Category: Gold and Silver 2014
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, December 12, 2014
New York Times on Benefits of Gold in Currency Wars / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
The New York Times published an important article this week in which the benefits of gold to nation states during a period of currency wars was highlighted. The article was noteworthy as the New York Times has rarely covered gold in a positive manner.
Friday, December 12, 2014
2014 Silver Eagle Sales Break Annual Record at Over 43 Million! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Jason_Hamlin
Silver Eagle sales in 2014 have already broken the 2013 annual record with a few weeks of sales still left to be counted. As of December 11, the U.S. Mint reported that 43.1 million silver eagles have been sold so far in 2014. This compares to the 42.7 million during all of 2013, which was the previous all-time record.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Silver Price Bottom - Maybe / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Joseph_Russo
If you’re wondering whether silver has finally bottomed, just hang on because in a minute, we’re going to outline the 3-essential criteria points that will determine if this is going to be the case or not.
Is $14.10 all she wrote for silver bears? Technically, we cannot yet confirm this; however, I must admit that this particular bottom does appear rather alluring.
Don’t get your shorts all twisted in a bunch just yet people. Remember, you don’t want to fall prey to every pretty-looking bottom that comes along now, do you?
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Elliott Wave Charts Point to Shocking Countertrend for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: The_Gold_Report
It's not just surfers who scrutinize wave patterns. Steven Hochberg, chief market analyst at Elliott Wave International, uses the Wave Principle to predict the movements of commodities and the stock market based on a number of factors, including sentiment. In this interview with The Gold Report, he reads the waves and shares their indications that the stock market is headed for a downtrend, while commodities will move up, although not in a direct line.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Gold Price Surges As Greece Crashes - Eurozone Debt Crisis Part II Cometh / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
Gold jumped 2.3 percent to a six-week high yesterday as sharp falls on stock markets globally led to renewed demand for gold as a haven.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Fade the Gold Short Squeeze Ahead of the FOMC / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Bob_Kirtley
The over-hyped Swiss gold referendum led to volatile trading for the yellow metal last week. That continued into this week with safe haven buying after the announcement of an early election in Greece and the resultant short covering continued that volatility. However, it’s very plausible that the coming week will show gold with even greater swings.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Trading Some Gold For Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Mike_Shedlock
Last Friday I decided the gold:silver ratio was so out of line that I swapped some of my gold for silver. The ratio is a measure of how many ounces of silver it takes to buy an ounce of gold.
Exchange Rate
My exchange rate last Friday was as follows: "USD 38.2355/goldgram & USD 16.3589/silver ounce" where 1 gram (g) of gold Equals 0.032 troy ounces (oz t) in gold.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Physical Gold and Silver vs. Paper Gold and Silver: How Much Markup Are You Willing to Pay? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Mike_Shedlock
I am a gold bull, but I am also concerned about seriously misleading hype regarding alleged shortages.
For example, a friend recently emailed an article that contained this claim: Gold Selling for at least 50% over Spot in Asia-Rob Kirby.
Read full article... Read full article...According to Rob Kirby "In the Asian market, if you could find physical bullion as cheap as spot plus 50%, you'd be doing really, really, really well and you'd be hard pressed to find serious tonnage at that price in Asia."
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
7 Questions Gold Bears Must Answer / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Jeff_Clark
A glance at any gold price chart reveals the severity of the bear mauling it has endured over the last three years.>
More alarming, even for die-hard gold investors, is that some of the fundamental drivers that would normally push gold higher, like a weak US dollar, have reversed.
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Monday, December 08, 2014
Why Wall Street and Governments Hate Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Michael_Pento
Gold is hated more than ever by both governments and the financial services community. This is because it has now become imperative to keep the illusion of confidence in sovereign debt and paper currencies. To that end, a gentleman by the name of Willem Buiter, Citigroup's chief economist, shot into the media spotlight by writing a note on the day before Thanksgiving stating his belief that gold is in a six thousand year-old bubble.
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Saturday, December 06, 2014
Gold-Backed Currency? Not Any Time Soon, But Be Prepared / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Michael_Noonan
Last year, many in 2013 were calling for the price of gold and silver to double, and more! Then came 2014 and those dashed hopes were pushed back to the second half of 2014. Earlier, in the first half of the year, we said that the second half could likely be more of the same, as in 2013, [See 2014 Could Be A Yawner]. With just a few weeks away from the end of the year, prospects for 2015 can equally be brought into question re PM price appreciation.
Is the petrodollar on the way out? More frequently, the signs say yes. Is a gold-backed currency standard waiting to replace it? Beliefs, at least in the PM community, remain high, but facts to substantiate the beliefs are hard to find. Sure, China and Russia have been and continue to be the largest buyers of physical gold, but is either the Renminbe or the Ruble ready for Prime Time? The short answer is no, and more emphatically for the Ruble. While the Renminbe is becoming more widely viewed as a potential replacement for the "dollar," China has nowhere near the capability of a world reserve currency system and all that it entails.
