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Market Report: Silver stars

The gold price rose strongly on Monday and Tuesday, before drifting lower on Wednesday and Thursday. In early European trading this morning, gold opened slightly stronger at $1230, up $2. Silver was the star performer…

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The ECB and shadow banking

Markets have fully adjusted to a financial world which reflects the leadership and management of money by central banks, and are increasingly frightened of any prospect of their control failing. Every time the system…

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Market Report: Firm undertones

The dollar gold price rose this week from Monday's low of $1215 to close last night (Thursday) at $1240, and silver rose from $14.90 to $15.20. Silver's performance compared with gold reflects lower than normal silver…

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Interest Rates and Gold

It is commonly assumed that the gold price and interest rates move in opposite directions. In other words, a tendency towards higher interest rates is accompanied by a lower gold price. Like all assumptions about…

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Market Report: Quarter-end resilience

Gold and silver prices rose slightly over the course of this week, with the gold price up $15 to $1235, and silver up 20c to $15.38. London having been closed for Easter Monday, trading in the physical market was…

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