Currency Wars - Iran Banned From Trading Gold and Silver
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Currency Wars - Iran Banned From Trading Gold and Silver
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,675.00, GBP 1,076.55, and EUR 1,294.94 per ounce.
Friday's AM fix was USD 1,646.00, GBP 1,064.68, and EUR 1,274.29 per ounce.
Cross Currency Table - Bloomberg
Gold has risen in all currencies today and bullion up nearly 1 % to $1,675/oz. Gold rose 1.7% last week has risen more than 6% so far this year.
Gold jumped to its highest in more than a month as result of the uncertainty over of the Greek debt outcome and the growing geopolitical tensions with Iran and the US and Nato countries.
The Iranian geopolitical tension is supporting gold as Britain, America and France have delivered a clear message to Iran, sending six warships led by a 100,000 ton aircraft carrier through the highly sensitive Strait of Hormuz.
Reuters report that the EU has agreed to freeze the assets of the Iranian central bank and ban all trade in gold and other precious metals with the Iranian Central Bank and other public bodies in Iran.
According to IMF data, at the last official count (in 1996), Iran had reserves of just over 168 tonnes of gold. The FT reported in March 2011 that Iran has bought large amounts of bullion on the international market to diversify away from the dollar, citing a senior Bank of England official.
Currency wars continue and are deepening.
Many Asian markets are closed for the Lunar New Year holiday which has led to lower volumes.
Of note was there was an unusual burst of gold futures buying on the TOCOM in Japan, which has helped the cash market to breach resistance at $1,666 an ounce.
Investors are also waiting for euro zone finance ministers to decide the terms of a Greek debt restructuring later today. This would be the second bailout package for Greece.
The risk of contagion in Eurozone debt and wider markets is leading to continued safe haven demand for gold.
Reuters Global Gold Forum
Silver surged 8% last week and is up nearly 20% so far in 2012 – thereby outperforming the other precious metals and nearly all assets.
Silver cut through resistance at $31 like knife through butter on Friday. Next resistance is $33 then and $35 and then the big $50.
Increasing speculation that the Fed will soon embark on another round of quantitative easing or QE3 is also supporting the precious metals and confirmation of QE3 could see gold reach $1,700/oz in short order.
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Good thing Russia, China or Venezuela wouldn't trade in gold with Iran.
Or India, don't forget India......
And this, is a shot that IS going to be heard around the world. Because it is the most GROUNDLESS sanction.... that...or it puts le metal moniterie front and center.
Especially silver. ;-)
ori
/shattering-midass-curse-gold-de-spell-ed/
But I thought gold was a barbarous relic, why even bother imposing a ban upon it - Desperate Western Fuckers!
My bad on the India miss.. considering recent India-Iran rupee trade announcement.
.. and if I was Iran, I would be giving discounts on oil for purchases paid with barbarous relics.
Kaddafi tried that didn't he? And didn't carter cut off Iranian assets? That worked perfectly... /sarc.
But Iran doesn't NEED to trade gold and silver. Why would it even want tio? It simply needs to hold it in its central bank and issue currency against it...
Talk about a self hack. If the US invades it needs only store it in China...
and then what?
Only one way out of this untenable global banking mess a big ol' mo-honkin' war. The devils in power are trying to make sure that as soon as Ahmadinejihad has a nuke he will use it.
because of just how barbarous it is...was necessary to save freedom
Freedom's been saved then?
Sure, your still free to continue digging your own grave.
Freedom costs a buck 'o five...
Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose....
don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free.
US to Iran - "Are you sure you won't accept our paper for your oil? You know we have an air craft carrier in your pond."
Iran to US - "No we want gold or silver, not useless ass wipe paper. We are the proud people of a great nation of brutal laws."
US to Iran - "So how is that atomic bomb coming along?" (Whispering to the carrier group - "Fuel up the fighters."
Until recently, I had no clue that these wars of US aggression might be due to Central Bankers attempting to keep the herds in line.
I've seen plenty of varios conspiracy theories, but the truth could be so much simpler.
It's about the money.... literally.
What is money? it is what we agree it is, and if we don't agree with the Fed, it is what the fed says it is (and we die).
Britain, America and France have delivered a clear message to Iran, sending six warships led by a 100,000 ton aircraft carrier through the highly sensitive Strait of Hormuz.
The French are just there to surrender...
..... or collaborate.
and the Italians can't make up their minds... again...
but, but but, they have nothing to surrender! Except Camembert cheese, as those Iranians dont drink chardonnay!