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Friday, December 05, 2014
Gold Shorting Exhaustion / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold’s been on an incredible roller-coaster ride over the past couple months, whipsawing like crazy. And contrary to popular rationalizations, these swings had absolutely nothing to do with fundamentals. Their sole driver has been American speculators’ extreme shorting of gold futures, which has battered gold’s price around in the absence of investment demand. But this epic gold shorting looks exhausted.
The core mission of all trading, whether long-term investing or rapid-fire speculation, is buying low and selling high. That’s the only way to multiply wealth in the financial markets. Short sellers execute this same strategy, but reverse the order. They borrow assets they don’t own, sell them presumably high, and later hopefully buy them back low to repay their debts. The key to shorting is selling high, not selling low.
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Friday, December 05, 2014
Gold Price Post Referendum Bounce / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Alasdair_Macleod
It turns out the Swiss referendum last weekend which sought to force the Swiss National Bank to maintain 20% gold reserves was a red herring so far as precious metal markets are concerned. It was fairly obvious before the referendum that no sensible trader would had bought gold in the expectation it would go through, so there would be few short-term sellers afterwards. Equally, it was so obvious to traders the referendum would fail that there may have been some short-sellers, or perhaps deferred buying waiting for the event to pass.
Friday, December 05, 2014
ECB Draghi’s QE Battle With Germany; Rules Out ECB Gold Buying / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
The European Central Bank will decide early next year whether to follow the Federal Reserve, Bank of England and the Bank of Japan with quantitative easing or money creation to buy government bonds and other assets but will not buy gold, its president Mario Draghi said yesterday.
Speaking in the ECB's new 1.3 billion euro headquarters, an imposing Frankfurt skyscraper designed to show the strength of the ‘single’ currency, Draghi threw down the gauntlet to Germany and signaled that he would not allow opposition from Germany or anyone else to stop the ECB’s QE.
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Friday, December 05, 2014
The Precious Metals Guarantee / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
A friend recently sent me a picture of a 1957 $1 silver certificate he found in his change while buying a cup of coffee. He’d been a coin collector as a kid and learned that his father carried nearly the same note in his wallet.
When I brought up Gresham’s law and the recent news that U.S. public and private debt had just breached the $18 trillion mark, it made very little impression, other than a brief pause in thought, though barely recognition.
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Friday, December 05, 2014
Gold Market Manipulation, US Resorts to Illegality to Protect Failed Financial Policies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
In a blatant and massive market intervention, the price of gold was smashed on Friday. Right after the Comex opened on Friday morning 7,008 paper gold contracts representing 20 tonnes of gold were dumped in the New York Comex futures market at 8:50 a.m. EST. At 12:35 a.m. EST 10,324 contracts representing 30 tonnes of gold were dropped on the Comex futures market:
Friday, December 05, 2014
US's Debt Not Such a Big Deal - Mr. Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Gary_Tanashian
Mr. Gold's last paragraph is the tell on his bias, as he is unwilling or unable to conceal the contempt he has for people who were absolutely right for 10 years+ and are now suffering a bear market, both to their asset of choice and in sound monetary thinking.
Read full article... Read full article..."The vastly improved fiscal situation may last only a few years, but it's a big plus for U.S. markets and the U.S. dollar -- and another nail in the coffin for the gold bugs and doom-and-gloomers who can add one more item to the long list of things they got really, really wrong."
Thursday, December 04, 2014
New Signs Gold and Silver Are Returning as Monetary Assets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Submissions
Stefan Gleason writes: Much to the chagrin of the financial elite, gold and silver are reentering the American consciousness and starting to shake the wing nutty image of their recent past. But it’s taken a global financial crisis to get the public’s attention – one that could wipe out our nation at almost any moment.
The U.S. government’s role in the economy is on a seemingly interminable upward trajectory. The government’s official debt balance that just crossed the $18 trillion mark (with additional unfunded liabilities estimated at more than $100 trillion). Half the population now lives in households that receive government payments.
Thursday, December 04, 2014
With The U.S Market Looking Bullish, How Do You Invest In Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Submissions
Nicholas Maithya writes: This year has been one of the best for US equities in recent times, at least judging by the movement of the leading indices – the S&P 500 (SPX), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), and the NASDAQ Composite (IXIX), along with their corresponding ETFS. They have all rallied to record highs this year, albeit with dips and rebounds that often characterize an upward trending market.
Thursday, December 04, 2014
Gold 2014 YTD in JPY, EUR, GBP and USD / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
Despite the worst sentiment towards gold we have seen since the brief 30% price fall in 2008, gold continues to eke out gains in all major currencies. So far in 2014, gold is 14.3%, 12.3%, 5.8% and 0.4% higher in japanese yen, euros, sterling and dollars respectively (see chart).