How Japan’s criminal gangs are making a fortune from gold bought in Hong Kong
SOURCE: South China Morning Post Police in southern Japan are still searching for a gang of three men who pulled off a daring daylight robbery earlier this month, a crime that netted them Y364 million (US$3.2 million) that was to be used in a gold deal and simultaneously highlighted the…
Reuters: China’s net-gold imports via Hong Kong more than doubles in March
EXCERPT China’s net-gold imports via main conduit Hong Kong more than doubled month-on-month in March, data showed on Tuesday. Net-gold imports by the world’s top gold consumer through the port of Hong Kong rose to 111.647 tonnes in March from 47.931 tonnes in February, according to data emailed to Reuters…
Physical Silver Demand Exploding: US Mint Sales Hit New Record
OCTOBER 1, 2015 BY SAMUEL BRYAN The demand for physical silver is absolutely through the roof. The mainstream media has finally caught up with a story we began reporting on back in July. Yesterday, Reuters reported booming worldwide demand for silver coins: “The global silver-coin market is in the grips…
Under appreciated Silver
Silver is one of the most underappreciated assets in recent years, but there are signs the grey metal may jump 420% again. The last time silver prices made such extraordinary gains was from 2009 to 2011 when silver nearly topped $50.00 an ounce. The indicator that foreshadowed that rise is…
Shocking Gold Price Manipulation
COMEX right now owns a record low 351,519 ounces of registered gold stocks in its physical gold inventories. This compares to 43.5 million ounces of paper gold currently open in futures contracts. A record low 0.8% of COMEX paper gold is currently backed by physical gold or 1 ounce of…
Goldman’s Sachs report : “There are only 20 years of known mineable reserves of gold and diamonds.”
The explored reserves of gold, diamonds and zinc will be enough for 20 years of extraction, according media reports citing Goldman Sachs research. The explored reserves of platinum, copper and nickel will last for 40 years. “The combination of very low concentrations of metals in the Earth’s crust, and very…
2015 Global Gold Supply Deficit could be substantial
February, 2015 If we take the SGE gold withdrawal figures as being a more representative indicator of physical gold movement from the West to China, rather than the limited assessments by GFMS used in the latest WGC report, and add in Indian and other global demand then gold supply is…
Gold: A Safe Haven In A World With Sub-Zero Interest Rates
Gold: A Safe Haven In A World With Sub-Zero Interest Rates Friday February 20, 2015 09:48 You may have heard the saying: actions speak louder than words. Central banks around the globe are voting for gold with their pocketbooks. In 2014, central banks purchased 477 tons of gold, a 17%…