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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Precious Metals Leasing Explained |
| Whatis precious metals leasing, and why is it done...?
LEASINGis an integral part of the precious metals market,writes Miguel Perez-Santalla at BullionVault.
Why is it necessary? For a diverse number of reasons, the first is the need for industry to borrow instead of buying outright the metal. This enables them to avoid owning the metal at a fixed price if they have not yet contracted to sell their product.Saturday, May 23, 2020 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Watching Palladium Make New All-Time Highs |
| The price action in palladium is eerily reminiscent of early 2001, and this could have major implications for gold and silver in the months ahead.
Back in 2001, the price of palladium spiked to highs above $1100/ounce. At the time, major physical palladium shortages appeared and tremendous strain was put upon the LBMA palladium market in London. Lease rates soared, and it appeared that thWednesday, October 24, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Alabama exempts gold and silver bullion and coins from sales tax |
| By Dave Harper
Numismatic News, Iola, Wisconsin
Thursday, March 8, 2018
The Industry Council for Tangible Assets has notched another sales tax win.
Congratulations.
Alabama becomes the 37th state to exempt sales of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion and money, ICTA's David Crenshaw reports.
Numismatic commerce can blossom thanks to Gov. Kay Ivey. She signed into law Senate Bill 156 on March 6 to create a sales and use tax exemption on U.S. coins and currency and precious metals bullioSaturday, March 10, 2018 |
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 | Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| 3 Amigos of the Macro, Updated |
| You thought I was done with the Amigos shtick, did you? Not by a long shot ma’am. They are the happy-go-lucky riders in play as the stock bull market churns on. They are the rising SPX/Gold ratio and stocks in general vs. gold (Amigo #1), rising US 10yr & 30yr yields (Amigo #2) and the flattening 10-2 yield curve (Amigo #3). On their current trends these goofy riders have signaled “a-okay!” to casino patrons playing the stock market and other risk ‘on’ items.Taking our macro indicators out of orFriday, March 9, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Chicago Way Precious Metals Protection Plan |
| Do you have a plan to protect your precious metals?
You should. I’m going to tell you mine today.
I’m from Chicago.
The second city. The windy city. The city of big shoulders.
All of that sounds nice, but if you’ve live in Chicago, the phrase that is always top of mind is not so romantic.
You may have heard it before. It’s the phrase that was famously mouthed by Sean Connery in the movie “The Untouchables” when he said “THATS the Chicago Way.”
The Chicago Way.
If you live in Chicago and don’t knFriday, March 9, 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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 | The Energy Report |
| Target Prices Raised on Cobalt Pure-Play After Major Royalty Acquisition |
| Analysts assess the move by this company to acquire a royalty on a project that one calls "one of the largest undeveloped nickel reserves and the largest undeveloped cobalt reserve globally."
Analyst Anoop Prihar with GMP Securities, in a Feb. 22 research note, reported that Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. (KBLT:TSX.V; CBLLF:OTC; 27O:FSE) acquired from a third party a 1.75% net smelter return royalty (NSR) on all metals (nickel, cobalt, platinum and palladium) pThursday, March 8, 2018 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Gold Stocks Break Down below 2017 and 2018 Lows! |
| The HUI Index just closed below both 2017 and 2018 lows. The interpretations of many developments in the market are vague and subjective. But not major breakdowns. Gold miners just showed exceptional weakness by closing at new lows even though gold is still above $1,300 and the S&P corrected more than half of its recent sharp decline. Can anything save the precious metals sector from falling further?
Yes, but based on what happened yesterday, it seems that the golden Superman may have some troubThursday, March 1, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Comex Silver Speculators Turn Net Bearish, Gold Prices Steady as Russia, Turkey Warn US Over Syrian 'Fire' |
| GOLD and SILVER PRICES remained steady on Monday morning in London against a rebounding US Dollar,
write Steffen Grosshauser and Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
With New York shut for Presidents Day – and ahead of meeting minutes due Wednesday from the US Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting – global equity markets were mixed as non-US government bond prices fell once more, nudging interest rates higher.
Monday, February 19, 2018 |
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| Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| Macro Update: 1 Week Later Risk Remains 'On' as 2 of 3 Amigos Ride On |
| Despite a tough week for stocks into Friday, February 9, three big picture macro indicators have continued to support a risk ‘on’ backdrop. Many of the shorter-term indicators we watch, like Junk bond ratios and the Palladium/Gold ratio say the same thing. Junk/Treasury and Junk/Investment Grade are threatening new highs and as we have noted in NFTRH updates all through the recent market volatility, Palladium (cyclical) got hammered vs. Gold (counter-cyclical), but only to test its major uptrendMonday, February 19, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Spot Gold Up after 'Margin Calls' as Investors Await Trump's Spending Plan and Inflation Data |
| SPOT GOLD bounced back on Monday morning in London as the US Dollar declined after last week's rally while investors wait for US President Trump's spending plan and inflation data, writes Steffen Grosshauser at BullionVault.
