The CBOE Gold ETF Volatility Index ("Gold VIX", Ticker - GVZ) measures the market's expectation of 30-day volatility of gold prices by applying the VIX methodology to options on SPDR Gold Shares (Ticker - GLD).
Like other VIX benchmarks, GVZ uses options spanning a wide range of strike prices. CBOE Holdings, Inc. launched products based on the CBOE Gold ETF Volatility Index (GVZ) -- GVZ futures on March 25, 2011 GVZ options on April 12, 2011 Gold VIX is just one in a series of new volatility indexes based on new asset classes, marking the next generation of VIX benchmarks. CBOE currently calculates the CBOE Crude Oil Volatility Index (OVX) based on United States Oil Fund option prices; and also the CBOE EuroCurrency Volatility Index (EVZ) based on CurrencyShares Euro Trust (FXE) options. Investors trade in tight range ahead of Bernanke speech. Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013Aug 20, 2013 - 12:43 PM GMT By: GoldCore Today’s AM fix was USD 1,365.75, EUR 1,020.28 and GBP 871.29 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,375.25, EUR 1,031.39 and GBP 878.47 per ounce. Gold fell $6.40 or 0.47% yesterday, closing at $1,366.60/oz. Silver edged down $0.02 or nearly 0.09%, closing at $23.16. Goldman Cuts S&P 500 Price Target, Charts The Market's 10% Correction. SocGen's 6 Easy Charts On What Happens To Gold And Stocks Under "QE2.5. Looks like SocGen pulled a TGIF today and in response to its Corporate Market Alert, in which it asked the rhetorical question, "Fed QE '2.5': gold and equities to take off again?
" it answers itself quickly and to the point in just 6 simple charts. Here they are... 5 great slides from Goldman on what's at stake in the debt ceiling debate & Bond Vigilantes. LBMA Events - LBMA Precious Metals Conference 2014. View the delegate list here.
The LBMA Precious Metals Conference 2014 Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center Lima, Peru 9 – 11 November, 2014 Programme Sunday, 9th November Welcome Reception Sponsored by CME Group. Got Cash? Now's The Time To Buy Precious Metals. Since the end of December we’ve been writing about the coming bottom in precious metals.
Our forecast for 2013 was to see a low in Q1 and then continued consolidation until the end of the summer in which Gold could be in good position to break $1800. That forecast remains largely intact, although it appears the mining stocks will bottom quite a bit lower than we thought two months ago and even five months ago. Three weeks ago we noted that a potential final bottom was on the way. Quite a few of the big boys are big dollar bulls but at the moment it’s not happening, as we’ve seen from the price movements.
Goldman Sachs was out with a client note last night and they are looking for answers. Back in early April they said the dollar was weighed down by Fed forward guidance and it’s removal would see the buck 13% higher in the majors. They now are left to fathom why the dollar has fallen. “Despite an impressive series of positive data surprises – most obviously last Friday’s payrolls – the Dollar has weakened. On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops. Basel III And Gold - Seeking Alpha. Goldpreis Juni 2013. Why Gold is the Best Metal for Investors: Video - Bloomberg.
Volksinitiativen: Abstimmung über Zuwanderung, Pauschalbesteuerung und Gold. Am 30.
November entscheiden Volk und Stände über drei Volksinitiativen: die Ecopop-Initiative zur Begrenzung der Zuwanderung, die Initiative zur Abschaffung der Pauschalbesteuerung und die Gold-Initiative. Dies hat der Bundesrat beschlossen. Bitte geben Sie eine gültige E-Mail-Adresse ein. [x] Schön, dass wir Ihnen unsere BLICK News des Tages senden dürfen. Mit der Initiative «Stopp der Überbevölkerung - zur Sicherung der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen» der Vereinigung Ecopop kommt nach dem 9. Gold Futures – Weekly Review: September 19-23. Forexpros – Gold futures suffered their biggest one-day drop in five years on Friday, plunging to a seven-week low as steep declines in global equity markets prompted investors to sell the precious metal to raise cash and cover losses elsewhere.
On the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, gold futures for October delivery settled at USD1,656.95 a troy ounce by close of trade on Friday, tumbling 8.9% over the week, the third consecutive weekly decline. The October contract fell by as much as 6.1% on Friday to hit USD1,629.95 a troy ounce, the lowest price since August 2. U.S. and European equity markets tumbled last week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 6.4%, its worst weekly loss since the week ended October 10, 2008, near the peak of the recent global financial crisis.
In October 2008, gold prices tumbled 18% as turmoil in global financial markets led to losses in global equity and commodity markets. The Unadulterated Gold Standard. The following papers were originally written as a series over 5 months by GSI president Keith Weiner.
