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N EXT WEEK IN GOLD FORECAST MATRIX/GOLD ETF
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CENTRAL BANKS
Physical demand has surged across Asia after the recent decline in gold prices and this is leading to a tight supply of gold bars in Singapore and Hong Kong. A physical dealer in Singapore said that he believed "supply is going to be tight until the end of October. It's difficult to generate enough stocks without any selling back from the market." Were seeing far more buying on this dip and far sooner than on previous sell-offs. In the last week the gold price has been in consolidation mode, but were seeing rising bottoms and higher tops in the consolidation, which bodes well for the market. Indeed, our Point & Figure chart is now targeting $1,870. The woes of the financial markets in the developed world have becomes worse as politicians are dragging their feet at a time when they should be acting. In the U.S., government has ceased to govern, passing the buck to the Fed. The Fed can supply blood to the system, but it relies on government to get it to circulate efficiently. A banking crisis is on us in the Eurozone and the first symptoms or deposit withdrawals have been seen for a while now. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, is warning of greater losses to be borne by lenders to Greece. We may be about to see the trigger pulled on the Eurozone banking crisis on this central topic. Translated into the gold price, this means that the consolidation process were seeing now is providing the floor that investors in Asia crave. Dont expect to see greater falls in the gold price. Continue buying the dips. Physical gold sales have slowed to a trickle, but demand is rapidly increasing. Gold market mood is now good. Its extraordinary that the economically healthy, emerging world is constantly persuaded that gold buying is wise by a developed world whose foundations are under assault. Poor government and banking crises are a cancer to confidence. Everyone realizes this, but it seems that they cant do anything about it. Gold has a long way to rise in the future!
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VIETNAM : L ESSON IN FAILING MONEY
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WHY GOLD ISNT $2000, YET
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I NFLATION , MONEY CIRCULATION = GANGRENOUS LIQUIDITY, RISING GOLD PRICE
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OIL
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US DOLLAR GLOBAL CURRENCIES & GOLD
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GOLD :USD SPOT PRICE
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GOLD STOCK TECHNICALS
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GOLD STOCK NEWS - NEW!
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PORTFOLIO
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CONSULTATION
Disclaimer
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With the consolidation pattern maturing with rising highs and rising lows, expect the gold price to make a sharp move higher. As markets react, the trigger may be deeply significant news or confirmation of the bad news we already know. The overall state of the developed world financial system is poor, so it need not take a major drama to propel the gold price higher. Asia is now happy to buy at the $1,600 to $1,660. The remaining leveraged positions are much smaller than before the fall from over $1,800 and will not cause nearly as much downward pressure on the gold price as before if the news is bad for gold (which we think unlikely). A further selloff will be sharp, deep, and short-lived. With the gold price so oversold, expect any breakout in the gold price to see a large number of either new investors or re-investors coming into a market that is, at best, thin.
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Forecast Matrix
Short-Term Gold [spot price] Metal Stocks [HUI] US Dollar [US $ Index]
Supports Resistances Action Support Resistance Action Support Resistance Action $1,525-$1,550, $1,600 $1,764, $,1,700 $1,650 Upside bias, choppy trading 520-525 575-625 Upside bias -- Volatility 74-76 78-80 area, 82 Neutral, toppy
Mid-Term
[3 6 Months]
Gold ETFs
45,000,000 40,000,000 35,000,000 30,000,000 25,000,000 20,000,000 15,000,000 10,000,000 5,000,000 0 2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
As of the 6th October 2011 we have seen only 2.74 tonnes of gold sold from the God Trust and from the World Gold Councils sponsored gold Exchange Traded Funds. The bulk of that was outside the U.S.A.While New York nearly always starts the day by selling off gold, we can see that the physical gold sales have slowed to almost a halt in the last week.
40,000,000
38,000,000 Aug-11
GoldForecaster.com
Sep-11
Oct-11
This is significant because it matches the lack of physical sales elsewhere. Indeed Asian demand, as we said earlier, is surging now. Developed demand and more importantly supply is holding the gold price back and will continue to do so, so long as mnainstream investors continue to show confidence in their financial system. This has been on the want since 2008 and will continue to be so until the fundamental ailments of the developed world financial system go unresolved.
