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Shanghai Gold Exchange Sees Volumes Jump 24% In Year

by Gold Core

 

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,582.50, EUR 1,216.37and GBP 1,065.30 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,577.50, EUR 1,213.28 and GBP 1,058.37 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $29.18/oz, €22.53/oz and £19.71/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,605.25/oz, palladium at $773.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Gold rose $3.00 or 0.19% and closed yesterday at $1,581.10/oz. Silver rose to $29.09 and finished +0.1%.

Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)

Gold gained for the third straight session, [...]

‘Gold Rush’ Bubble? US Gold Coin Sales Fall 25% In 2012

by GoldCore Gold Bullion

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,653.75, EUR 1,029.60 and GBP 1,267.82 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,632.25, EUR 1,254.32 and GBP 1,018.37 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $30.21/oz, €23.29/oz and £18.89/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,565.50/oz, palladium at $682.00/oz and rhodium at $1,150/oz.

Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)

Gold dropped $8.20 or 0.49% in New York on Friday and closed at $1,656.30/oz. Silver slipped to as low as [...]

Gold to Rise 8% To 15% A Year – Citigroup

by GoldCore Gold Bullion

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,734.00, EUR 1,354.05, and GBP 1,089.06 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,723.25, EUR 1,349.66, and GBP 1,083.67 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $33.21/oz, €26.02/oz and £20.94/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,580.10/oz, palladium at $638.90/oz and rhodium at $1,055/oz.

Gold climbed $20.20 or 1.18% in New York yesterday and closed at $1,732.10. Silver surged to a high of $33.205 and finished with a [...]

Global Economic Picture In Aggregate Is Deteriorating: Things Are Getting Expensive, China Is Slowing Down, Weakest EU Countries Cutting Back On Healthcare Spending, Sales of Beverages Getting Weaker, Global Debt Crisis Worsening, And Europe Is Heading Into A Full-Scale Disaster

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America’s Biggest Companies Reveal What’s Really Going On In The Global Economy

Nike warns that it’s getting more expensive to make things in China

“Gross margin declined 80 basis points to 43.5 percent. Gross margin continued to benefit from pricing actions and product cost reduction initiatives, however, this was more than offset by higher input costs, primarily materials and labor.”

Source: FactSet

Johnson & Johnson says that Europe’s slowest economies are cutting back on healthcare [...]

The World Is Stuck In A Vicious Cycle: The Global Economic Crisis Is About To Go To A Whole New Level And Investors On The Wrong End of The Coming Crash Are Going To Be Absolutely Wiped Out

SUMMERS: The World Is Stuck In A Vicious Cycle

Former Harvard president and former Obama economic advisor Larry Summers writes in the FT today that the debate between fiscal hawks and doves has paralyzed the global economy.

He refers to it as a struggle between “orthodox” fiscal hawks versus “demand support” views.

However you want to refer to them, their apparent inability to stop talking past each other has produced devastating consequences.

“International economic dialogue has [...]

21 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is About To Go To A Whole New Level

by Michael

The global debt crisis has reached a dangerous new phase.  Unfortunately, most Americans are not taking notice of it yet because most of the action is taking place overseas, and because U.S. financial markets are riding high.  But just because the global economic crisis is unfolding at the pace of a “slow-motion train wreck” right now does not mean that it isn’t incredibly dangerous.  As I have written about previously, [...]

Gold Deposits Of USD 1 Billion To Be Collected By Turkish Bank

by GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,589.25, EUR 1,271.40, and GBP 1,025.65 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,593.00, EUR 1,264.79, and GBP 1,023.45 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $28.67/oz, €22.92/oz and £18.52/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,448.00/oz, palladium at $618.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Gold 1 Month Chart – (Bloomberg)

Gold climbed $5.60 or 0.35% yesterday in New York and closed at $1,600.20/oz despite stock markets giving up early gains on [...]

America’s “Safest Long Term Investment” Is Gold – Gallup Survey

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Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,652.50, EUR 1,257.71, and GBP 1,020.44 per ounce.

Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,661.25, EUR 1,253.02 and GBP 1,024.70 per ounce.

Gold fell $4.40 or 0.26% in New York yesterday and closed at $1,661.70/oz. Gold rose to over $1,670/oz in early US trading prior to selling capped price gains and the price then fell back to the $1,660/oz level.

Gold gradually fell during trading in [...]

Gold Market Sentiment Very Poor Despite Strong Fundamentals

From GoldCore:

Gold Market Sentiment Very Poor Despite Strong Fundamentals

Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,656.00, EUR 1,248.21, and GBP 1,042.95 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,648.50, EUR 1,248.86 and GBP 1,039.01 per ounce.

Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)

Gold fell 0.89% in New York yesterday and closed at $1,650.80/oz. Gold edged higher in Asia and ticked slightly higher before falling in Europe this morning where gold is now trading at $1,649.30/oz.

The [...]

