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Does Bank Of England Hold €235 Million Of Irish Gold Reserves?

by GoldCore Gold Bullion

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,667.75, EUR 1,246.82 and GBP 1,034.39 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,669.50, EUR 1,258.29 and GBP 1,036.25 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $30.88/oz, €23.24/oz and £19.31/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,665.00/oz, palladium at $705.00/oz and rhodium at $1,150/oz.

Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)

Gold fell $9.70 or 0.58% in New York on Friday and closed at $1,663.20/oz. Silver slipped to as low as [...]

Gold Recovers Pre-Jump-and-Slump Level, Forecast to Average $1920 in 2013

London Gold Market Report

from Adrian Ash

BullionVault

Friday 30 Nov, 06:35 EST

 

Gold Recovers Pre-Jump-and-Slump Level, Forecast to Average $1920 in 2013

 

GOLD PRICES rose back to $1730 per ounce in early London trade on Friday – the same level seen just before last week’s late jump and subsequent 2.0% sell-off on Wednesday.

Silver touched a new 8-week high just shy of $34.40 per ounce, while the broader commodities market ticked lower.

Major-government debt prices were [...]

Marc Faber, Gold and a Special Picture of Ben Bernanke

Marc Faber, Gold and a Special Picture of Ben Bernanke

by Adrian Ash

BullionVault

Friday, 16 November 2012

 

What Marc Faber said in Hong Kong this week…

 

YOU ALWAYS get great presentations from the biggest players in gold and silver at the annual London Bullion Market Association conference.

 

Being in Hong Kong this year, the world’s premier event for the bullion industry also got lots of great insights from genuine Asian insiders – ICBC, Kotak Mahindra, the [...]

Is China Heading to Match the U.S. Gold Reserve Level?

by Lawrence Williams, MineWeb.com

Surely the biggest non-news gold story of the day was the statement by David Gornall of Natixis, the London Bullion Market Association’s Chjairman, that gold is somewhat underrepresented in terms of the percentage of it held in China’s foreign reserves. “”When comparing China to the U.S., it would seem that in China, gold asset allocation can only go in one direction,” Gornall told the Association’s annual conference being [...]

LBMA: Chairman Says Chinese Gold Allocation To Rise; SGE To Launch Interbank Market

by GoldCore Gold Bullion

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,735.75, EUR 1,365.44, and GBP 1,091.39 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,732.75, EUR 1,362.23, and GBP 1,085.55 per ounce.

Silver is trading at $32.65/oz, €25.80/oz and £20.65/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,570.00/oz, palladium at $610.60/oz and rhodium at $1,090/oz.

Gold Price Fixes/Rates Volumes – (Bloomberg)

Gold fell $1.80 or 0.10% in New York on Friday and closed at $1,731.00. Silver hit a low of [...]

Where Now for China’s Gold Market?

Where Now for China’s Gold Market?

by Adrian Ash

BullionVault

Monday, 12 November 2012

 

The latest from the London Bullion Market Association conference in Hong Kong…

 

THE ANNUAL conference of the London Bullion Market Association – the “premier professional forum for the world’s bullion market” as Haywood Cheung of the 100-year old Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange put it this morning – is taking place right now in Hong Kong.

 

The timing could hardly seem more [...]

Big Jump in London Gold Trading

Big Jump in London Gold Trading

by Adrian Ash

BullionVault

Friday, 26 October 2012

 

Wholesale gold trading through London’s global center just leapt towards summer 2011′s records…

 

GOLD TRADING in London – heart of the world’s wholesale bullion market – leapt in September.

 

How come? “The continued economic uncertainty in the Eurozone and US, the end of the holiday period and the start of the Indian festival season boosted clearing turnover,” says trade body the London [...]

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 [...]

History May View ECB’s Draghi As “Currency Forger of Europe”

by GoldCore Gold Bullion

 

History May View ECB’s Draghi As “Currency Forger Of Europe”

Today the London Bullion Market is 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.

Silver is trading at $30.91/oz, €24.77/oz and £19.62/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,550.00/oz, palladium at $647.90/oz and rhodium at $1,025/oz.

Gold climbed $0.80 or 0.05% in New York on Friday and closed at $1,669.80. Silver surged to [...]

Iran Gold Imports Surge – 1.2 Billion USD Of Precious Metals From Turkey in April Alone

Via @GoldCore

Iran Gold Imports Surge – 1.2 Billion USD Of Precious Metals From Turkey in April Alone

Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,552.50, EUR 1,259.53, and GBP 1,015.37 per ounce.
Friday’s PM fix was USD 1,606.00, EUR 1,292.76, and GBP 1,041.76 per ounce.
Today is a holiday in the UK and the London bullion market is closed.

