May 1, 2013

You’ve no doubt read plenty in the past week and a half about the tremendous rush for physical gold and silver since the price fell. We too last week wrote about how there was a disconnect between prices for physical gold and silver versus the quoted paper prices. Since then premiums above spot price on the likes of Canadian Silver Maples have risen even...

Mar 2, 2013

The Fed minutes released the week before last seem to have many thinking the US Fed is about to ease up a gear or two on the money printer. However Vedran Vuk digs beneath the surface of the commonly quoted excerpts to see what the pointy heads at the Fed are really indicating in their characteristic double speak. As we said following the minutes, it pays to...

Feb 20, 2013

Learn just how volatile silver can be compared to gold, but also how you can take advantage of this volatility for your financial benefit when buying silver… Embrace Silver’s Volatility All the Way to the Bank By Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst Most precious-metals investors know that silver is more volatile than gold. But do they know...

Nov 29, 2012

We’ve been commenting on China’s gold buying habits from as far back as 2009. The below piece is an interesting comparison of China and the USA’s gold buying habits. New Zealand doesn’t feature in any of the World Gold Council Statistics so we can’t really know, but our guess is we’d be even further down the scale in terms of...

Oct 31, 2012

This week: Gold and Silver Very Near 200 Day MA’s Report From the Gold Symposium: What is the End Game? Gold is Now Australia’s 2nd Most Valuable Export to China New RBNZ Head First Interest Rate Manipulation Announcement Jim Rickards: Buy Gold While it’s on Sale We had a busy week last week with 2 days in Sydney for the 2012 Gold Symposium...