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Central Bank
Sales/Purchases - As of the 30th September 2011 Central Bank Gold Agreement 2009 - 2014
Selling Signatories
Total Announced Sales
From Oct 2009 Year 1 Sales 9.66 109.76 0 23.4 180 15.6 4.8 7.5 200 10 2 99.2
Russia Bangladesh Philippines Saudi Arabia Thailand Belarus Venezuela India Sri Lanka Mauritius Mexico Bolivia South Korea Total Purchases
1 102.9 10
27.0 2.6
558.96
104.7 7 25 215.0
Notes to table: 1) This now includes the unannounced sales. 2) We have extended the Table to include meaningful purchases outside the agreement. 3) Germanys sales are for coins, which we do not regard as part of the announced sales for the purposes of this report. 4) The remaining sales for individual countries will be corrected once the three monthly figures are available. The total is the most accurate figure, but will then be adjusted too.
From February 5th to September 30th 2011, gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) remained largely unchanged with the exception of small amounts of coin trading between the European central banks. These sales are not in the spirit of the Central Bank Gold Agreement.
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Vietnam
Lesson in Failing Money
The Vietnamese government is to allow six institutions to sell up to six tonnes of gold from their stock to increase supply in the domestic market. Partly private DongA Bank, Asia Commercial Bank, Techcombank, Eximbank , Sacombank and SJC will buy and sell gold at the same price quoted by SJC. In March 2010 the central bank ordered Vietnamese gold traders to close offshore trading accounts in a move to restrict gold transactions to help stabilise the domestic currency, the dong. The State Bank of Vietnam granted quotas to banks and gold trading companies to import at least 13 tonnes of the metal in August and September to cut the premium. Domestic prices remain far higher than international prices and hit a record gap of 4.3 million dong ($206.4) a tael above the world price on Sept. 26, according to domestic gold trading companies. (One tael is equivalent to 37.5 grams or 1.21 troy ounces) The wide gap has been putting pressure on the dong, which weakened to 21,550 per dollar on the unofficial markets on Wednesday, or 3.6% below the weak end of the central bank-mandated trading band. The dong tends to fall against the dollar in the unofficial markets whenever there is a high premium because speculators accumulate the greenback to smuggle gold to take advantage of the premium, traders said.
SJC was selling a tael at 44.12 million dong ($2,120) in Hanoi, around 1% lower than a day earlier.
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The downgrading was expected as are further downgrades for the different Eurozone members. Why shouldnt the gold price be on its way through $2,000 to higher levels?
The Downturn
The news over the last few weeks has sent global financial markets down heavily as a slow recovery morphed into a downturn and, at best, a flat economic future in the developed world. These falls have been accompanied by tremendous worries that there could be a major banking crisis that will cripple the Eurozone economy as a whole, not just the debt-distressed nations. In France, growth is now at zero; in Greece its somewhere south of a 5% dip in growth, well into recession. Greater austerity simply adds to the fall in government revenues, defeating their purpose of reducing their deficit. All of this implies an ongoing shrinkage of the Eurozone economy. This hurts investor capacities in all financial markets and wealth throughout the Eurozone. Cash becomes king as investors flees markets to a holding position, waiting for much cheaper prices before re-entering markets at lower levels. The path to deflation is then made. Deflation in its early stages causes tremendous de-leveraging. Thats the selling of positions to pay off loans taken to increase positions. It may come about because of investor prudence, banks calling in loans, stop-loss triggers and margin calls (where the level of debt against positions becomes too high and forces sales). This often (and particularly in the case of precious metals) has nothing to do with the fundamentals of the market. Its simply the position of investors. This happened in the precious metal markets as well. This is why gold and silver prices fell.
De-leveraging
As was the case in 2008 and often through history, the process of de-leveraging is a short-lived one, even when its savage. Downward pressure on prices disappears once an investor has sold the positions. Leveraged positions are the most vulnerable of investor-held positions and can make up the froth or surf in the markets, which cause the volatility levels to increase when drama strikes. In 2008, these positions were huge because there had been two and a half decades of burgeoning markets that encouraged greater risktaking. Since then, while leveraging has taken place, it has been less and rapidly removed when dramas hit. In 2008 we saw a similar drop in prices from $1,200 to $1,000 [20%], which equates to the fall from $1,910 to $1,590 [16.9%]. In 2008, the precious metal prices then slowly rose as buyers started to come in from all over the world. It took over a year for prices to recover back to $1,200.