Umm, Also I think that Q-daffy was counting on a french surrender in Benghazi....Not that these froggy Rambo plays are things I condone, as today in Afghanstn, becoming an ongoing and criminal collaboration with feudal warlords. It has only resulted in multiplying Afghanistan's opium production. Being a US poodle like Tony and Gordon, now "Come n run", is a shameful and sterile game. Its an insult to rule of law, to french anticolonial policy since de GAulle ended Algeria play; all the while cynically promoting under the carpet Françafrique neo colonial RM capture. The two faces of first world-third world geo politics.
But neo-colonial military parades in military barracks in Tartar land bases, and drone killing displays of magnanimous, oh so GWB compassionate feeling for the "free world" values, involving inordinate collateral damage, allegedly due to dirty Apache type treachery in FOrt Freedom's last frontier (these guys of MIC strain all have Hollywood spin-writers at hand); always end up badly with government money spent uselessly; and lots of corpses being sent back in "doggy bags". Tragic waste of young innocent lives. Big Oil and sheeple senseless toil go hand in hand. It has nothing to do with saving brave, impoverished Iran from being Ayatollah regime land. Keep up the facade, as really helping Iran's people is like shooting a bazooka into the bank account and vaults of the Oligarchs. No way thats gonna happen, no ways. Freedom never given, always taken.
Very well said, falak pema
After raping Libyan people and assasinating Q-dhaffi, the bunch of western sovereign banksters n gangsters are trying to do the same on Syria and Iran. Now it will depend on the wills of the prospective victims on how far will they resist, and the rest free world on how will they stand up against such naked and rampant robberies and attrocities, a kind of the new 21st century colonialism, esp. Russia and China!
well, it's right that france has little to offer... but don't forget it still has plenty of french lustful blondes under the french-style delicacy & exotism (recall abt the lead of mdm brunee) to entertain any primitive mundane desire, esp. among the cliques of haus-of-saud :D
Freedom [is] never given, always taken.
My very own motto.
Bravo F P
Lighten up, Francis.
The French are just there to surrender...
For sale: used French military rifles. Never fired, only dropped once...
When will we learn not to fuck with crazy people? I mean, I figured that out in high school.
Iran will learn.
yes. like vietnam, afghanistan and iraq. the u.s. is such an ass kicker.
my favorite part is the bombing people into voting for your candidates strategy.
I think I maybe misunderstandimated JPM Hater's comment.
I like your refresh on the sentiment. Well played old man...well played.
Funny, we have two there now. The Enterprise just took off for the ME, and the Eisenhower is somewhere out there after Navy Week at Norfolk and dumping a captain that had been known to disobey an order or two. We could have 4 of 5 operating carriers in the Persian Gulf in a month.
the enterprise, a ship that is so old that it should have be decommissioned years ago... smells like a great false flag target. think of the cost savings in not having to dismantle all the nuclear reactors.
It isn't about cost savings. They are imagining no budget limits. They'll replace one (that was going to be decommissioned anyways) with ten. What if the whole American Empire thing is just getting going?
I like the way you think son. Let me buy you a Freska!
Didn't FDR leave all the old ships at Pearl Harbor as sitting ducks for that other false flag?
US to send old warship to Persian Gulf
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has vowed to maintain a fleet of eleven warships despite budget pressures, mostly to project sea power against Iran.
On board of the oldest US aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, Panetta told the crowd of 1,700 sailors that the 50-year-old ship is heading to the Persian Gulf region in a direct message to Tehran.
http://presstv.com/detail/222475.html
kind of doubt the zeroes weren't japanese, but it sure was the (obsolete) battleships that were in port with the (going to decide the war in the pacific) aircraft carriers at sea. just when did they break the japanese naval code?
http://youtu.be/dkU_OAOZgSI
Also full of asbestos
http://www.mesothelioma.com/asbestos-exposure/jobsites/ships/aircraft-ca...
Hmmmmm...
So they are trying to kill Iranians with asbestos? Sneaky...and really slow.
No, the comment was meant to suggest the potential confluence of a false flag attack and asbestos disposal...again
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/oldsite/article.asp?ID=4373
Why should the Big E be decommissioned at all? She could sail for another hundred years. Sort of like the B-52s. They last forever so have to literally chop them in half for an excuse to make new ones. No new money in a fat cat's pocket for something built 50 years ago.
http://youtu.be/dkU_OAOZgSI
Excuse me for asking, but Who is this We you speak of...?
