Tag Archives: Daily Market Update

– Perth Mint gold coins see sales double on month in September – Perth Mint silver bullion coin sales surge 78% in September – Perth Mint sold 46,415 ounces of gold in September– Nearly six times more gold coins sold at Perth Mint than U.S. Mint in September – Sales surge at Perth Mint from low base; could indicate trend change and higher demand in coming months Gold Coin Sales, Aug 2012 - Jul 2017(see more posts on...

– Gold investment in Germany surged in past 10 years – Germans are largest gold buyers in world: WGC research – Gold investment in Germany surges to €6.8B in 2016– Gold demand per person is highest in world – double Chinese, UK and U.S. demand– Gold one of the most popular investment for retail investors especially those with high incomes– 59% of respondents agreed with the statement thatgold will never lose its value...

– Yahoo admits every single one of 3 billion accounts hacked in 2013 data theft– Equifax hacking and security breach exposes half of the U.S. population– Some 143 million people vulnerable to identity theft– Deloitte hack compromised sensitive emails and client data– JP Morgan hacked and New York Fed hacked and robbed– International hacking group steals $300 million– Global digital banking  and financial system not...

Run On The Pound ? Jeremy Corbyn Says Should Plan For – Right to plan for ‘run on pound’ if Labour wins says Corbyn and Labour party – British pound already down 20% since Brexit, collapse already in play– Run on the pound likely due to Labour’s ‘command economy’ approach– Collapse in Sterling would undermine UK financial system– Portfolios holding sterling and related assets would be significantly affected– Pension...

– Safe haven silver to outperform gold in Q4 and 2018 – “Expect silver to eventually outperform gold” say Metals Focus– 2017 YTD, silver has underperformed gold, climbing by 5% versus 11%– Silver undervalued versus gold and especially stocks, bonds and many property markets– Will follow gold’s reactions to macroeconomic & geopolitical factors and should outperform gold– Special report on India shows it accounts for...

 – “Going off gold did the opposite of what many people think” – FT Alphaville – “Surprising” findings show benefits of Gold Standard–  Study by former Obama advisor in 1999 and speech by Bank of England economist in 2017 make case for gold– UK economy was ‘much less prone to extremes’ under than the gold standard – research shows– ‘Gold standard seems to have produced fewer catastrophes for Britain’ – data shows – FT...

– Listen to Jesse Livermore and ignore the noise of short term market movements, central bank waffle and daily headlines  – Stock and bond markets are overvalued but continue to climb… for now– What goes up must come down and investors should diversify and rebalance portfolios despite market noise– Behavioural biases currently drive markets, prompting legendary investors to be confused and opt out– Lesson is to prepare...

Gold finished sharply higher on Monday, recouping roughly half of last week’s loss, as declines in the U.S. stock market and growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea lifted prices for the yellow metal to the highest settlement in more than a week. December gold rose $14, or 1.1%, to settle at $1,311.50 an ounce. Prices, which lost about 2.1% last week, saw their highest finish since Sept. 15, according to...

Gold Investment “Compelling” As Fed Likely To Create Next Recession – Is the Fed about to kill the business cycle? – 16 out of 19 rate-hike cycles in past 100 years ended in recession – Total global debt at all time high – see chart – Global debt is 327% of world GDP – ticking timebomb… – Gold has beaten the market (S&P 500) so far this century – Safe haven demand to increase on debt and equity risk – Gold looks...

In an extensive, must-read report published on Monday by Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid, the credit strategist unveiled an extensive analysis of the “Next Financial Crisis”, and specifically what may cause it, when it may happen, and how the world could respond assuming it still has means to counteract the next economic and financial crash.In our first take on the report yesterday, we showed one key aspect of the “crash”...