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theyve grown to such an extent that theyre soon to overtake India. These are two dynamic features that give demand a totally different shape to 2008. More than that, the impact of the developed world, longterm, has diminished quite considerably. It now represents less than 21% of jewelry, bar, and coin demand. The emerging world, as a whole, represents over 70% of such demand now. The bulk of the worlds physical gold that comes to the market is dealt at the London twice daily Fixings. The balance thats traded outside the Fixings is the most short-term price influential amounts, producing the swings that resemble the waves on the seashore. Its these traders and speculators that often persuade long-term buyers to stand back and wait for the prices to swing to the point that persuades them to enter the market. The drop from $1,900 had this effect on investors. Now that the fall has happened, we see a surge in demand from the emerging world to pick up the slack in the market. Weve no doubt that central banks are buying the dips as well. So once the selling from the developed world has stopped (emerging market demand waits for this before buying, allowing the fall to extend further) in come the buyers happy that theyre entering the market at a good time. Because of this change in market shape, expect the market to take far less time to find its balance and allow demand to dominate.
The I.M.F. has just warned that the developed world will enter a recession in 2012. Will that be negative for the gold market? We dont think so. The world has seen the recovery peter out, the sovereign debt crisis arrive, and now sees the I.M.F. recommend that the Eurozone banks be recapitalized. What does this mean for precious metals?
Cast you minds back to the recapitalization of U.S. banks under the TARP measures whereby the Fed bought the toxic debt investments of the banks against fresh money. When we say fresh we mean just that, newly created money in the trillions. This did lower the perceived value of the dollar inside and outside the U.S. The effect on gold was palpable as it rose back through $1,200 and onto new highs. Already were hearing rumors of an E.U. government ministers plan to walk the same or similar road. With the recent past in mind, were certain that will lower the perceived value of the euro and see euro investors seek places to cling onto the value of the euro. This time round, expect markets to discount these actions in the same way. The downturn will therefore be fought with new money creation in the same way the U.S. did it from 2008 on.
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Normal Inflation
Today in every country across the world, there is inflation even when a country is in recession. When we hear the reports on inflation changes, we usually hear just one rate affecting the currency zone we live in. In reality there are several types of inflation, each driven by a different set of forces. The serious food inflation being suffered by much of the world has reached 70% in some parts of the world. This is a result of demand and supply pressures. The pressures on the poor are the most worrying from this source of inflation. Some households spend a large percentage of their income on food, so such rises have a serious impoverishing impact on their lives. In the developed world, where a much smaller percentage of disposable income is spent on food, such inflation is not as pernicious. To the investment world, the differences show the impact on the ability to invest, the shortage of liquidity for citizens everyday lives. Where its possible, this type of inflation can be managed by increasing the amount of food grown so increasing supply and lowering local prices. Take a look at oil and other energy inflation. The fact that the oil price is easily managed by oil producers makes any inflation from this source manufactured to suit the needs of those people. As the world runs on oil, price rises affect everyone to a greater degree. Oil prices reflect the sum total of global demand. China, where economic growth is bringing the poor (i.e. low oil-utilizing population) into a world where oil takes a growing part of their lives, is seeing rapidly increasing demand. As half the world falls into this category, we foresee demand from that source growing almost exponentially. The developed world may be going through
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a falling demand phase, but this could fail to lower prices as the emerging world is more than compensating for such falls.
Energy Inflation
Worse still, in the majority of nations oil, demand represents a major import to every nation. The foreign exchange needed to pay for this has to come from the income from exports (except in the case of the U.S., where they have run a trade deficit for several decades through the printing of new money, which is a leading U.S. export). Oil price inflation is of a different nature as it affects profitability of business and therefore the economic performance of nations themselves. Falling oil prices have a stimulatory impact on nations as money rises in oil purchasing power, when oil prices fall. Again, we see an impact on general liquidity. Oil price inflation is considerably more pernicious, for oil payments represent a draining of money from a nation because oil payments leave the developed world and arrive on the shores of oil producers, sucking wealth out of those oil importing nations. The same happens with cheap imports. Consequently, were seeing a draining of wealth from the West to the East. The only way to stop this is to lower oil demand and raise the prices of imports (i.e. Protectionism). In todays global economy, this is proving no alternative. The burden on smoothing out the three liquidity problem makers inflation, deflation and stagflationfalls upon the shoulders of the countrys central bank.