They are assembled on this page, but have not been edited into a single monolithic paper or otherwise. The Unadulterated Gold Standard I In Part I,we look at the period prior to and during the time of what we now call the Classical Gold Standard. It should be underscored that it worked pretty darned well. Yen and gold soar on recession fears - FT.com. Die Goldinitiative ist zum Glück abgelehnt worden.
Zum Glück deshalb, weil sie die Handlungsfähigkeit der Schweizerischen Nationalbank (SNB) zum Schaden der einheimischen Wirtschaft erheblich eingeengt hätte. Analysis: As gold prices surge, cash-for-gold frenzy fades. Forex @ DailyFX - Gold Climbs With Riskier Assets as Bargain Hunters Return. The following table includes the correlation between gold and the most popular currency pairs over various timeframes. A value close to +1 indicates a strong positive relationship between gold and the pair, while a value close to -1 indicates a strong negative relationship. Colored values indicate week-to-week changes of over 30%. Gold-FOREX Correlations for last week can be found here. Weekly Commentary: While bargain hunters return to battered equity markets, they also returned to precious metals as they sold the overbought dollar. Shorter term correlations between gold and riskier currencies all increased during the past terms.
Gold also gained this week due to continued haven flows out of the Swiss franc as the Swiss National Bank and government stepped up their rhetoric of pegging the franc to the Euro in order to preserve its domestic economy. Please note: Chart uses franc rate as CHFUSD to show safety correlation with gold. PRAGMATIC CAPITALISMREFLECTIONS ON GOLD - PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM. Gold is hotter than ever. You can’t turn on the TV these days without seeing a gold commercial. Several well known hedge fund managers have leveraged up positions in gold while John Paulson even went so far as to start his own gold hedge fund.
Guest Post: The Rise And Fall Of US Confidence, Or Why The Fair Value Of Go. Submitted by The World Complex The Rise And Fall Of US Confidence Today we look at a graph of confidence in the US system. Why Is the Price of Gold Falling? - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic. China's problems are gold's problems Investors who love gold tend to think of it as a sort of bomb shelter. It's supposed to be a secure place to park your money when the rest of the financial world is blowing up. So some may find it surprising that in a year when Europe's troubles have thrown the global economy into fits, gold has been a loser's bet. The price per ounce of everyone's favorite rock is down about 7percent for the year and is off 15 percent from its September peak.
According to a report released yesterday by the World Gold Council, total demand for gold fell 7 percent in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the year before. Let this be a reminder that, no matter how long it's been around, gold just isn't that special. 10 Enormous Gold Reserves - Business Insider. Signal Financial Group. Seasonal Charts: Gold (GC) The seasonal charts below provide an historic reference of past trends and turning points for the market. Each of the 5/10/15/20 year seasonal charts have squares which represent past market lows and circles which signify past market highs.
These turning points do not represent buy and sell recommendations but rather reference potential changes to existing trends. Please note past performance is not indicative of future results. Five Year Seasonal Study: Ten Year Seasonal Study: Five / Ten / Fifteen Year Seasonal Comparison: Spot The Difference Between These Two Gold Holdings Charts. Today VOX has released an engaging report titled "Central banks and gold puzzles" which looks quite simply at holdings of gold by central banks over the past 50 years. It breaks down the two buckets into countries that broadly fall into the Developed World category, and countries that make up the up and comers known as BRICs. The charts serve to merely confirm the latest "decoupling" in the world - that regarding views on gold by the insolvent developed world, and the economic powerhouses that make up true intrinsic global growth.
First: the Developed World And compare this to the BRICs: Here is how the report's authors frame their findings: In an era when ‘plastic money’ and ‘electronic money’ gain importance in providing intermediation services, the case of holding, mostly passively, large piles of precious commodity remains an enigma. Greenspan on Gold (1966) by Gary North. You may already have read Alan Greenspan's essay, "Gold and Economic Freedom," which was published in Ayn Rand's "Objectivist" newsletter in 1966, and reprinted in her book, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, in 1967. Greenspan has never publicly retracted a word of this essay. This essay is a good introduction to the government's war on gold. It summarizes the basic issue: the comparative liberty that a government-guaranteed gold coin standard offers to a society.
The Secret Return to the Global Gold Standard [marketoracle] « Mktgeist blo. A new Gold Standard is being born – Telegraph Blogs. Gold: The Clock's Ticking. It’s been a while since we looked at Gold in a vacuum. Alan Greenspan, Gold and Economic Freedom (1966) GLD - Why Gold Is So Volatile Lately - SPDR Gold Trust ETF (NYSEARCA:GLD) Ukraine Admits Its Gold Is Gone: "There Is Almost No Gold Left In The. Back in March, at a time when the IMF reported that Ukraine's official gold holdings as of the end of February, so just as the State Department-facilitated coup against former president Victor Yanukovich was concluding, amounted to 42.3 tonnes or 8% of reserves... ... and notably under the previous "hated" president, Ukraine gold's reserves had constantly increased hitting a record high just before the presidential coup... ... we reported of a strange incident that took place just after the Ukraine presidential coup, namely that according to at least one source, "in a mysterious operation under the cover of night, Ukraine's gold reserves were promptly loaded onboard an unmarked plane, which subsequently took the gold to the US.
