December 31, 2010 · 3 comments
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Oil and gold prices are ending 2010 on new near-term breakout highs. After a post-crash slump that kept oil around $60-$68, oil broke out to the $80-85 range for much of 2010, but in December oil’s made new breakouts yet again.
Just this past week or so, oil touched through $90 for the first time since [...]
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December 26, 2010 · 2 comments
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2010 was one of the best years on record for gold and silver – and predictions for gold and silver performance in 2011 are shaping up to be as varied and dynamic as they were back at the end of 2009, when everyone was calling for the gold bubble to burst.
Three Things That Would Kill the [...]
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December 3, 2010
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You don’t see many analysts talking about the gold-oil price ratio. Usually it’s the gold-silver ratio, or gold-EUR or gold-AUD and other currencies that gold is measured against.
The past two days, following the settlement of the EU-forced bailout of Ireland (Ireland itself resisted as long as it could), have seen oil prices hitting fresh 25-month [...]
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November 9, 2010
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And none of them are likely to happen in any conceivable near-term time frame.
Gold is sitting pretty now above $1400/oz following the World Bank’s suggestion of a return to the gold standard – and it’s inevitably already drawing out commentators from the woodwork who want to talk about how overvalued gold is and the fact [...]
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November 8, 2010 · 4 comments
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The World Bank may lead the rest of us back on to the gold standard a lot sooner than we think. World Bank head Robert Zoellick suggested over the weekend (and for the second time) that the G20 should consider making gold the global reserve currency as part of some major structural changes to the [...]
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October 11, 2010 · 4 comments
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How high gold can go in October and November now that gold prices have risen for 12 out of the past 14 days can be determined by evaluating how parabolic the gold chart looks but must be weighed against the fact that central banks have been continuously purchasing gold for reserves, and Barrick CEO Aaron [...]
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There are theories about the impact of the moon on stocks and theories about the effect that January has on markets (no less astrological, perhaps). If seasonal investing on its own begins to tilt towards the wishful and superstitious, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that gold price analysis – bolstered by the croon and [...]
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