Day by day, more of we are choosing to be with "They," if only because they are increasingly more recognizable as We used to be[before the real They(which is actually a totally fake We the corrupt MSM pushes upon er, "US" ) decided they wanted everybody to forget that once pon at time, we&they were part of a big, happy family that didn't need no pharisees to guide us in the direction of a land of milk 'n honey] which was folks who just wanted to get on with bein alive an grateful to some kind of supreme creator* for the privilege - what used to be our birthright fore somebody sold us out for a mess o pottage...or something equally ridiculous.
I know it sounds kind of complicated, but just turn everything you thought you already knew upside down and it will all make sense...kind of. Alternately, if you are so inclined, just go and make friends with some people who you thought were supposed to be your in.ex.tric.able enemies. It's kinda kool!
*(a totally ecumenical reference...PLEASE...MR FALAK, SIR> no spurious "jesus-luving" bashing...wrestling with thy demons needs be an entirely private matter!>!>?!)
nb...tarubil...not directed in any way at yurself...just using your comment as handy reference to leverage with![ok, I'll admit to taking a slight dig at yur assumption that only Mericans communicate via ZH....its actually become kind of a global network of communication!]
http://youtu.be/dkU_OAOZgSI
http://youtu.be/dkU_OAOZgSI
Trade sanctions against a specific country are sometimes imposed, in order to punish that country for some action. An embargo, a severe form of externally imposed isolation, is a blockade of all trade by one country on another. For example, the United States has had an embargo against Cuba for over forty years. Thanks.
Regards,
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NOt betting that Mr. chavez will not trade with Iran
Surprised Crude is still under $100 on this Iran ban report.
"Good thing Russia, China or Venezuela wouldn't trade in gold with Iran."
SO......Who the hell wants radioactive gold?
It would be detected for sure in those diplomatic pouches. YES????
Intense headline. Bats, but you got me to click on it. Kudos.
Clever, very clever.
But Gene, you would have clicked it anyways, nein?
ori
I recognize Goldcore posts from literally miles away. Crazy Irishman.
Check out that 3Y BDIY and tell me that this ain't some Cold war type antics? You can't nosedive from these levels and pretend things are geo-politically stable...
Holy Hemlock Herman!
BDIY = 826...
Its' in three digits.... should be a story, it was THE canary in the coalmine in 2008.
ori
The "Truth" indicators I use are Baltic Dry, (taking a nose dive) and the bond market, everything else is just peripheral and or broken fukin charts. Iran threw up the middle finger to the Western DXY 3 weeks ago. They have heir own oil bourge trading in a chosen basket of currencies along with Gold and PM's till now?
This has nothing to do with "WMD's" of the nuclear airborne nature, it has to do with WMD's of the financial nature. BDIY will always be the global barometer of world financial health, very difficult to fudge the numbers, the freight and destination are registered in port globally which sets the index.
Yes, a lower BDI could indicate lower shipping cost just by proxey of trying to stimulate the global economy, but the rise of oil kinda counter acts that theory. War is inevitable IMHO. WWII got us out of the last "depression", History repeats, over and over.
IMHO, the Bull's will be on Parade till SHTF, like I said last night. Dow 12,800 (defying gravity and all reality) then bust. It's all priced in kids.
But LookingWithAmazement said that the lower the BDIY went the more growth we will have due to cheaper shipping costs. Doesn't an 826 print mean we are about to boom-shackalacka-boom-boom?
It's a leading indicator fuu. Of huge demand plunge. it was 3-4 months ahead of September 2008 when it had it's huge percentage drop.
ori
Sorry I failed to insert the /sarc.
Who knows, maybe the whole Iran nuclear thing is a bankster play to bail out Greece in a few months.
this is where ori's first spam for this page would appear if he had not jumped the string
Draft is coming America.
Draft? What the fuck are you talking about, the doors have been wide openon this house for quite some time. Not much left to steal. People running to the military already, no need for the draft. for many young people the choice is already prison or military.
It's intersting,really... and likely by design... but knowing how the end game of the credit/money system must work... as economies implode and war becomes both a distraction as well as the imputus for who gets to decide what system comes next... the imploding economy becomes the source for the soldiers. Now, about those raw materials...
"no need for the draft. for many young people the choice is already prison or military."
Ah, what better ambassadors to win their hearts and minds...
The carefully constructed facade that gold is just a barbaric relic from past monetary systems and is of no consequence is slowly being destroyed by the actions of the Central Banks themselves.
