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At the start of this week, gold is correcting, but the pullback is very measured when you look at the pace of the rise in the U.S. ten-year. The fact that gold is not correcting under these conditions is evidence of the significant level of demand for the precious metal.

Gold rising as global bonds collapse. Ultimately, central banks will be forced to improve the quality of international reserves in attempt to restore the credibility of fiat currencies.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released a statement: inflation rose to 8.5% in March over the last twelve months. A figure not reached since the records of the 1970s, and an increase that nothing seems to be able to stop.

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...

We can already hear the leaders of Western countries blaming Putin for the rise in prices... It's very convenient, but it's not true: it's their money printing, to finance their deficits, which has long been feeding the current inflation. The war in Ukraine only reinforces and accelerates this tr...

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.