Posted on 11/30/2014 5:02:41 PM PST by blam
Myles Udland
November 30, 2014
On Sunday night, gold was down more than 4% to as low as $1,143 an ounce after voters in Switzerland on Sunday rejected a measure that would have required the Swiss National Bank to increase its gold reserves from 8% to 20% of its holdings.
The vote failed by a margin of 78%-22%.
In addition the drop in gold, crude oil prices are resuming their tumble, and the price of other precious metals — silver and platinum — were also down sharply.
Silver futures were down 12% early Sunday night and platinum futures were down more than 3%.
Copper prices were also lower by 4% in what is a rough night for the metals markets.
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:-) Let it snow!! (just kidding) But every little bit will help. Last Feb., I paid over $4...
looks like a buying opportunity for oil stocks. sure it could go down a bit more but why be greedy?
Oil is traded in dollars. Weaker oil prices have historically meant a stronger dollar.
Dollar strength sounds like an opportunity to crank up the printing presses at the Treasury...that’ll fix it.
Correct!....Its just an insurance policy that u hope u never have to cash in on...Like all insurances...
Yes but why? Why is the dollar stronger. Or is it the other currencies are that much weaker.
Not an expert on the dollar. Or much else. $1.56 against the Pound.
http://www.barchart.com/commodityfutures/All
1. Thanks to fracking, we see a huge new supply of oil and natural gas being opened up all over the USA. And that means we could have a vastly better balance of trade since we will be importing a lot less oil from OPEC countries.
2. China's recent gigantic deal from Russia to build pipelines into Siberia to import crude oil and natural gas means China will end up being way less dependent on OPEC countries.
3. Europe--likely heading into a recession again--will mean lower demand for oil from the Middle East.
In short, OPEC is facing a huge dilemma: they may lose their two of their biggest customers and Europe falling into a recession will lower demand for OPEC oil. We're about to end up with a huge glut of petroleum products.
Yup.
just keep in mind......the lower gold goes..the higher the “premium” to buy it...Do your own DD
I'm not sure there's a difference. With lower oil, overall inflation will likely moderate, and that's always been a positive for the US Dollar.
http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFL6N0TL01120141201
METALS-London copper slides to weakest since June 2010, dragged by oil
Which likely means WW3 due to the lack of a stabilizing power.
Yergin agrees. He knows the biz from a historical standpoint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin’s history of the global oil industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize became a bestseller owing to its release date: it was published in October 1990, two months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and three months before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country.[1] It eventually went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.[2]
The Prize has been called the “definitive” history of the oil industry, even a “bible”.[3
I don’t know much about stocks.
And there are many here who know more about oil than I do as well.
But the Middle East is a mess, OPEC is coming apart at the seams, Russia is under great pressure...gonna be lots of oil that’s gonna have to come from somewhere, is my bet.
On the one hand, the Swiss decided not to force banks to hold large gold reserves, so gold demand won’t be rising in the little country of Switzerland with its 8 million citizens, fewer than the number of residents in New Jersey.
On the other hand, the prime minister of the enormous country of India today lifted restrictions on the import of gold into his country, which has 1.2 billion citizens and is the second biggest user of gold in the world. So demand for gold will be rising in that country.
So what will likely happen to the price of gold? With Indian goldsmiths suddenly free to again import large quantities of gold to satisfy their fellow countrymen’s penchant for gold jewelry, what should investors do?
“Gee, I wonder if I’ll see any of that benefit in my next oil delivery/sarc (due soon).”
Silly consumer, windfall profits are for rich kids
I don’t believe we are close to the bottom yet. I am waiting to buy again as we close in on a bottom.
“Yes but why? Why is the dollar stronger. Or is it the other currencies are that much weaker.”
While it is easy to diss the dollar, it remains the reserve currency for the time. Add to that parts of Europe slipping into deflation.
Eventually, money will flee Europe and come here - until we top out and it falls apart. To some degree, money is moving into our real estate market and into our stock market now.
Economics is NOT my forte...so what do you deduce it to mean? Because we are in an era of world economy?
Freegards
LEX
in this case, the market is anticipating deflation. Capital is shifting to less risky asset classes. Cash (preferably in USD) is king.
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