Gold Prices started the week by rallying from $1316 to $1319 per ounce after their second consecutive weekly decline, while the greenback weakened against its major counterparts.
Markets were looking at President Trump's infrastructure plan and the USMonday, February 12, 2018 |
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 | Perth Mint Blog - Perth Mint Blog. |
| LBMA forecasters split on price of gold in 2018 |
| The London Bullion Market Exchange’s latest Precious Metals Forecast Survey has split analysts on the likely direction of precious metals in 2018. The annual forecast brings together a group of experts to predict the high, low and average price of gold, silver, platinum and palladium during each 12-month period. This year 34 participants were asked for their views. Notable factors that divided the group’s projections included the level of U.S. real interest rates, the likely impact of geopoliticWednesday, February 7, 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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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Greatest Stock Bubble In History GoldNomics Podcast Transcript |
| Dave: Welcome to episode two of the Goldnomics podcast where we look at the developments in financial markets through the lens of precious metals. Before we start today, I just want to remind all our listeners to subscribe to the Goldnomics podcast on iTunes YouTube or SoundCloud. And you can also stay up to date with all of the developments in precious metals markets by subscribing for our market updates at www.goldcore.com. And you can find a link in the show notes accompanying this podcast.
Monday, January 29, 2018 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
 The 48-Year Record of Pt:Pd Ratios |
| A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary GeologistContact@MercenaryGeologist.comJanuary 15, 2018Price ratios determine relative value of the precious metals and are useful parameters in deciding which metal to buy at any given time.In previous musings, I documented the history of gold and silver prices and gold-silver ratios from the United States’ abandonment of the gold standard in August 1971 to present (Mercenary Musing, May 9, 2016) and followed with a similar treatment for platinuThursday, January 18, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Silver Prices To Surge – JP Morgan Has Acquired A “Massive Quantity of Physical Silver” |
| – JP Morgan continues to accumulate the biggest stockpile of physical silver in history– “JPM now holds more than 133m oz -more than was held by the Hunt Bros” – Butler– Silver hoard owned by JPM has increased from Zero ozs in 2011 to 120m ozs today
– Money managers showing more optimism towards silver through record buying– “Near impossible to rule out an upside price surprise at any moment”
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
Source: Sharelynx
Money managers are feeling increasingly optimistic about silver, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 |
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| Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| Submission: Semi Canary Still Chirping, But He's Gonna Croak in 2018 |
| Since January 2013 we have been using the worldwide Semiconductor Equipment industry as a leader within the Semiconductor sector, which is an economic cyclical leader itself. That month we noted a positive move in Equipment bookings, which became a (3 month) trend that spring. This trend was used to project positive economic signals to come.Through some turbulence in 2014 and 2015 the sector has remained on ‘economic up’ along with our cross reference indicator, the Palladium/Gold ratio right upFriday, January 12, 2018 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Bank Wouldn’t Accept My Cash |
| Dear Subscribers, I wanted to share a valuable experience with you that occurred to me yesterday at a prominent bank that has ‘America’ in it’s name. I went to make a deposit into a subcontractors account to pay for labor. As I normally do, I went to into the bank to pay him from my debit card via cash advance. I do not have an account with the said bank. I have all of his correspondence and filled out the deposit slip, and was informed that the transaction would not be accepted.
The teller infoFriday, January 12, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Palladium Prices Surge To New Record High Over $1,100 On Supply Crunch Concerns |
| – Palladium prices surge to new record high over $1,100/oz today
– Palladium surges past record nominal price seen in 2001 after 55% surge in 2017– Best-performing precious metal and commodity of 2017 is palladium
– Palladium prices top platinum prices for first time in 16 years– Strong Chinese car demand and switch from diesel to petrol cars sees demand surge– Supply crunch as six year supply deficit & 2017 deficit expected to hit 83,000 ounces
– Palladium supply crunch to intensify if world’s Thursday, January 4, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| An Interview with GoldCore Founder, Mark O’Byrne |
| “Uber-bull predictions of gold at over $5,000 per ounce are not beyond the realms of possibility…”
So says GoldCore founder and self-confessed gold bug, Mark O’Byrne.
Indeed, I recently caught up with Mark to get his thoughts on gold and what’s going on with it right now…
But before we got to the nitty-gritty, I started by asking him a little about his background:
GLENN: How long have you been in the gold business, Mark?
MARK: Well, I founded GoldCore more than 14 years ago and it’s been my passThursday, January 4, 2018 |
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