China’s gold strategy

China first delegated the management of gold policy to the Peoples Bank by regulations in 1983. This development was central to China’s emergence as a free-market economy following the post-Mao reforms in 1979/82.

GoldMoney | October 31, 2014 | 9:45 pm

Federal Open Market Committee hits gold and silver

Trading in precious metals was quiet until Wednesday morning, when prices began to soften.

GoldMoney | October 31, 2014 | 8:42 pm

Precious metals subdues as panic over

For gold and silver it has been a week of two halves: first prices rallied to a peak on Tuesday, then declined to show net losses for the week on Wednesday for silver and Thursday for gold.

GoldMoney | October 24, 2014 | 5:22 am

Gold benefits from market uncertainty

After a prolonged period of low volatility as funds invested in ever-greater risk, markets have snapped and volatility has jumped.

GoldMoney | October 17, 2014 | 8:58 pm

Market Turbulence

This week has seen highly volatile equities (mostly down), bond yields sharply lower, the oil price hard down, and gold side-lined but recovering after a miserable month or two.

GoldMoney | October 10, 2014 | 2:34 pm

Precious metals market report by Alasdair Macleod, GoldMoney, Head of Research

Precious metals have faced adverse weather as evidence mounts that major economies may be sliding into recession.

GoldMoney | October 5, 2014 | 9:03 am

$1200 for gold underpinned by physical demand

This week saw gold rally $15 to $1233 on Tuesday before sliding to $1207 yesterday morning, then rallying in the afternoon.

GoldMoney | September 28, 2014 | 5:57 pm

Valuing gold and turkey farming

Today’s financial markets are built on the sand of unsound currencies.

GoldMoney | September 26, 2014 | 5:28 pm

The end of tapering and government funding

Last year markets behaved nervously on rumours that QE3 would be tapered; this year we have lived with the fact.

GoldMoney | September 19, 2014 | 9:46 pm

Currency mayhem

So far this has been mainly a race to the bottom, with the dollar on the side-lines.

GoldMoney | September 12, 2014 | 10:30 pm

A difficult question

In a radio interview recently I was asked a question to which I could not easily give a satisfactory reply: "If the gold market is rigged, why does it matter?"

GoldMoney | September 5, 2014 | 4:27 pm

Precious metals market report

Short-sellers driving prices

GoldMoney | September 5, 2014 | 4:14 pm

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