– Art Market Bubble Bursting? – Russian Billionaire Takes 74% Loss On “Investment” – $85 Million Gauguin Bought By Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2008 – Christie’s auctioned the work at its evening sale in London – Global art sales plummet, but China rises as ‘art superpower’ – China soon to dominates global art and gold market – Art […]
Why gold retains value? Interesting unknown gold facts “Prepare your jaws for a sizeable drop!” History, finite, rare and peak gold “It is beautiful to look at…” ‘Heavy metal’ – Thud sound of a gold bar (kilo) ‘Going for gold’ – Olympic gold medals to Chelthenham ‘Gold Cup’ Peak gold … “Hard work to get gold […]
Cost of Best Picture winners show very significant devaluation of the dollar Average cost to make an Oscar winning film is over $43 million – in gold terms, this is over 106,000 ounces Four $15 million films show nearly 100% difference when priced in gold ounces Oscar fiasco was courtesy of error by accountants PWC Whilst the […]
Gold up 1.5% in euros and dollars this week Silver up 1.4% this week and now up 14.3% and is the best performing market YTD Gold up 9% year to date – fourth consecutive higher weekly close and breaks resistance at $1,250/oz Gold up 9.4% in euros year to date as Le Pen’s lead in […]
The Oscars – Worth Their Weight in Gold? 89th Oscars to air this weekend Oscars have been dipped in 24 karat gold since 1929 If the Oscars were made of solid gold they would weigh 330 ounces 330 ounces of gold is worth $408,210 at today’s prices (nearly €400k & £330k) Only some $630 worth […]
Frank Holmes joins Lawrie Williams, Koos Jansen and many others in questioning the “official” Chinese gold demand numbers. Real gold demand is likely much higher than the official numbers by Frank Holmes Inflation just got another jolt, rising as much as 2.5 percent year-over-year in January, the highest such rate since March 2012. Led by higher […]
Russia Gold Buying Returns – Adds Substantial One Million Ounces To Reserves In January Russia gold buying returned in January with the Russian central bank buying a very large 1 million ounces or 37 metric tonnes of gold bullion. The increase in the gold reserves came after Russia did not buy a single ounce in December […]
“The eurozone isn’t working …” warns Greenspan “I view gold as the primary global currency” said Greenspan “Significant increases in inflation will ultimately increase the price of gold” “Investment in gold now is insurance…” Source: Getty Alan Greenspan, the former head of the Federal Reserve has warned that the euro may collapse, saying that he has […]
Central bank governor has “dream” for every citizen to own at least 100 grams of gold bullion Governor of Central Bank of Kyrgyzstan said the central bank had sold around 140 kilos of gold bullion to the domestic population already Central Asian country’s central bank continues to diversify into gold bullion “Gold can be stored for a […]
Gold is undervalued according to a record number of fund managers Last time gold was considered undervalued, the price surged BAML surveyed 175 money managers with $543 billion in assets under management 34% of investors believe protectionism is the biggest threat to markets Gold viewed as the best protectionist investment by a third of investors Gold in […]