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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Bullion Gains Extend ETF Growth as Inflation Worries Hit 'Even the Yellen Fed' |
| GOLD BULLION held around $1240 per ounce in London trade Thursday, retaining its 3-month high as commodity markets pushed towards new 18-month records.
With energy costs
already driving up headline inflation rates worldwide, Brent crude oil today rose above $55 per barrel as Nymex natural gas contracts traded 90% above their price of this time last year.
Silver bullion held firm witTuesday, January 12, 2021 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
 Common Gold Silver Pitfalls to Avoid  |
| Investing in gold and silver may seem simple and straightforward, however it is not.
There are many types of ( quote, unquote ) "investments" in gold and silver you will want to avoid.
Gold and silver dealers are no different from any other industry or crowd of people.
Within our industry you will find many good honest professionals and organizations, but you will also find some bad outfits whose practices can be described as underhanded, even criminal.
Being the Managing Director ofMonday, November 16, 2020 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Supply of Oxen at the IMF |
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 | Paul Tustain - Galmarley.com |
 Calculating the "Fair Value" of Gold  |
| In the absence of cashflow, judging gold's present "fair value" means analysing it like an insurance actuary would...Wednesday, April 29, 2020 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Chris Powell at New Orleans conference: Gold market manipulation update, November 2018 |
| Since we met at this conference last year much new evidence of manipulation of the gold market by central banks and their bullion bank agents has been compiled and disclosed by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee.
For example, a month ago a major bullion bank, the Bank of NoSaturday, November 3, 2018 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| LBMA Alchemy and the London Gold and Silver Markets: 2 Steps Back |
| “Did you think that the high-powered world of the LBMA would operate in a fishbowl for all to see?
We cannot take what is on the outside as evidence for what is on the inside.”
Thoughts of ANOTHER – October 1997
LBMA Gold Price and LBMA Silver Price – Price Publication Delays
In August 2014, the long-standing and tainted London Silver Fixing daily auction was replaced by a newly launched London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) Silver Price daily auction. Similarly, in March 2015, the infamousThursday, March 8, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Ronan Manly: LBMA stalls daily gold and silver price auction fix reports |
| The London Bullion Market Association, gold researcher Ronan Manly discloses today, has stopped providing timely reports of the daily gold and silver auction price fixes and has against postponed its plans to publish trade data about the monetary metals.
Manly writes: "It must be obvious to everyone that the LBMA and its bullion bank members do not want the transparency that gold and silver trade reporting would provide. Otherwise they would not have spent four years on a project that any indiviThursday, March 8, 2018 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| 5 Facts About Silver Investing in 2018 |
| What do the Comex silver bears know...?
YOU MIGHT think hedge fund traders have called it right so far in 2018 on silver investing,
writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
As a group, the 'Managed Money' category of traders betting on Comex silver contracts stayed bearish overall in mid-to-late February, having turned against the metal in December for the first time since JulWednesday, February 28, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Bullion Touches 'Hurdle at $1356' as Dollar Falls, Tokyo Equities Join Correlation Break |
| GOLD BULLION hung onto four-fifths of its sharpest 1-day gain since August in London trade on Thursday, holding firm as world stock markets rose again despite longer-term US interest rates holding at multi-year highs after yesterday's inflation data beat Wall Street forecasts.
The Dollar fell again, with the single currency Euro briefing touching $1.25, just shy of end-January's 3-year high.
SnaThursday, February 15, 2018 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| From the Heart: Own Precious Metals |
| One of the things from which I occasionally enjoy a good chuckle is the insecurity displayed by bloggers or newsletter writers who are constantly in need of positive reinforcement derived by reminding readers of their "incredible market calls." It is always readily-predictable because just before they ask you to buy something (like a subscription), they post a link to emphasize their brilliance with phrases like "as you know" or "back in 2017" providing breathtaking introductions to their most rTuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Mark O'Byrne: Gold rigging won't end until China consents or press publicizes GATA |
| Gold price suppression, GoldCore's Mark O'Byrne writes today, isn't likely to end until the People's Bank of China stops cooperating with it or until mainstream financial news organizations examine and report the documentation GATA has developed over the years.
O'Byrne's commentary is headlined "Gold Bullion Price Suppression to End? Bullion Bank Traders Arrested for Manipulating Market" and it's posted at GoldCore here:
https://news.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-bullion-price-suppression-en..Monday, February 5, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price -$10 on Strongest US Wage Inflation Since Jan '09 But Fed 'Behind the Curve' |
| GOLD PRICES sank $10 inside 30 minutes Friday lunchtime in London as new US data showed a stronger-than-expected rise in new jobs plus the largest annual rise in average wages since January 2009.
