Category: Gold and Silver 2013
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Gold Bullion Rallies Despite "Losing US Fed Prop" as Stock Markets Sink / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
BOTH gold and silver rose in Asian and London trade Thursday morning, defying a sharp slide in global stock markets to gain 3.0% rally from yesterday's sharp sell-off.
Commodity prices fell as major government bonds rose but weaker Eurozone debt slipped, pushing interest rates higher.
Tokyo's Nikkei index – up by 85% from November – dumped more than 7% after new data showed a surprise contraction in China's manufacturing sector.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Gold Rallies as Stock Markets Crash, Nikkei Falls 7.3% / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,386.00, EUR 1,074.92 and GBP 919.16 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,385.25, EUR 1,071.43 and GBP 917.75 per ounce.
Gold fell $10.20 or 0.74% yesterday to $1,367.60/oz and silver finished up 0.07%.
Gold is up today while stock indices globally are sharply down after the Nikkei crashed 7.3%. The stock crash in Japan is leading to weakness in European equities and will lead to losses when U.S. markets open.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Are Gold Prices Near a Bottom? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Money_Morning
Diane Alter writes: It's been a tumultuous couple of months for the yellow metal, which has investors asking: Are gold prices near a bottom?
There's hope this price plunge is ending.
Year-to-date, gold is lower by 17%. But after seven trading sessions where gold prices slumped, on Monday June gold futures gained 1.4%, or $19.40, to $1,384.10. Contract prices bounced as much as 2.4% after sliding 2.1%.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Unveiling the Gold Market’s Working Parts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Jan_Skoyles
Why this happened is something which is open to much analysis and theorising. For the mainstream media it was down to an improving global economy and the need to hold gold no longer existed, for those in the world of gold investment this was perhaps down to more of the politics behind the gold-market than the economics.
On April 12th 3.4 million ounces (100 tonnes) of gold was sold in the US futures markets. This was just for starters, the main, side and dessert appeared over the following hours and the next session on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (COMEX).
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Silver Price Plunge Looks Set to Continue to $18.00 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Bob_Kirtley
As far as we can ascertain the demand for physical silver is alive and well with reports of people queuing to buy it while a number of suppliers, including the mints have been selling all that they could produce of the popular coins and bars. And yet the price of silver falls in the paper market which highlights the disparity between the physical and paper markets.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Bullish on Silver, Gold and Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: The_Gold_Report
Sprott Silver Equities Class Co-Manager Maria Smirnova understands the power of leverage. She has seen the big impact even a slight increase in the silver price can have on silver producers. Every cent is multiplied and goes right to the investor's bottom line, giving the equities more upside than possible in a coin. That is why Eric Sprott increased holdings of silver equities in certain Sprott funds. Smirnova discusses five of these companies in this interview with The Gold Report.
The Gold Report: Maria, in April Eric Sprott sold more than $45 million ($45M) worth of units in the Sprott Silver Physical Trust. A spokesperson told Canada'sGlobe and Mail that the sale was needed to cover charitable obligations and to buy shares in silver mining companies because Mr. Sprott believes silver equities will outperform the metal in the next rally. Can you fill in the details on that thesis?
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Asian Gold Premiums Hit New Highs as Europe Urged to Start "Agressive QE" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
BULLION prices rose throughout Asian and early London trade on Wednesday morning, touching $1398 per ounce for the third time this week and recovering 4.4% from Monday's one-month low.
Silver rose more steadily, and was capped below $22.80 as energy prices slipped and agricultural commodities held flat.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
First-Quarter Demand for Gold Jumps 19% in China, 27% in India / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Profit_Confidential
Michael Lombardi writes: This doesn’t make it easy to understand for investors who bought gold stocks and have now seen them go down in price…
But while the prices of gold stocks have pulled back significantly this year, demand for physical gold bullion has gone through the proverbial roof.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Gold, Silver Prices and Mining Stocks Powerful Reversal Off Multiyear Support / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Jeb_Handwerger
I wrote nearly a month ago that "The Worse Things Were For The Mining Sector, The Better They Will Get". This was after the first downward plunge in gold (GLD) and silver (SLV) in April due to the Goldman short.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Mining Deep for Gold: Part II / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ed_Carlson
In my February 15, 2013, Mining Deep for Gold, I concluded by writing “I suspect far greater losses are in store for gold before a bottom is seen.” Since that commentary gold has lost another $250/oz. The question in the minds of many today must be ‘when will this decline end?’
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Silver Price Recoups Sharp Loss, Rising on Record Volume / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,378.75, EUR 1,070.21 and GBP 908.39 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,353.75, EUR 1,051.95 and GBP 890.86 per ounce.
