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Gold vs Currencies of Countries in Crisis: Ukraine Hryvnia, Argentine Pesos, Syrian Pound, Ghanan New Cedis

Mario Draghi spoke, last Thursday, and everyone must have thought his announcements were important... because right after his speech, stock markets went up and the euro fell against the dollar! What caused this abrupt temperature rise in the markets?

If we look at the global gold demand it mostly splits in two: investment demand and jewellery demand. But is this a correct description of the actual gold’s demand?

Exclusive video interview with Ronald-Peter Stöferle. Gold, as the antagonist of unbacked paper currencies, remains an excellent hedge against rising price inflation and worst-case scenarios

On Monday, France borrowed at a negative rate, which means investors are losing money... they’re paying to deposit their money! Even though this is for short-term loans (3, 6 and 12 months, for a total of 8.2 billion euros) at rates slightly below zero (-0.002% to -0.004%), this hadn’t occurred s...

New charts added in which show daily/weekly/monthly changes in physical holdings.

In this transitional period to a new world order where uncertainty and risks dominate, gold is money in extremis and the preferred central banks’ reserve.

The longest running gold index - the BGMI - recently hit new lows vs gold.

The S&P 500 just passed the 2,000-point psychological threshold, an absolute record for that index, created in 1950 and comprising the 500 largest companies traded on the U.S. stock market

The Fed is in full market control mode after its tentative interest rates future increase announcement. It constantly keeps the stock market from properly correcting, in the hope it will keep going until the next Fed announcement.

In Pebble Beach, California, during The Quails “Concours d’Élégance”, a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO was sold at auction by Bonhams for $38 million, which constitutes an all-time record for a collector’s automobile. What to think of this exorbitant amount?

The next 7-year cycle, from 2015 to 2021, will bring a crisis of “biblical proportions”, much worse than the 2008 crisis, that might resemble the ‘30s Great Depression even more but, this time around, with massive devaluation of the dollar and other paper currencies against gold.

The Fed has fought by all possible means the installation of the correction wave, because the amount of debt is so high that letting deflation happen would lead to a never-seen-before catastrophe

The United States has just announced a 4% (annualised) growth for the second quarter, following a disastrous first quarter showing (finally revised, for the third time, at -2.1% instead of -2.9%). Though this sounds like good news, we should wait for the official revision of this 4% number that l...

Gold in Ukriane Hrvynia and in Argentine Peso

It seems that it is not the death of gold and silver as money that will happen, but rather the death of fiat money. For more than 2,000 years, gold and silver have been used as money under different forms and have outlived any other form of currency.

One of the main arguments used by your banker to dissuade you from buying gold is that “it’s not generating anything”, either interest or dividends. It has been true, in a way, for some time. But, now that interest rates are at their lowest and that savings accounts and life insurance policies pr...

It is interesting to see gold rising while the global sharemarkets decline.   We can measure these moves with the Dow/Gold Ratio. Looking at the short term we see a trend reversal with a breaking of the wedge formation.         Looking at the larger pictur...

With the price oscillator a move above 10 will see the gold price above 1400 & be a major buy signal.

The gold miners’ good performance in 2014 bodes well for gold not having to worry about a bear market taking place, like in 2013, or about testing again its major $1,178 bottom.