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| RATIOS & INDEXES |
| Gold / Silver | 63.01 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.02 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.43 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
 S&P Predicts 20% Drop in Spain's Housing Prices Over Next 4 Years; Bad Bank to Dump Distressed Prope |
| Spain's "bad bank", Sareb to speed up distressed property sales in an ambitious new timetable for liquidation.
The bad bank is hoping to sell almost 42,000 housing units in the next five years. This is about half of the properties in its €50 billion (£42.5 billion approximately) portfolio.
However, falling house prices and a desire among buyers for modern properties in prime locations could hamper these plans for swift sale. Already the value of assets is being slashed by Sareb to clear theiThursday, May 02, 2013 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
A beginner's guide to investing in Gold  |
| One’s motivation for buying gold is fundamental to deciding in which form you should buy it. Are you a speculator, investor or saver? Do you wish to take a short term speculative position in gold? Are you investing for the short, medium or long term? Or are you diversifying, saving or using gold as a form of financial insurance?Tuesday, March 19, 2013 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| "Patience Thin" for Gold Investors on Worst Price-Drop in 9 Months, ETF Liquidation |
| London Gold Market ReportThe PRICE of gold slipped again below $1600 per ounce on Thursday a level first reached on the way up in July 2011 to head for its worst one-month drop since May as world stock markets rose.Broad commodity markets were little changed, while silver bullion crept back above $29 per ounce.Down 4.5% in Dollar terms since the end of January at $1590 per ounce, gold for Euro investors was headed for a 1.8% monthly drop at 1212.50.The Sterling price of investment gold was Friday, March 01, 2013 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| German Gold Repatriation Is Victory For Transparency And GATA |
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“That the Bundesbank has been nudged into this new-found transparency must be chalked up as a victory for the groups of investors – most prominent among them, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, or GATA – that have for years been asking central banks to reveal their activities in the gold market.”Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
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 | Axel Merk - Merk Fund |
| Trillion Dollar Battle: Print, Baby, Print! |
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While the introduction of a trillion-dollar coin has been shrugged off as nonsense, there are plenty of nonsensical concepts employed in our monetary system.Here we’ll shed light on a few of them.
Governments - or their central banks - can print a $100 bill.The value of such a piece of paper is worth exactly as much as the supply and demand of a currency dictates.Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
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 | Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital |
| Congress Avoids the Cliff by Selling Us Down the River |
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With the possible exception of the New York Times' editorial board (and the cast of The Jersey Shore), everyone on the planet understood that the United States Government needs to cut spending, increase taxes, or both.Instead, after months of political posturing and hand wringing, the Federal Government has just delivered the exact opposite, a deal that increases spending and decreases taxes.Friday, January 04, 2013 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| Stop Gambling and Find Stable Profits in Energy Investment: Sid Rajeev |
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Are junior resource stocks the investment equivalent of a game of blackjack? It depends on the investor as much as it does on the company.Sid Rajeev of Fundamental Research Corp.has come to expect stability from his picks.How? By using fair-value metrics and a longer-term timeline.In this exclusive interview withThe Energy Report, learn how this pragmatic analyst plays a speculative market for reliable returns
Energy Report: In your last interview with us, you talked about your firm's fair-value metric philosophy for evaluating which stocks look like good investment candidates.Wednesday, October 31, 2012 |
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| Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Euro-Gold Hits 6-Week Low, Pullback to US$1700 |
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WHOLESALE BULLION prices to buy gold recovered an early dip in London on Wednesday morning, rising back to $1750 per ounce as European stock markets also rose and the single currency hit its best level in more than a month.
The rising Euro knocked the price for French, German and Italian investors to buy gold back to a 6-week low of €1333 per ounce (€42,860 per kilo).Friday, October 19, 2012 |
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| London Gold Market Briefing - Bullion Vault |
| Pullback to US$1,700 'Would See Significant Support' |
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Wholesale bullion prices to buy gold recovered an early dip in London on Wednesday morning, rising back to $1,750 per ounce as European stock markets also rose and the single currency hit its best level in more than a month.
The rising euro knocked the price for French, German and Italian investors to buy gold back to a 6-week low of €1,333 per ounce (€42,860 per kilo).Thursday, October 18, 2012 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the herd |
| What Does Gold Have Going For It? |
| Gold no longer has a legal role in the world’s monetary system, but because of a collapse of faith in sovereign obligations - fiat currencies/paper money – and a coming complete lack of trust in governments and financial institutions, gold is going to quickly become a core banking asset.Tuesday, October 02, 2012 |
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 | Jeffrey Nichols - Nichols on Gold |
| U.S. Monetary Policy: Good News for Gold Investors |
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We have long expected further monetary easing by the U.S.central bank ...but this past Thursday’s news from the Fed was more than most gold investors could have imagined or hoped for.In reaction to persistent recession-like conditions and continued high unemployment in the U.S.economy, the Fed is now embarking on even more reflationary - and ultimately inflationary - monetary policies.Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
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