Gold

Prices have dropped in the days following the QE4 announcement, and there is normally no more positive news for the precious metals than the announcement of massive money printing.

The aim of this article is to explain the differences between investment solutions offering direct ownership (allocated) and mutualized (non-allocated) ownership of physical gold.

Although gold (and silver) didn’t go up in the last couple of days, it is absolutely guaranteed that the continued destruction of paper money will lead to substantially higher prices in the precious metals

The fundamental and technical picture could not be better for gold and silver. Most governments’ deficits are escalating at a fast rate. Money printing worldwide is likely to accelerate rapidly and could reach exponential rises in the next 1-3 years.

The case for gold as the ultimate wealth preservation investment is irrefutable. Whilst paper money and all assets that were financed by the credit bubble will collapse in real terms, gold will continue to represent stable purchasing power as it has done during 5,000 years.

The prices of gold and silver have dropped severely, November 28th 2012. Such a huge drop in less than a minute, only one day after options have expired, is quite hard to explain in a so-called free market in which no one is interfering.

Egon von Greyerz said that it's not the gold price that is going up, but rather the fiat currencies that are constantly losing their purchasing power

Turkey has admitted that the increase in its gold exportations is related in reality to the payment of gas imported from Iran.

The Monnaie de Paris (the French Mint) has just issued a new 75-gram gold coin for a sales price of 5,000 euros, or 66.6 euros a gram.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Prime Minister, has suggested to the International Monetary Fund to replace the dollar by gold when lending to troubled countries.