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| Gold / Silver | 61.90 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.72 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.07 |
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 | Clif Droke |
| When central banks buy stocks |
| The investment story of the year to date is the central bank-led financial market recovery. While everyone is aware of the impact the Fed's $85 billion-a-month asset purchases is having on stocks, few investors realize that central banks are making direct purchases of stocks. The implication of this new development is shocking. Bank of America stated that global central banks have cut rates an incredible 511 times since June 2007 in an effort at re-inflating the global economy. "Most centralSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Abenomics Brings Currency Wars to G7 Talks |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,449.25, EUR 1,114.12 and GBP 941.62 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,469.50, EUR 1,118.68 and GBP 944.59 per ounce.
Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)
Gold fell $16.40 or 1.11% yesterday to $1,456.20/oz and silver finished down 0.92%.
As the global economic slump continues central bankers, such as Mario Draghi, and politicians have vowed “to do whatever it takes” to get economies back on track. Such policies while having near term benefits are considered extreFriday, May 10, 2013 |
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| Ben Traynor - Bullion Vault |
| Gold "Could Retest $1322 Low", G7 Meeting "A Chance to Consider More Monetary Activism" |
| London Gold Market ReportSPOT MARKET gold bullion prices fell to two-week lows Friday, drifting lower towards $1440 an ounce during this morning's London session before dropping sharply through that level, as stocks gained and most commodities fell as the Dollar strengthened against major currencies.Silver fell to $23.34 an ounce, while copper prices ticked higher."The risk [for gold] is a break through support [will] test the $1322 low," say technical analysts at bullion bank Scotia Mocatta, whFriday, May 10, 2013 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Shock and Awe: ECB Prepared to "Cope With Consequences of Negative Deposit Rates"; Dancing in the Da |
| As expected the ECB, cut its lending rate 25 basis points to 0.50%.
Yesterday, I suggested the ECB may try a "shock and awe" move. They did, just not the move anyone expected.
Instead, Mario Draghi said the ECB was Prepared to "Cope With Consequences of Negative Deposit Rates".
Shock and Awe
Bloomberg reports Euro Falls as Draghi Open to Negative Rates; Dollar Strengthens
The euro fell for the first time in five days against the dollar after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi sFriday, May 03, 2013 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Chains of Fiscal Discipline |
| Alan Greenspan was chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to early 2006. Greenspan used monetary policy to ignite one of the longest economic booms in history. Of course booms can soon turn to bust and nowhere was the boom more evident than in the housing industry - the sub-prime crisis collapsed tSaturday, April 27, 2013 |
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 | Deepcaster |
| Profit, Protection, Despite Cartel Intervention ? April, 2013 Update |
| ?Then, when the Fed?s fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Street and that the threat of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree ofSaturday, April 27, 2013 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| Profit from Domestic Energy Growth with Upstream MLPs |
| The Energy Report: Oil prices have been stuck in a $10-trading range in recent months. What are you predicting in the foreseeable future, and how does that affect your outlook for the companies you cover?