" To wit: Tonight, around at 2:00 am, an unregistered transport plane took off took off from Boryspil airport. Until now. Gold: Die Zwölf-Monatsprognose. Details Freitag, 14. Some Observations On Recent Gold (And Silver) Volatility. Submitted by Jeff Clark of Casey Research. Why GLD's Bullion Inventory Follows The Gold Price - SPDR Gold Trust ETF (N. At Global Gold, I am often asked what we would do if, for example, the US comes out with a confiscation order.
Steuergestaltung durch Goldhandel. Steuern sparen durch Goldhandel Viele Goldhandelsgesellschaften haben ihren Sitz im Ausland. Why Austria Is Likely To Repatriate Its Gold From London. Goldman Sachs’s Top Trades for 2012 - The Source - WSJ. Dr. Ed's Blog: The Commodity Super-Cycle Wasn’t So Super (excerpt) WIRTSCHAFTaktuell - Das Gold der Nationalbank.
SoT Ep 34 – Claudio Grass: Gold, Greece And The War On Cash. Noch Jahre entfernt: Woran man erkennt, dass der Goldbullenmarkt vorbei ist. The meaning of Germany’s gold decision. Hans Jörg Müllenmeister. How To Lose Money Investing In Commodities (NYSEARCA:GLD, NYSEARCA:UNG, NYS. Dr. Ed's Blog: The Commodity Super-Cycle Wasn’t So Super (excerpt) Noch Jahre entfernt: Woran man erkennt, dass der Goldbullenmarkt vorbei ist. The Gold Standard Institute International - The Gold Standard Institute Int. A new Gold Standard is being born – Telegraph Blogs. Some Observations On Recent Gold (And Silver) Volatility. Alan Greenspan, Gold and Economic Freedom (1966) Signal Financial Group. The Secret Return to the Global Gold Standard [marketoracle] « Mktgeist blo. Today Is The 40th Anniversary Of Nixon Ending Gold Standard And Creating Mo.
Steuergestaltung durch Goldhandel. Guest Post: How Dr. Ben Copperfield Makes Trillions Disappear - Twice. 10 Enormous Gold Reserves - Business Insider. Why Is the Price of Gold Falling? - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic. Ukraine Admits Its Gold Is Gone: "There Is Almost No Gold Left In The. Why Austria Is Likely To Repatriate Its Gold From London. Gold: Die Zwölf-Monatsprognose. GLD - Why Gold Is So Volatile Lately - SPDR Gold Trust ETF (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Greenspan on Gold (1966) by Gary North. Why GLD's Bullion Inventory Follows The Gold Price - SPDR Gold Trust ETF (N. Gold: The Clock's Ticking. Spot The Difference Between These Two Gold Holdings Charts. SoT Ep 34 – Claudio Grass: Gold, Greece And The War On Cash. The meaning of Germany’s gold decision. Guest Post: The Rise And Fall Of US Confidence, Or Why The Fair Value Of Go. Why Gold is the Best Metal for Investors: Video - Bloomberg. The Netherlands Has Repatriated 122.5t Gold From US. Geldreform: das Übel an der Wurzel packen. Oder: der Irrweg des „Vollgeldes“ Guest Post: How Dr. Ben Copperfield Makes Trillions Disappear - Twice. The Secret Return to the Global Gold Standard [marketoracle] « Mktgeist blo. Today Is The 40th Anniversary Of Nixon Ending Gold Standard And Creating Mo. Mark O'Byrne sur Twitter : "Must See #Gold Chart - Gold & US National #Debt At $18 #Trillion. Gold: Making The Most While Avoiding The Risks - A Strategy For Income Investors - SPDR Gold Trust ETF (NYSEARCA:GLD)
The Great Gold Run: Is This The Real Deal? Goldinitiative-versetzt-elite-in-panik. Werni Bechtel sur Twitter : "@lukasreimann #Goldinitiative Medieberichterstattung. Gold-Initiative sur Twitter : "Statt auf sicheres Gold setzt die SNB lieber auf spekulative Fremdwährungen wie Euro und US-Dollar. #Goldinitiative. Die vier Fronten bei der Goldinitiative. Festung-Solides-Gold. Steuergestaltung durch Goldhandel.