Tag: Platinum

Economic Background Europe The political situation in Italy is getting more and more difficult. Both candidates for the Presidency of Italy, Romano Prodi as well as...

Weekly news review Europe: Consumer prices in the Eurozone rose by 2.7 per cent in September, against a 2.6 per cent increase in August. France: President...

Here are the major world news headlines from the past week with impact of precious metals markets: US: The release of the Federal Open Market...

China National Gold company considers taking a stake in African Barrick. Europe: The trade surplus of the Eurozone members reached a new high in June...

Store-of-value gold has never been so expensive against industrial platinum... Both platinum and gold are useful metals. But where gold's use is ultimately social...

Here are the most recent  headlines with an impact on precious metals: Moody’s downgrades 15 large global Banks UK inflation falls to 2.8 per cent in...

Gold returns to safe-haven status Given the strong performance of the US dollar during the past two weeks, and the relentless selling in everything else...

Gold will need to clear resistance level at US $ 1600 next week  Moodys has downgraded 16 Spanish banks, whilst Fitch has downgraded Greece again. Greece...

All in all, a disappointing week as the precious metals markets have been stuck in relatively narrow ranges. Developments in Spain and the first round...

It was the expected slow start into last week, with many countries still out for the Easter holiday, and the market returned fully only on...

Last week’s proceedings were dominated by strong selling pressure in most commodities. The collective economic data coming out of China, the US and Europe has...

It appears that uncertainty is the only certainty at the moment. The Federal Reserve Bank gave some indications that QE3 is not at all at...

A fiscal treaty about budget discipline has been signed by 25 of the 27 Eurozone countries, and only 12 countries need to ratify this...

Last week brought the important Greek bail-out talks to an end, and several markets have reacted positively, since the announcement of these agreements. There is...

While the dollar may not see a significant correction soon, and is likely to continue to gain against the euro as the eurozone crisis persists, the negative effects of a stronger dollar on gold are likely to be largely diminished in 2012, allowing the bullish macro drivers to dictate price action

There are quite a lot of analysts and commentators who are predicting the end of the bull market, but ENBD analysts do not subscribe to this scenario, at least not yet.

Germany has found itself more and more in the headlines. The very unsatisfactory Bund auction and the confirmed sales of Gold from its reserves were...

Gold, silver, palladium and platinum rallied from the biggest weekly drop since May as concerns that Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis may worsen spurred demand for...