Sentences with phrase «physical gold market»

Further, China's devaluation of its currency, the renminbi, in August and imposition of investment restrictions made people in the country — which has long vied with India as the top physical gold market — less able to buy gold.

Meanwhile, physical gold markets remained quiet in most other Asian regions, except for Singapore, which saw a slight pick - up in buying.

This means that funds flowing into gold will be forced into the one and only physical gold market that already exhibits tight, inflexible supply.

China and India have become the top two physical gold markets globally, and without a significant expansion of physically backed ETF investment in these markets.

On a technical level, the well documented shift of physical gold ownership from Western investment hands to Asian will in our opinion threaten the highly levered institutions that intermediate financial and physical gold markets.

The second part of the equation though, or really the first in the context of your question, is that physical coin sales have been a less dominant means of participating in the physical gold market in the last 15 years, relevant to the ETF (exchange trade funds).

The difference in the physical gold market is not quiet as dramatic as the physical silver market, but it seems a natural progression will occur in the not too distant future.

Gold bugs frequently trumpet strong demand from China and how tight the physical Gold market is but in reality, investment demand is what drives bull markets.

Gold mining company reserves in the ground should gain appreciation as the market loses confidence in «paper gold» assets as the physical gold market tightens with increased investment flows and the ratio of gold futures contracts to warehouse inventories rises punctuates the scarcity of physical gold to the amount derivative gold instruments traded on a daily basis.