Category: Gold and Silver 2014
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Gold Price Manipulation Still Alive / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Toby_Connor
If one looks at a longer term chart of the last two years it’s very clear that gold is being capped at certain levels, and those levels are slowly forcing gold lower and lower. Each one of these manipulation zones are being defended successfully and that has some serious connotations going forward.
This all started right after the announcement of QE3. Gold was driven below $1700 and held below that level for 2 months. This got the ball rolling so to speak, it broke an intermediate cycle and started the bear market. Of course we all remember the call by GS to sell gold short followed by the premarket attack on April 12 that took out the stops below $1520 leading to a waterfall decline. That had to be one of the most blatant cases of manipulation in market history.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Gold And Silver Low Prices Are NOT The Reason To Own Precious Metals / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Michael_Noonan
"ISIS poses a greater threat than 9/11. This is way beyond anything we have ever seen. We must prepare for everything. Get ready!" US Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel.
Whoa, Chuckie...back off a bit, here. Just who do you think it was that helped create the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, aka ISIS, fund them, train them, and provide the best weapons for them? Can you spell U S, as in a part of your title description as Secretary of Defense? Are you really telling America, and the world, that you are actually that clueless?
Friday, August 22, 2014
Gold Rising Interest Rate Fallacy / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold has slid during this past week on mounting fears of interest-rate hikes. Between the latest FOMC meeting’s minutes and the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, American futures speculators’ rising-rate phobias have been whipped into a fever pitch. They worry gold will be crushed when the Fed eventually starts normalizing rates. But history shatters this fallacy that rising rates are gold’s nemesis.
Today there is a near-universal belief among futures traders that rising interest rates are very bearish for gold. The underlying logic is simple. When interest rates rise, so do yields on bonds and cash in the form of money-market funds. This makes bonds and cash relatively more attractive to investors than gold, which yields nothing. Therefore they jettison their gold holdings to migrate capital back into bonds and cash.
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Friday, August 22, 2014
Jackson Hole: Myth of the All Powerful Central Banker Continues / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,281.00, EUR 965.12 and GBP 772.29 ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,280.50, EUR 965.03 and GBP 772.32 per ounce.
Gold fell $13.80 or 1.07% to $1,277.30 and silver slipped $0.03 or 0.15% to $19.47 per ounce.
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Friday, August 22, 2014
Silver Price Fix - Out With the Old - In With the Same / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The further markets become detached from reality, the greater the need for distraction. Justice is displaced by a rash of propaganda. The methods may be absurd, but they are effective.Over the summer, the big news in the world of silver has been the official end to the old (London fix) and the beginning of the new (electronic) fixing.
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Friday, August 22, 2014
Gold and Silver Price Getting Set To Explode Higher / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Austin_Galt
Can you feel it? That air of desperation creeping into the mindset of the gold and silver bulls. It seems like only yesterday that the bulls were hooting and hollering and calling the next great bull market underway. Calls of "$2000 gold here we come", "$100 silver here we come". Yeehaaaa!!!
Friday, August 22, 2014
Gold Big Picture: Most Important / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Aden_Forecast
With gold again on the decline, it's time to take a look and focus on gold's big picture.
This eases a lot of doubt, especially when companies like Goldman Sachs are bearish on commodities. We'll focus on silver and palladium too.
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Friday, August 22, 2014
Inflation, Interest Rates, and Why You Should Own Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Submissions
Jeff D. Opdyke writes: The answer: Gold.
The question: What is the best investment to own today as the Federal Reserve begins raising interest rates?
How we get to the answer — an answer that would seem to fly in the face of conventional wisdom — is why I come to you today. And this answer will reveal to you why you should own gold.
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
Gold and Silver Trading Alert as U.S. Dollar Soars to New Highs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Briefly: In our opinion no speculative positions in gold, silver and mining stocks are now justified from the risk/reward perspective.
The back-and-forth trading in the USD Index ended as it pierced through the short-term resistance and also above this year’s high. As we have emphasized many times previously, the U.S. currency is after long-, medium- and short-term breakouts so the surprises should be to the upside. Consequently, yesterday’s rally was not unexpected. What was surprising was the lack of real decline in the precious metals sector. Does this mean that the USD rally won’t hurt gold and silver investors? Let’s take a closer look (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com).
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Peak Gold? Russia To Surpass Australia As World No 2 Gold Producer / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,294.50, EUR 973.75 and GBP 777.76 ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was was 1,300.25, EUR 973.75 and GBP 781.17 per ounce.