It is pretty clear that this action against Iran has nothing to do with Nuclear devices and everything to do with banking and Irans lack of genuflecting to the PTB and their fiat systems.
I reckon that's exactly what this is about. Well, still about the oil, really, but...
As ponzi paper loses value it's going to get increasingly difficult to force anyone with oil / nat gas / ultimately anything of value to accept payment in it. As oil (and everything dependent on it, which is nearly everything!) becomes increasingly expensive, TPTB are going to start getting mounting levels of civil unrest from their populations, who've gotten used to staying warm, driving around in cars and eating a decent meal once in a while. And would rather like to keep doing it.
You can't entirely blame your average bankster or politician for not wanting to become a lamp-post ornament, but they should have thought about that rather sooner. Like about 1913 or so.
sure.. let me guess..
India/Japan buys Iranina oil, instead of paying in $/euro/etc those countries
will buy gold and ship into Iran..
smart as hell
alx
.
Why ban "tradition"?
America deserves the leaders she gets.
So, Iran has a choice to be destroyed by NATO/Israel bombs or be safe from destruction by the COMEX/CFTC. Stay safe Iran, bombs only hurt for a little while, COMEX will bury you.
COMEX buried itself... MF Global reprecussions are not over. Now there is a RICO suit being brought against MFG and that is going to blow back on CME and COMEX.
RICO = operation of a continuing criminal enterprise... or something like that, not sure of exact wording.
One can only hope.
Fast and Furious is also clearly a RICO case.
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
How fitting...
but....but...but I thought gold and silver were Barbaric metals...
Jeepers, this news opens my eyes to the yellow metals true value.
Who was buying gold futures on the TOCOM? I wonder if Japan is hedging by looking for a yellowish currency they could trade to Iran a bit down the road for their black goo. That would make sense...I'm just shocked that the BOJ hasn't been buying any bullion. If they're smart that will change any day now.
"I'm just shocked that the BOJ hasn't been buying any bullion."
I would be shocked if they told you this publicly. They are not that stupid.
Considering how much gold is sold here as scrap vs the 100 tons they exported last year, I'd say the BOJ is definitely sticking up on "za gorudo".
They are deathly afraid that Iran will start selling oil in gold instead of dollars. This would cause complete panic and chaos. Even at 30 barrels per ounce which would be an extremely good deal it would surpass the worlds gold production. It would send the price of gold to the moon.
If Iran wants to do real damage they should by 500 million ounces of physical silver at 60 dollars an ounce. Comex would default along with USD and EUR.
That would invite instant bombing. They cannot make this alone. Russia and China has to move to gold first and they are still accumulating - taking advantage of the price supression.
Exactly. The last turd-world country to threaten to not use dollars was Iraq, and look what happened.
/Mike
Compare gold and silver prices
And ... welcome to the first day of the year of the Water Dragon. I just hope gold can hold on to silver's tail this year. Happy Chinese Lunar New Year. Prosper.
I am already looking at the big 50 for silver. The question really is will it stay above 50? I don't think so this time around unless something big happens.
Gold will move slowly and surely.
Iran will still get Gold and Silver by other means than trading.
I am of the year Fire Horse myself.
THROUGH LOVE all that is bitter will be sweet
Through Love all that is copper will be gold.
Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wine
Through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Through Love the dead will all become alive.
Through Love the king will turn into a slave!
Jal?l ad-D?n Mu?ammad R?m?
Good time to remind everyone to stay away from the purple acid.
Hugs not drugs.
Just sayin'
speaking of acid,
¿are you aware of how gold is mined?
cyanide, arsenic....
mmmmm!
Yo Frosty, you sexy-mexi-canadian! Do you remember a snowball from the nation blogs (usually found yelling at anti, chermak, and the other fascist thuggies)?
Hope you're doing well up there in the GWNorth and playing plenty of good moozic.
snowbert!
all is well -- hoping the same for thee.
Please don't turn all the copper to gold.
The wires in my house will all break, and we will have only silver to use as a monetary metal.
War is a comin Bitchez!
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
I fully expect an attempted ban of this sort to be attempted in Amerika too. The fiat scam is almost over.
USS Enterprise going to Persian Gulf
On board of the oldest US aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, Panetta told the crowd of 1,700 sailors that the 50-year-old ship is heading to the Persian Gulf region in a direct message to Tehran.
http://presstv.com/detail/222475.html
I don't know but I've been told that Big E is really old.