Gold market participants and observers who were looking at the right indicators will not have been surprised by last week's price decline.
Our goal is to help
gold market participants make informed decisions about their wealth in an era of unprecedented monetary expansion by central banks worldwide.
Not exact matches
Welcome to the autumn edition of
Gold Investor, where leading commentators and market participants discuss new developments for gold and its evolving global r
Gold Investor, where leading commentators and
market participants discuss new developments for
gold and its evolving global r
gold and its evolving global role.
Welcome to the winter edition of
Gold Investor, where leading commentators and market participants discuss new developments for gold and its evolving global r
Gold Investor, where leading commentators and
market participants discuss new developments for
gold and its evolving global r
gold and its evolving global role.
Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of
gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting
gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot
market),
market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.
But when new discoveries of
gold are made,
market participants do not begin to hoard paper or to set up printing presses for the issue of unbacked currency.
China is set to allow more
participants in the
gold market to import the precious metal in an effort to expand the country's
gold trade.
When an irresponsible monetary authority begins to overissue paper money,
market participants begin to hoard
gold, which stimulates the
gold - mining industry and drives up the resource costs.
Selling
gold short has therefore been an alternative to the «yen - carry» trade which saw
market participants fund investments in various
markets by borrowing yen (at almost zero cost due to the low interest rates in Japan) and selling it for other currencies, mostly US dollars.
LONDON, November 29, 2016 — The Royal Mint, the world's leading export mint, and CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced a collaboration to transform the way that
market participants can trade
gold.
However some
market participants prefer the lower volatility of
gold and the safety it may provide in this environment of a weak financial sector, uncertain economic growth and political unrest.
Today, futures
market participants trading futures to hedge price risk exposure may include any commercial entity that produces or buys any of the commodities such as grains and livestock, the «softs» including cocoa, sugar, cotton, coffee, and orange juice; energies including crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, and natural gas; and metals such
gold, silver, platinum, and copper.
I also remember the 70s where tactical asset allocation returned, as well as
gold bugs and other tangential
market participants.
In particular,
market participants have been deprived of a key warning signal and great source of discipline (the right to exchange dollars for
gold).
From the repudiation of the
gold clause and confiscation of
gold in 1933 to the closing of the «
gold window» in 1971, the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as well as his counterparts in the Reserve Bank of Australia, etc., have increasingly deprived
market participants of
market signals — that is, of real information in the form of unfettered rates of interest.
Solo exhibitions include «
Gold Mesh Cross-Body Bag» Art
Market, Provincetown, US (2014) and «The Fall of the House of Whimsy»,
Participant Inc, New York, US (2011).
This, combined with the resurgence of the dollar, has produced bearish near - term expectations for
gold among
participants of conventional financial
markets.