LONDON, 8 February 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault today leads the latest gold-price report from leading US finance site MarketWatch.While rising interest rates can often act "like kryptonite to gold, sapping its strength," says director of research Adrian Ash, "the Fed is clearly so far behind the curve on inflation that the solid bid for gold says it's either too late to ever catch up, or it's...Read More
Beware, the Fed’s tightening of monetary policy could lift real interest rates! For gold, this poses a risk of prices wildly rolling down.The first FOMC meeting in 2022 is behind us. What can we expect from the US central bank this year and how will it affect the price of gold? Well, this year’s episode of Fed Street will be sponsored by the letter “T”, which stands for &l...Read More
Technical Analyst Clive Maund examines the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, and sees good cause to be positive about gold's future outlook.In this update we are going to do something that we haven’t done for a while, which is to examine the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, in an effort to figure out where it is in its cycle, and as we will see...Read More
Beware, the Fed’s tightening of monetary policy could lift real interest rates! For gold, this poses a risk of prices wildly rolling down.The first FOMC meeting in 2022 is behind us. What can we expect from the US central bank this year and how will it affect the price of gold? Well, this year’s episode of Fed Street will be sponsored by the letter “T”, which stands for &l...Read More
Technical Analyst Clive Maund examines the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, and sees good cause to be positive about gold's future outlook.In this update we are going to do something that we haven’t done for a while, which is to examine the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, in an effort to figure out where it is in its cycle, and as we will see...Read More
Beware, the Fed’s tightening of monetary policy could lift real interest rates! For gold, this poses a risk of prices wildly rolling down.The first FOMC meeting in 2022 is behind us. What can we expect from the US central bank this year and how will it affect the price of gold? Well, this year’s episode of Fed Street will be sponsored by the letter “T”, which stands for &l...Read More
Technical Analyst Clive Maund examines the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, and sees good cause to be positive about gold's future outlook.In this update we are going to do something that we haven’t done for a while, which is to examine the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, in an effort to figure out where it is in its cycle, and as we will see...Read More
Beware, the Fed’s tightening of monetary policy could lift real interest rates! For gold, this poses a risk of prices wildly rolling down.The first FOMC meeting in 2022 is behind us. What can we expect from the US central bank this year and how will it affect the price of gold? Well, this year’s episode of Fed Street will be sponsored by the letter “T”, which stands for &l...Read More
Technical Analyst Clive Maund examines the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, and sees good cause to be positive about gold's future outlook.In this update we are going to do something that we haven’t done for a while, which is to examine the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, in an effort to figure out where it is in its cycle, and as we will see...Read More
As the gold “community” rationalizes gold’s currently low standing…As unpopular it may be, I cannot alter the truth as I see it. Marketing is fine, but never at the expense of truth, as with much financial media/analysis (with little disclaimers tucked in below the fold).In my opinion, a sizeable component of the gold ‘market’ is actually marketing; to the fear...Read More
The US Federal Reserve, whose job is to keep unemployment in check and inflation in the “Goldilocks” zone of 2%, is telegraphing three interest rate increases of 0.25% each (1% at the high end of the range) this year.Bloomberg believes the Fed might be more aggressive: “Our baseline is for the Fed to hike five times, each 25 basis points, this year, and balance-sheet runoff to be...Read More
As the gold “community” rationalizes gold’s currently low standing…As unpopular it may be, I cannot alter the truth as I see it. Marketing is fine, but never at the expense of truth, as with much financial media/analysis (with little disclaimers tucked in below the fold).In my opinion, a sizeable component of the gold ‘market’ is actually marketing; to the fear...Read More
The US Federal Reserve, whose job is to keep unemployment in check and inflation in the “Goldilocks” zone of 2%, is telegraphing three interest rate increases of 0.25% each (1% at the high end of the range) this year.Bloomberg believes the Fed might be more aggressive: “Our baseline is for the Fed to hike five times, each 25 basis points, this year, and balance-sheet runoff to be...Read More
As the gold “community” rationalizes gold’s currently low standing…As unpopular it may be, I cannot alter the truth as I see it. Marketing is fine, but never at the expense of truth, as with much financial media/analysis (with little disclaimers tucked in below the fold).In my opinion, a sizeable component of the gold ‘market’ is actually marketing; to the fear...Read More
The US Federal Reserve, whose job is to keep unemployment in check and inflation in the “Goldilocks” zone of 2%, is telegraphing three interest rate increases of 0.25% each (1% at the high end of the range) this year.Bloomberg believes the Fed might be more aggressive: “Our baseline is for the Fed to hike five times, each 25 basis points, this year, and balance-sheet runoff to be...Read More
As the gold “community” rationalizes gold’s currently low standing…As unpopular it may be, I cannot alter the truth as I see it. Marketing is fine, but never at the expense of truth, as with much financial media/analysis (with little disclaimers tucked in below the fold).In my opinion, a sizeable component of the gold ‘market’ is actually marketing; to the fear...Read More
The US Federal Reserve, whose job is to keep unemployment in check and inflation in the “Goldilocks” zone of 2%, is telegraphing three interest rate increases of 0.25% each (1% at the high end of the range) this year.Bloomberg believes the Fed might be more aggressive: “Our baseline is for the Fed to hike five times, each 25 basis points, this year, and balance-sheet runoff to be...Read More
LONDON, 2 February 2022 - Comment from BullionVault features today in a gold-market update from global news-wire and data providers Bloomberg."The Comex seems to be in charge of price direction at the moment," says Adrian Ash, director of research, looking at speculative flows into and out of gold derivatives.Read the full story, widely syndicated including to Yahoo Finance, at Bloomberg here:Gold...Read More
LONDON, 2 February 2022 - Comment from BullionVault features today in the latest gold-market report from global news-wire and data providers Bloomberg."The Comex seems to be in charge of price direction at the moment," the report quotes Adrian Ash, director of research."You could see a lot of money going into futures before the Fed, then it all seems to have come straight out again."Read the full...Read More
LONDON, 31 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault is quoted at length today in a report on gold-backed ETF flows from UK share-trading platform Interactive Investor.Gold is viewed as a hedge against inflation. Despite this, investors heavily sold gold ETFs in 2021."Investment flows are what drive gold prices higher or lower," the article quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault,...Read More