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Still No Inventory Reduction at GLD
Tim Iacono submits: This is strange. It's been eight business days and $100 lower for the price of gold bullion, but still no inventory reduction at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF GLD. It's clear to see all the prior occasions over the last year when a big drop...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, ETF, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-08-17
ETF Update: BRIC ETFs Crumble, Investors Stick with Gold ETF
Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: BRIC ETFs Crumble and U.S. Is Left Standing The so-called BRIC countries and ETFs were stars in 2007, but now most of those regions are finding themselves feeling a little off. Over the past month, the S&P...
Tags: ETF, Gold & Precious Metals, Emerging Markets, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-08-17
DZZ: How To Short Gold by Going Long
Chris Vermeulen submits: The DB Gold Double Short ETN DZZ is a relatively new way to take advantage of gold price action. This gold fund provides double the movement that the GLD ETF or the price of gold does, providing bigger opportunities in the gold sector. I have just recently...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, ETF
External links 2008-08-19
On SLV's 10-for-1 Split: It's All About Liquidity
Tom Szabo submits: Some of us have speculated before about the reason Barclays split the iShares Silver ETF SLV 10:1 and some other ETFs by varying amounts on July 21. Personally, I thought it had to do with added liquidity, an attempt to align the ETF’s price with the underlying...
Tags: ETF, Gold & Precious Metals, Streettracks Gold Trust, IShares Silver Trust
External links 2008-08-21
Silver ETF Bull Market Remains Intact
Chris Vermeulen submits: It’s all too easy to lose yourself and your position under emotional strain. Let’s face it, it’s hard to think straight when a voice inside your head is screaming get me out of here! by Chris Vermeulen
Tags: ETF, Gold & Precious Metals, IShares Silver Trust
External links 2008-08-21
Decoupling Of Physical Gold And Paper Gold Prices
Joey Keasberry submits: Earlier this month I drove down to Brussels, Belgium, to buy some Krugerrands. I could have bought them in my home country, The Netherlands, but I found the premiums at local dealers to be outrageous. In Brussels, I found a dealer that only asked a couple...
Tags: US Market, Gold & Precious Metals, ETF, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-09-01
iShares Silver Trust: Inventory Climbs as Metal Price Plunges
Tim Iacono submits: One of the many surprising aspects of this year's huge 40+ percent plunge in the silver price - from a multi-decade high of $21 per ounce in March to just over $12 per ounce as of last Friday - is that inventory held by the iShares...
Tags: IShares Silver Trust, Gold & Precious Metals, ETF
External links 2008-09-10
SPDR GLD ETF Unloads 79 Tons of Gold - Should Investors Follow Suit?
J. Christoph Amberger submits: And so it begins. The SPDR Gold Trust GLD, the world's largest gold-backed exchange traded fund, reported that it sold more than 10 tons of bullion this past Tuesday. That corresponds to 1.7 percent of its total holdings. SPDR now holds "only" 631.2...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, ETF, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-09-11
Gold ETF Adds 36.5 Tonnes to Inventory On Rise in Demand
Tim Iacono submits: The SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSE:GLD) inventory increased by 36.5 tonnes yesterday, an event that was probably related to the $85 increase in the price of the metal. This was the second biggest one-day addition, behind only the July 11th purchase of this year.Prior to yesterday's...
Tags: ETF, Gold & Precious Metals, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-09-18
All That Gold Is Really In the Gold ETF, Right?
Tim Iacono submits: The inventory at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF GLD made a new all-time high yesterday at 710 tonnes, exceeding the level of 706 tonnes reached on just two days in July. If you haven't already caught on to what's happening in precious metals markets these days,...
Tags: ETF, Gold & Precious Metals, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-09-23
Gold: Still Further to Drop
Jeff Pierce submits: This is an extremely bullish chart click to enlarge on the double short gold ETF which doesn’t bode well for gold in the short-term. It’s been dropping quite a bit lately, but until this chart shows a more prominant topping pattern, it looks like it has...
Tags: Chart, Seeking Alpha, Jeff Pierce, Financial Services, Gold & Precious Metals, ETF
External links 2008-10-22
Gold ETF Reaches One Dollar Per Tonne
Tim Iacono submits: The SPDR Gold Shares ETF GLD reached a milestone of sorts yesterday as shown below. For every dollar of the gold price there is now one tonne of gold in the trust.As might be expected, this has much more to do with the price of gold...
Tags: ETF, Stock, Mutual Fund, Equity, Price, Seeking Alpha, Tim Iacono, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Financial Services, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Streettracks Gold Trust, Gold & Precious Metals
External links 2008-10-23
Premium for Silver Coins Soars
Tim Iacono submits: Look what's happened to the premium for 90 percent silver coins at one coin dealer - from about a dollar under spot to three dollars over spot in just the last few months click on chart to enlarge.And these are their buy prices - their sell...
Tags: Dollar, Price, Seeking Alpha, Tim Iacono, Investment, Finance, IShares Silver Trust, Gold & Precious Metals, ETF
External links 2008-10-30
IAU: Gold Regains Momentum After Recent Slump
Don Dion submits: From October 14 through October 29, iShares Comex Gold ETF IAU rejoined the Sector Momentum Tracker’s top ten—holding the No. 3 spot in our rankings for that period. This performance harkened back to IAU’s exceptional performance in late 2007, when the fund held the No....
Tags: Performance, Investor, Seeking Alpha, IAU, Financial Accounting, Performance Management, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Don Dion, Gold & Precious Metals, ETF
External links 2008-11-05
Can a Dubai Silver ETF Send Global Spot Prices Higher?
Peter Cooper submits: The Dubai Multi Commodities Center is understood to be putting the finishing touches to an exchange traded fund for silver with a launch likely next month as demand for silver has surged in the past six months. Local bullion dealers are having to fly heavy...
Tags: Dubai, ETF, Silver, Seeking Alpha, DMCC, Financial Services, Peter Cooper, IShares Silver Trust, Gold & Precious Metals
External links 2008-11-18
Modest Inventory Declines at SLV
Tim Iacono submits: Since the inventory/price charts for the iShares Silver Trust SLV haven't been updated in a while, now seemed like a perfectly good time to do so. As shown below click to enlarge, there's been a net inventory decline of about 200 tonnes over the last month.This...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, ETF, Tim Iacono, IShares Silver Trust
External links 2008-11-21
Retail ETF Investors Help Power Gold Demand
Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Gold demand is surging even as prices fall, and the largest gold exchange traded fund’s increased holdings isn’t because of who you might think. Retail investors are sharply increasing their demand for more gold bars and coins, as it has presented a safe place...
Tags: ETF, Gold & Precious Metals, Tom Lydon, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-11-21
Gold's Recent Volatility
Bill Luby submits: I have been receiving quite a few questions about gold and gold volatility lately, so with gold receiving a lot of attention in the press, I thought this would be a good time to check in on the commodity and on the CBOE’s gold volatility index...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, ETF, Bill Luby, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-11-26
Own Gold? Time to Fold
Alan Brochstein, CFA submits: I first addressed my negative views on gold in mid-October, and boy was that a learning experience. I had known the definition of "gold bug", but I was totally unaware of its antonym until I reviewed the 100+ almost exclusively negative comments that...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, ETF, Alan Brochstein, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-12-07
Put Your Money Where Gold Might Be
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler One of the risks of keeping charts is reading too much into them. I've had a whole weekend to stare at the chart that gives us the daily subhead you see above. Our monetary inflation indicator, after sinking for months, seems to...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, ETF, Hard Assets Investor, Streettracks Gold Trust
External links 2008-12-09
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