Gold
Paulson Gaga over Gold and Housing
It’s not often that John Paulson, hedge fund manager extraordinaire, publicly voices his market insights. But when he does, he has a tendency to induce rigorous head-scratching perplexity throughout Wall Street.
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Gold’s ninth record in two weeks has left market observers, traders and economists all scrambling to explain why the yellow metal is shooting straight up at the same time U.S. Treasuries are doing the same thing.
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The charts on the page below are not strictly correct. Note that we have hidden the axis for the price of gold futures. If created in a more mathematically rigorous manner, the divergence between lines charting CPI and monetary base would be much more significant –leaving the run up in gold visually dwarfed by the [...]
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All That Glitters Is Not GoldGold continues to bask in media attention as a variety of fears – real and imagined – draw investors to the devilish metal. In the short term, prices rose after the Fed’s non-event on Wednesday. At the same time, however, silver has been keeping its head up in recent months – yet hardly anyone seems [...]
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Tons of Gold Traded in Mystery Deal
After hitting a high of $1,264.90 in June, gold prices fell and then bumped their heads on a $1,200 resistance level, until punching through it this morning. One factor may be news of a gold-for-currency swap involving hundreds of tons of gold, according to The Telegraph in London. The Telegraph said that a “mystery bank” traded huge stores [...]
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Gold: Heading North or Overrated?
The price of gold continues to teeter around a radical 30-year high as investors see precious metals as a safe haven, protecting their fortune from any more possible market plunges to come. Gold prices have maintained a position north of the $1,000 mark for the past 9 months, striking a high of $1,259 on June [...]
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Commodity rallies are unlike their brethren in the equity or debt markets in many ways, but one of the most important is that if the stuff rallying is used for an industrial use, ever-upward prices will eventually dampen demand for downstream products such that demand for the stuff also gets dented. Such is the self-correcting [...]
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Gold: An Underperforming Bubble?
Interesting chart in the WSJ earlier this week, as picked up by Paul Kedrosky over at Infectious Greed. It shows that while gold may be entering a bubble phase, it is still an underperforming asset [...]
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There’s Gold in Them Thar ETFs
Gold–at times it’s variously an index of inflation, greed, or pretty much anything else that perversely drives its price up, down, and all around. Minyanville provides this guide to ETFs that provide exposure to bullion, equity, exchange-traded note, and futures assets, including bull and bear leverage. Structure your own pot at the end of the [...]
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