Tag Archives: 6a) Gold & Bitcoin

For first time in over 16 years, palladium futures settle at a premium to gold futures Gold futures on Wednesday resumed their climb toward the psychologically important price of $1,300 an ounce, settling at their highest in nearly two weeks on the back of political turmoil in the U.K. and U.S. Caution among traders had deepened “ahead of a no-confidence vote on British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and other...

Gold Holds Steady Over £1,000 – Increased Likelihood Of A Disorderly Brexit – Gold supported near $1,300/oz ahead of important British Brexit no-confidence vote – Gold is consolidating in range between $1,280 and $1,300/oz (over £1,000/oz and €1,100/oz) – A break of resistance at $1,300 will likely see gold rise rapidly in all currencies – Physical demand for gold coins and bars has picked up in the UK and Ireland,...

For years, people blamed the global financial crisis on greed. Doesn’t this make you want to scream out, “what, were people not greedy in 2007 or 1997??” Greed utterly fails to explain the phenomenon. It merely serves to reinforce a previously-held belief. Far be it from us to challenge previously-held beliefs (OK, OK, we may engage in some sacred-ox-goring from time to time), but this is not a scientific approach to...

Gold Outlook 2019 – World Gold Council As we look ahead, we expect that the interplay between market risk and economic growth in 2019 will drive gold demand. And we explore three key trends that we expect will influence its price performance: financial market instability monetary policy and the US dollar structural economic reforms. Against this backdrop, we believe that gold has an increasingly relevant role to...

“We’re experiencing a slowdown,” says Blackrock fund manager Global Allocation Fund adding to gold exposure through ETFs Gold “has had a very consistent record of helping mitigate equity risk when volatility is rising” Gold bullion has been a “store of value for a very long time” by Bloomberg News Gold may extend gains as global growth slows, equity market volatility remains elevated and the Federal Reserve is expected...

China increases gold holdings by large 320,000 ounces Gold bullion remains a tiny component of the People’s Bank of China massive foreign exchange (FX) reserves which rose to $3.073 trillion China’s gold reserves rose for first time since October 2016 to 59.56 million ounces by the end of December (1,853 metric tons) from 59.24 million ounces  Gold climbed 5% in December on equity rout, growth concerns by Bloomberg:...

One of the most important problems in economics is: How do we know if an enterprise is creating or destroying wealth? The line between the two is objective, black and white. It should be clear that if business managers can’t tell the difference between a wealth-creating or wealth-destroying activity, then our whole society will be miserably poor. Any manager will tell you that it’s easy. Just look at the profit and loss...

We could also have entitled this essay How to Measure Your Own Capital Destruction. But this headline would not have set expectations correctly. As always, when looking at the phenomenon of a credit-fueled boom, the destruction does not occur when prices crash. It occurs while they’re rising. But people don’t realize it, then, because rising prices are a lot of fun. They don’t realize their losses until the crash. So we...

Gold traders appear excited about gold again as stocks are on pace for their worst year since 2008, and their worst December since 1931. Bullish bets on the yellow metal outnumbered bearish ones for the week ended December 11, resulting in the first instance of net positive contracts since July, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data. As many of you know, December has historically been a strong...

For the first time since we began publishing this Report, it is a day late. We apologize. Keith has just returned Saturday from two months on the road. Unlike the rest of the world, we define inflation as monetary counterfeiting. We do not put the emphasis on quantity (and the dollar is not money, it’s a currency). We focus on the quality. An awful lot of our monetary counterfeiting occurs to fuel consumption spending....