This Week:
- Bank Bail Ins: New Zealand Leading the Way – But for the Wrong Reasons
- 28 Reasons to Buy Physical Gold
- Australian banks face an inquiry that could “kill the Government”
- BRICS countries mulling formation of single gold trade system
Prices and Charts
Jump in the NZ Dollar Holds Back Local Precious Metals Prices
The NZ Dollar has bounced back this week after making new lows a week ago. Perhaps not surprising after so much negativity post election. However the NZ Dollar still remains in a slight overall downtrend for the year. So it will be interesting to see if the Kiwi can make much headway above 0.70.
The stronger dollar has helped put a dent in the local prices of both gold and silver.
NZD Gold is down slightly on a week ago. Having pulled back from the new high for the year, it now sits just above the short term uptrend line from July. It’s getting quite compressed between the rising overhead resistance line above $1900 and the rising support line above $1850. So NZD Gold will have to break in one direction or the other shortly.
NZD Silver did break out above the red downtrend line. But so far has failed to push much higher from there. In fact it is now back down below the same downtrend line and sitting pretty much on the blue uptrend line. There is a lot of blue sky above if NZD Silver can stay decisively above that downtrend line.
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Better Price Discovery for Gold Coming?
An announcement this week from Russia could potentially lead to better price discovery for gold. Perhaps also be another small step in the dethroning of the US Dollar as the global reserve currency.
BRICS countries mulling formation of single gold trade system
BRICS countries are discussing the possibility of establishing a single gold trade system, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank Sergey Shvetsov said Friday.
“The traditional (trade) system based in London and partially in Swiss cities is becoming less relevant as new trade hubs are emerging, first of all in India, China and South Africa. We are discussing the possibility to establish a single (system of) gold trade both within BRICS and at the level of bilateral contacts,” he said, adding that this system may serve as a basis for further creation of new benchmarks.
According to Shvetsov, the Bank of Russia has already signed a memorandum on development of bilateral gold trade with Chinese colleagues. The regulator plans to take first steps towards formation of a single trade system with the People’s Republic of China in 2018, he added.
“We assume that trade and clearing links should be established. The point is that gold buyers should decide on the place of purchase,” the official said, adding that trade links would enable market participants to make deals on international exchanges via the central counterparty.”
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Australian Banks Face an Inquiry That Could “Kill the Government”
Some news out of Australia this week that some members of parliament are looking at a private members bill to bring on a royal commission into banking.
The news article features a list of all the transgressions from various Aussie banks over the past decade. We knew globally the big banks had been serial offenders in recent years. But for the Australian banks it was a surprisingly long list of offences too! However…
“…there are three significant Australian cases either looming or before the courts.
The CBA’s 55,000 breaches of terrorism financing and money laundering laws has attracted the most heat.
Then there is ASIC’s case against Westpac over the alleged rigging of the domestic interest rate market which already has begun to shine a light on the inner workings of modern banking (ANZ and NAB ran up the white flag on that one).
But it is the recent sacking of more than 20 National Australia Bank employees and looming court action that has the potential to get to the heart of one of the economy’s major flash-points; how our banks have helped artificially inflate the property market by aggressively pushing loans on to customers.”
Source: Royal commission into banking: The inquiry that could kill the Government
It also explains how the banks have had the benefit of a taxpayer funded bank deposit guarantee of $250,000 since the financial crisis. “[A] guarantee the Reserve Bank has calculated to be worth about $5 billion a year to our big four banks.”
Anyhow, basically the piece points to a backlash against the banks brewing in Australia.
Given that our banks are all Australian owned it will be interesting to see what comes of this push for a royal commission of inquiry and what the flow on effects are to New Zealand.
Bank Bail Ins: New Zealand Leading the Way – But for the Wrong Reasons
Of course if you’ve been reading our reports for a while you should be well aware that New Zealand does not have any bank deposit guarantee. In case of a bank failure in New Zealand the Open Bank Resolution operates under a “bail in” policy. Where depositor funds are used to keep the bank afloat.
It seems the European Central Bank (ECB) has been paying attention to the New Zealand system for managing bank failures. As the ECB is looking at altering the existing €100,000 deposit guarantee they have in place.
Check out this week’s feature article for more on that.
It also includes:
► Thoughts from Martin Armstrong on why Bail Ins won’t actually work in a bank failure.
► Plus Mike Maloney also comments on the possible reason the ECB is looking at removing the protection.
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