About the Author
Peter Cooper
ArabianMoney.net editor and publisher Peter Cooper is based in the Dubai Media City, and has been working as a senior journalist in the region since 1996. He was then the founding editor of the Gulf Business, the first-ever business magazine published in Dubai. In the year 2000 he was a founding partner in the business news and information website ameinfo.com.
His book about ameinfo.com, ‘Opportunity Dubai: Making a Fortune in the Middle East’ was No.1 in The Daily Telegraph Book Club for six months. An Oxford graduate in politics and economics, Cooper spent a decade in London as a financial journalist specializing in real estate and construction. He is also the author of ‘Dubai Sabbatical: The Road to $5,000 Gold’.
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By Peter Cooper |
January 15, 2013
The danger is that the central banks are being overly complacent about false figures while the trend is definitely up. Pump in more and more money, as all the central bank are doing and there is only one way for this inflation to go and that is up.
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By Peter Cooper |
January 8, 2013
The Japanese market is the one to watch at the moment for the next step in the global financial crisis. This is it, a bond crisis in the making and a massive transfer of wealth into gold and silver.
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By Peter Cooper |
December 27, 2012
Mr. Gold offers a unique perspective on gold from the position of an old-timer who made a fortune from great timing. Past success does not guarantee future success but choosing your market guides on this basis is surely better than not doing so.
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By Peter Cooper |
December 20, 2012
A year-end poll of analyst, trader and investor estimates points to a 29% rise in the price of silver next year after a 12% gain in 2012, exactly double the rise in the gold price at the time of writing. But only 60% will finally take out the all-time silver...
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By Peter Cooper |
December 20, 2012
Japan’s seventh prime minister in six years, Shinzo Abe has made it immediately clear that he wants a weaker yen and supports money printing to infinity. The markets have obliged by devaluing the yen by 6% even before he assumed office.
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By Peter Cooper |
December 13, 2012
The US economy will now tolerate higher levels of inflation than previously expected. Hard assets like oil, gold and silver are the classic hedges against such inflation and will gain as investors reallocate their money to protect it against the coming inflation.
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By Peter Cooper |
December 12, 2012
Traders at the Sharjah Gold Souk in Dubai are forecasting a 30% price hike for 2013 after a disappointing 15% over the past 12 months. Is this the year silver will catch up with years of price suppression and finally break through its 1980 all-time high of $50 an ounce?...
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By Peter Cooper |
December 10, 2012
There are no queues down the road outside gold and silver shops, though we note that most large towns do now have somewhere to buy and sell precious metals and that was not true a decade ago. So when the retail investors finally bite they will be able to buy....
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By Peter Cooper |
December 7, 2012
Goldman Sachs has put out a negative call on gold saying that the bull market is over, exactly the sort of market maneuver predicted six weeks ago by “Mr. Gold” Jim Sinclair, the widely followed veteran of the 1970s gold boom.
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By Peter Cooper |
December 6, 2012
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that it expected gold consumption in the country would be running at more than double national gold production by the end of 2015, more than double Chinese gold consumption forecast for 2012.