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Today we find central banks in a very difficult position because the additional money supply has simply expanded the volume of money without forcing its circulation to reach consumer levels effectively. It has found its way into unutilized pools banks and Treasury bonds where its of little use to the economy overall. So, economic activity continues to shrink alongside dropping demand and employment. Thats why the Fed, in a cleft stick, issued this statement,
The Fed will continue to closely monitor economic developments and is prepared to take further action as appropriate to promote a stronger economic recovery in a context of price stability.
Bernanke may not be finished after attempts in August, September to strengthen record monetary stimulus with unconventional tools. The central banks near-zero benchmark interest rate and $2.3 trillion of housing and government-debt purchases since 2008 have failed to produce self-sustaining growth in the economy and employment. The Fed is scared of deflation; theyre more concerned with preventing deflation rather than containing inflation. Deflation destroys businesses and wounds the economy, long-term. Inflation just drops the value of money.
Budget Deficits
This is where budget deficits can hurt liquidity. In 1930, the U.S. federal budget surplus had turned to a deficit that grew rapidly as the economy contracted. Today were watching to see just if and how far down that path were going. If inflation takes off, then itll be necessary to let interest rates rise in line with the rate of inflation to prevent real interest rates from dropping. Rising interest rates will bring the Treasury market prices tumbling. No government can afford that the interest payments required to service government debt is far too high and getting higher. Rising interest rates for government exacerbates that demand and lowers overall national liquidity. This introduces another kind of inflation, monetary inflation, which is totally unrelated to the other types. Monetary inflation can, if improperly managed, lower the value of money by itself. A simple illustration is a cake with a $1 price tag. If you double the amount of money available to buy the cake, then likely the price of the cake will rise to $2 to compensate for the cheapening of money. In a deflationary climate, such inflation acts to reduce deflation and if played right, produces price stability (low blood pressure countered by high blood pressure). But as the situation develops, it becomes increasingly difficult to balance the two, leaving the situation moving to the mercurial. Itll then take just a slight imbalance to send either deflation or inflation off at a gallop. Today, we see a growth in the money supply through quantitative easing of huge proportions. It did benefit the banks, but it has not reached ground level where the consumers are. U.S. bank deposits have continued to rise, since December 2007, with domestic deposits jumping from $1.1 trillion to $8.1 trillion. Despite this, we sit with a stock market declining into a bear market, and cash becoming king as in a bear market. The stimulation of the average Joe hasnt happened. Rather hes cutting his debts and saving like never before. This, in itself, is defeating the increase in liquidity and causing a liquidity crisis (blood quantity and circulatory problems). The economy continues to deteriorate, and unemployment remains unacceptably high. In the face of the growing liquidity crisis, the developed world will turn once again to the printing presses, but this time more forcefully. Theyll not accept defeat and allow the liquidity crisis to cause a depression. Suddenly alarm bells ring. These conditions are the same as in the past when awful hyperinflationary conditions were triggered in Germany and France after the First World War! Today the Bank of England has opted for more quantitative easing. We do expect the E.C.B. to move down that path shortly. The deepening crisis has already forced the ECB back into emergency mode. It has reintroduced six-month euro funding, a measure it had previously mothballed, and extended limit-free funding in all its operations until at least mid-January.
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apart from paper money and other assets. It cannot be overprinted. Its price does not fall in deflation. At the start of deflation, it can be used to create liquidity when other asset prices are falling (such as we have seen in the last fortnight) but once the most dire of liquidity needs are satisfied, holders of gold cling onto it as its price either holds or rises while other asset (i.e. equities and commodities) prices fall. It becomes a value anchor for the wealthy.
If (as has happened in the past) liquidity crises breed inflation, then gold prices rise as the value of money decreases. Thus gold becomes an asset, as well as money, protecting the holder against the three horsemen that strike capitalism deflation, inflation and stagflation.
Future Gold Prices
At the moment were seeing the gold and silver prices consolidate. Silver is building a floor between $28 and $32. Gold is building its new floor between $1,600 and $1,650. The shape of the chart is telling us that the consolidation has an upside bias targeting $1,870 in the near-term. But of greater significance is a ground swell that is building up, pointing to far higher peaks and far greater volatility, reminiscent of the early 1970s. Certainly, should anything go wrong with the fine balance of price stability between increasing liquidity and deflation, then expect to see a fundamental change in the behavior of money in general and in particular, gold and silver. The two will reflect the instability that will infest the paper money world.
