GLDW News and Press, SPDR Long Dollar Gold Trust From 02/17/20

Brazil and gold are two markets going in opposite directions. The Brazilian market has suffered for years because of political corruption. The election of Jair Bolsonaro in October 2018 raised hopes that the economy of South America's leading nation would improve. President Bolsonaro ran on an...

While gold’s forward progress has been temporarily halted after hitting a peak last month, the metal continues to enjoy strong institutional and retail support. What’s more, renewed coronavirus fears have lately given gold a renewed safety bid, while the global interest rate outl...

In late October and again in November, I began preparing my subscribers for the last rally phase we experienced in the metals complex. I even penned a number of public articles outlining my expectations for the same. In fact, on November 11 th , I published an article entitled “ Sentime...

Central Banks were sellers of gold around the turn of the century, with the price of the precious metal below $300 per ounce. The Bank of England sold half of the United Kingdom's gold reserves via an auction that pushed the price to a low of just over $250 in August 1999. After a double-botto...

From analyzing SGE premiums, the gold price and cultural trends, my conclusion is that the PBoC did not block 300-500 tonnes of gold from being imported in 2019, as was reported by Reuters. In August 2019, an article by Reuters - stating the Chinese central bank was firmly cutting off go...

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...