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This week, clients have been net selling gold whilst net buying silver, platinum, and palladium. The spot gold and silver highs experienced on Monday may have sparked more selling activity from our clients as they took…
Read the articlePresident Obama weighed into the Brexit debate on his recent visit to the UK, saying that if Britain left the EU, she would be at the back of the queue when it comes to a free trade agreement. If this was intended to…
Read the articleGoldMoney® Founder James Turk, CEO Roy Sebag, CSO Josh Crumb, Head of Research Alasdair Macleod, and Vice President of GoldMoney® Insights Stefan Wieler sat down for a round-table discussion to discuss the history and…
Read the articleSomething’s got to give in the oil market Introduction Crude oil time-spreads have completely dislocated from inventories. Historically, such dislocations have proved to be short lived. We expect that either spot prices…
Read the articleSilver continued its spectacular run, and gold had a good week as well. Underlying this performance was a weaker dollar. So far this year, measured in dollars, silver is up 28% and gold up 20%. On the week, gold rose…
Read the articleThis week, clients have been net buying gold, silver, and palladium. Wednesday’s FOMC release seemed to spark more buying acitivity from our clients as they took advantage of the lower pricing in advance of the FOMC…
Read the articleSaudi Arabia has been in the news recently for several interconnected reasons. Underlying it all is a spendthrift country that is rapidly becoming insolvent. While the House of Saud remains strongly resistant to change,…
Read the articleSilver continued its stellar run this week, trading as high as $17.60 overnight in Asia on Thursday morning, and in mid-morning European trade today was 24.3% on the year, overtaking gold. Gold finally caught a bid…
Read the articleThis week, clients have been net buying their metal positions; this was seen more so with the increased silver prices. Clients have been speculating the market conditions and chasing the silver price as it increased. We…
Read the articleThe Fiat Money Quantity continues to rise at an accelerated pace, and now stands at $14.286 trillion. If it had continued to rise at the pre-Lehman crisis pace, it would be standing at only $8.474 trillion, a difference…
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