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By Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
June 10, 2013
Hedge funds increased wagers on a gold rally to the highest in seven weeks before a report showing the U.S. added more jobs than forecast spurred the biggest retreat in prices since April.
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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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By Alasdair Macleod |
April 29, 2013
There is a new campaign to end austerity. First, the IMF lets it be known it has second thoughts about it; then we are told the threshold of 90% government debt to GDP that must not be crossed, set by Professors Reinhart & Rogoff, is based on an Excel spreadsheet...
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By Mark O'Byrne |
April 16, 2013
Gold rebounded as store of value and diversification buyers deemed a 14% plunge over two days to be excessive and an Asian central banker said that policy makers may take the opportunity to buy.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
April 5, 2013
Gold is higher in most currencies today except the Japanese yen. Gold surged over 3% to 0.149 million yen per ounce yesterday as markets shuddered due to the scale of currency debasement soon to be seen in Japan.
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By JT Long |
March 4, 2013
Some people may look at the stock market and see economic recovery. Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management and Sprott Money looks at myriad other economic indicators and sees an economy still in decline.
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By Przemyslaw Radomski |
February 8, 2013
A trend is a trend until it stops. Could this be the case for bonds? Is the bond bubble about to burst? And if so, what are the implications for precious metals?
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By Mark O'Byrne |
January 21, 2013
Another respected hedge fund, the Pacific Group, has decided to convert one third of its hedge-fund assets into physical gold. The Pacific Group Ltd., which manages more than $100 million worth of assets, believes that gold will continue to rise as governments print more money to pay off debt, according...
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By Mark O'Byrne |
January 16, 2013
Germany’s central bank will repatriate part of its $200 billion gold reserves stored in vaults in the Federal Reserve in New York and the Banque de France in Paris. It is believed that the Bundesbank may have repatriated the gold to be prepared for a systemic crisis and currency crises.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
January 11, 2013
Gold climbed $15.50 or 0.94% in New York yesterday and closed at $1,672.90/oz. Silver surged to a high of $30.926 and finished with a gain of 1.45%. The yellow metal was on track for a 1% weekly rise, after falling for five of the past six weeks.