Category: Gold and Silver 2013
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Gold and Silver Hit New Lows as CME Hikes Margins / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold bullion prices touched fresh three-year lows Friday at $1269 an ounce before recovering a little by lunchtime in London, as stocks and commodities also regained some ground after sharp falls yesterday.
Spot silver prices fell as low as $19.41 an ounce, as with gold their lowest level since September 2010, before they too recovered a little, as other commodities also ticked higher while the US Dollar weakened slightly.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Gold and Silver - A Great Day to be a Bear / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: EWI
In the wee morning hours before dawn on Thursday, June 20, the precious metals' rooster crowed, "*****-a-doodle-DOH!"
It was the ultimate wake-up call:
Read full article... Read full article...First, gold prices plummeted 4% then 5% then 6% below $1300 per ounce to their lowest level in nearly three years. Soon, silver followed in an even steeper drop below $20.
Friday, June 21, 2013
After the Gold Crash - Summer Rest for the Gods Or Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
After the Fed's gold crash, what might India's Chaturmas mean for prices...?
AFTER the import curbs came the Fed. Next will come Chaturmas. Might this 'closed season' for Indian weddings finally stem the subcontinent's frantic gold buying this summer?
It usually does. All Asian gold demand tends to ease off mid-year, but India goes dead quiet, thanks to the lack of auspicious days on the Hindu calendar. 2013's Chaturmas – literal meaning, "four months" – starts in mid-July. Although it starts later and is shorter than in 2012, the shutdown for Indian weddings will still run until early November as the Hindu gods and goddesses enjoy their Yogi Sleep.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Will the U.S. Be Able to Dominate the Gold Price Both Ways? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
In April the gold price buckled and fell $330, $200 of which took only two days. It was a well-engineered bear raid, initiated by over 400 tonnes of 'short' positions on the COMEX futures and options market. But the futures and options market is not likely to cause the price of gold to fall as only 5% of that market involves the physical delivery of gold and then only after the counterparty has been put on notice that physical delivery of gold is required.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Gold, Silver, Stocks, Bonds Plunge On Fed Noise And China Debt Crisis Risk / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,303.25, EUR 986.34 and GBP 842.38 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,366.00, EUR 1,019.86 and GBP 874.91 per ounce.
Gold fell $16.10 or 1.18% yesterday and closed at $1,351.00/oz. Silver sank to $21.25 and ended down 1.25%.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Gold, Silver Fall to 3 Year Lows as Bernanke Says Fed Could Slow Asset Purchases This Year / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
SPOT MARKET gold and silver prices fell to their lowest levels since September 2010 Thursday, with gold dropping through $1300 an ounce during London trading and silver falling below $20 an ounce.
Stocks and commodities also fell and the US Dollar strengthened after US Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke told a press conference that "the underlying factors are improving" in the US economy, adding that the Federal Open Market Committee could begin to scale back its $85 billion-a-month asset purchases later this year, a process that has become known as 'tapering'.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Get Ready for Really Cheap Silver Stock Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: The_Gold_Report
It's a jungle out in the silver markets. Investors are holding on for their lives as the price of metals swings to higher highs and lower lows and junior equities bounce along the bottom. In this interview with The Gold Report, David H. Smith, senior analyst at silver-investor.com's The Morgan Report, navigates the jungle by advising which explorers, midtiers, stalwarts and royalties to consider buying in tranches on the way down and selling on the inevitable way up.
The Gold Report: David, Silver Investor analyzes the long-term macro trends and specific stock catalysts in the silver market. What do you see as the risk/reward profile over the next 12 to 36 months in the space?
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
What Lies Ahead for the Gold Price? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Jeff_Clark
First, the bad news…
The selling is likely not over. The capitulation process may not be completed. Overall momentum remains down.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Will Silver Price Drop to $10? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Peter_Zihlmann
A drop of the silver price to $ 10/ounce is highly unlikely in view of the sharply rising National Debt in the USA but also in Europe.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Silver Price to Rise as Top Miner's High Grade Production Evaporates / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Steve_St_Angelo
One of the most insidious problems taking place in the gold and silver mining industry is the decline in falling yields. Not many realize, when yields decline, production evaporates and disappears. To offset the decline in metal yields, the mining companies have to add new mines and or increase the amount of processed ore.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
U.S. Gold Reserves, They Would Not Lie to Us, Right? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: DeviantInvestor
The official gold holdings (rounded numbers) of the US Treasury Department are as follows:
| Fort Knox | 147,000,000 ounces |
| West Point | 54,000,000 ounces |
| Denver | 44,000,000 ounces |
| Federal Reserve of NY | 13,000,000 ounces |
| Other | 3,000,000 ounces |
| Total | 261,000,000 ounces |
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Gold, Silver Drift Lower, Market See's Paradigm Shift in Investor Attitudes / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
GOLD drifted to a one-week low below $1380 an ounce Tuesday morning, as silver dipped below $21.80 an ounce, with stocks and commodities broadly flat on the day ahead of tomorrow's US Federal Reserve decision, with analysts speculating on whether the Fed will give details of when and how it might slow down its quantitative easing program.
