The Stockmarket Superbowl - and Why Buffett is Wrong
Long dubbed ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’, or the Stockmarket Superbowl as we prefer, last weekends Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting offered plenty of insights for investo...
10 May 2018
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Precious Metals News Update - 10 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 9thCOMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS:The fallout continued yesterday from Tuesday’s decision by US President Trump to abandon the Joint Compr...
10 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 8 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 7th COMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS: A quiet start to the week with a UK Bank holiday impacting liquidity and markets holding station withi...
08 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 7 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 4thCOMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS:Gold stayed away from its week’s lows on Friday after the eagerly awaited US Bureau of Labor Statistics...
07 May 2018
Has Gold Hit a 10 Year Low?
Gold prices have largely stabilised around USD $1310oz this week, arresting a slide that has seen the yellow metal pull back from the USD $1360oz region over the past thr...
03 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 4 May 2018
Softer US Treasury yields, a softer US Dollar and weaker US equities on concerns surrounding the ongoing trade negotiations between the United States and China, assisted...
03 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 3 May 2018
Precious metals firmed on modest shortcovering ahead of the anticipated US Federal Reserve monetary policy announcement. Prior to its release however, was the release of...
02 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 2 May 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: May 1st COMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS: Thin, illiquid markets resulting from May Day / Labour Day holidays spanning China and most of Europe,...
01 May 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 30 April 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: April 27th COMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS: Asian markets were the first to receive the breaking news on Friday that (following on from news a...
29 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 27 April 2018
PRECIOUS METALS RANGES - Trade Date: April 26th COMMENTS / HIGHLIGHTS: US 10 Yr Treasuries continued to lead gold by the nose, as yields at first rose above 3% before ret...
26 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 24 April 2018
US 10 Yr Treasury yields nudged 3% overnight, propelling the US Dollar Index higher again which weighed upon US equities and precious metals values.News from the US Treas...
23 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 23 April 2018
US Treasury yields continued firming on Friday as President Trump Tweeted about Russia, China (currency manipulation and trade skulduggery), amongst other things. The US...
22 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 20 April 2018
A spike in US Treasury yields overnight on increasing expectations of a fourth interest rate hike by the US central bank in 2018, lent support to the Greenback, drove US...
20 April 2018
Gold - Time to Break Out?
Gold prices have rallied this week, with the price of the yellow metal currently trading near USD $1,350oz. Silver, which has slightly lagged gold since the beginning of...
20 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 19 April 2018
A sterling performance from silver saw the white metal marginally edge out palladium as the star performer from amongst the precious metals complex on the day, as sanctio...
18 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 18 April 2018
Gold and silver were buffeted around within recent ranges predominantly on headline risk. Weakness during the Far Eastern and European sessions was largely reversed by th...
17 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 17 April 2018
Precious metals were sent lower at the open of Far Eastern trading on Monday on a “buy the rumour, sell the fact” reaction, after a coalition comprising France, the UK an...
17 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 13 April 2018
Ladders and snakes – ladders give, snakes take. Gold and silver gave up the entirety (and a touch more) of Wednesday’s gains yesterday, as expectations of the US and its...
12 April 2018
Gold Faces the Music!
Gold prices pulled back sharply overnight, with the yellow metal declining back toward USD $1330oz. Earlier in the week, gold had briefly pushed through USD $1360oz, thou...
12 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 12 April 2018
Safe haven buying on the back of unfolding developments from the Middle East had kept a steady bid tone to the precious metals throughout Asian and European trading as ex...
12 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 11 April 2018
When the newswires carried comments from Chinese President Xi Jinping during the early part of Far Eastern trading that China was prepared to lower tariffs on motor vehic...
10 April 2018
Precious Metals News Update - 9 April 2018 (Trade date: April 6th)
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08 April 2018
Trade War Boosts Gold!
Precious metal prices have had a minor rally this week, with the price of gold currently sitting at USD $1,331oz. In AUD terms, gold is sitting at $1,737oz, up nearly 1%...
05 April 2018
Weekly Technical and Precious Metals Positioning Report - Gold - 4th April 2018
Gold takes support from the Weekly Ichimoku Standard Line (US$1301) but has yet to overcome the important US$1366 level. Protectionism is the theme for gold’s current str...
03 April 2018
Gold Loves Rate Hikes!
Gold prices have bounced this week, with the yellow metal currently trading just over USD $1,330oz, up over 1.5% since last Friday. In Australian dollar terms, the yellow...
23 March 2018
Property set to drop by 60%?
The Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday released its latest housing statistics, which showed that, nationwide, property prices rose by 1% in the final quarter of 20...
19 March 2018
Is Gold too Boring?
“Bull Markets are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.” – Sir John TempletonGold prices are treading water this week, currently...
15 March 2018