Category: Gold and Silver 2013
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, February 02, 2013
Gold Long-term Outlook 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Gold moved sideways for the last six weeks, with each rally and correction sparking either new hopes or new fears about the yellow metal. But focusing on such short-term volatility can rarely bring any good when it comes to long-term investments. That's one of the things that we often stress - one should always analyze the market form different perspectives and keep in mind their order of importance. This week we will focus on the long term.
Another thing, that we have already mentioned, is that such universal commodities, traded on many exchanges and in many currencies, like gold ought to be assessed taking other currencies into consideration. Hence, to get a clearer, distilled from the short-term noise picture of the situation in gold, today we will focus mostly on long- and medium-term charts, as well as on the yellow metal priced in currencies other than the U.S. dollar.
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Friday, February 01, 2013
JPMorgan Forecasts Gold $1,800 By Mid 2013 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,665.00, EUR 1,217.99, and GBP 1,052.46 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,674.50, EUR 1,234.88, and GBP 1,058.47 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $31.45/oz, €23.12/oz and £19.93/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,680.50/oz, palladium at $745.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.
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Friday, February 01, 2013
End of an Era for Gold as Stock Market Records Best January Since 1997 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
THE U.S. DOLLAR gold price recovered some of its losses from the previous day Friday, edging higher to $1666 an ounce by the end of the morning in London, while most stock markets also edged higher ahead of US nonfarm payrolls data due out 08.30 Washington, DC time.
A day earlier, gold dropped 1% during Thursday's US session, in what one analyst describes as "a remarkable display of schizophrenic volatility".
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Friday, February 01, 2013
Gold Repatriation - Is Germany Preparing for Future Capital Controls? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Jeff_Clark
The best indicator of a chess player's form is his ability to sense the climax of the game. –Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion, 1969-1972
You've likely heard that the German central bank announced it will begin withdrawing part of its massive gold holdings from the United States as well as all its holdings from France. By 2020, Bundesbank says it wants half its gold reserves stored in its own vault in Germany. p>
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Why Buy Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: DeviantInvestor
- Gold has been real money (medium of exchange and a store of value) for over 3,000 years. It is still real money.
- Gold has no counter-party risk. It is not someone else’s liability. It has intrinsic value that is recognized around the world.
- ALL paper money systems have eventually failed. The intrinsic value of paper money is effectively zero; and all paper money has, throughout history, eventually devalued to zero.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Marc Faber "You Don't Own Gold And You Are In Great Danger" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,674.50, EUR 1,234.88, and GBP 1,058.47 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,666.25, EUR 1,230.70, and GBP 1,057.20 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $32.08/oz, €23.76/oz and £20.40/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,677.50/oz, palladium at $736.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Gold and Silver Prices Counterintuitive Behavior To Continue / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldSilverWorlds
Grant Williams writes: The gold and silver price have been trading in a quite counterintuitive way lately. It became very obvious after the US Fed announcement on December 13th which was a fundamentally bullish event for precious metals. Gold was trading above $1,700 an ounce but has been trading lower since then. The gold price tried only once to break above $1,700 but did not succeed. Which leaves a lot of believers and investors with the question how that is possible and if more of the same can be expected in the foreseeable future.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Gold Bugs Response to Money Printing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
What gold investors think of money printing, inflation, and the vulgar crooks behind them...
Back in the final, dying days of 2012, Paul Tustain here at BullionVault offered a little fable to explain why money exists, how it is created by banks today, and why things could get very ugly tomorrow.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Gold and Quantitative Easing: Inflation All Over Again? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Perhaps you have heard that the Fed is printing money to get out of the crisis and that such actions cannot possibly end other than in even more money being printed and in the dollar losing its ability to buy you tangible assets. In our essay on gold and the dollar collapse we pointed out that since 1970 the debt numbers have gone up more than 40-fold (!). In 2002, future Fed chairman Ben Bernanke noted that "the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost." In keeping with these words, Bernanke has played an important role in the introduction of three rounds of what is known today as quantitative easing (QE) - programs expanding the money supply beyond the usual. The bill for QEs is $2.25 trillion and counting. As of January 17, 2013, U.S. debt totaled $16.4 trillion. These extraordinary numbers call for a deeper analysis and today we focus on what QE actually is.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Gold & Silver Jump on Weak US Data / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Adrian_Ash
GOLD and silver jumped to 4-session highs above $1674 and $31.65 per ounce respectively Wednesday lunchtime in London, gaining as new data showed the US economy unexpectedly shrinking in late 2012.
