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Point Out The "Slump" In Chinese Gold Imports On This Chart
Lately Bloomberg's reporting group (now without access to client tracking) has been hitting it out of the park when it comes to cognitive schizophrenia-inducing news article headlines.
Last Friday it was the market somehow going up and down at the same time.
Now, Bloomberg has shifted its deductive skills over to analyzing the gold market with the following article headline: "China’s Gold Imports From Hong Kong Slump on Quota Backlog" in which Bloomberg says: "Mainland buyers purchased 126,135 kilograms, including scrap, compared with 223,519 kilograms in March, according to Hong Kong government data yesterday. Net imports, after deducting flows from China into Hong Kong, were 75,891 kilograms, from 130,038 kilograms a month earlier, according to Bloomberg calculations." Now perhaps what would have made this "slump" more amusing is if BBG had also shown it in context. Which we are happy to do. Because the 126.1 tons of gold imports in April, or the month of the "great gold crash", was only the second highest ever, and just shy of the all time record high of 223.5 tons imported in March.
And the "slump" when observed year over year. Hmmm:
Bloomberg was right about one thing however:
“Some qualified banks used up their gold import quota in the first three months and weren’t able to get the paperwork done fast enough to bring in bullion in April,” said Tian Rui, vice president of the precious metals division at INTL FCStone Trading Co. “We might see higher imports in May because demand surged after the rout.”
In other words, look for the unslump in May when a surge in even more buying sends gross imports from Hong Kong to what may be new all time highs.
In the meantime, YTD imports of 500 tons are more than double the 240 tons imported over the same period last year: the same amount as held by the ECB.
China has now imported 1,333 tons of gold since January 2012, or 30% more than its official gold holdings, and is on a run rate to import 1500 tons in 2013 alone.
At least someone is taking advantage of all that levered ETF paper gold selling...
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It's the ol' "glass one tenth empty" approach!
The Barbarians are everywhere!
But did they check for the heart of tungstun?
Wait til Obama's EPA takes us off of the Tungsten standard. Fiat lightbulbs.
Translates symbolically into fiat thought
On second thought, this has happened already with the CFLs - I can't read a book at night in my in-laws' house without getting a headache from those damn things
The chart above is just part of the story. Hong Kong is one only source for China to import gold.
As of May 31, Shanghai Gold Exchange "Deliveries from Vault" for 2013 stood at 820 tonnes despite gold delivery halt from April 20 to ~ May 25.
massive purchaces and stockpiling of gold around the world causes prices to sag.
While Bloomberg is busy saying that 126 tonnes is next to nothing, they forgot to mention that the COMEX currently has a grand total of 52 tonnes registered, or enough to supply less than two weeks of China's suddenly "dampened" desire for the yellow metal.
Just wait till you break one. That mercury is lovely stuff.
I think the barbarians are already here.
As a Barbarian, I would just like to say that the fucking Retards keep missing it.
China is currently trading all those rapidly inflating dollars for real wealth. They also are quite adept at creating wealth through manufacturing and agriculture. Back home, our primary means of wealth creation are arms manufacture and ethanol. Our beloved tax system is going to have fewer to tax, the whole while the IRS smiles and reminds us "The Bill of Rights is very fragile, very human". Criminal bankers and a rogue government do as they will without fear of punishment (just ask Corzine and Holder). The middle class, the family unit and morality are being destroyed while a gay agenda is pushed even onto the Boy Scouts. If that doesn't put the writing on the wall, I don't know what will...
"China has now imported 1,333 tons of gold since January 2012, or 30% more than its official gold holdings."
First of all you forgot one other means of wealth creation at home: carb consumption in all it's guises (taco shells, pizza, sugary drinks) and the associated boom in jobs (delivery service, advertising, jingo writing).
And FRNs. Many many.
The American Recovery is well under weigh!
I see weight you did there...
That's heavy.
Don't forget the enormous, and I do mean enormous, demand for medical technology and services.
Right you are. Overpaid and undertaxed big-pharma. Is it ironic that with so much healthcare, America leads the world in cancer rates?
