Gold & Precious Metals

Asia Trading Update, Currencies, Gold, Oil, Equities

Live Asia Update from LTN and HCM Leaders in Financial News and Services in Asia Energy producers lost 1.3 percent, the biggest drop among 10 industries in the index. South Korea’s Kospi index retreated 0.3 percent and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index (AS51) slid 0.7 percent. Japanese markets are closed for a holiday. The Hang Seng [...]

Buy Metals, Sell Euro

Players Bullish Metals,and Tech, Bearish EUR Speculative players have become more Bullish Gold over the past 7 weeks, though they have decreased their net long position on Gold futures to 7.0-to-1 on February 14 from 8.1-to-1 the week before, this position is up significantly from the 3 January 2012, reading of 4.9-to-1. The 14 February [...]

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Gold, Silver and Oil Trading Technical Report

The Overall All Fundamentals Headline inflation in the US rose +2.9% Y-Y in January, compared with consensus of +2.8% and December’s +3.0%. Earlier this month, US data came in better than expected. US’ initial jobless claims fell -10K to 348-K in the week ended 11 February. The market had anticipated a rise to [...]

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Shayne Heffernan on Trading with Candlestick Patterns

Shayne Heffernan’s 10 Best Candlestick Patterns to Trade There is a wealth of information available online and in Bookstores that will teach you the details of using Candlesticks as indicators. The following are 10 candlestick patterns that have in my own experience produced consistent results. These will work better when you understand what is happening [...]

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Gold Hot List, AU, HMY, VGCP, SHA:601899

AngloGold Ashanti Limited (ADR) NYSE:AU, Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. SHA:601899, Arizona Gold and Onyx Mining Co, PINK:VGCP, Harmony Gold Mining Co. (ADR) NYSE:HMY 26 September 2011 marked the end of the second year of the third Central Bank Gold Agreement (CBGA3). European central bank signatories to the agreement sold a gross 1.1 tonnes of [...]

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Bank of England on Gold and SIlver

The debate continues on whether the US Fed Chairman Bernanke will release more quantitative easing (QE-3), other banks are removing doubts. Wednesday, The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to add another £75-B of QE in order to support the weak UK economy. This is a Bullish sign for precious metals long term IMO. [...]

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China Gold & Precious Metals Summit

Join HCM at the China Gold & Precious Metals Summit, China’s largest networking and information exchange platform for gold & precious metals industry, is going to be held in Shanghai China on 30 November – 2 December, 2011. In the past 5 years, the event has convened over 1200 senior executives from stakeholders across the [...]

Why Buy Gold and Copper?

Gold Bubble Head Lines Were Premature Although we all heard the Gold Bubble burst last week the fact is Gold posted a quarterly gain of 8 per cent, not a bad quarter, actually its biggest this year,the drop of 11 per cent for September did not mark a reversal. Shayne Heffernan has said every investor [...]

The 6th Annual China Gold & Precious Metals Summit 2011

HCM are proud sponsors of The 6th Annual China Gold & Precious Metals Summit 2011 The 6th Annual China Gold & Precious Metals Summit 2011 will provide you with a comprehensive picture of prices, fundamental factors, investment demand and investment infrastructure development of gold, silver and PGMs in the context of slower economic growth, worsening [...]

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Rising Gold-Platinum Ratio and Confidence

Rising Gold-Platinum Ratio signals loss of market confidence Gold-to-Platinum ratio rose above 1 and stayed sustainably above there in early September. The trend has been rising since then, signaling the market remained concerned about global economic slowdown. Industrial demand makes up over 80% of total Platinum demand, with autocatalytic demand taking up more than 33% [...]

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Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to …