Silver is trading at $28.35/oz, €22.92/oz and £18.55/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,444.50/oz, palladium at $609.90/oz and rhodium [...]

Pierre Lassonde – Gold Correction Over, Expect $10,500 Gold

kingworldnews.com

With so much worry surrounding the gold and silver markets, today King World News interviewed legendary Pierre Lassonde, to get his thoughts on what to look for going forward.  Pierre is arguably the greatest company builder in the history of the mining sector.  He is past President of Newmont Mining and past Chairman of the World Gold Council and current Chairman of Franco Nevada.  When [...]

LBMA campaigns for gold to be Tier 1 asset for banks under Basel III

European central banks have become net buyers of gold for the first time in more than two decades, a significant sign that the role of precious metals in currency markets is not only being reassessed but actually changing, reported The Financial Times, while there also is a campaign afoot to include gold as a Tier 1 bank asset with the Basel Committee on Banking [...]

Gold forecast to beat $2,000?in the next year – FT

By Jack Farchy in Montreal

 

The gold market is revving up to reach new record highs in excess of $2,000 an ounce in the next year, according to the average forecast of bankers, traders and investors at the gold industry’s largest annual gathering.

The bullish prediction, if correct, suggests that the gold bull market remains intact, despite the price of the metal having already gained almost 30 per [...]

Maple Leaf silver coins seeing record demand

Reuters Sep 20, 2011 – 2:40 PM ET

The Royal Canadian Mint is on track to raise sales of its silver bullion coins by around 30 percent to 25 million ounces this year and to match last year’s record gold sales of around 1 million ounces, an executive from the Mint said.

Speaking on the sidelines of the London Bullion Market Association annual conference, John Moore, executive director [...]

Central banks return as gold buyers

By Jack Farchy in Montreal

European central banks have become net buyers of gold for the first time in more than two decades, the latest sign of how the turbulence in the currency and debt markets has revolutionised the bullion market.

The purchases are minuscule compared with the size of the global gold market, but highlight a remarkable turnround from a wave of heavy selling by European central banks.

The [...]

Some Observations On Bob Pisani’s Visit To GLD’s Vault

Earlier today, we were delighted to see that after years of ridicule and provocations, the SPDR GLD ETF finally cracked and decided to do a wholesale PR campaign to comfort the investing public it actually does own its gold, by inviting none other than Bob Pisani in its secret warehouse which allegedly contains 40 million ounces of gold, of which HSBC is custodian and the Bank of England (the same [...]

Bullion Bank Trading – A Closely Guarded Secret

by Adrian Douglas of Market Force Analysis

Bullion Bank Trading – A Closely Guarded Secret!

I have written extensively in the past about how the bullion banking members of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) trade unbelievable amounts of unallocated gold and silver on a daily basis. See for example “LBMA OTC Market – Alchemists Turn Paper into Gold”. I also managed to introduce spoken testimony on the [...]

Wow is all I can say LOL…

by idoctor

Gold price

Gold has been used throughout history as money and has been a relative standard for currency equivalents specific to economic regions or countries. Many European countries implemented gold standards in the later part of the 19th century until these were dismantled in the financial crises involving World War I. After World War II, the Bretton Woods system pegged the United States dollar to gold at a rate [...]

In terms of gold upside, Tom Kendall of Credit Suisse, who has been the most accurate forecaster of gold in 2010, sees gold closing 2011 at $1,630: a return which should leave relative stock performance in the cold:

by zh

First, we present the YTD performance of various asset classes as compiled by Reuters:

Gold’s Best Forecaster Says Prices to Reach $1,630: Chart of Day

Gold may climb as high as $1,630 an ounce next year as investors seek protection from financial turmoil in Europe and the U.S. and as Chinese demand rises, according to Tom Kendall, the most accurate forecaster for 2010.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows [...]

Trader blows whistle on gold & silver price manipulation

by Jay

This along with foreclosuregate will bankrupt JPMC and HSBC!
Covering there short positions would bankrupt them and A “correct” valuation of silver would also destroy JPMC

They own the single most concentrated short position in the history of commodities trading. If silver were valued at a “correct” valuation, which would be something along the lines of $50 (at the very least), those short positions would become multi billion dollar liabilities. They [...]