Not only gold...but also silver! They stop exporting long time ago, wonder why!
by the way, an interesting copper startegy with US nickels is here:
http://zysites.com/silververitas/
I saw this morning that cunt Becky Quick say on CNBC, "Verizon taking phone records is the same as data mining at the major corporations that we talk about all the time".
What a useful fucking idiot.
I wonder if they are sending the NSA/CIA my Fios web history
I always assumed I was on whatever lists they had anyway. I guess it will be nice to know when I will be sent off to the Linden NJ FEMA camp (http://woodbridge.patch.com/articles/some-residents-worry-about-a-fema-c...). I would prefer a warmer climate if I had any say in the matter.
We've been listening to you.........SURPRISE!!!
But they never seem to hear us when we're crying...
But they never seem to hear us when we're crying...
Sound like Sydney Crosby talking to Gary Bettman about the refs.
It was Jimmy Cliff, "The Harder They Come."
Prepare for that proverbial FEMA camp collection crew. I am prepared and not alone. What a poor career choice they will have taken.
I'm on "the list" and rest assured knowing so. If you thing you may be, you've been so, for some time.
They don't build multi-billion dollar networking sites with zetta bits of storage and anthrologic software for nothing.
Hope Uncle Warren sits on her head in the tub one day...
And face it. If information travels across wires or via wireless, they're listening. And I don't doubt that they've spent our tax dollars on other more devious ways to keep tabs on us that we don't know about yet...
Indeed. The drone over my house is now monitoring you via a link to the drone hovering over yours. I'll talk up my gold stack and see if I can divert it back to watching me again. (no charge, btw)
Order a Domino's pizza and have the drone deliver it while you're at it...
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/04/technology/innovation/dominos-pizza-drone/
Wow, taking out a drone will mean free pizza! Oh how we have advanced...
Like Manna, falling from heaven....with extra toppings of lead shot and electronics.
Monedian Logic: Becky = Rebecca + Quick = Quickenheimer ....... therefore it follows ...... yup, yup, she's a Joo !
The likes of Quck are certainly no idiots. They're paid whores to the politcial system. In the same way as prostitutes sell their bodies for money, Quck sells her mouth for money.
If it walks like a Quck, talks like a Quck...
BTW, some prostitutes sell their mouths for money, too.
I hate her more than you do.
I hate that bitch too and I don't even have cable tv.
I hate her more than you do.
It depends on your definition of the word "You"
I will have another SUPER-SIZE BIG GULP of sugary Bloomturd propaganda, thanks.
I love the smell of BULLSHIT and coffee in the morning.
Buy two 16 oz soft drinks .... third one is free !
May I get a second slice of pizza?
Bloomberg News:
Where accuracy and getting it right the first time have never been a priority for our Ivy League journalism majors that couldn't even find jobs as "community organizers."
You are better off getting your news from the bathroom walls in Grand Central Station. At least that way you can actually smell the "shit" too instead of just reading it from Bloomberg. Accuracy is probably better as well, don't think the homeless are really pushing any type of agenda ...
No slump in slag from Canadian mint !
I can't wait for the day when the Chinese come out with their "official" gold holdings and have a lot more than anyone estimated. The fucktards at CNBC will go into full panic & spin mode.
Why would anyone care how much gold China has?
New World Reserve Currency, for starters. Duh!
Question: agree it's the logical reserve currency. however, GE can now manufacture diamonds.....is it unreasonable to say they can make "gold" too?
which would/should kill the reserve currency argument. gold was standard 1000 years ago. we can now travel to mars. why not a commodity that no one can make....like moon dust or mars soil or something like that.
[i know it sounds whacky....but is gold outdated as a standard?]
