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Renewed Indian Demand Driving Gold Prices Higher? Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014 Mar 06, 2014 - 02:04 PM GMTJulian_DW_Phillips Current Situation Since last August, the Indian government placed a stranglehold on gold imports into the country by requiring that 20% of all gold imported be exported as jewellery. This forced the amount of gold imported to drop to 30% of former levels until October of last year. Then the amount imported rose to 38 tonnes a month and has been at that level since then. The amount of gold that was expected to be imported for the year was...

JP Morgan Holds Highest Amount Of Physical Silver In History Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014 Feb 05, 2014 - 06:48 AM GMTBy: GoldSilverWorlds Commodities While everyone is focused on the massive outflows in COMEX registered gold inventories and the gold ETF, GLD, it seems that an important evolution in silver is passing unnoticed. In what follows, Ted Butler, precious metals analyst specialized in COT analysis, reveals a remarkable insight in the physical silver market. Butler’s calculations show that JPMorgan (JPM) has piled up the largest holding of physical silver in modern world. Since the silver price peak in May...

A Whole New Group Of People Is Going To Start Worrying About The Gold Crash Jow WeisenthalJune 26, 2013, 5:26 AMBack in the day, a few years ago, when gold was soaring, anti-Fed types saw this as indication that Bernanke was blowing bubbles and creating hyperinflation. Of course, the price of gold is just the price of gold, but it didn't stop people from making bold statements about how gold was "voting" against Fed policy so to speak. Well now gold is totally crashing. At the start of April it was near $1600/oz. This morning it's not much above $1200/oz....

The Floor Dropped Out From Under Gold Joe Weisenthal June 25, 2013 Gold is still looking like one of the sickliest assets in the world. The floor just dropped out of it tonight, sending it to a new low for this cycle.

What Kind of Fools Are Buying Gold? Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013 June 23, 2013 - 08:55 PM GMT By: Jesse On the whole, the world's central banks are now net buyers of gold, and have been for some time, after being net sellers for over twenty years. Russia is one example. Why do you think they are buying it? They don't understand money? They don't know what they, and some of their associated central banks, are planning to do to recapitalize the deteriorating global financial system and dollar reserve trade regime? Did they forget to watch CNBC to...

Gold And Silver - The End Is Near; Just Not In Sight Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013 June 22, 2013 - 04:00 PM GMT By: Michael Noonan Whatever expectation[s] you may have, expect the unexpected and unlike what you may expect. So far, that has been playing out quite nicely, and one of our expectations is that it will continue to unfold in the same manner, and to the ongoing surprise of most. "Gold will be at/above $2,000 by the end of the year." "Gold will reach $3,000 [$5,000, $10,000, etc] and silver $100, [$250, $500, etc]" "The central...

If the Economic Recovery Is Strong, Why Are Lumber Prices Falling? Economics / Economic Recovery Jun 04, 2013 - 07:05 PM GMT By: InvestmentContrarian Sasha Cekerevac writes: As we all know, the stock market is in record-setting territory. One would think that this must mean the economic recovery engineered by the Federal Reserve is surely in place, but it’s not. I believe that the economic recovery is far from being assured. The shocking thing to consider is how many trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve has pumped into the economy, and yet all we have to show for it is...

NOURIEL ROUBINI: 6 Reasons Why Gold Will Plunge To $1,000 Joe Weisenthal Jun. 1, 2013, 4:27 PM Gold has been getting poleaxed in recent months, though it remains just below $1400/oz. In a piece up at Project Syndicate, economist Nouriel Roubini says gold will fall to around $1,000 before the end of 2015. He gives six reasons why. We summarize: * Gold spikes during extreme crises. The crises are over. * Gold does well during periods when there's a risk of high inflation. That clearly is no longer a big worry, given how much central banks have unsuccessfully tried to...

One Critical Commodity Is Having A Worse Year Than Gold Sam Ro May 29, 2013, 7:59 AM Here's a chart that Deutsche Bank includes in its periodic "Equity View" report. It's the year-to-date and month-to-date returns of the world's most important asset classes. There aren't too many surprises here. Japan's Nikkei is leading stocks and the yen is lagging the currencies. High yield bonds are leading the credit markets as investors reach for yield. One area that may surprise some is commodities. Gold has experienced a very widely reported sell-off. But iron ore is actually having a worse year. Iron...

Riding A Copper Commodity Horse Commodities / Copper May 25, 2013 - 02:49 AM GMT By: Richard_Mills My last article, 'Give It A Doubt' was about population growth, urbanization in developing countries and the one billion people predicted to join the consuming classes by 2025. "One billion people will enter the global consuming class by 2025. They will have incomes high enough to classify them as significant consumers of goods and services..." McKinsey Global Institute, Urban world: Cities and the rise of the consuming class Some of these new consumers are going to be Americans but the majority are in...

