Do TV and Film Investments Make Money?

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Trends in television The introduction of video-on-demand (VOD) services including Amazon and Netflix has revolutionised the way we watch TV. They are each gaining millions of new subscribers each year and produce ever more of their own award-winning…

The London Gold Market – ripe for take-over by China?

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Will the London Gold Market Self Destruct? London Gold Market has been unchallenged for nearly 100 years So opaque that quotes of its $5 trillion size are estimates Five new offerings are set to appear in the market in the next six…

Physical gold market in largest surplus in a decade

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Gold continued to tread water on Thursday, trading at $1,270 an ounce in early morning trade in New York. The gold price has been on the defensive since the start of October when it crashed through the $1,300 an ounce level and is now down more…

How Gold and Silver or Other Commodity Prices Are Set

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In the quest to explain something that may be complex into something easily understood, please allow me to reference a recent issue most in the US are now familiar with – the shocking rise in price for EpiPens, produced by the Mylan drug company.…

Gold/Silver Ratio Hovers Near 6-Week Highs as Precious Metals Decline

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Gold’s premium over silver hovered near six-week highs Friday, as both metals ran into volatility amid heightened Federal Reserve speculation. The gold/silver ratio closed at 70.88 Friday, according to goldprice.org. This essentially states…

A Review of the Performance of Precious Metals in August

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Precious metal volatility The month of August broke the two-month stretch of gains for precious metals. Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium all fell sharply. They saw losses of 3.7%, 9%, 9.3%, and 6.1%, respectively, on a 30-day trailing…

Monetary Exhaustion Means Rising Gold Prices

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As non-traditional monetary policies in advanced economies are likely to eclipse, investors will increasingly turn to gold to hedge their portfolios. Around mid-April, when the price of gold was still about $1,290, I made a contrarian projection…

Gold prices up 26% in 2016, but gold ETFs losing assets: Here’s why

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Gold has been the biggest outperformer among all asset classes this year, up 26 per cent, yet in each of the six months this year, gold funds in India have seen outflows. "Gold funds (including ETFs) have delivered around 15 per cent return…

Propaganda And Precious Metals

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As gold reaches for higher prices and gains more attention, the propagandists are flooding the news outlets with articles on the virtues of investing in the stock market and the evils of precious metals – silver/devil. The Ponzi must continue…

Gold remains near 2-year high, even as global political outlook improves

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Gold closed virtually flat on Monday in choppy trade, as Shinzo Abe's landslide victory in Japan and the likelihood of Theresa May's appointment as David Cameron's replacement in the U.K. helped reduce global political uncertainty, offsetting…