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Renewed Contagion Concern After Italian Election - Stocks Fall, FX Volatility And Gold Rises
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Renewed Contagion Concern After Italian Election - Stocks Fall, FX Volatility And Gold Rises
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,597.25, EUR 1,219.65 and GBP 1,052.07 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,592.50, EUR 1,201.89 and GBP 1,051.85 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $28.79/oz, €22.11/oz and £19.09/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,600.50/oz, palladium at $729.00/oz and rhodium at $1,200/oz.

Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)
Gold climbed $14.10 or 0.89% yesterday in New York and closed at $1,594.60/oz. Silver rose to $29.24 in London before it fell back to $28.90, but it still finished with a gain of 0.94%.

XAU/EUR, 25FEB2010-26FEB2013 - (Bloomberg)
Gold inched above $1,600/oz today, extending gains from the previous session and into the fourth straight session as uncertainty over Italy's election results stoked renewed fears that the euro zone debt crisis is set to return, and increased demand for the yellow metal.
Italy’s politics were turned upside down yesterday after the election resulted in the dissident, 5-Star Movement of comic Beppe Grillo creating the strongest party in the country, but left no group with a clear majority in parliament. This political uncertainty weighed on the euro as Italy is the Eurozone’s 3rd largest economy.

Italy Govt Bonds 10 Year Gross Yield – 1 Year (Bloomberg)
Bullion’s gains were limited as investors await the Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke’s semi-annual testimony to U.S. Congress before the Senate Banking Committee today, and tomorrow he visits the U.S. Housing Financial Services Committee. A dovish statement from Bernanke will support gold.

Italy Govt Bonds 10 Year Gross Yield – 1992 – Today (Bloomberg)
European stocks declined as Italy’s inconclusive parliamentary election renewed concern that the region’s sovereign-debt crisis will deepen. This follows falls on Wall Street yesterday and Asian falling overnight.
Huge complacency and even denial about the debt crisis and suggestions that it had been resolved have contributed to investors selling physical gold in recent days.
The Financial Times Alice Ross reported that the "heavy moves last night in currencies were among the worst since the financial crisis."
Gene Arensberg of the Got Gold Report warned of the market equivalent of seismic tremors and market reversals, including reversals in the monetary metals (see commentary).
Major powers will offer Iran some sanctions relief this week if Tehran agrees to curb its nuclear program, according to a U.S. official said on Monday.
Western diplomats have told Reuters the six countries will offer to ease sanctions on trade in gold and precious metals if Iran closes its underground uranium enrichment plant.
Iran has indicated, however, that this will not be enough according to Reuters.
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THANK GOD THE EUROPEAN UNION EXPRESED THEIR FAITH IN DEMOCRACY EVEN AFTER THE ITALIAN ELECTION!!
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I need a new dictionairy....
I need a new dictionairy....
Accept the ambassador job to Libya....and we'll give you one. You'll see democracy in action up close.
Bring your own flack jacket.
Only if I get my own drone...
Out long SPY and flat in cash; the gap open is not big enough; I was looking for a conviction jamjob back to 1500, didn't happen.
The VIX Has A Message - Italian Bonds Are Doomed
http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-vix-has-message-italian-bonds-are.html
Dont bet against the US courrpt banking sytem or the stock market.
Read:
http://www.examiner.com/article/fed-admits-that-stock-market-gains-are-t...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-21/least-they-are-finally-honest
fixed it
Again, how fucked up are things, how unbalanced, how fucking tenuous when we look at the Italian elections as a focal point?
Think about it, a few thousand votes one way and we'd be saying "move along, nothing to see here". But some clown makes a showing in the Italian elections and the house of cards begins to fall.
Too funny, must watch drama unfolding.
Wait...
Weren't they all clowns?
10,000 point loss on dow, anything else is just theatrics.
I remember when Pat Paulson used to run for the president all the time..he was a clown..a comedian...pretty funny too...
"A dovish statement from Bernanke will support gold."
IF my long term investment decisions depended on the comments of some bozo I'd just take a gun and shoot myself.
The Fed will probably lose up to $547 billion on its holdings in just three years:
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s efforts to rescue the economy could result in more than a half trillion dollars of paper losses on the central bank’s books if interest rates rise abruptly from recent levels.
That sum is the difference between the value of securities in the Fed’s portfolio on Dec. 31 and what they may fetch in three years, according to data compiled by MSCI Inc. of New York for Bloomberg News. MSCI applied scenarios devised by the Fed itself for stress-testing the nation’s 19 largest banks.
MSCI sees the market value of Fed holdings shrinking by $547 billion over three years under an adverse scenario that includes an economic contraction and rising inflation. MSCI puts the Fed’s mark-to-market loss at less than half that, or $216 billion, if the economy performs in line with consensus forecasts of gradually rising growth, inflation and interest rates.
The potential losses are unprecedented in the Fed’s 100- year history, and Bernanke has never used congressional testimony to give a detailed explanation of the consequences of shifting hundreds of billions in interest-rate risk from private portfolios onto the Fed’s balance sheet.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-26/fed-faces-explaining-billion-do...
The problem with these GoldCore articles is that they seem to think that there is some form of market out there that relies on technicals and logic. They don't seem to address the manipulation, nor do they seem to express the underlying reasons gold has any value at all. As a matter of fact, my impression of all the articles I have read from them they have a decidedly paper gold bias. Paper gold is exactly like paper currency and plays into the oligarchs hands.
We've died and gone to heaven.
"Say goodbye to 1600/30 for the rest of your lives. Time to join Team Blythe. Donning monkey suit right now." -Slaughterer
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-20/precious-metals-morning-slam-ri...
Well, the good news is GS lowered its price target to 1600 from 1810, so they must be buyers over there
I simply don't believe their statement that a significant number of investors have been selling physical gold the last few days.
Seriously. What an asinine remark. Perfect evidence that no one should take these clowns seriously.
SP500 daily & weekly uptrends simultaneously completing protracted topping process.
Resultant downtrend will have good momentum.
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