A diamond is made out of carbon and gold is made of gold.
some of it's made of tungsten.
by the way, it's not quite as whacky as even i thought. here's the patent application (which might mean nothing at all), but there's been a LOT of doors opening with the particle accelerators over the last few years.....
abstract:
A man made method, utilizing particles bombardment technique, is used to produce Gold and Platinum. The particles bombardment technique uses particle accelerator to accelerate Lithium particles to high speed. These high speed Lithium particles contain high energy. These high energy Lithium particles are used to bombard Osmium element. Then elements Lithium and Osmium undergo cold fusion process that they are combined to produce element Gold
Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080245187#ixzz2VRxDqP3wI have to admit that at this point I am paranoid enough to believe that TPTB have some major curve ball to throw at those that are 'prepared' for the coming financial carnage by holding metals. And there is scientific evidence to support the possibilty that the method has been found to create gold. Economical, practical, doable? I have no earthly idea. But my gut feels a major unexpected manuever sitting out there just waiting to blow apart all the best laid plans..................
Using a particle accelerator to create 0.00000001oz of gold is not really a good business model
'I think there is a world market for maybe five computers' -IBM Chairman, 1943
'I think there is a world market for maybe five computers' -IBM Chairman, 1943
Gold was standard 42 years ago, OWT2. You may want to ratchet down your 'moon dust' doses...
Question: agree it's the logical reserve currency. however, GE can now manufacture diamonds.....is it unreasonable to say they can make "gold" too?
which would/should kill the reserve currency argument. gold was standard 1000 years ago. we can now travel to mars. why not a commodity that no one can make....like moon dust or mars soil or something like that.
[i know it sounds whacky....but is gold outdated as a standard?]
oneway
A..take a chemistry class
B..Look at what the Euro does with gold. It holds it on its balance sheet as backing...a completely different use of gold that the prior 'gold standards'.
vegas: you're missing the point.....in your knee jerk to be angry at someone. read above.
if I may:
the Golden Rule:
he who has the gold, makes the rules.
If that's the case, then why do the Fed even bother keeping any of that oild metal around?
They should just sell it all.
They already sold all of We The People's gold. Amerika has no gold reserves.
Why would anyone care how much gold China has?
Let the U. S. announce that it no longer has any gold at Ft. Knox and see what happens to the dollar. It's not about anything except "confidence", "expectations", and "perception"; and a lot of people have the mistaken notion that the U. S. fiat currency is "backed" by the gold supposedly at Ft. Knox. Yeah, stupid, I know.... but true.
and seal the fate of the US$ at the same time
For extra humiliation effect, I fully expect the first purchase the Chinese will make in gold is the barren property at Ft Knox, Kentucky (the code name for which, I'm told, is FK-NO-KY).
Let's play the reverse rule from back when housing was in freefall, and the 2nd order derivative showed signs of improvement (which was then trumpeted as GOOD NEWS):
Reduction in 2nd order derivative = COLLAPSE IN DEMAND OF GOLD.
Maybe Bloomberg has been honest all along in its news reporting, and they're not evil but merely incurably stupid: they seem to have a two-neurons brain that can only process an analysis of a curve between two data points
If you think that, then you just projected your own shortcomings into your post...
I always forget to mention sarcasm in my posts, silly me
Hey math whiz, stop showing off! The only derivatives allowed here are bets- save the Newtonian calculus number-crunching for your math-geek buddies.
Bloomersberg
When shit hits the fan the Chinese will have all the gold
I believe the realization that the Chinese have all the gold will cause the proverbial shit hitting the fan
Correction: The Chinese---and readers of ZeroHedge---will have all the gold.
You left out the Rothschilds.
175 years ago, thre Chinese had all the silver. Then they were addicted to opium (by the Brits) and they traded their silver for drugs. My guess is that the Chinese will eventually trade all their gold for oil.
MOAR METAL <ANAGRAM> AMMO LATER
AMMO GATE ! See you later .... ammogator !
Not accepting the reality of supply and demand in a physical market is a great way to get yourself slaughtered. It is amusing to watch the befuddled stocktards trying to figure out why gold does not behave like a stock. No one jumping out of windows when the price drops. Just a whole lot of people taking their gold away from the stocktards.
