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- Silver: Gap Between Paper and Physical Prices Widening Daily
- Tim Iacono submits: We were out for most of the day yesterday, so, I called into California Numismatics' 24-hour toll free recording to find out what happened in precious metals markets. What I heard was quite shocking and the chart below only tells half the story of how the...
- External links 2008-10-16
- Gold Price During Recessions
- Tim Iacono submits: Someone recently wrote in a dismissive, almost pompous, tone something to the effect of, "Everyone knows gold doesn't do well in recessions". But, is that true? Well, it depends... click to enlarge The author - whoever it was and whatever exactly it was that they...
- 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...
- 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...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Why Isn't Jason Zweig Bashing Gold?
- Tim Iacono submits: In the shocker of all shockers, Money Magazine and Wall Street Journal financial writer Jason Zweig didn't bash gold as an investment after being provided with the perfect opportunity to do so when he recently appeared on the PBS Nightly Business Report.For many, many...
- External links 2008-11-03
- Surprising Call for Return to the Gold Standard
- Tim Iacono submits: The last page of the Wall Street Journal Opinion section once again contained a gem of a "sound money" editorial on Monday - another well reasoned critique of the current monetary order, this one penned by none other than a former vice president of the Federal...
- External links 2008-11-19
- 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...
- External links 2008-11-21
- Thanksgiving Has Been Historically Favorable to Gold Price
- Tim Iacono submits: For years now, the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. has been a very favorable two-day period for the gold price as shown below - this year is not likely to be an exception. While anything could happen later this week, a number of conditions have developed...
- External links 2008-11-26
- Citigroup Report Further Fuels Debate About the Future of Gold
- Tim Iacono submits: Precious metals markets were quiet on Friday. That is, up until the last few minutes when that little line on Kitco's live gold chart went vertical for what amounted to about a $7 gain for gold. Citigroup's C report the other day will certainly add...
- External links 2008-11-30
- Misleading Gold Headline of the Day
- Tim Iacono submits: It's natural to wonder about the real utility provided by editors and others in the publishing business who, for some reason, feel obligated to alter the headline supplied by the author of an article for one reason or another. Apparently, they receive some kind of special...
- External links 2008-12-03
- ScotiaMocatta: Gold Trends to Snowball
- Tim Iacono submits: From Mineweb comes news of a report by ScotiaMocatta, the global bullion banking division of the Bank of Nova Scotia, about the gold market. In its December Metals Matters report, ScotiaMocatta suggests that global financial problems "seem so deep rooted that demand for gold as...
- External links 2008-12-11
- SPDR Gold Trust Inventory Remains in a Very Narrow Range
- Tim Iacono submits: It's been quiet at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSEArca:GLD) over the last couple months with inventory moving up and down in a very narrow range. However, that may soon change. Since peaking at 770 tonnes back on October 10th, the equivalent of seventh place in...
- External links 2008-12-16
- Gold is One of the Few Assets That's Up for the Year
- Tim Iacono submits: Don't look now, but the little yellow metal that pays no interest and provides no dividend is one of just a few assets that can make the claim of being in positive territory for the year. by Tim Iacono
- External links 2008-12-16
- SPDR Gold Shares ETF Hits Record High Inventory
- Tim Iacono submits: Inventory at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSEArca:GLD) just hit a new all-time high yesterday afternoon, the number of tonnes in the trust reaching 775.33. [click to enlarge] by Tim Iacono
- External links 2008-12-18
- WSJ on the Old 'Gold as Inflation Hedge' Saw
- Tim Iacono submits: This morning's Ahead of the Tape column($) in the Wall Street Journal neatly summarizes conventional wisdom regarding gold, beginning with the 'ol "inflation hedge" saw. As the quintessential hard asset, one that traditionally hedges against rising consumer prices, gold's trajectory these days should be downward....
- External links 2008-12-22
- Gold ETF Reaches New Inventory High
- Tim Iacono submits: Inventory at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSEArca:GLD) made a new high on Tuesday at a whopping 787.88 tonnes after two small additions over the last week or so. This amount of bullion is greater than all but five of the world's central banks and the...
- External links 2009-01-08
- Gold: Wealthy Investors Want Bars, Not Paper
- Tim Iacono submits: Ambrose Evans Pritchard over at the Telegraph has filed this report hat tip Domus on the recent surge in demand for gold bars by wealthy individuals.No, the rich aren't asking their stockbroker to buy shares of one of the many gold ETFs or some commodity futures...
- External links 2009-01-11
- Silver ETF Reaches New Inventory High
- Tim Iacono submits: If only the futures price would catch on to what has been happening over the last year or so at the world's largest silver ETF, the iShares Silver Trust (NYSEArca:SLV). With a massive addition of 218 tonnes on Friday, inventory reached a new all-time high of...
- External links 2009-01-13
- Gold Shares ETF Inventory Reaches 800 Tonnes
- Tim Iacono submits: They've been busy over at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSEArca:GLD), adding about 15 tonnes to the trust over the last week, breaching the 800 tonne level for the first time ever.The gold price barely seems to notice, but that may change soon enough...Full Disclosure: Long...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Some Good Charts From World Gold Council Quarterly Report
- Tim Iacono submits: The World Gold Council released their quarterly Gold Investment Digest on Thursday and it contained a number of very good charts including the one below that recounts the many financial market crises that drove investors away from other financial assets and into gold.They noted that the...
- External links 2009-01-25
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