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By Frank Holmes |
December 4, 2013
India’s growing GDP is very important to gold’s rise, especially when it comes to the Love Trade. The math shows that an increasing GDP per capita in this part of the world has historically been linked to the rising price of gold.
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By Frank Holmes |
November 20, 2013
While paper gold is getting the cold shoulder in the West, the Love Trade buyers in the East are wrapping their arms around all the physical gold they can get their hands on.
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By Glenys Sim, Bloomberg |
November 14, 2013
Gold demand in China, India and the Middle East surged in the 12 months to September while European sales contracted, underscoring a shift in the global bullion market from west to east, according to the World Gold Council.
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By Agnieszka Troszkiewicz and Maria Kolesnikova, Bloomberg |
November 7, 2013
The London Metal Exchange, the world’s biggest industrial-metals marketplace, altered its rules to speed up withdrawals from warehoused stockpiles amid consumer complaints that prompted scrutiny from U.S. regulators.
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By Austin Kiddle |
November 6, 2013
Open interest data in the last week suggested long liquidation by tactical investors while the Indian Diwali gold purchases season was off to a slow start, providing a fragile floor for gold prices.
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By Pratik Parija, Bloomberg |
October 22, 2013
Gold premiums in India, the world’s largest user, climbed to a record as jewelers rushed to secure supplies to meet soaring demand during festivals and weddings amid government curbs on imports.
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By Frank Holmes |
September 10, 2013
Historically, September has been gold’s best month of the year. Looking at more than four decades of monthly returns, the precious metal has seen its biggest increase this month, averaging 2.3%. Will that trend continue?
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By Bernard Dahdah |
September 6, 2013
Investors still seem wary of gold’s dramatic collapse in the first half of this year. The question has since become, how low should gold be priced in order to bring supply and demand into equilibrium?
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By Austin Kiddle |
August 23, 2013
MacQuarie recently estimated that the gold bars from the ETF outflow have travelled to Switzerland, and are then re-melted into smaller size bars and coins to sell into Asia, mainly China and India.
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By Austin Kiddle |
August 16, 2013
Filings show that John Paulson sold more than half of his gold ETF positions during Q2 while other hedge fund managers got rid of their gold ETF positions. On the other hand, the World Gold Council reported that consumers purchased 1,083.2 tons of gold in Q2.