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Oil
Oil slipped back to $76 at one point in the week before recovering to finish at 86.34. Like many of us, oil producers are waiting for events to unfold. Libyan oil is at over 1.5 million barrels a day and weve heard no talk of cutting production. Its more than likely that oil producers want the oil price lower if only to stimulate developed world economies. Its becoming clearer that they may lose short-term, but would sell far more if a recovery did actually happen. Its a difficult formula to balance, weighing the gains of stimulating the Western world against growing demand from the emerging world. But a key concern of oil producers is the value of the currencies used to pay for the oil. If one takes the oil price over the last three decades, then one can see why its at current levels.
The oil price is now a reflection of the sum total of the global economy.
Its more than likely that, should emerging demand prove resilient and overwhelming western demand, then oil producers will engineer the oil price to maximize income from the emerging world, irrespective of the developed world. Thats when politics wade in.
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US Dollar
U.S.A.
This week, the U.S. government was emasculated again. The Presidents Jobs bill failed to pass into law. To outsiders, the image of the rich versus the poor is emerging as Republicans fight tax increases on the wealthy and the Democrats try to protect spending on the needy. Inside the U.S., the perceptions seem to be quite different. Were now at the beginning of confidence failing in Capitalism as the bulk of the lower classes are not benefiting from the system. If these movements grow they will undermine the strength of the U.S.A. But of greater significance to gold investors is the failing confidence in the banking system. The antagonisms that have built up since 2008 against bankers have worsened as the financial disadvantage of the poorer citizens has been illustrated. Unless these moves are addressed quickly at government level, they will become fuel in deeper divisions in the U.S. With the middle and poorer classes carrying the weight of numbers (and votes) expect the money issue to become a very unpleasant election issue in the future. Of more importance to gold investors is the impact the growing political divisions will have on the government deficit, interest rates, Treasury markets, and inflation in the future. The battleground is the monetary system, which is not designed to hold up under such pressures. Whether the exchange rate against other currencies wavers or not, confidence in the dollar also means confidence in the systems behind it. Its this weakening thats constantly favoring gold worldwide. At some point in time, a thundering herd of investors will turn to gold, but ahead of that day the numbers as a percentage of investors will remain low.
The findings for the UK are even starker nearly half the years during the period saw negative real rates, which for liquidation years averaged minus 3.8%.
World War I and Depression debts were importantly resolved by widespread default and explicit restructurings or predominantly forcible conversions of domestic and external debts in both the nowadvanced economies, as well as the emerging markets. Notorious hyperinflations in Germany, Hungary and other parts of Europe violently liquidated domestic-currency debts. Gold Forecaster 337
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The incentives to reduce the debt overhang are more compelling today than about half a century ago. After World War II, the overhang was limited to public debt (as the private sector had painfully deleveraged through the 1930s and the war); at present, the debt overhang that many advanced economies face encompasses (in varying degrees) households, firms, financial institutions, and governments. Another route to follow outside these draconian measures is
Prescribed Investments?
When there are not enough investors to hold up government and state finances, investors can be forced to invest. A system called Prescribed Investments is used, where fund managers usually at institutional level (not individual levels) are ordered to hold a percentage of their investments in government and States bonds. Usually a desperation measure, theyre effective even if they further undermine the monetary system. So what is next? Even the Fed is circumspect about this. The Fed will continue to closely monitor economic developments and is prepared to take further action as appropriate to promote a stronger economic recovery in a context of price stability, Bernanke said this week. More does need to be done. The balance between more quantities of money and improving its total circulation is extremely difficult to control. It becomes mercurial, threatening the balance of the entire economy if it slips away. Bernanke may not be finished after attempts in August and September to strengthen record monetary stimulus with unconventional tools. The central banks near-zero benchmark interest rate and $2.3 trillion of housing and government-debt purchases since 2008 have failed to produce self-sustaining growth in the economy and employment. The recovery from the crisis has been much less robust than we had hoped, Bernanke said. Fed officials expect a somewhat slower pace of economic growth over coming quarters than they did in June.