8 Currencies That Could Tank As Commodities Collapse Joe Weisenthal May 21, 2013, 7:20 AM A big story this year has been the decline in commodities. That's bad news for countries and currencies that are closely tied to commodities. In a note, Sebastien Galy has a quick rundown of what currencies are associated with what commodities: * Aussie Dollar : aluminum, coal & wheat * Canadian Dollar : oil and wheat * South African Rand : coal & platinum * Chilean Peso : copper * Mexican Peso: oil & silver * Russian Rubel: oil, nickel, platinum, wheat * Brazilian Real:...

Silver Has Now Had An Insane Day, And Is Actually Higher After Plunging 9% Matthew Boesler May 20, 2013 Silver got slammed last night when futures markets re-opened to begin the week. At its lowest level, the precious metal had fallen nearly 9% to $20.25 an ounce. Remarkably, it's already staged a big comeback, and it just turned positive on the day. In the past few minutes, it's screamed higher, and is now trading around $23.00, up 2.7%. Miller Tabak's Jonathan Krinsky offers some commentary on why the details of the sell-off may actually be positive for those bullish on...

Silver Is Just About Finished Joe Weisenthal May 20, 2013, 4:22 AM Silver is getting creamed today (to the tune of 4%). Of course, the precious metals have been in a deep bear market for awhile. Worth looking at the big picture for a moment though. With its latest decline, silver is getting very close to hitting levels before it really took off in 2010 (and went parabolic in early 2011). The great story for silver is just about totally over. Screen Shot 2013 05 20 at 4.20.10 AMFinViz

Gold And Silver True Story Is All About Time - Be Prepared Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013 May 19, 2013 - 06:10 PM GMT By: Michael Noonan We are going to start off with one of the most eye-popping pictures of just one central bank, the privately owned corporate Federal Reserve, and its purported gold holding. Occasionally, we drop a bit of history that most people either ignore or simply do not believe, but this one cannot be conveniently shunted aside. One of the provisions in the FEDERAL Constitution, the 14th Amendment, [the original, organic Constitution had only 10...

The Week Begins, And Silver Is Instantly Getting Destroyed Joe Weisenthal May 19, 2013, 6:18 PM Fans of precious metals have been getting creamed lately. Thanks to declining volatility and a growing sense that real interest rates are on the rise, gold and silver have been getting taken to the woodshed. And in early Asian trading there's no letup. Silver is getting demolished. From Kitco, here's the sharp downward spike. Screen Shot 2013 05 19 at 6.16.13 PM Kitco As you can see here, the decline in gold is more muted, but still visible. Silver's not the only thing going...

Commodities Boom to be Driven by the Urbanisation of 1 Billion More People Commodities / Demographics May 18, 2013 - 07:11 PM By: Richard Mills Many, many years ago during a lengthy argument with a friend he told me to 'give it a doubt' - he meant I was wrong. The herd is convinced the commodities boom is over. Doom and gloom, the sky is falling, the bears argument sounds convincing - growth has stopped, economies are slowing. Looking at the TSX.V's performance (most of the world's mineral exploration firms call the Venture Exchange home) it's as if people are...

BARRON'S: There Were Two Gigantic, Suspicious Sales Of Gold On Friday That Caused The Price To Plunge Joe Weisenthal May 19, 2013, 10:34 AM Gold went down the toilet again on Friday, and is now close to revisiting its April lows. This gold weakness is causing a lot of consternation to fans of it who don't understand how the precious metal can keep falling, when central banks around the world continue to press down on the gas pedal. A lot of gold bugs think the price is being manipulated somehow, or that there's some divergence between what's going on in...

Gold And Silver Are In Liquidation Mode Again Joe Weisenthal May 15, 2013, 4:22 AM It's happening again. Gold and silver are in liquidation mode. Both of the two precious metals are back to being taken to the woodshed. Gold looks at risk of breaking below $1400/oz. again.KITCO And silver is just plain ugly.KITCO The end of the world trade (which explains a lot of gold's appeal) is looking less and less likely to play out as the precious metal bugs had anticipated. Meanwhile, improving economic fortunes makes it less appealing to have money in rocks. And big picture, now...

Silver Prices To Soar, Like Gold On Steroids! Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013 May 14, 2013 - 12:31 PM GMTDiane Alter By: Money_Morning Diane Alter writes: It's hard not to get a bit nostalgic about silver prices. I find myself reminiscing about April 2011 when the white metal ended the month at a sterling $48.70 an ounce after hitting an all-time intraday high of $49.51. That record surpassed the previous high of $49.45 set three decades earlier when the Texan Hunt brothers set out to corner the silver market. Since the 2011 peak, the S&P has roared higher by...

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was nervous as he answered questions at his speech in Chicago today. “In light of the current low interest rate environment, we are watching particularly closely for instances of ‘reaching for yield’ and other forms of excessive risk-taking, which may affect asset prices and their relationships with fundamentals,” Mr Bernanke said. I was waiting for questions or hints as to if or when will take their foot off the monetary accelerator, but NADA. Global sovereign yields rose across the board this morning (except for Greece). The dollar is rising … while commodities plunged this morning (look...