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  Gold started a short-term down trend within a longer down trend on June 22 and as of July 3, it is testing it to the upside but has not broken it yet, closing the week at $1,168.40. The longer down trend started around May 20 remains intact.     Silver is also in a downtr...

Greece moved to check the growing strains on its crippled financial system on Sunday, closing its banks and imposing capital controls that brought the prospect of being forced out of the euro into plain sight.   After bailout talks between the leftwing government and foreign lenders...

Did COMEX Just Receive A Physical Gold Bailout From The Feds?, Speculators Massively Short on the COMEX, Switzerland Gold Imports & Exports For May, Top 5 Gold Producers: Stunning Decline In Gold Productivity, China to Launch a Yuan-Based Gold Fix by Year-End, Chinese Gold Standard Would be "Game...

The situation on the paper gold market shows that speculators are massively short on gold currently (even more so since they’re anticipating a friendly settlement for Greece). On the other hand, the commercials have taken the opposite side of the trade. Generally, this is a typical signal of a p...

An article in the Swiss newspaper Bilan published last week states that the weight of gold in the global economy amounts to $172 billion. This is a relatively modest number, slightly lower than Apple’s annual turnaround, for example. Is that all that gold weighs?

Imports = 119 tonnes  Exports = 108 tonnes      

Summary On June 1, 2015, JPMorgan added almost exactly enough ounces of physical gold to patch the deficiency between supply and delivery demand at COMEX, avoiding widespread dealer default. Declassified documents, along with strong circumstantial evidence indicate that it was not JPMorgan, b...

GoldBroker TV Launch, Gold & Silver Newscast - Episode 1, ‘’Goldbug’’ Analysts Capitulation, Bank of China Joins Auction Setting Gold Prices in London, There’s a Pile of Gold in Manhattan. Texas Wants It Back, Russia Adds 100,000 Ounces of Gold To Its Reserves in May, Go Out And Buy as Much Physi...

Bank of China Ltd. will become the first Chinese bank to join the auction process that sets gold prices in the London market.

  Transcript: 1) Gold broke last week a downtrend started in mid-May while silver remains within the downtrend with no indication as of now it intends to follow gold and break out to the upside. Gold stopped short of $1,195 resistance level and silver dropped from $16.2 and is approachin...

Harry Dent (the one predicting gold at $700) is now being joined by many long-time bugs who are seeing gold plummet toward $1,000-$900... before it takes off to $5,000! I call this the final capitulation of the analysts. They are throwing the towel on this frustrating sector and their short- and...

Silver: Commodity or Money?, DOJ Probes Banks for Silver, Gold Price Manipulation, First Majestic Silver CEO Dings CFTC On Silver Market Manipulation, Did COMEX Just Receive A Physical Gold Bailout From The Feds?, EU Regulators Order 11 Countries To Adopt Bail-In Rules, MUST SEE CHART: Major Bank...

New charts added in covering the new CME Futures Contract for Hong Kong Kilobars.

The bail-ins are coming. Reuters reported today that European Commission today gave France, Italy and nine other EU countries two months to adopt bank bail-in regulations or face legal action.

Silver: Commodity or Money?, First Majestic Silver CEO complains to CFTC About Market Manipulation, You Cannot Stop Coming Financial Bust, China's Gold Imports On Track For A New Record, Who's Next? China Finally Starts Snapping Up Gold Miners, China's 10,000 Tons of Gold Will Destroy the Dollar,...

So many articles and books have been written about gold as money, but so few about silver. However, a lot more silver has been used as money than gold, mostly because of its lower value and therefore being easier to transact for day-to-day needs.