Adrian Ash

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Zero Rates, Short Memories

  Published 20 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Steady nerves needed for short-term speculators in precious metals... Double-whammy for gold and silver prices. First, new US Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen hinted that…

• Taper Trouble Hits Gold's No.4 Biggest Buyer

  Published 31 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Turkey's imports of gold already doubled in 2013. Buying ahead of trouble is now looking smart... After hiking interest rates from below 8% to a…

• Premiums to No Purpose

  Published 22 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Stockmarket up, precious metals down. Will the final 'bugs' now throw in the towel...? Yet more money managers threw in the towel on gold this…

• China's Big Gold Buyer

  Published 20 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Private Chinese demand for gold has leapt ahead of economic growth... One man's investor is, apparently, another's middle-aged housekeeping auntie in China. "Yang Cuiyan," says…

• Who Needs Gold Really?

  Published 07 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Four reasons to waste your time with the deeply historic, deeply human value ascribed to gold... People love to debate, but sadly sometimes it crosses…

• The Bullion Market's Big Issues, Part 2

  Published 16 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Remember when gold reserves were all the rage for central banks...? Putting gold into your investment portfolio typically signals a lack of faith in other…

• Gold and America's Fake Default

  Published 11 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Gold just isn't working as advertised as Washington flirts with disaster... There's no denying that precious metals are falling even as the US debt-limit deadline…

• The Bullion Market's Big Issues, Part I

  Published 09 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Price action isn't the big players' big concern in gold and silver right now... "Faith and Religion," said Edel Tully of UBS, the Swiss investment…

• E-Alchemy with the US Fed

  Published 20 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Imagine the US Fed had a technology called the 'printing press'... So like me, the world and its stockbroker thought the US Fed would start…

• Yet More Mischief from Cheap Money, Part 379

  Published 09 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Nothing is safe - not student loans, emerging markets, or London flats... Did you enjoy your monthly dose of non-farms nonsense last Friday? Gold and…

• Cashing In Your Golden Insurance

  Published 06 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  One nation's recovery is another's credit crisis. Time to sell gold... Cotton is it, for the second anniversary? Today marked two years since gold hit…

• First Finance, Then Debt - What Crisis Next?

  Published 30 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  If Syria is to blame for this run, then the world's in very big trouble... So just like that, there were no sellers in the…

• Not So Slim's Secrets

  Published 21 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Buying high and holding on with Mexico's bargain-hunting billionaire... Carlos Slim Helú has a lot of money. Or rather, he owns a lot of assets.…

• Summer Fun for Precious Metals Investors

  Published 31 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The long term needn't look quite so far off for bullion buyers right now... Put aside the rise in US interest rates, GDP and Fed…

• Ben Bernanke vs. Rothschild's Obscure Clerk

  Published 19 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Does the Fed chairman really not understand what drives savers to gold...? Ben Bernanke, today's most powerful banker, said this week that nobody really understands…

• Escaping Cash in the Bank

  Published 17 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  US and UK inflation rose faster than interest rates in June. Get used to it... Just why do people choose to buy gold and silver?…

• Now, About That Switch in Gold Offered Rates

  Published 10 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Dead for almost a decade, gold offered rates are suddenly headline news... The Markets in physical gold and silver can look very odd places at…

• Gold Data-Fest: History's Opinion on Today's Slump

  Published 26 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  This crash in gold is hardly unprecedented. Nor is the likely price action over the next one and 3 months... So over the last three…

• Summer Rest for the Gods Or for Gold?

  Published 20 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  After the Fed's gold crash, what might India's Chaturmas mean for prices...? After the import curbs came the Fed. Next will come Chaturmas. Might this…

• Investors! What Your Dentist Doesn't Know About Gold

  Published 20 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  If you want crisis insurance, beware cheaper amalgams and synthetic composites... What use is gold? Besides jewelry, outrageous cutlery, money, microchips and a thin veneer…