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China's Demand For Physical Quadruples Gold Premium
The premium that gold buyers in China pay to take immediate delivery of bullion has jumped four-fold in the last six weeks following the gold price 'crash'. As Bloomberg notes, even before the mid-April drop, China's gold imports jumped to a record in the first quarter as domestic demand (776 tons) outweighed domestic supply (403 tons). Images of consumers overwhelming jewelry shops were everywhere but the following chart clarifies just what the suspected gold manipulation did for demand as China's gold premium, while admittedly noisy, jumped from a long-run average of around $7 to over $32! As one analyst notes, the gold "premium is a function of demand and supply, and right now you could interpret the high premium in Shanghai as a sweetener to entice the overseas gold supply to flow into China."
Source: Bloomberg Chart of the Day
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COMEX holdings of phyzz still dwindling? Dollar being left to die? Asians/BRICs still swapping and stacking outside the ol USA?
Yep. It'll be strange in 10 years when they own it all. I guess they could call LA New Beijing.
Looks like TEXAS might be the first state to allow TAX FREE EXEMPTION for gold and silver:
Can Texas become 1st tax free Gold state?http://srsroccoreport.com/can-texas-become-1st-tax-free-gold-state/can-t...
Since Alaska has no statewide sales tax, ALL gold and silver purchases here are and have been tax free. I suspect the same is true in the handful of other states without statewide sales taxes as well. So while an important development, this story is not quite factual as presented.
PS: Thank you for all your efforts and work on the PM front, SRSrocco!
No tax on the sale of Gold and Silver buillion in Canada, I would be thankful if I could manage to stop tipping the damn canoe....
D-I-V-E-R-G-E-N-C-E
The reason the spread increased so much is due to the price falling, the shop owners cant sell below spot so keep their prices high...it'll tightenn up again
Wise words from Jim Rogers
Bullion is sales tax exempt in many states, especially in investment quantity sizes.
We honestly shouldn't care much about sales taxes. What I care about is the exemption that matters: consider gold as a currency, and zero tax on gains relative to FRN. That's why the Utah and the veto'd Arizona tax changes are important.
If only someone could have foreseen that paper would become worthless and you only own it if you can hold it.........wait...nevermind.
Hey Pirate, have you ever eaten a pawpaw?
They are absolutely delicious! Too bad that efforts to cultivate and domesticate them have so far met with very little success.
You seem to have an affinity for uncultivatable fruits. Must be frustrating. Durian are probably cultivated. Such is the nature of this world.
Miffed;-)
Looks like TEXAS might be the first state to allow TAX FREE EXEMPTION for gold and silver:
Always has been, most dealers never have charged the tax even under the 1k ceiling.
It may be interesting watching the Chinese and the Mexicans battle for control of LA. Either way, I hope Cali is removed from the US roster of states. It would serve Pelosi/Feinstein/Boxer/Brown right.
and Beijing will change name to Ca-Ching.
Califirnia is rich in resources and has alot of beautiful ocean front. I dont want to lose California, just the liberals running it.
along with all the useless hippies and mexicans living in it. good for nothing mooches they should all just die in a fire
along with all the worthless hippies and mexicans living in it. good for nothing mooches they should all just die in a fire
Real price discovery parting from the paper game, bitchez.
And only from there
Comex and Comittment of Traders in Gold Highest in a Decade.
The commercials are now net short just 59,221 contracts. On Sept. 11 of last year, commercials were net short 237,091 contracts, and at the peak nearly 290,000.
It gets even more glaring when one looks at the net short positions within the commercial’s secton of the report. The Big 4 is short 8.8 million ounces or 148% of the net commercial short position. The Big 4, which is basically JPM in my opinion, is short essentially alone with all the other commercials either out of the way or long. The “gold raptors” are smaller commercials and hold their largest net long position since Sept. 9, 2008.
more- http://winteractionables.com/?p=3119
Is this a coordinated LCS thingy or physical shortage? I bet it's the first. We are in smart LCS territory, not in desperate LCS territory. In desperate LCS territory your order will be settled in cash through a repayment in fiat. Watch the premiums in silver. They will tell the story.
