The gold market continues to act as if the forces of supply and demand don’t exist. The number of claims per ounce of gold stored at COMEX’s vaults have reached a high of 110 per physical ounce. Meanwhile, record levels of physical gold have been flowing into Hong Kong and Shanghai. One of the biggest sellers of the yellow metal to Chinese buyers has been the well publicized GLD ETF, which has been selling off its physical holdings. Numerous other…
Back in August, the number of claims per physical ounce of gold stored in COMEX warehouses reached 50. That’s 50 owners for every ounce of gold available for delivery. The physical gold rout has continued and the number of owners per physical ounce, now stands at 54.6, a level not seen since 2003. This comes at a time when the global demand for physical gold is rising, led by Asia where Chinese gold consumption is expected to grow 29% this year….
The total amount of gold available for delivery on the COMEX has fallen to a record low. There are now up to 50 owners for every ounce of gold available for delivery. The total amount of gold available for delivery in COMEX warehouses currently totals around 774,000 ounces, or 24 tons; 29 tons were requested for delivery in July. With the August delivery date coming up someone should start getting worried. It would appear that buying gold nowadays does not…
Gold is often quoted as being a long term inflation beating instrument. However, in reality it is far from that. Over the past 23 years since 1990, the price of gold has risen 74.8%, from an inflation adjusted price of $730 per troy ounce in January 1990, to July’s 2013s average price of $1276 per troy ounce. A compounded annual growth rate of around 2.57%. Furthermore, extending this study over 46 years, all the way back to January 1967, when…
Historical 100 year gold and silver prices. Chart by Macrotrends.net
Gold futures Tuesday morning, demonstrating that the fast-moving computerized marketplace is not isolated to the traditional equity securities world. Gold futures, the indicative price at which gold can be brought for at a certain time in the future, dropped $5 in one second on the 2nd of July as fast-moving computerized trading hit the traditional safe haven. Nanex, a provider of real-time data to traders, noted that 700 trades in 1,000 gold future contracts of gold for August delivery drove the price…
Like the rest of the mining industry, the worlds largest gold miner by volume is going to be hit by falling margins the second half of this year. Actually, it is possible that these margins are going to fall so much that the company will actually be making a loss at some of is mines. According to Barrick Gold’s first quarter earnings release, these were the all-in costs of producing an ounce of gold in three of its key mining…
Why I Will not Invest in Gold