Adrian Ash

About the Author

Adrian Ash

Adrian Ash runs the research desk at BullionVault. Formerly head of editorial at Fleet Street Publications – London's top publisher of financial advice for private investors – he was City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning from 2003 to 2008, and is now a regular contributor to a number of investment websites.

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  Asian gold premiums hit new highs as Europe urged to start "aggressive QE"

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 22, 2013

  Bullion prices rose throughout Asian and early London trade on Wednesday morning, touching $1,398 per ounce for the third time this week and recovering 4.4% from Monday's one-month low.

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  Short squeeze fades in precious metals, contrarians spot time to buy

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 21, 2013

  The price of both silver and gold slipped back in London on Tuesday morning, cutting into yesterday's rapid gains from four-year and one-month lows respectively.

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  What your dentist doesn't know about gold

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 20, 2013

  What use is gold? Besides jewelry, outrageous cutlery, money, microchips and a thin veneer for astronauts' visors, gold once got sizable demand from dentists.

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  Plunge in metals natural as bearish money managers hold upper hand

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 20, 2013

  Wholesale prices for gold and silver rallied from a fresh plunge in early London dealing on Monday, rising to stand unchanged and 2.3% lower respectively from the end of last week's trade by lunchtime.

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  Pension funds seen selling gold ETFs

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 17, 2013

  Gold prices failed to hold a rally above $1,380 per ounce in London on Friday morning, trading 5% down for the week as world stock markets held steady.

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  Surge in retail gold demand outweighed by ETF selling

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 16, 2013

  Opposing the rise in retail gold demand, says the World Gold Council, "[was] a well-documented decline in gold ETF holdings...which outweighed the [global] growth in bar and coin demand."

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  Really real rates vs. gold

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 10, 2013

  More telling than equities, gold's 20% drop in real terms since the top of summer 2011 has coincided with an upturn in real interest rates. You might not have noticed it.

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  Gold still bearish as Western buying cools

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 9, 2013

  Spot gold prices slipped back below $1,470 per ounce Thursday morning in London, drifting as world stock markets failed to follow Wall Street higher, where equities yesterday hit new all-time highs.

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  The Fed's May Day riot

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 6, 2013

  Athens' strikers burnt a giant picture of Angela Merkel dressed as Hitler. Students in Washington threw bags of urine at each other. But in the Eccles Building? "Fiscal policy is restraining economic growth," said the Federal Reserve.

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  Chocolate for cocoa, or what's gold really worth?

  By Adrian Ash  |  May 3, 2013

  So what's your gold or silver really worth today? Like everything else, it's worth the most that somebody else will pay you for it, right here and now. That's the simple truth, as last month's crash proved all too plainly.