Michael Peterson: We expect range-bound crude prices through 2014. We're forecasting a Brent price range of $100?120/barrel ($100?120/bbl) and $85?105/bbl for West Texas Intermediate (WTI). Demand should see incremental growth over these two years of between 1?1.5 million barrels per day (1-1Monday, April 22, 2013 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
 Smack Down Time  |
| What a humdinger last week was in a money world that is chugging toward maximum velocity and turbulence. Readers know (and may be sick of hearing) that I'm allergic to conspiracy theories, but my allergy is not absolute or total and there are excellent reasons to believe that the smack down of gold and silver was an orchestrated event.Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
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 | Crisis Watch - James Howard Kunstler |
| Smack Down Time |
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| Deepcaster |
| Riding the Big Profits Kahuna ? How Much Longer? |
| ?Artificial.?Comment re. the recent Equities Market RallyMohammed El-ArianCEO & Co-CIO PIMCOIndeed, the Equities and Bond Markets have been riding The Big Kahuna of Fed, ECB, Bank of England (and now the Bank of Japan?s) Q.E. et al. for several Years Now.But for how much longer can Investors expect to ride these Market Boosting Central Bank Injections and other Interventions before Disaster strikes and the use of QE reveals itself to be clearly Counter Productive.Increasingly, these InterventionSaturday, April 06, 2013 |
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| Aubie Baltin |
 5 Reasons Gold Will Set an All-Time Record In 2013 |
| No two bull markets are ever exactly the same and gold is no exception. During the last secular gold bull market in the 1970s, gold rose from $35 in 1968 all the way to $200 by late 1974. Then completely unforeseen the unthinkable happened. Between late 1974 and mid-1976, gold prices were cut in half, dropping from about $200 to $100. At the time, many Gold Bugs sold out in fear & disgust. But then the unimaginable happened again; Gold prices started to climb and climb, rising from $100 in mid-1976 all the way to $800 by January 1980. Anyone who bought gold at $35 earned better than 20 times their investment. But most of that rise occurred in just the last two months of 1979.Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 Fortress of Lies |
| History has a special purgatory where it sometimes stashes feckless nations punch drunk on their own tragic choices: the realm where anything goes, nothing matters, and nobody cares. We've surely crossed the frontier into that bad place in these days of dwindling winter, 2013. Case in point: Mr. Obama's choice of Mary Jo White to run the Securities and Exchange Commission. A federal prosecutor back in the Clinton years, Ms. White eventually spun through the revolving door onto the payroll ofTuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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| Ben Traynor - Bullion Vault |
| Gold Uptrend "Could See Significant Damage", Recent Falls "Largely Down to Futures Trade |
| U.S. DOLLAR gold prices climbed back above $1590 an ounce Monday morning, extending gains from Friday following sharp losses last week, while stock markets also rallied, although the FTSE 100 in London saw smaller gains that other European indexes following news of a downgrade to Britain's credit rating."Support [for gold] sits at $1522, the low from December 2011," says the latest technical analysis from Scotia Mocatta."A break of that level will do significant damage tMonday, February 25, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| The New York Fed's Primary Dealers, Liquidity, Monetary Policy, and Excess Reserves in T |
| Someone asked me about Primary Dealers today. I think it was in regard to liquidity concerns.
Cutting to the punchline, however one wishes to characterize and attribute it, the financial system is once again over-leveraged, over-concentrated, fraught with interconnected with counterparty risk, and fragile.
This is because of the policy failure of the Treasury and the Fed which could be characterized as extend and pretend without engaging in significant reforms and law enforcement in the aftSaturday, February 23, 2013 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
State of the Union  |
| The fog of chatter about Federal Reserve money-printing shenanigans, currency wars, fiscal intransigence, exchange rates, and alphabetized rescue operations conceals the central reality of the historical moment: that all industrial economies now face epic contraction, even rip-roaring China in its absurd and spectacular bid to become the latest drive-in utopia. The so-called advanced nations of the world are all sliding toward something less than they wish to be, and the so-called developing nations will backslide further into poverty and anarchy where development will never happen.Tuesday, February 12, 2013 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Nothing At All, Then All at Once |
| New York's S&P index is back where it stood in July 2007 ? right before the global credit crunch first bit, eating more than half the stock market's value inside 2 years...Japan's Nikkei index has jumped by one third since mid-Nov., thanks to export companies getting a 20% drop in the Yen ? the currency's fastest drop since right before the Asian Crisis of 1997...And here in the UK ? where the FTSE-100 stock index just enjoyed its strongest January since 1989, when house prices then suffered theMonday, February 11, 2013 |
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| Ben Traynor - Bullion Vault |
| Stock Market Strength "Taking the Shine Off Gold", But Futures Positioning "Could Create |
| London Gold Market ReportFrom Ben TraynorWHOLESALE PRICES forgold bullion hovered above $1670 per ounce Wednesday morning, broadly in line with where it started the week, while stocks and commodities were also little changed and the Euro eased against the Dollar ahead of tomorrow's European Central Bank interest rate decision.Gold has failed to break through the $1700 an ounce barrier since falling through the level in December. Over the same period, most stock markets have rallied. The S&P 500Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
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