Gold climbed $19.40 or 1.43% yesterday to $1,384.30/oz and silver finished 2% higher.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Gold Prices Dead Cat Bounce / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Bob_Kirtley
On Monday, May 13, 2013 we wrote that Gold Prices would Re-Test $1350/oz level and so they did, trading sub $1340/0z at one stage. Gold had fallen for 7 straight days from $1470/oz before the slide was arrested earlier today with a bounce that pushed gold up to $1391/oz.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Gold Market Motive, Means, and Opportunity / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: DeviantInvestor
MOTIVE: The various governments of the world and their central banks produce and distribute a product – paper currencies. Those currencies are backed by confidence, faith, and credit, but not by gold, oil, or anything real. Those currencies are digitally printed to excess, since almost all governments spend more than their revenues. The UK, Japan, and the USA are prime examples.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Silver Surges From Lows After Being Slammed 10% Lower In 4 Minutes / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,353.75, EUR 1,051.95 and GBP 890.86 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,376.75, EUR 1,069.15 and GBP 903.62 per ounce.
Gold fell $22.20 on Friday to $1,364.90/oz and silver closed at $23.632.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Gold and Bank Account Balances / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Alasdair_Macleod
There has been a growing shift in favour of assets relative to bank deposits. This was initially encouraged by zero interest rates, but more recently there is little doubt that Cyprus's bail-in has accelerated the trend. This explains the bull markets in bonds and equities, which conveniently underwrites the entire banking system. It is however too early to offer evidence of falling deposit balances held by non-banks and the general public because depositors as a whole have been remarkably complacent, but there is ample evidence that liquidity from monetary expansion is inflating financial assets faster than bank deposits.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Silver More Weakness Before Price Takes off Higher Again / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Clive_Maund
Much of what is written about the macro factors affecting gold applies equally to silver, and will not be repeated here.
Silver's post plunge relief rally was considerably weaker and more stunted than gold's, and with it now back near to its April plunge lows after the drop last week, the chances are considered high that it will break to new lows soon. That said, its latest COTs and sentiment indicators are now strongly bullish, so that although it may well break to lower lows soon, it is thought unlikely that there will be much downside follow through before it hits bottom. We can see all this on its 9-month chart below, and how it is clinging on by its fingernails to the support at the April lows. Before leaving this chart, notice the large gap between the price and the 200-day moving average, which just by itself is a positive factor.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Bottoming Gold Should be Bought as Stocks Approach Blow off Top / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Clive_Maund
For those of you who are short of time and are accustomed to scrolling down to the bottom of an article to read its conclusions I'm going to save you the trouble by putting the conclusions at the start: the broad US stockmarkets are approaching a parabolic blowoff top and should be sold, and gold and silver are bottoming and should be bought. If you have fallen to the floor laughing at this suggestion it is a sign that you have been brainwashed by The Ministry of Disinformation and you are warned to pull yourself together and take the time to calmly consider the hard facts presented below - otherwise you won't be laughing at all in a few months when YOU will be lying face down in the dirt with tire tracks across your back.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Gold Supply and Demand Fundamentals for Q1 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Jason_Hamlin
Global gold demand for the first quarter of 2013 declined both in terms of tonnage (-13%) and dollars (-16%).
The volume decline was driven primarily by 177 tonnes of outflows from ETFs, versus inflows of 53 tonnes last year. If we remove this component from the mix, total global demand actually increased by 8% during the first quarter.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Why You Should Short Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Submissions
Tom Clayton writes: Short Gold is at the top of my list of a possible continuous of the deterioration in the $Price of Gold. Using the the Charts, It is easier to visualize. With the stockmarket making new highs weekly, why own gold. With Inflation under control, according to Fed figures, if you can believe after eliminating the Volatile Prices of Food and Energy.. which is the heart of Inflation..Right? The rate of inflation is reported at 3.1% but if you include Food & Energy.. it would be over 10% and unemployment would be 15% after eliminating those who have given up looking for a job, according to John Williams of Shadow Statistics. Anyway, inflation of 3.1% is “no reason to own Gold”?
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Gold And Silver True Story Is All About Time - Be Prepared / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Michael_Noonan
We are going to start off with one of the most eye-popping pictures of just one central bank, the privately owned corporate Federal Reserve, and its purported gold holding. Occasionally, we drop a bit of history that most people either ignore or simply do not believe, but this one cannot be conveniently shunted aside.
One of the provisions in the FEDERAL Constitution, the 14th Amendment, [the original, organic Constitution had only 10 provisions, aka The Bill Of Rights], a hornet's nest for an unsuspecting public, we our focus in on the one germane to the graph below. It is found in Section 4:
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