Technical Update
Short-term (0-3 months)
The USD is finding strong resistance around 76-78, where further upside appears limited [78-82] with a huge long-term, historical supports in the lower-70s. Downside is possible, but limited as well. Itll be a period of consolidation in the lower-to-upper 70s (sideways action) but the true measurement of paper monies is in gold and silver. This is just a relative indicator of weakening fiat currencies.
Long-term
(6-12+ months) US Dollar index is looking suspect again. Support hasnt launched the Dollar Index back to the lower 70s; it appears itll test the lower 70s in the coming months ahead. Should 70-72 area be breached, then expect a significant drop in the USD that will send gold soaring. This is a huge support area going back many years. The upside could be a rise in long-term rates. If yields rise, then the USD could see strength, but this would trigger big problems with the huge debt interest being paid. Gold Forecaster 337
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E.C.B.
European Central Bank President, Jean- Claude Trichet, fronting a policy decision for the final time, said the E.C.B. will resume covered-bond purchases and reintroduce year-long loans for banks as the sovereign debt crisis threatens to lock money markets. The E.C.B. will spend 40 billion ($53 billion) on covered bonds starting next month and will offer banks two additional unlimited loans of 12 and 13-month durations, Trichet said after policy makers left the benchmark interest rate at 1.5%. He also said theyll continue to lend banks as much money as they need in its regular refinancing operations at least until July 2012. The new purchases will have the capacity to be conducted in the primary and secondary markets and will be carried out by means of direct purchases, Trichet said. They will start in November and are expected to be fully implemented by the end of October 2012.
Greece
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Europes rescue fund will only be used as a last resort to save banks, and investors may have to take deeper losses as part of a Greek rescue. Time is running out to establish if [bank] recapitalization is necessary, Merkel said. If a country cannot do it using its own resources and the stability of the euro as a whole is put at risk because the country has difficulties, then theres the possibility of using the EFSF, the European Financial Stability Facility, she said. Using the rescue fund is always tied to certain conditionality. Signals that European politicians may step up efforts to aid banks and push investors to accept bigger losses as part of a Greek bailout reflect international pressure to end the debt crisis and domestic opposition to expanding rescues. Moodys Investors Service followed its three-level downgrade of Italy on Oct. 4 by warning that euro-area nations rated below the top AAA level may see their rankings cut.
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Moodys Investors Service cut the senior debt and deposit ratings of 12 U.K. financial institutions, concluding the government would be less likely to provide support for them if they became financially troubled. Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, Santander UK Plc and Co-Operative Bank Plc had their ratings lowered one step by Moodys, while RBS Plc and Nationwide Building Society were cut two levels. Seven smaller building societies were cut from one to five levels. Clydesdale Bank was confirmed at A2, with a negative outlook. Its pretty much a vote of no confidence in European officials. Either the virus is already in the U.K. so they had to respond, or they dont believe the problem will be sorted out. This is a warning to us all that the Eurozone debt crisis and its contagious effect on the rest of the world is far closer than we thought.
Should even an inkling of this happen, gold and silver will become the most popular and respected of investments on the planet.
Prime Minister George Papandreous Cabinet also passed 6.6 billion of austerity measures last night to cut the 2012 deficit to 6.8% of gross domestic product, missing the 6.5% goal previously set with the EU, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank, known as the troika. The danger is that the more the austerity the greater the recession and the lower the cash flow to repay the deficit. Its a Catch-22 situation. Chancellor Merkel stated last week that investors may have to take deeper losses as part of a Greek rescue as she signaled Germanys readiness to join efforts to recapitalize banks. 50% cuts were talked of but this may rise as high as 70%. This will be so damaging to the banking system that were rapidly approaching the scene when, time is running out to establish if recapitalization is necessary. Merkel said that if needed, there will be an adjustment in investors share of a 159 billion ($212 billion) second aid package for Greece, pending a report by international auditors on Greeces finances due before a meeting of European finance ministers next month. Signals that European politicians may step up efforts to aid banks and push investors to accept bigger losses as part of a Greek bailout reflect international pressure to end the debt crisis and domestic opposition to expanding rescues. Policy makers increasingly want to build a large solvency buffer. Banks in core Europe need to be recession-proofed and banks in the periphery depression-proofed. There is no secret at all that European authorities and the European Commission are all working together on a plan to bring more official capital, more public-sector capital into the banking sector. But will it restore confidence in the euro and its debt crisis? There are few who believe it will
