“People are selling gold and silver positions to finance equity positions or other situations,” he added.
Gold tumbles over 4% in virus-led rout
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/gold-ma ... focus.html
Since mid-March, the Fed’s total assets have jumped by more than $2 trillion, or roughly 55% …
One of the simplest ways to buy gold in your brokerage account is with the SPDR Gold Shares Fund (GLD). The fund buys and stores physical gold in secured vaults.
As of yesterday’s market close, GLD held about 34 million ounces of gold. If you multiply that by the price of gold (about $1,685) and divide that by the number of GLD shares (361 million), you get $158.70, the approximate price per share of GLD.
In other words, when you buy GLD, your investment is backed by physical gold.
For gold, $3,000 an ounce isn’t a longshot… It’s likely.
“We continue to think that positions are too crowded and that prices are too high to recommend re-entering longs,” ABN Amro precious metals analyst Georgette Boele wrote in a report last week.
Long-term, ABN Amro is not that bullish on gold, projecting the yellow metal to finish Q3 at $1,650 an ounce and Q4 at $1,700 an ounce.
In 2021, the Dutch bank is more bullish, penciling in gold trading at $1,800 by year-end.
LONDON (June 18): Switzerland exported 126.6 tonnes of gold worth around US$7 billion to the United States in May — the biggest monthly shipment on record — as high prices in New York continued to pull in metal, customs data showed on Thursday.
Swiss shipments to China and India, usually the two largest buyers, remained near rock bottom.
The coronavirus crisis has turned the global gold market on its head, with purchases of jewellery and gold bars in Asia falling sharply, while investors in the West stock up on bullion as a safe asset to weather a period of turmoil.
The 83 tons of purportedly pure gold stored in creditors’ coffers by Kingold as of June, backing the 16 billion yuan of loans, would be equivalent to 22% of China’s annual gold production and 4.2% of the state gold reserve as of 2019.
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