Severe shortages of tungsten reported.
Is that premium per oz?
On silver?
Arrest Greenspan, Bernanke, Blankfein and Dimon for selling off the US Gold Reserves. Arrest them before they die of old age.
Good start but can we Bush and Clinton families....the list needs to be much bigger!
Better be glad we do not have a Ft Knox of Silver, or they would have stolen that, too.
so why the $35 fall Friday?
Improvement in USD exchange rate, but more significantly a hit to make the monthly close number lower.
seriously though $7 to #32 out of $1400 base is noticeable but its not like its $200 or something....people can still buy and sell pretty close to spot.
Yep. Like i said, wake me up when the premium on silver one oz is $ 32.
$32 on gold is like providing Syrian rebels with teargas.
New Hampshire for sure. Also no state income tax so no issue there. Texas trying to keep up with New England. Normal since 1845.
New Hampshire for sure. Also no state income tax so no issue there. Texas trying to keep up with New England. Normal since 1845
Scuse me, Texas has never had a state income tax.And as I stated taxes on metals has been ignored, and under old law no taxes 1k and over.
Here's the state by state breakdown on P/M taxation. Sales Tax Laws | State by State Breakdown | The|Coinologist.
YC, thanks for the link; I had not seen that site before.
Tons of information in one place.
Be well "Lake City". Thank you.
how come the gold miners never get any of this premium? or dont they produce physical?
I often wonder if ZH has been captured by the bullion dealers?
Interesting thought experiment (the Tylers, not the miners). The miner underperformance has been a head scratcher for all of us.
Re the capture of ZH by the bullion banks, methinks not... the Tylers provide them ample prison raping.
I guess your 3 weeks here is enough time to make that decision. Take a minute and look at the average realized sale price per ounce for most miiners and you will see they usually capture better than average spot prices per quarter.
$35 premium for what quantity?
$35 premium for what quantity?
Per ounce of gold, in bars most likely.
Don't we wish it was that cheap here in fiat?, esp Eagles.
Meh. Lets see whats happening in December. PMs are a screamin steal at these prices but the slapdown is still pretty much intact and inventory is available.
if westerners stop reproducing and are collapsing economically , spiritually and socially they re simply going to get replaced/ bought by chinese. Chinese will probably replace russians, and eradicate muslims and blacks in africa once white people have been wiped.
-1 for being an ignorant cunt.
Same over here
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/05/29/gold-premiums-idINL3N0EA2652013...
But $7 per ounce of gold is nothing. Especially underscored Nothing when the price of gold is under $1400. Wake me up when premium is $200.
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a bit more paper is getting the same amount of gold?
Maybe this has something to do with all the supposedly empty gold shops in China, increased premiums, and miner strikes in South Africa. A Sekrit Source sent me these Wire intercepts between Wang Chung, Shanghai Gold Merchant to Neals Boer, South Afrika Bullion Unlimited:
To SABU: Hully! Send much gold before Amelicans wise up. Can Honorable Chung get gold now, and pay in 30 days at spot price then???
To Wank Chung: Voetsek! I was not born yesterday, draadtrekker. Who knows how far price will drop in a month. I have payrolls to make, fokkop.
To SABU: Honorable Chung buy now, and tomollow price is lower. Honorable Chung not stay in business that way. Me no stupid. Plus, name is WANG not Wank!!!
To Wang Chink: You wannee gold, you payee now. No tikkee, no goldee, Houtkop!
To SABU: You no insult Honorable Chung no more, yankee dog lackey! How we fix this? Me wanna sell gold to clazy Amelicans, but Gold Shop is empty because me can no afford buy gold with price dropping like poop raindrops. Plus, name is CHUNG not Chink!!!
To Wing Ching: Confucious say, Buy now. Let shop stay empty for a few days. Amelicans panic and price goes up. Increase premium. Win. Win.
I am not sure if these are real, or if somebody is pulling my leg, but I report, you decide.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
You know what they say.....
She's so tight she Squeeks.
Premium bitchez.
I don't care about the premiums now. Al my gold is safely stored in a vault in Switzerland. Bought it with Goldrepublic