Alasdair Macleod

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• Precious Metals Market Report

  Published 30 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  This week gold and silver fell sharply. The principal reason was the expiry of the June gold future contract on Comex, whose open interest has…

• Gold in a Fix

  Published 30 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Last week the UK's Financial Conduct Authority fined Barclays for rigging the gold price at a gold fix for the disadvantage of a customer and…

• Money and Growth

  Published 23 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The most common of all misconceptions today is that a weakening currency is fundamental to a healthy economy, or put another way, a strong currency…

• Technical Analysis Versus Value in Gold

  Published 16 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  At the outset I should declare an interest. In the 1980s I was a member of the UK's Society of Technical Analysis and for a…

• Firmer Tone for Gold and Silver

  Published 16 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  This week started with a severe markdown in gold and silver prices when markets opened in the Far East on Monday morning, taking gold down…

• Stagflation and The Credit Cycle

  Published 02 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Stagflation: When the general level of prices rises due to the purchasing power of currency-money falling, instead of price inflation due to a general increase…

• Gold and Silver Continue to Drift

  Published 02 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Gold kicked off the week at just over $1300 before declining to a low of $1278 yesterday. Most of the time prices just moved sideways,…

• How Oversold Can Gold Get?

  Published 25 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Gold is now extremely oversold, with emotional opinion in paper markets unanimously bearish. Traders tell us the 200-day moving average is well and truly broken…

• FMQ Update and Valuing Gold

  Published 25 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In the two months since my last update on USD Fiat Money Quantity http://www.goldmoney.com/research/research-archive/The-fiat-money-quantity-FMQ , it has increased by $292bn to $12.861 trillion and is…

• Economies Stalling

  Published 17 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  It wasn't meant to be like this: six years of global money-printing should have guaranteed economic recovery. Until very recently, there was hope that finally…

• Better Tone to Precious Metals

  Published 11 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Gold and silver prices gained modestly over the week, during which the latest FOMC minutes were released. These were generally read to be more dovish…

• Gold and Bail-ins

  Published 11 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  I am often asked whether or not western governments are likely to confiscate gold, and my answer has invariably been on the lines of "unlikely…

• Renewed Estimates of Chinese Gold Demand

  Published 07 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Geopolitical and market background I have been revisiting estimates of the quantities of gold being absorbed by China, and yet again I have had to…

• Quarter-End Distortions in The Gold Market

  Published 07 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The gold price continued the previous week's fall into Monday, which was the end of the first quarter of 2014. Since then having reached a…

• Chinese Shadow Banking and Commodities

  Published 31 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The story that commodities are at the centre of China's shadow banking system has gained prominence in recent weeks. No firm evidence has been presented…

• Central Banks Add To Gold Reserves

  Published 31 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The correction in the gold price continued this week, falling another $40 to a low of $1290 yesterday. In all, gold has retraced nearly half…

• Precious Metals Market Report

  Published 21 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Gold's Wall of Worry This week gold fell from a high of $1390, achieved late on Sunday night European time, to a low of $1322…

• Implications of the Ukrainian Situation For Gold

  Published 21 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  There is a fascinating story from Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor about his interview with Hank Paulson, who was the US treasury secretary at…

• Gold Storms Through $1350

  Published 14 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Last Monday gold ended a week-long consolidation that saw it fall from $1354 to $1329, before rising strongly to over $1370 yesterday. Not only is…

• The Bursting of China's Credit Bubble

  Published 14 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  According to Garet Garrett in his book "A Bubble that Broke the World" Cheops employed 100,000 men for twenty years to build his great pyramid,…