The Dollar jumped on the FX market, extending an overnight rally begun as the Bank of Japan became the first central bank amid 2018's sell-off of government bonds to step into the market and buy in a bid to stem the resulting surge in longer-term intereFriday, February 2, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Bullion Price Suppression To End Bullion Bank Traders Arrested For Manipulating Market |
| – CFTC fines UBS, HSBC and Deutsche Bank millions of dollars each for gold price manipulation – Deutsche Bank ‘engaged in a scheme to manipulate the price of precious metals futures contracts’– UBS ‘attempted to manipulate the price of precious metals futures contracts’– HSBC engaged ‘in numerous acts of spoofing with respect to certain futures products in gold and other precious metals’– Gold ‘experts’ continue to deny legal rulings, evidence amassed by GATA, admissions by banks and central banThursday, February 1, 2018 |
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| Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| What’s Happening (or Not) at the LBMA: Some Updates |
| This article is in 3 parts and covers a) upcoming trade reporting in the London gold market which is being led by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), b) the recent publication by the LBMA of a Guide to the London OTC precious metals markets, and c) an update on monthly vault reporting which the LBMA and the Bank of England launched in 2017.
LBMA Trade Reporting
The lack of trade reporting in the London gold market is possibly one of the biggest ommissions in global financial markets, sThursday, February 1, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Gold's revaluation is 'just a matter of time,' but then so is everything else |
| Our friend P.C. writes:
"As a long-time GATA follower, I fully subscribe to the understanding that markets generally, and particularly the precious metal markets, are controlled to keep international exchange and trade 'stable' and maintain 'Western' market wealth. But I have a question you may be able to answer.
"If the major players in the futures and paper markets are able to contain prices with impunity, who is on the buying side who can compete? Why is there such volatility and any upward mSunday, January 28, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices 'Break Link' to Real Rates But 'Correction Looms' |
| GOLD PRICES erased last week's drop against the Dollar in Asian and London trade Tuesday, rising to $1337 per ounce even as the US currency held firm on the FX market.
World stock markets followed Wall Street higher to new all-time records after the Senate ended the 3-day government shutdown by extending 2017's budget
for another 2 weeks.
Commodity prices also rose, and major governTuesday, January 23, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Silver Lags Gold Price But Comex Speculators Turn Net Bullish as Fed Member Cuts Dollar Rate Outlook |
| GOLD PRICES held onto last week's 1.4% gains in London trade Monday but silver slipped amid a rally in the Dollar on the forex market.
World equities pushed up to fresh all-time record highs as major government bond prices also rose, pushing interest rates lower.
European
banking stocks lagged the broader gain in equities, however, after Germany's Deutsche Bank said at the weekend iMonday, January 8, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices Set 16-Week Closing High vs. Jobs-Data Hit Dollar, GLD Shrinks |
| GOLD PRICES rose back above $1320 per ounce versus the falling Dollar in London's wholesale trade on Friday, heading for the highest weekly close in 16 after new data said the United States added far fewer jobs than analysts expected last month.
The official
non-farm payrolls estimate also put average annual wage growth in December at 2.5%, unchanged from November's pace when inflation was seen at 2.2%.
Friday, January 5, 2018 |
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| Michael Ballanger |
| 2018: The Year of Living Dangerously |
| There is one redeeming benefit to writing "forecasts": they invariably and inevitably reduce you to a quivering mass of humility as the hubris born of luck and circumstance is replaced with the reality of randomness. I have been reading research reports for years and the most useful portions are those where an analyst goes back and reviews his/her reasons for owning something, and then a year later explains why it was flawed.
Interestingly, it is uncanny how random events otherwise known as "bThursday, January 4, 2018 |
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 | FOFOA - FoFOA |
| Happy New Year! |
| 2018
Year of the POP
If you'd like to read "Year of the POP", I'm sure you can guess where it can be found. ;D
At the Speakeasy, we discuss things like bullion, bitcoin, bubbles, banking, and much much more. As I did in Nine, at the ninth anniversary of this blog, and back in May at the second anniversary of the new Speakeasy, I have started a new tradition of sharing samples from the Speakeasy here. For this one, I picked a fun post from back in August. It's about the coat-check room view oTuesday, January 2, 2018 |
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