"The outlook for the gold price remains negative from a technical perspective," says Karen Jones, head of FICC technical analysis at Commerzbank.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Gold Market - Pieces Of The Puzzle! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Robert_M_Williams
Over the last several weeks I’ve received a lot of e-mails asking about gold. Half want to know if they can buy gold and/or gold stocks here, and the other half are demanding a pronouncement as to whether or not the bull market in gold is over. After all, if you hear it on Bloomberg from Betty Liu it must be true! Personally I don’t like it when the mainstream media tries to make the news instead of simply reporting the news. Unfortunately, we’ve been conditioned to let the media do our thinking for us and that includes everything from who should be President to which stock we should buy. Edward R. Murrow must be turning over in his grave as he stares down and listens to what passes for news today.
Monday, June 17, 2013
FOMC The Big Driver for Gold and Silver this Week / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
THE U.S. DOLLAR gold price drifted back below $1390 an ounce Monday morning in London, but remained well within its trading range of the last few weeks, as European stock markets edged higher, with analysts citing Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee decision on US monetary policy as "the big driver" for this week.
"On the whole, the market hopes for insightful comments in the course of the next Fed policy meeting...which will affect gold's further development as well," says a note from bullion refiner Heraeus.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Western Governments Diffuse Gold Bull Market With Central Banks Supply / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Alasdair_Macleod
There has been considerable throughput of gold in western capital markets, with substantial buying from all round the world following the April price crash. The supply can only have come from two sources: the general public, or one or more governments. It really is that simple. Two months later the gold price has only partially recovered, so physical supplies have continued to be made available. Physical demand cannot have been entirely satisfied by ETF liquidations, confirming governments are involved. This article looks at the dynamics of the gold market around this event and the implications.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Will Gold Price Drop to $500? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Peter_Zihlmann
A drop of the gold price to $ 500/ounce is highly unlikely in view of the sharply rising National Debt in the USA but also in Europe.
To quote John Hathaway, manager of one of a most respected gold fund, a sharp rise of the gold price is more likely:
"With gold and silver under continued attack from the mainstream media, John Hathaway warned King World News that we are at the point where global investors will be shocked as gold is quickly repriced a jaw-dropping $1,000 higher, taking gold to new all-time highs.
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Why U.S. Spreading Panic on the Gold Market? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Pravda
Why investors are sometimes misled? Perhaps, the goal is to further scare and disorient the investment funds and individuals so that they quickly get rid of their gold (and earlier - silver) because the gold has allegedly lost its former appeal and reliability, and stock quotes have sharply declined.
Likely, someone needed them to fall. Where else if not at the George Soros exchange various currency speculators can earn their billions of dollars? If so, this goal was achieved by someone. At the time when newspapers exorbitantly inflated information on the readiness of Cyprus to sell a small amount of gold to pay off the debt (total of 10.36 tons of the precious metal), a few hundred tons of gold metal that someone quietly purchased were sold on exchanges in Asia, Europe and America in the middle of April of this year.
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Gold And Silver Greater Certainty is Found in the Charts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Michael_Noonan
Opinion: noun 1. A belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
That pretty much sums up what has been proposed and "re-proposed" as to the lofty heights that both gold and silver will/may/should attain. For many, the anticipated higher prices should have already been attained. In fact, over the past several months, many opinions have been "re-proposed" as often as central bankers have re-hypothecated their gold holdings. With all the known information: strong demand,[for the physical], inability to deliver the contracted physical, etc, gold and silver remain at recent lows. Hence, the value of opinions.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
How will the 'Fracking' in Oil Production Affect Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
The process of "Fracking" in the production of oil is increasing global oil reserves by around 11%. More importantly, it has been a success in the U.S. but is yet to be used in Europe and Russia to the same extent. Nevertheless, this is expected to happen. The initial impact is that the world's dependence on Middle Eastern oil is falling fast and the stranglehold OPEC has had on oil prices is weakening considerably. But how should this affect the gold price you may well ask?
Friday, June 14, 2013
Have Gold and Silver Stopped Responding to U.S. Dollar Price Action? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Gold cannot be printed or manufactured in contrast to the currency. That’s why over the long term it has kept its value as the ultimate currency. There can be no “gold war.” However, we often hear about a currency war. Sounds familiar, were did we hear this before?
The phrase “currency war” was coined by Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega after the financial crisis of 2008. The idea is that highly indebted nations weaken the value of their currency by cutting interest rates down to zero and printing fiat currency in order to gain trade advantages (cheaper products to export) and to pay less debt service on their bonds. Countries compete against each other to achieve a relatively low exchange rate for their own currency. The policy can trigger retaliatory action by other countries that in turn can lead to a general decline in international trade, harming all countries.
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