Grim Economic Prospects For 2012, U.S. Fed To Overshadow The European Banking System

Grim Economic Prospects For 2012, U.S. Fed To Overshadow The European Banking System

Economics / Global Debt Crisis 2012
Jan 01, 2012 – 11:06 AM
By: Bob Chapman

 

Public institutions worldwide are fighting ratings downgrades foremost of which is France, the US and, of course, sovereigns and banks worldwide. Miracles of miracles finally the rating agencies are doing their jobs. The caper they pulled in collusion with Wall Street in rating mortgage securities should [...]

There’s An Easy, Fair Solution To The Global Debt Crisis — Too Bad No One Ever Talks About It: It’s Called “Bankruptcy.”

The global debt crisis, of course, is nothing new.

Since the dawn of time, men have been lending other men money (or other things of value) and not getting them back.

But it’s only recently that the solution to this state of affairs has gotten so complicated that even PhD economists can’t figure it out.

In most situations in which people or companies can’t pay their debts, a simple thing happens.

It’s called “bankruptcy.”

The [...]

Gold setting up for strong upward move

As Western governments drown themselves in debt the demand for physical gold remains very robust.

 

Author: David Levenstein Posted:  Tuesday , 22 Nov 2011

 

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Even though gold prices have not reacted as one would expect in light of the global debt crisis that continues to deteriorate, the demand for physical gold remains extremely robust.  To me this is the lull before the storm and I believe that gold is building up for [...]

Clive Maund: Gold Market Update

Gold did exactly as predicted in the update last weekend – it dropped back briefly to touch the bottom of our short-term reaction target range at $1680 before rebounding, as we can see on the 4-month chart below, and we were buyers around $1705 and below. The rebound on Tuesday left behind a clear bull hammer on the chart, which is positive. After the rebound gold advanced to the next [...]

WSJ-MarketWatch: Tsunami of Stimulus is on its Way – Investors Need to Prepare

PRESS RELEASE

Oct. 6, 2011, 5:00 a.m. EDT

LONDON, October 6, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — As economic data deteriorates and markets continue their decline, policymakers around the world are faced with a decision: Do nothing and face the likelihood of recession or even depression, or intervene in the economy with more monetary and fiscal stimulus.

Mounting Pressure To Act

As the debt crisis in the [...]

Soros: Euro Collapse Could Lead to “Great Depression”

Euro Collapse Could Spark Global Depression, Soros Tells L’Hebdo
Thursday, 18 Aug 2011 06:47 AM

Billionaire investor George Soros said a collapse of the euro may spark a global financial crisis in a “new Great Depression,” L’Hebdo magazine reported, citing an interview.

“It seems to me that one still doesn’t understand what would happen if the euro collapsed,” Soros told the Swiss magazine in an e-mailed pre-release of tomorrow’s [...]

Germany’s Best-Selling Tabloid Bild’s Front Page Encourages Readers To Buy Gold

From GoldCore

Germany’s Best-Selling Tabloid Bild’s Front Page Encourages Readers To Buy Gold

Gold has fallen today in all major currencies except the Swiss franc which has fallen on SNB intervention rumours. Gold is trading at USD 1,791.40 , EUR 1,257.10 , GBP 1,107.70, CHF 1,318.80 per ounce and 136,976.00 JPY.  The yen has fallen by 8.7% against gold so far in August as the yen, while rising [...]

13 Reasons Why Gold Still Has Further to Go

Financial history teaches that market prices are not just subject to cyclical fluctuations — mainly following the business cycle. They are also liable to much longer lasting secular trends, often spanning 15 years, 20 years or longer. These secular cycles are visible in stocks, commodities, bonds and precious metals.

Take gold as an example …

Gold experienced a secular bull market starting in the late 1960s and [...]

Martin Weiss: Debt Crisis New Phase Striking Now! Despite Bailouts!

Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis

By: Martin_D_Weiss

Sadly, though, even while most Americans were enjoying the holiday or hitting the malls, much of Europe was sinking deeper into a new, more severe phase of its sovereign debt crisis.

This crisis is unfolding despite Herculean rescues by the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Federal Reserve.

It’s striking right now.

And it’s threatening to spread [...]

Must-Know Economic News – July 06, 2010 – 2010 vs 1929: The risk would likely be much greater.

The Dow dropped 90% in nominal terms from 1929 to 1932. The US was close to highly disruptive social chaos and disorder at that point. 1,000 would be about a 95% fall. However, the financial sector is far more important today because of the vastly greater personal, corporate, and government debt than in 1930, so the consequences would likely be much greater.

1) China buys Japanese bonds as euro sinks: report

“LOS [...]

This can’t be good… “US, UK and Japan. The GDPs of these nations are not expected to have average growth better than 3% over the next ten years.”

Gold Consolidates as Concerns of the Global Debt Crisis Increase
Contributed by David E. Levenstein
Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:52

According to various articles and reports, banks in Germany, France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have a combined exposure of some USD 253 billion in Greece alone and around USD 2.1 trillion in the countries of Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain as a total. While debt laden Greece has to reduce it’s deficit, [...]