George Gero
George Gero
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We continue to climb in spite of the stock-market rise, all helped by the possibility that the Fed may no longer be continuing its raise (in interest rates). We are waiting to see if in fact that will happen.
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We have a good rally going on because of what's going on in Saudi Arabia. It is Friday and nobody wants to be short the gold over the weekend, so up go all the metals.
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Palladium and platinum are incredibly robust. There are questions about Russia's deliveries -- no one knows what Russia means.
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Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.
buying money
There also is a lot of option-related buying because everything is in the money now.
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Funds are buying gold because they notice the decoupling from the euro and the decoupling from the energy market.
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Gold is a safe haven. We have major political problems in Iran and energy problems in Nigeria.
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There doesn't seem to be an end to the reasons why people want to keep moving into the gold.
attracted momentum players volatility
Now you have momentum players and volatility players being attracted into the market.
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Silver had been less lively than gold (before Wednesday), and now it's doing a pretty good job of a catch-up.
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It was triggered by the dollar, the yen, and of course the idea of $70 crude. (Higher) oil didn't help the stock market, so investors were looking for another place to put their money and they seem to be looking at the metals.
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They actually ran a very good, under CFTC oversight and under exchange oversight, futures business, where all customers were always properly margined.
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It seems that general commodity highs are adding purchasing power to momentum players' funds, so they are increasing positions in the metals.
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Every time we've had a major pullback, it's been what people would call an opportunity to buy on a dip, You're getting some bargain-hunting in silver and you're getting some bottom-picking in gold.