There seems to be a great deal of the yellow metal heading out of the United States and into certain foreign countries lately. According to the USGS, the United States exported 129 metric tonnes of gold Jan-Feb, 2013. At this rate, total U.S. gold exports could reach 700-800 metric tonnes this year. With…
The tactic by the Fed and Central Banks is to inflate the stock markets while manipulating the price of gold and silver lower. This achieves two goals, 1) it reassures the public’s faith by pumping up stock prices while the economic indicators continue to deteriorate and 2) it elevates the dollar while it destroys market sentiment in the…
JP Morgan drops another 22,759 oz of gold (14%) from their Eligible Inventories. They now only have 137,377 oz available in their Eligible Category. Furthermore, 32,049 oz of gold were withdrawn from Scotia Mocatta’s Eligible inventories, now reducing the total gold in the Comex vaults below 8 million oz.
The notion that silver has been recently trading more like a base metal is more a fallacy than fact. Some of the top technical analysts have been stating that the reason why the price of silver has not held up as well as gold is due to the fact that silver trades…