U.S.A. Worried
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may ask foreign lenders for more detailed daily reports on liquidity as the U.S. steps up monitoring of risks from Europes sovereign debt crisis. Regulators held informal talks with some of the largest European lenders about producing a fourth-generation daily liquidity or 4G report. The reports may cover potential liabilities such as foreign-exchange swaps and credit-default swaps. The U.S. has already increased the number of examiners embedded in these banks. U.S. Treasury Secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, has warned that failure to bolster European backstops would threaten cascading default, bank runs, and catastrophic risk for the global economy. U.S.-based money funds, which buy short-term commercial paper, have been shunning securities issued by some banks based on the continent, and European Central Bank Governing Council member Yves Mersch said Sept. 28 that liquidity shortages pose the main risks to the regions banking system. Euro-zone banks and other institutions were more than $350 billion in debt to the Feds emergency-lending facilities at one point during the 2008-2009 financial crises. U.S. prime money-market funds cut their exposure to euro- zone bank deposits and commercial paper, or short-term IOUs, to $214 billion in August from $391 billion at the end of last year Gold Forecaster 337
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A Run on Gold
Should this happen, we cannot say how many banks will find themselves in a similar position. This almost certainly will precipitate an investment charge into gold in the Eurozone and possibly, the U.S., simply to protect as much of the value of their euro investments as possible. We believe that a Greek default is inevitable. The key question is when this default will occur and how it will be managed. Greek bonds have tumbled, and insurance against default has soared as markets put the probability of insolvency at more than 90%.
We warn subscribers who are unhappy facing extreme volatility to stay on the sidelines because even gold and silver will suffer volatility; however, having watched gold floor this week, expect such volatility to be to the upside!
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Short Term: Gold is drifting towards a strong resistance area, 1700-1750 which may
provide difficulty as the market settles down from the recent rally then pullback. Volumes are light, liquidity lower meaning the volatility will continue choppy trading with an overall upside bias, trend forming. Good support below should the market need to consolidate a bit more ($1500-1550)
The gold price has a big technical support zone in the $1,500-1,600 area. Look for the gold price to trade around $1,600-1,650 area for the time being before it regains its footing and starts to build on new momentum. This could take weeks.
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Supports:: 520-525
Upside bias
Short-term: Gold stocks on a rally here with a few upside targets to look out for if the gains
continue. 550 area (200DMA) then a break of that level brings 570-575 into play. A big resistance zone above up to 615-625, should gold stabilize and equity markets remain firm, then we could see this rally drift up into this area.
Should fear and panic hit the buyers and send them in retreat, we could see some damage break our 520525 support zone. A break brings a 5-10%+ quick technical sell-off. After the big gold/silver price pullbacks, the likely course is weeks of choppy trades, bringing swings up and down with the general trend going higher. Very attractive fundamentals risk/reward, which will continue to attract capital as Q3 earnings are released in the next weeks. Producing gold stocks will benefit the most with many juniors also making quick comebacks as risk (riskiest gold stocks junior, exploration stocks) was sold off the fastest and as fear turns into greed, which will rally these tiny companies as well. Stick with market leaders before this sell-off ensued (PVG.to, ANV, etc). Theyre most likely to rally the first and limit your downside risks. Gold stocks are showing the first signs of a HUGE breakout! The upside here is quite significant, the valuations in many gold stocks relative to the gold price at extreme levels. Simply put, gold stocks need to catch up to the higher gold price and this could mean the HUI moving past 610 to 900-1,000 in the coming year. Big opportunities ahead with a cautious eye needed on the general equity markets should another selloff drag gold stocks partially, or just initially, lower with it any such pullbacks remain excellent opportunities as a multi-year breakout is underway!
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Caza Gold Corp.s has received assay results from the first four holes of the recently completed Belleza Projects 12 hole program at their Moris propertys in Chihuahua, Mexico. A total of 3,519 meters were drilled in August and September. The table of results in the news release shows that so far all four holes have recovered potentially surface mineable grade and thicknesses, with the best hole announced in the headline. This drill program tested about 300 meters of strike length within a total 7 km long mineralized structure that hosts numerous prospective bulk tonnage epithermal vein type targets. The Balleza project is within Cazas 16,209 hectare Moris Property, which is located adjacent to Hocshchilds Moris Mine and about 10 km west of Aurico Golds Ocampo Mine, and has excellent infrastructure for an exploration stage project.