Today’s LBMA Silver Price was USD 19.42 per ounce. Yesterday’s LBMA Silver Price was USD 19.66 per ounce.
Gold and silver fell yesterday - gold fell $3 to $1,295.90 and silver fell 19 cents to $19.49 per ounce.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The Gold War - Thinker, Trader, Holder, Why? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: John_Mauldin
By: Grant Williams
Sometimes, just sometimes, you need to stop for a second, take a step back, and reconsider the simplest pieces of any puzzle.
David John Moore Cornwall was a real-life spy. A spook. An agent. He worked for Britain’s MI5 and, later, MI6 intelligence services.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
The US Gold in Fort Knox is Secure, Gone, or Irrelevant? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: DeviantInvestor
In 1950 the US owned about 20,000 metric tons of gold - approximately 640,000,000 troy ounces. By August 15, 1971 when President Nixon "temporarily" closed the "gold window" that hoard had decreased to about 8,100 tons (Fort Knox, the NY Fed, and other locations). The US government had been overspending, exporting dollars oversees, and other governments had "cashed in" those dollars for gold. At that rate of decrease, the US gold hoard would have been entirely dissipated by now. Perhaps it is gone!
Monday, August 18, 2014
Why Chinese Citizens Invest In Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: I_M_Vronsky
The US$ price of gold has soared +377% from 2001 to date. That’s a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) equal to 13.4%. Contrast gold’s monumental appreciation with the pathetic performance of the Shanghai Stock Exchange Index and the miserly return of US Treasuries.
Monday, August 18, 2014
New Silver Price Fix Procedure / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Alasdair_Macleod
I shall come to this important event later in this market report; but first, our customary look at this week’s trading. From Monday through Wednesday the gold price found firm support at the $1305 level before gaining a few bucks to $1313 by close of play last night.
Monday, August 18, 2014
The TLT:GLD Gold Ratio Chart / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Rambus_Chartology
Below is a combo chart that shows the TLT:GLD ratio chart on top and the GLD on the bottom. This chart shows you when the ratio is falling GLD is rising and when the ratio is rising GLD is falling. Notice back in 2008 the ratio was at its high and GLD was at its low.
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
Autocalls Syndrome In The Silver Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Submissions
François Lenôtre writes: Autocallable products, or “autocalls” are structured notes popular primarily in Asia but also, to a lesser extent, in Europe. They offer the buyer an enhanced coupon linked to the behavior of an underlying market. With rates currently so low, vast amounts of autocalls linked to equity and commodity markets have been sold to investors, enabling them to receive 10 to 15 % annual yields (sometimes more) with the risk of seeing their capital wiped out in case of a collapse of the underlying reference market.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
HUI, Gold and Silver; Fun With Monthly Charts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Gary_Tanashian
Outside of the sound practice that is physical gold ownership in a time of monetary gamesmanship, the precious metals sector is all about speculation, at least according to 9 out of 10 chart jockeys and momentum junkies micro managing every short-term twist and turn.
Friday, August 15, 2014
New 'LBMA Silver Price' - Still Not Transparent / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
Today’s LBMA silver price was USD 19.86 per ounce. Yesterday’s LBMA silver fix was USD 19.86 per ounce.
Gold and silver remained in lockdown today and yesterday - gold rose a tiny $1.40 yesterday to $1,313.00/oz and silver a marginal 8 cents to $19.92/oz.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
No Silver Money For Mexico, But Perhaps Gold For Eurasia / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: Jesse
The amount of gold ounces stopped so far in August reached 478,800 the other day. That is a sizable chunk of gold at the Comex warehouse. But fortunately as you can see from the warehouse report, gold only enters, and rarely leaves. Don't look at all that other precious metal flowing to Asia, probably never to return in our lifetimes. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Confusion To New “London Silver Price” Launch This Friday / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,309.25, EUR 980.42 and GBP 780.71 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,311.00, EUR 982.76 and GBP 781.75 per ounce.
Gold rose a tiny $0.60 yesterday to $1,309.70/oz while silver fell $0.08 or 0.4% to $19.96/oz.
Gold is tethered to the $1,305/oz to $1,310/oz level again this morning - as it was for much of yesterday after ending Tuesday little changed for a second session. Gold has barely moved since late Friday, after closing last week at $1,309/oz despite heightened geopolitical risk.
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