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Introduction The past year has seen gold start 2019 at sub $1300/Oz and it closed the year at around $1525/Oz, registering an increase of 17%. Overall, it wasn't a bad year for Gold Bugs so we can now turn our attention to 2020 which has kicked off in rather lackluster manner as the chart ...

We need to pay attention to various signals of excess leverage, excess liquidity, absence of notion of risk, and greed, Etienne de Marsac, Head of Absolute Return at Sunny Asset Management, told Real Vision's The Interview. de Marsac said that, while the central banks have been extrem...

Geopolitical Events Support Gold Gold started the year driven by risks associated with geopolitical events. On January 3, a U.S. drone attack on an Iranian general in Iraq led to a retaliatory strike by Iran on a U.S.-Iraq military base on January 8. This enabled gold to briefly reach the $1...

Annual gold demand dips to 4,355.7t Gold demand fell 1% in 2019 as a huge rise in investment flows into ETFs and similar products was matched by the price-driven slump in consumer demand. The net result was a marginal 1% decline in annual demand to 4,356t. Global reserves grew by ...

It is hard to believe that back in the early 1980s, a US 30-Year Treasury Bond offered an almost 20% yield. In the days when inflationary pressures were roaring, a $100,000 investment in a US Treasury bond paid the holder a coupon of $20,000 each year over the thirty-year life of the fixed inc...

For the third year in a row, the Turkish Mint has produced more gold coins than the U.S. Mint. In the international English-speaking gold community, the U.S. Mint is often regarded as the largest mint globally in terms of gold coins produced (measured by weight). Western media regularly rep...

By Jesy Beeson During geopolitical events, market participants turn to CME Group futures and options in larger-than-usual numbers to manage the risk posed by the changing investment climate. The impact of such events can be seen in short-term impacts to prices of equities, particularly E-m...

Gold and silver have been around as means of exchange or hard currency for a lot longer than all of the currencies issued by governments as legal tender. The instruments that trade in the global foreign exchange market have the backing of the full faith and credit of the countries that print t...

In general, three main factors affect the price of gold in the long run: (1) the dollar, (2) the U.S. level of inflation and (3) monetary policy in the United States. Dollar The gold price stably negatively correlates with the Dollar Index. And it is actually normal because gold is dollar-...

SARS Helped Pump Up the Price of Gold One way to attempt to predict the future is to look to the past for similar analogies. For the recent coronavirus outbreak, a similar analogy might be the SARS outbreak of 2002. SARS might tell us something about how a pandemic might affect the price o...