Commodity Trends

Physical Gold vs. Paper Gold

Physical Gold vs. Paper Gold

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Looking at the factors forcing the price of gold down last week caused me to scratch my head a bit. Even though the price of gold was falling on the futures market anecdotal evidence showed that physical gold dealers were doing a booming business as sales volume was actually up by 50% last week as buyers of the physical metal were jumping on the opportunity to buy gold at a discount. So I wondered how could demand for physical gold be up while prices continued to fall? The answer it appears is that there is a major disconnect between physical gold vs. “paper gold”. In today’s article, Bud Conrad looks at the factors in this disconnect.

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Tunisia Oil

Oil in Tunisia?- Should Tunisia be on Energy Investors Watch List?

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Major oil companies like Shell have have been jumping at the chance to acquire ground in this former French protectorate that had been neglected for decades. For the first time, major spending has been committed to test Tunisian basins which could be just as prolific as those in neighboring oil rich environments such as Libya. Tunisia is

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Silver Holdings

Is Recent Action in Silver Bullish or Bearish?

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Investors are quietly accumulating physical silver and silver ETF’s, while holdings in gold ETFs have plummeted. Meanwhile, the price of silver is drifting slightly lower. What does it mean and how can you profit? In today’s article Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst for Casey Research will look at these factors and where they are pointing.  ~Tim

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Which is more volatile: gold or silver?

How to Profit from the Jekyll-and-Hyde World of Silver Price Movements

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Most precious-metals investors know that silver is more volatile than gold. But do they know just how big that difference really is? We thought it would be interesting to measure how much greater silver’s daily moves are—both in gains and declines—than gold. We documented the daily price movements for both metals, and then calculated the

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