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Dollar default to change gold/silver markets
Last Friday we were led to believe that the debt-ceiling crisis would be over by the start ofAsia’s business on Monday. The weekend has gone and so the deal. The markets are very nervous and beginning...
View ArticleU.S. debt ceiling crisis only a minor player in gold and silver prices
Right now the markets are really starting to wind up over the debt ceiling confrontations. The weekend of U.S. political strife is on the world. It is so easy for the markets and commentators to lead...
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Junior gold & silver shares can perform when other equities do not
Junior Mining Stocks and Risks A junior mining stock is a mining company in its early days. It may have successfully explored and found a good deposit; it may have completed a feasibility study on the...
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The 'bear' market in currencies
Today, you will hear that gold is rising to record highs. You will hear talk of it entering a ‘bubble’ again. This is entirely the wrong perspective! The U.S, Eurozone Debt Crises Last Friday the S...
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Jump in gold price – what did it really say?
In the last weeks we have seen the gold price jump from the price we alerted our subscribers of $1,555, to reach just over $1,800. Contrary to the view of many analysts, we do not see this as a frothy...
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Gold and silver market morning
Over the weekend, gold slipped a little to $1,735 ahead of London’s opening. The euro was stronger at $1.43: €1, but these days that only means that the euro is not falling as fast as the dollar. In...
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Gold and silver market morning
In a remarkable day for gold, it closed up at $1,818 after touching $1,830 in New York. That was after a p.m. Fix of $1,824.00. Before London opened, gold stood in Asia at a staggering $1,847.15...
View ArticleGold and silver market morning
Gold closed at $1,829 in New York yesterday then slipped to $1,823 in Asia before slipping further at the London Fix to $1,815.50 in the morning, still $2 higher than yesterday afternoon’s Fix. That’s...
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Greek default, Eurozone/bank crisis and the effect on the gold, silver prices
We agree with Professor Rogoff that Greece should have defaulted some time ago. Despite all the current efforts, Greece will default and that contagion will result in a global, banking crisis. Even if...
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Why U.S. Gov’t confiscated gold in 1933. Can it happen again?
More and more investors are asking this question. Many observers and commentators have ridiculed this idea as archaic with the conditions that led to the confiscation being so different as to leave...
View ArticleThe euro and the gold price – potential fallout consequences
For many years now gold and silver -by its pattern of following gold wherever it goes- have been treated by traders, investors and central banks as a 'counter to the U.S. dollar' and quite rightly so;...
View ArticlePower to China in the IMF – does this mean gold to be mobilized?
Contributions to the I.M.F. Come with Conditions While the B.R.I.C.S nations are contributing to the I.M.F.’s funding with the purpose of shoring up the global financial system, they’ve stipulated that...
View ArticleThe black hole of deflation
The Global Picture and Where We Are Now For the last few years we've watched as the Credit Crunch morphed into the Sovereign Debt crisis in Europe, which may re-cross the Atlantic to hit the U.S....
View ArticleThe black hole of deflation & gold and silver – part 2
In Part I of this series we looked at the decaying state of confidence and how this is assisting in the deflationary process that is slowly, inexorably, moving forward, with limited action from central...
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Is Central Bank buying just a driving force behind gold or much, much more!
Since 2009 we have seen the signatory central banks of the Central Bank Gold Agreement cease selling their gold. We have stated many times in the past that the entire exercise of selling gold by these...
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Three countries to emerge from Iraq
In the last few weeks the story of Iraq has faded from the headlines to be replaced by the story on the Ukraine, Gaza and on the business front the tumble of the Dow on the New York Stock Exchange. But...
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What is the COMEX futures & options market really all about?
Let’s take a deep look into COMEX in this article that describes COMEX today. All of us follow COMEX in New York and assess the ‘net speculative long position’ there, so as to see the actual weight of...
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China can and will confiscate gold from SGE, banks and Chinese citizens, when...
By far the greater bulk of gold owned in China is under the control of the Shanghai Gold Exchange and they are controlled by the Chinese Central Bank, the People’s Bank of China. Should they wish to...
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