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Dollar Rally & Soros Sales See Gold Hit 6-Month Low as G20 Denies “Currency War”

London Gold Market Report

from Adrian Ash

BullionVault

Fri 15 Feb, 08:10 EST

 

Dollar Rally & Soros Sales See Gold Hit 6-Month Low as G20 Denies “Currency War”

 

GOLD PRICES fell again Friday morning in London, trading at a 6-month low beneath $1627 per ounce as the US Dollar continued to rise on the currency market.

Gold for Sterling investors touched a 2-week low beneath £1050, and Euro-gold held above Tuesday’s 8-month low at €1220 per [...]

“Gold From The ATM” In Turkey As Gold Deposits Surge In Turkish Banks

by GoldCore Gold Bullion

“Gold From The ATM” In Turkey As Gold Deposits Surge In Turkish Banks
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,747.25, EUR 1,347.56, and GBP 1,090.87 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,734.75, EUR 1,345.39, and GBP 1,088.37 per ounce.

Gold rose $21.80 or 1.26% in New York on Friday and closed at $1,751.20. Silver hit a high of $34.16 and finished with a gain of 2.19%. Gold was up 2.28% [...]

Brazil Gold Reserves In Fixed Term Gold Deposits With Bullion Banks

by GoldCore Gold Bullion

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,734.75, EUR 1,345.39, and GBP 1,088.37 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,729.75, EUR 1,344.23, and GBP 1,084.35 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $33.43/oz, €26.02/oz and £21.07/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,583.00/oz, palladium at $654.70/oz and rhodium at $1,040/oz.

Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)

Yesterday New York was closed for the American holiday of Thanksgiving.  Today trading finishes at noon. With very little data [...]

Euro Spikes from 2-Month Low Following Greek Bailout Story, Gold Deposits “Getting Harder to Find” says Barrick

London Gold Market Report

from Ben Traynor

BullionVault

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 07:30 EST

 

Euro Spikes from 2-Month Low Following Greek Bailout Story, Gold Deposits “Getting Harder to Find” says Barrick

 

PRICE FOR gold bullion on the wholesale market rose to $1730 an ounce this morning in London, after drifting lower overnight, as the Euro jumped half-a-cent against the Dollar following a report that the German government is considering a plan to speed up the payment [...]

THE LIST HAS GROWN: SWITZERLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, AND ECUADOR JOIN GERMANY IN CALLS FOR AUDITS OF THEIR GOLD

http://gizadeathstar.com/2012/11/the-list-has-grown-switzerland-the-netherlands-and-ecuador-join-germany-in-calls-for-audits-of-their-gold/#ixzz2BpaCHvE6

“The calls for full audits, and in some cases, repatriation, of foreign gold reserves being held by the New York Federal Reserve are growing, as now Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Ecuador have joined Germany in those calls and in Ecuador’s case, repatriation, of its gold:

German Calls for Gold Repatriation Intensify As Fed Refuses to Allow Inspection

Obviously, the Fed’s refusal to comply “in the interest of security” is a complete fabrication [...]

BREAKING: Vietnam Banks to Buy 20 Tons of Gold in Next Two Months because they sold the publics Gold and they want it back LOL !

The Physical Gold story is growing !!

HANOI–The State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank, may allow local banks to buy up to 20 metric tons of gold over the next two months to improve their liquidity ahead of a ban soon on their use of gold as a means of boosting their operating capital, a senior central bank official said in a statement issued Friday.

Banks have bought more than [...]

Vietnam – Market uncertain as gold deposit ban approaches

The deadline when local commercial banks will be prohibited from mobilizing gold deposits is now just a month and a half away, but the question of how the State Bank of Vietnam will deal with the massive amount of public gold reserves after the ban comes into effect remains unanswered.

On April 29, 2011 the central bank halted gold mobilization at banks, but lifted the ban a year later, ruling that [...]

All the ‘Easy’ Gold Has Been Found – Mining Analyst

By ELEAZAR DAVID MELÉNDEZ

 

The world’s major miners are not discovering enough gold deposits to make up for all the extraction they have engaged in over the past decade and a half, a fact that suggests the scarcity of the precious yellow metal could grow in coming decades.

That’s according to a new report by Canada-based Metals Economics Group, which found that the estimated 289.8 million ounces added to the on-the-ground reserves of [...]

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 [...]

High quality gold deposits becoming more precious

From FT:

Global gold production may have hit a record last year, but that doesn’t mean the stuff is getting easier to find. Clarus Securities analyst Laurie Curtis wrote that the growing difficulties in finding gold suggest that high-grade deposits will command a stronger premium over time.

Citing data from the Society of Economic Geologists, Mr. Curtis noted that the number of deposits and total ounces found peaked in [...]

Eric Sprott: Silver to outperform gold in 2011

Silver promises to become the nextbig buzzword among investors in 2011 and beyond, according to one of the investment industry’s most prescient and successful experts on precious metals.

Eric Sprott is the founder of the Toronto-based investment firm, Sprott Asset Management LP. His renowned hedge fund, Sprott Hedge Fund LP, is heavily weighted in precious metals and has generated an estimated 23% annualized return over the [...]

Unrest may affect Kyrgyzstan gold production:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKWLB199…

Quote:

The Soviet Union’s largest gold mine was located at Makmal in Kyrgyzstan, and in the Soviet period Kyrgyzstan’s 170 proven deposits put it in third place behind only Russia and Uzbekistan in gold production in the union. Two more promising deposits, at Kumtor and Jerui, have been discovered. Kumtor, said to be the seventh-largest gold deposit in the world with an estimated value of US$5.5 billion, is being explored by [...]