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Gold is often considered a hedge against inflation, but that has not always proved to be the case. When real inflation rates experienced by the person in the street and by investment funds are distinctly negative, as they are at the moment, then this tends to be strongly positive for gold. That ... Read More about Gold Price and the Inflation Connection

A few years ago at a Mines & Money conference in London, I was privileged to listen to a presentation from one of my favorite analysts, Grant Williams of newsletter "Things that make you go hmm" fame, with the title "Nobody Cares." The performance of the markets recently, particularly for ... Read More about Bitcoin Recovers, Gold Stutters—Nobody Cares

Over time gold has served as a form of currency and as a long term hedge against currency depreciation – in other words as a wealth protector without being subject to some of the drivers that occasionally see enormous fluctuations in other asset values. Thus it can serve as a wealth preserver, ... Read More about Top 10 Factors Determining Gold Prices

Some analysts see the Central Bank as one of the key factors in the gold supply/demand equation, specifically, the additions to, or subtractions from, the known national Central Bank gold holdings. These volumes can make the difference between annual gold supply and demand being in surplus or ... Read More about Central Bank Gold Purchasing Impact on Demand

As the US started to wind down for the Independence Day holiday, precious metals perked up, although admittedly by pretty small amounts. Even so the moves could be significant given how frequently major U.S. holidays tend to precede changes in the directions of the precious metals ... Read More about Happy Holidays for Precious Metals?

Many gold buyers will have been waiting for the initiation of the latest phase of the Basel III banking accord to come into force for European banks, as it did on Monday June 28th. They will have had varying expectations of its likely effects on the global gold market and on precious metals prices ... Read More about Basel III – A Damp Squib for Gold So Far

In some other recent articles I intimated that the gold price (closely followed by that of silver) would continue to be mostly data driven, but even so the magnitude of the setback for gold and silver following the recent ADP private sector employment report still took me by surprise. I did ... Read More about Gold, Silver, The Fed and Price Suppression

The yellow metal traded up through various psychological resistance levels to end the month at a little above the $1,900 mark... After having experienced a somewhat mixed beginning to the year, with falling prices from January to April, May was a far better period for gold and saw the price ... Read More about A Definitive Month for Gold