce.
Yesterday's AM fix was USD 1,747.50, EUR 1,326.68, and GBP 1,102.80 per ounce.
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Friday, February 03, 2012
Gold Bull Market Bigger than Ever / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Jan_Skoyles
We recently wrote about the difference between gold’s price and its value, demonstrating a significant difference between the two. We asked many fundamental questions which show whether or not the gold price is proximate to its value. The answer was it was not.
Late last year we wrote of the on-going ‘Gold Wars’ between so-called industry experts and gold investors. We repeatedly found ‘experts’, who write in the mainstream media, were calling the end of the gold bubble whenever the price of gold dipped slightly.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Silver And The Shift To Measuring Wealth In Ounces Instead Of Dollars / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012
By: Hubert_Moolman
The debt-based monetary system creates an illusion of wealth. It allows for claims on real goods to significantly exceed the actual amount of real goods. You then have a number of people believing they have wealth, since they have claims (pieces of paper or tokens) showing that they have these real assets, whereas, in reality, if everyone was to claim the real goods, there would not be enough to go around.