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Or suisse: M Villiger a mené la politique nécessaire au bradage des années 2000. Vincent Held Le 1er mai de l’an 2000, la Banque nationale suisse démarrait la vente de quelque 1’300 tonnes d’or à des prix historiquement bas. Le jour suivant le début de cette grande braderie, la BNS expliquera que tout ceci se déroulait dans le cadre d’un « accord sur l’or » conclu avec « 15 banques centrales européennes ». Sans plus de...

News that President Trump’s personal lawyer claimed he was instructed by the candidate to commit a federal crime and, separately, his the former campaign manager was found guilty on eight counts is hardly impacting the global capital markets. Swiss Franc The Euro has fallen by 0.11% to 1.1385. EUR/CHF and USD/CHF, August 22(see more posts on EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, ) Source: markets.ft.com - Click to enlarge FX Rates...

We do not like Purchasing Power or Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) as measurement for currencies. For us, the trade balance decides if a currency is overvalued. Only the trade balance can express productivity gains, while the REER assumes constant productivity in comparison to trade partners. Who has read Michael Pettis, knows that a rising trade surplus may also be caused by a higher savings rate while the trade...

Fundamental Developments –  The Gap Keeps Widening Last week, the lighthouse went down 24 meters (gold went down $24), or 50 inches (if you prefer, silver went down 50 cents). However, let’s take a look at the only true picture of supply and demand. Are the fundamentals dropping with the market price? They done whacked our lighthouse! [PT] Image credit: Skip Willits - Click to enlarge Gold and Silver...

- Click to enlarge The US dollar was sliding as I joined Vonnie Quinn and Shery Ahn on the Bloomberg Markets show.  I tried making the case, as I have in recent posts, that the dollar’s rally in the first half of the month had left it over-extended. Most of the major currencies were outside of their Bollinger Bands a week ago and had begun correcting since August 15. Reports of President Trump’s criticism of the...

This Great Graphic depicts what appears to be a head and shoulders top in the hourly bar chart of the Dollar Index. The neckline is found near 96.00 and rotating the pattern along it produces a measuring objective near 95.00. The bearish pattern was formed in the last few days, and the Dollar Index was resting near the neckline before Trump’s comments gave it the push. The low today is near 95.45, which corresponds to...

Swiss Franc The Euro has risen by 0.02% to 1.1378. EUR/CHF and USD/CHF, August 21(see more posts on EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, ) Source: markets.ft.com - Click to enlarge FX Rates The US dollar is broadly lower following President Trump’s comments yesterday, criticising Fed policy and reiterating his previously made claim that China and the EU are manipulating their currencies. We suggested that last week’s...

The euro has hit new lows against the US dollar. We are revising down our EUR/USD projections for the next few months. The euro broke to the downside from its tight trading range relative to the US dollar since the end of May. These new lows go against our expectations of a gradual appreciation of the single currency relative to the greenback in the second half of the year and indicate that we have underestimated the...

A shortage of skilled labour continues to affect the Swiss job market, according to the latest surveyexternal link by employment agency Manpower. Among reasons given for difficulties in finding the right candidates, 30% of employers surveyed cited a lack of technical skills, 29% a lack of candidates, 17% blamed a lack of professional experience and 14% cited missing interpersonal skills. Among the most sought-after...

The topic of how much extractable gold is left in the world has become increasingly discussed within the last few years. This is because of increased focus on ‘peak gold’ and also a concern about remaining levels of unextracted gold reserves. Peak gold is a term referring to the phenomenon of annual gold mining supply peaking (i.e. the rate of gold extraction increases until it peaks at maximum gold output and...