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Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 27 Apr, 2014

This was also a shortened week due to Easter Monday, not in the US but in the UK. This week, the prices of the metals were sagging until Thursday morning. Then I believe it was rumors of war in Ukraine sent the prices shooting up. Was this fundamentals suddenly shifting? Read on… First, here is […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 20 Apr, 2014

We have data only for Mon-Thu, as this was a shortened week due to Good Friday. On Monday, the price of gold bumped up $9 but there was no move in the silver price. On Tuesday, the prices of both metals dropped. The gold price ended the week down $24 from last Friday. The dollar […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 13 Apr, 2014

On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee released the minutes of their last meeting. This news helped make a good week for gold speculators. An ounce of gold now exchanges for 16 bucks more than it did at the close last Friday. That’s about 1.5% more of our favorite green paper, for those who count […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 6 Apr, 2014

Are you supposed to buy gold when a bad jobs report is released? On Friday, someone did. Jobs creation fell short of 200K and unemployment ticked up. Silver was bought even more than gold. Someone either bought metal on the disappointing news, or speculated that others will be buying it. Hoarders or speculators? Read on… […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 30 Mar, 2014

The gold price fell about forty bucks, and the silver price fell about fifty cents. There are many ongoing rumors about what could be happening in supply and demand for the metals. Mostly, these are about how the world is gobbling up physical metal and the prices will soon skyrocket. A well-known commentator this week […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 23 Mar, 2014

The gold price fell about fifty bucks, and the silver price fell about a buck twenty, which is even more as a percentage. It’s interesting to see what happened to the fundamentals of supply and demand along with these moves. Here is the graph of the metals’ prices. The Prices of Gold and Silver We […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 16 Mar, 2014

The gold price went up this week, and the silver price went up a bit less. Several analysts said that speculators such as hedge funds were buying futures contracts this week and this is the harbinger of further increases in the price. Read on to see if this is true, and if so what it […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 9 Mar, 2014

Gold went up and silver went down this week. It’s natural for most people to say, “gold went up”, but it’s the most unnatural phenomenon. The dollar is paper scrip issued by the Fed. The fine print tells you that it’s irredeemable, which is like a promise to give you a kilo of sugar that […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 2 Mar, 2014

The gold price didn’t move much this week, but the silver price dropped 68 cents. The fundamentals of supply and demand show something clearly that price charts cannot. Read on… Here is the graph of the metals’ prices. The Prices of Gold and Silver We are interested in the changing equilibrium created when some market […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 23 Feb, 2014

The dollar dropped a little more this week. Measured conventionally, the gold price rose six bucks and the silver price almost 40 cents. The question everyone should be asking: who is driving up the prices of the metals? Are they, yet again, leveraged speculators buying futures with up to 10:1 leverage? Or has the picture […]