It will certainly be interesting when China announces, at some point, over 4000 tonnes and says to the West:
"Let's play gold doctor; I'll show you mine if you show me yours"
Gold boner trumps gold finger everytime.
I shared (elsewhere) some 40 years ago that: If they could develop a market for bs @ 5cents/lb.- many folks would be wealthy...Still holds true today...
Tnx ZH n ZHrs...
Peace...
Is that a slump in your pocket? or you just glad to see me Round Eye?
For a good time .... call Hillary ! For a better time .... call Barney Frank !
I experienced a similar slump in my racecar yesterday, while I was shifting between fifth and sixth gear at 160 mph.
Looks like they are buying a lot of GLD and SLV....lol...
Importing gold should be considered export income as the reality is that they are exporting paper and receiving gold as payment.
But the present treatment of treating gold as an import suits the Chinese 100%.
All of which points out the foolishness of gold, not only on an individual scale, but an international one.
Gold, what is it good for? (Absolutely nothin' say it again, huh!) How many chip connnectors can one coat with the stuff?
It's only good for trade. It's very worthlessness (in practical terms) is precisely what makes gold a good medium of exchange.
If anything, worthless gold is a backstop for even more worthless meduims of exchange, like paper or electrons.
Bankers of a certain ethnic background everywhere have discovered that an even beter backstop for worthless mediums of exchange is the PROMISE of gold, and a promise must the the most worthless medium of exchange possible, hence the COMEX debacle, etc.
Since exchange is all that gold is good for, hence, it must (eventually) be exchanged. The Chinese gold-buying spree should be chalked up in economic terms as savings.
If you want the gold for yourself, find out what the Chinese want, but don't have, and sell it to them for gold.
Oil
Clean, potable water
Fresh air
Open space
White women (not too spoiled)
Drugs (tried and true- why wouldn't the Chinese want meth, cocaine, killer Humbolt or heroin? Americans want all these things)
So, leaving the existential and practical worthlessness of gold behind, stop being whiny little victims (the Chinese stole all the gold!!!Waaahhhh") and put your capitalistic actions where your mouth is, and get it back from them!
And bankers overseas are saying:
"We don't want any more of your US treasuries, we already have enough of them!"
It means financial people across the globe are saturated with US dollars.
The only one buying is Bernanke and the fed.
But... but, "quality collateral!"
The fact remains: The gold price is being contained and keeps getting hammered, and so is silver.
The gold carry trade: China trades iGizmos for gold.
Interesting that on Nightly Business Report yesterday they had a piece on the US Mint gold and silver coins--never seen that before. They also showed some nice stacks of gold at West Point. I always look for the propaganda purpose but other than saying: "See, plenty of gold and silver," I don't know what it was. Couldn't get past how lovely all that real money looked.
Silly Chinese trading valuable paper T's for worthless non-productive gold...
Buncha amateurs in this money business thing.
I think they are stockpiling gold and other commodities for their upcoming currency devaluation announcement.
Uh....I would not say a 100 ton difference of April to March a "just shy" difference.
But point is noted.
And all of this gives me more belief in what I realized a few years ago.
We started devaluing our dollar in 2000 to bring China to the global central bank table. (with their yuan pegged below our dollar they would have hit the dust first.)
Part of the buy-in is allowing China and others to buy gold at a lower price to prep for the 3 currency world that the CFR had opined in 2006. (A Pan Asian, Pan American and Pan European).
China will be the lynch pin of the Pan Asian currency. We (U.S.) will remain the lynch pin of the Pan American and we already have the Euro (which as Jim Sinclair pointed out...."WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO FAIL"
The Juan is pegged to the US Dollar.
When the Juan goes open market, it is bound to rocket upward.
Owning more gold - that should help ease the appreciation of the Juan - LMAO.
I have noticed that B'berg is slanted in all of its "reporting"...I would trust them as much as CNN or any report from one of our Federal agencies.
This gold report is just another example of their bias.
But, here's the real question: Do they actually think that their headline writing style is clever?
1500 tons that is almost annual gold production of entire world. Looks like there is a limit how much money can be printed, Ben.