US stock-market indices held flat near 5-year highs, while the EuroStoxx 50 was unchanged near 18-month highs despite news that Spain's GDP shrank by 0.7% in the last 3 months of 2012.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Swiss Banks Offer Allocated Gold and Silver Accounts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,666.25, EUR 1,230.70, and GBP 1,057.20 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,660.50, EUR 1,235.12, and GBP 1,057.17 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $31.36/oz, €23.25/oz and £19.25/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,690.00/oz, palladium at $754.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Why the Fed Needs Golden Handcuffs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Jan_Skoyles
Jan Skoyles looks at how 100 years of the Federal Reserve system has affected asset prices, from the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the gold price. Read on to find out what happened in the last century to cause prices to rocket and what the Federal Reserve had to do with it.
This year the US Federal Reserve System will celebrate its 100-year existence thanks to the signing of the Federal Reserve Act in December 1913.
The Federal Reserve System was set up in response to a series of financial crises and ‘panics’, in the hope that it would redress the financial system’s shortcomings.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
German Gold Repatriation Is Victory For Transparency And GATA / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,660.50, EUR 1,235.12, and GBP 1,057.17 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,656.75, EUR 1,232.43, and GBP 1,052.77 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $31.09/oz, €23.23/oz and £19.84/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,675.50/oz, palladium at $737.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Gold Bearish in Short Term Outlook as Fed Meeting Looms / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
WHOLESALE Gold Bullion prices climbed back above $1660 an ounce Tuesday morning, broadly in line with where they ended last week, as stocks and commodities fell slightly and the Dollar ticked higher against the Euro ahead of tomorrow's interest rate decision from the US Federal Reserve.
"We are seeing a technical rebound following a few days of price decline," one trader in Shanghai told newswire Reuters this morning.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Real Reason Germany Wants its Gold Back / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: After spending more than 50 years in foreign hands, Germany's gold is finally going home.
In a recent watershed decision the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, has decided at least half of its gold should be held in its own vaults.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
How to Pick the Best Gold Bullion Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: Many investors in gold bullion have become increasingly worried due to the lack of price appreciation lately. Even though there has been an aggressive monetary policy initiative by the Federal Reserve, gold bullion and mining stocks in the sector have declined.
Obviously, no one can predict the future; it’s impossible to know for sure where gold bullion, or mining stocks in general, will be in the future.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
What Past and Future Speculative Bubbles Indicate for Gold and Silver! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: DeviantInvestor
This is not a prediction of future prices of gold and silver; it is an indication of what could happen in a speculative bubble environment based on the history of previous bubbles.
I’ll summarize a simple analysis of past bubbles.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Central Bank Gold Buying Frenzy / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Money_Morning
Tony Daltorio writes: Anyone investing in gold should recall that before the financial crisis in 2008 central banks were dumping the yellow metal - when it was trading for less than half of where gold prices are today.
But that certainly has changed in recent years.
In 2012, the world's central banks added the most gold to their reserves since 1964. Net official gold purchases added up to 536 metric tons, a gain of 17.4% from the previous year according to a report from Thomson Reuters GFMS. The estimate from the World Gold Council for such purchases is similar at 500 metric tons.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Russian Gold Reserves Up 8.5%, Palladium Reserves “Exhausted” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,656.75, EUR 1,232.43, and GBP 1,052.77 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,670.25, EUR 1,243.39, and GBP 1,058.93 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $30.90/oz, €23.08/oz and £19.74/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,689.00/oz, palladium at $741.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Gold and Silver Fall While Stock Markets Hit 5-Year Highs / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013
By: Ben_Traynor
THE U.S. DOLLAR gold price extended its losses from last week Monday, dipping to a near-three-week low below $1655 per ounce during London's morning trading, as stock markets ticked higher, with the FTSE 100 hitting its highest level since May 2008.
The S&P 500 meantime climbed above 1500 last week for the first time since December 2007.
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