Batero Golds newly appointed CEO Dr. Darryl Lindsay is a geologist with over 20 years of experience developing major South American porphyry projects from discovery to feasibility with groups such as SRK Consulting, CODELCO, and others. Most recently Dr. Lindsay was responsible for designing and implementing social and environmental programs in relation to operating permits for Corriente Resources, whose Mirador copper porphyry in Ecuador was acquired in 2010 for $678 million by the Chinese owned Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group (CRCC Tongguan).
Galore Resource is preparing to begin a ground magnetic geophysical survey to help identify drill targets at their Dos Santos exploration project in northern Zacatecas, Mexico. Galore has the option to earn 100% of Dos Santos, which has two prospective projects with large underexplored areas along the contact of igneous and sedimentary rocks at El Alamo and Los Gemelos. Trenching at El Alamo found 54 meters of 0.97 g/t gold, and a vein at Los Gemolos assayed 34.3 g/t gold across 1.7 meters near an artisanal mine and mill. Dos Santos is located in the historic Conception del Oro mining district adjacent to Goldcorps Camino Rojo deposit, and is about 35 km from the major miners Penasquito mine
Gold Resource Corp. Increases Q3 Production by 87% - Approx. 25,200 Gold eq.
http://news.goldseek.com/FeaturedPR/1317961403.php
Gold Resource Corp. announced that their El Augila Project in Mexico forecasts Q3 metal production ending in September has increased by 87% from the previous quarter, Q2 2011. The mine began commercial production in July, 2010 and has now reached an annual production rate of over 100,000 AuEq ounces per annum. They are on target to produce about 75,000 ounces AuEq in 2011 and are ramping up to their designed production rate of 140,000 ounces AuEq per annum in 2012. This new quarterly production record is attributed to increased head grades at the Arista Mine, plus optimizations at the mill that have increased recovery, and is a quantity that establishes Gold Resource Corp. as a significant gold producer.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE Amex: GORO) declares its instituted monthly dividend of $0.05 per common share for September payable on October 24, 2011 to shareholders of record as of October 17, 2011. Gold Resource Corporation is a low-cost gold producer with operations in southern Mexico. Gold Resource Corporation commenced Commercial Production on July 1, 2010 from its El Aguila Project's operations in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. This is the fifteenth dividend in as many months of commercial production and ninth of 2011. This dividend increases the total dividends declared since commencing Commercial Production to $0.53 per share to date ($0.35 for 2011), returning over $28 million to the owners of the Company, its shareholders.
Northern Gold Reports Results for Seven Garrcon Deposit Drill HolesIntersects 202 Meters at 0.33 g/t and 55 Meters at 0.97 g/t
http://news.goldseek.com/FeaturedPR/1317824553.php
Northern Gold Mining has released 7 more holes from their Garrcon deposit in Ontario, for a total of almost 9,000 meters in 30 holes. The cross section below and table of assays in the news show these infill holes continue finding long intervals of surface mineable gold grades similar to surrounding holes. Geostatistically, this continuity and tighter hole spacing should help increase the resource confidence and category. More cross-sections of drill holes at the Garrison deposit similar to the one included below can be found on the companys website: http://www.northerngold.ca/files/Garrcon-Cross-Sections.pdf
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Eurasian Minerals Identifies Bedrock Sources of Gold Mineralization and Adds to Property Position at Koonenberry Gold Project, Australia
http://news.goldseek.com/FeaturedPR/1317922848.php Eurasian Minerals Inc. announced they have discovered gold in an outcrop at their prospective early stage Koonenberry Gold Project in Australia. This 2,360 square kilometer property contains numerous gold occurrences along a 100 km long belt of favorable rocks. A rock chip sampling survey has found 8.71 g/t gold in a vein outcrop that contains visible gold. The companys geologists have noticed that rocks at this green field exploration project have some geological similarities to the nearby Victorian Goldfields, which have produced over 80 million ounces of gold from many famous historic mining districts such as Ballarat and Bendigo. Eurasians Koonenberry project is located in the Province of New South Wales near the eastern edge of the Broken Hill Block. This nearby rock unit hosts the world class silver and lead mines built by Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. in the late 1880s. Today BHP Billiton is the worlds largest diversified mining company.
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