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Bernanke: Fed Stands Ready to Do More The Wall Street Journal – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaffirmed the ‘Bernanke put’ this month, otherwise known as music to the ears of precious metals investors. Appearing after the Fed’s latest rate-setting meeting, Bernanke said that another round of bond purchases remains “very much on the table […]
Central Banks Vigorously Buying the Dip Financial Times – At least one central bank, and likely more, took advantage of this month’s correction in gold to further diversify their reserve holdings away from the US dollar. According to several estimates from traders familiar with the purchases, the Bank for International Settlements – which buys gold […]
Emerging Market Central Banks Driving Gold Higher CNBC – Mark Bristow, CEO of Randgold Resources, a miner with operations in western Africa, says that emerging market central banks are underpinning today’s elevated and rising gold price. In a financially volatile world, Bristow maintains, emerging market central banks are using gold to mitigate their foreign exchange […]
Gold Again Above $1,700 on Fed’s Extended Zero-Rate Pledge Reuters – Gold rallied hard on January 25, climbing 2.5% intraday to above $1,700 an ounce, on news that the Fed is extending its promise to maintain near-zero interest rates until late 2014. The Fed’s previous low-rate pledge was set to expire in mid-2013. The rally […]
Will European Sovereigns Have to Sell Their Gold? MarketWatch – To make ends meet, European sovereigns may soon have to dig deep into their pocketbooks and jettison some of their gold reserves. At 2,452 tons, Italy enjoys the world’s fourth-largest gold reserves. Current value: $123 billion. Rome’s budget deficit for 2011: $80 billion. France, meanwhile, […]
Central Bank Gold Purchases Surge in Q3 Wall Street Journal – Central banks have purchased 7X as much gold in the 3rd quarter of this year than the same period last year, the latest World Gold Council quarterly report reveals. The combined purchases amount to a whopping 148.8 metric tons of gold. By comparison, in […]
Deutsche Bank’s Lewis: Gold, Agriculture, Are “Safest Long Positions” Bloomberg – Michael Lewis, Deutsche Bank’s Global Head of Commodities Research, reports that gold and other commodities are “still cheap” and that gold’s recent rally, while record-breaking, is “not yet extreme.” Demand from emerging markets remains strong for all commodities. Lewis noted that gold is below […]
Criminal Charges Leveled Against Goldline Execs ABC News – The Santa Monica City Attorney’s office has leveled fraud and theft charges against executives at Goldline, the prominent California gold dealer, in a 19-count criminal complaint. At its core, the complaint argues Goldline persuaded customers interested in buying gold bullion to instead buy numismatic coins worth […]
China Buys Gold to Challenge US Dollar Al Jazeera – America’s diplomats know the world will one day pull the plug on the US dollar’s life support system. A recently published, unredacted Wikileaks cable from the US Embassy in Beijing shows that the concern has, in fact, been at the front of their minds. The […]
Gold Mining Commanding a Premium Financial Post – Gold, like oil, is getting harder and harder to find. That is the conclusion of a recent report by Clarus Securities. Employing data from the Society of Economic Geologists, analyst Laurie Curtis finds that deposits yielding high quantities of gold per ton of ore extracted peaked in […]
