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Gold And Silver To Recover In 2013- Reuters Precious Metals Poll

by GoldCore

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,446.50, EUR 1,107.07 and GBP 937.64 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,424.50, EUR 1,095.52 and GBP 932.63 per ounce.

Reuters Precious Metals Poll – Year End Gold Price Forecasts

Gold climbed $15.50 or 1.09% yesterday to $1,430.40/oz and silver finished up 1.00%.

Gold climbed to its highest in more than a week on Thursday, boosted by physical demand from store of wealth buyers globally and from [...]

Putin Buys 570 Metric Tons of Gold

When Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is endangering the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly, he’s not just talking. He’s betting on it.

Not only has Putin made Russia the world’s largest oil producer, he’s also made it the biggest gold buyer. His central bank has added 570 metric tons of the metal in the past decade, a quarter more than runner-up China, according to IMF data compiled by Bloomberg. The added gold is [...]

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Every Global Rebound Is Doomed To Disappoint Within A Few Quarters, The World Savings Rate Expected To Rise To An All-Time High, The Headwinds Of Deleveraging Will Return With Gale Force. But Stocks To Soar In 2013 Due To Radical Action By The Central Banks

from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: 

Bears beware. A monetary revolution is underway.

They are tearing up the script, embracing the new creed of nominal GDP targeting (NGDP), a licence for yet more radical action.

The side-effects of this currency warfare — or “beggar-thy-neighbour’ policy as it was known in the 1930s — is an escalating leakage of monetary stimulus into the global system.

So don’t fight the Fed, and never fight the world’s central banks on [...]

Rising Economic Powerhouse Brazil Hungry for Gold

traderdannorcini.blogspot.ca / By Trader Dan / December 19, 2012

Reports coming out of the IMF indicate that Brazil has DOUBLED its holdings of gold since the end of August of this year. It is now officially holding 2.18 million ounces compared to 1.08 million ounces at the end of August. IMF data reveals that Brazil purchased 472,000 ounces in November.

Also, the World Gold Council is reporting that it expects official sector gold [...]

Russia , Turkey, Ukraine Buy Gold But Bullion Tiny Part Of FX Reserves

by GoldCore Gold Bullion

 

Russia , Turkey, Ukraine Buy Gold But Bullion Tiny Part Of FX Reserves

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,663.50, EUR 1,325.18 and GBP 1,053.52 per ounce.
Yesterday the London Bullion Market was closed for a national holiday.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,666.50, EUR 1,329.16 and GBP 1,051.88 per ounce.

Gold fell $5.90 or 0.35% in New York on Friday and closed at $1,663.90. Silver climbed to $31.241 then retreated but [...]

New IMF Figures Show at Current Rate Central Banks Will Buy Almost 700 Tonnes of Gold this Year

by Frik Els

Gold slipping over 3% over the course of March, averaging $1,676 for the month, prompted central banks to stock up on the yellow metal IMF data showed on Tuesday.

Led by Mexico and Russia, central banks from 11 countries and the Eurozone added a combined 57.9 tonnes of gold in March.

Mexico raised its reserves  by 16.8 tonnes, Russia added 16.5,  Turkey 11.5 tonnes, Kazakhstan 4.3 tonnes, Ukraine 1.2 tonnes, while other [...]

James Turk gives his timeline on the Dollar’s Collapse and Gold’s role as the messenger!

Published on Apr 24, 2012 by CapitalAccount

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Welcome to Capital Account. With Italian and Spanish bond yields back on the rise, we’ve recently seen the Dutch government collapse under the weight of austerity talks and French president Nicolas Sarkozy defeated after the first-round of elections. As price discovery is guarded against in the financial markets, are we seeing its emergence reflected in the delicacy of eurozone governments as discontent is [...]

Portugal sounds out advisers on debt restructuring

 

Headlines (A must read on all of them):

Banks’ overnight ECB deposits near record
IMF cuts China 2012 growth forecast to 8.25%
China growth could halve if Europe crisis worsens: IMF
Data Show Greece’s Debt Ratio Growing as Economy Shrinks
Europe’s debt rose to 82 percent of output at end-Q3
Portugal sounds out advisers on debt restructuring
Britain Prepares for Worst as EU Strives to End Euro Crisis
China bans airlines from joining EU emissions scheme
New York AG [...]

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard’s Predictions for 2012: China’s growth model tests its limits

China’s Communist Party is gambling that this year’s tap on the brakes has been just enough to curb the housing boom and stop inflation pushing up to danger levels, but not enough to tip the economy into a hard-landing.

 

 

The great hope is that Goldilocks growth can be kept on track to ensure an orderly transition of power in October 2012, when a new generation of leaders takes charge of the [...]

Gold is our largest position: PIMCO’s equities manager

Anne Gudefin, PIMCO’s global equities portfolio manager, likes gold.

“The largest position in [our] fund is gold, which we think is a very good form of protection against what can go wrong,” said Gudefin in an interview with Fortune published on May 12.

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“We were encouraged by the fact that a lot of the central banks, especially in Asia, are big buyers. We think that’s an [...]