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Gold Trading at a Premium in Vietnam

June 17, 2013 – 9:46 PM Comments Off

Gold climbed to $1391.50/oz on Friday, its first close above $1390/oz in four weeks and silver climbed 1.2 percent to $22.07 an ounce.
Gold is marginally lower today in most currencies after last week’s small gain …

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Adam Hamilton is the Editor of ZealLLC.com

Gold Capitulation

February 25, 2013 – 11:18 AM | Comments Off
Gold Capitulation

Gold got crushed this week in what can only be described as a capitulation.  Cascading selling took on a life of its own as the yellow metal knifed through multiple key support lines.  Newsflow exacerbated …

US Mint Bullion-Coin Sales 3

January 7, 2013 – 9:30 AM | Comments Off
US Mint Bullion-Coin Sales 3

Gold and silver come in multiple forms, each with their own unique yet interrelated supply-and-demand profiles.  Among the most popular in the US physical market are the bullion coins produced by the US Mint.  Investor …

QE3 Silver Impact

December 24, 2012 – 10:11 AM | Comments Off
QE3 Silver Impact

Silver has been selling off relentlessly since the Federal Reserve expanded its third quantitative-easing campaign last week.  As that decision was highly inflationary, silver’s subsequent weakness has really vexed traders.  But its counter-intuitive selloff had …

Real Rates and Gold 11

November 26, 2012 – 10:40 AM | Comments Off
Real Rates and Gold 11

Early in gold’s secular bull, contrarian investors looked to real interest rates as one of this metal’s primary drivers.  Eleven years ago when gold still languished under $300, mainstreamers scoffed at the notion that there …

Bullish PM Technicals

November 19, 2012 – 1:25 PM | Comments Off
Bullish PM Technicals

With the US stock markets falling sharply since the elections, shell-shocked investors are scrambling for the exits.  And this mass exodus is certainly rational in light of 2013’s record tax hikes looming for American investors.  …

Stock Bull Topping

October 22, 2012 – 9:21 AM | Comments Off
Stock Bull Topping

With the US stock markets near major multi-year highs, traders are naturally very optimistic. Predictions abound for a continuing advance to new all-time highs. But behind this happy facade, the secular picture is actually quite …

Fed QE and Gold, Silver

October 8, 2012 – 11:19 AM | No Comment
Fed QE and Gold, Silver

After the Federal Reserve launched QE3 last month, investors and speculators are growing excited about its future impact on gold and silver. Though the Fed’s QE3 campaign started out relatively small, its open-ended nature is …