Financial markets

Investors who ignore the importance of gold will see their paper assets decline by up to 98% in real terms.

How the future global monetary system will be designed is still completely open. Will centralized central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) set the tone, or will the money supply be (partially) privatized as private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are used as a means of payment in everyday life? What...

In this period of high demand for physical gold, the pressure on allocated accounts increases. This makes sense, as it is especially during these periods of high demand that owners of physical gold want to verify the accuracy and veracity of the inventories they hold.

The price of gold could then rise to $3000 an ounce while the gold/silver ratio collapses at the same time. For silver, this would mean significantly higher price gains in percentage terms; a doubling of the price within a few quarters is quite conceivable, says Newmeyer. For a time horizon of th...

The decline in demand for the US currency is taking place at a time when the risks of the Fed's failure to combat inflation are threatening the intrinsic value of the dollar. Gold is therefore likely to be the winner of this monetary devaluation. This is undoubtedly what American buyers of physic...

Even if this is not the path chosen by the Japanese central bank, more and more observers believe that the fight against inflation must be a top priority in order to avoid the predicted disasters of war and famine to which these periods of inflation logically lead.

The sharp rise in rates is traditionally unfavorable to gold and it is quite surprising to see gold prices hold this week at such high levels, especially after such a change in the Fed's rhetoric. Gold is not reacting to the rate hike because the pace of inflation is not slowing down, so real rat...

In a context of a health crisis, geopolitical tensions, and weakening of American democracy, a risk has been added to Biden's mandate: inflation.

In case Russia wanted to truly extricate itself from the current "dollar reserve" world, it should unveil a gold-backed currency, one which is co-sponsored by the Chinese yuan, which would then also announce unveil it is becoming gold-backed.

The commodity futures market has been experiencing a shock that calls into question its functioning and integrity. Physical gold regains the status of a priority investment in such a context.