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Dealing Desk: Clients Supporting Gold

This week has seen clients supporting gold and platinum whilst selling silver and palladium. GoldMoney's clients have been buying into the Singapore and Canadian vaults again. There has also been more buy orders into…

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Out of the mouths of babes....

Parents will tell you the most difficult questions to answer sometimes come from their children. Here are some apparently innocent questions to ask of economists, journalists, financial commentators and central bankers,…

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Market Report: Silver’s rollercoaster

Our headline chart says it all. The first two weeks of 2016 have been volatile for precious metals, with gold ending up 2.3% and silver exactly unchanged by this morning (Friday) European time. All markets have been…

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Austrians get (some) mainstream credibility

Well, well: who would have believed it. First the Bank for International Settlements comes out with a paper that links credit booms to the boom-bust business cycle, then Britain's Adam Smith Institute publishes a paper…

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Gold in 2016

Advance signs of a global slump in economic activity emerged in 2015. Furthermore, the dollar's strength, coupled with widening credit spreads confirms a global tendency for dollar-denominated debt to contract. These…

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