Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
LONDON, 14 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault is quoted today in The Daily Telegraph, the UK's conservative-leaning broadsheet newspaper, about the impact of rising inflation on gold investment and prices.With inflation surging near post-WW2 highs in the US, there's "reason to expect the price of gold, the world's oldest inflation hedge, to take off. But it hasn't," says The Telegraph's Que...Read More
LONDON, 12 January 2022 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash was a guest this morning on the BBC World Service's flagship Newsday current affairs show."Among all the sources of gold demand," Adrian told BBC radio's global listeners, "investment demand is what drives gold prices, and in 2020 we saw record inflows. That proved a hard act to follow."Looking briefly at the impact on gold of...Read More
LONDON, 10 January 2022 - BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index data are highlighted today in a report on Germany's solid private gold-investment demand from WirtschaftsWoche, one of the country's leading investment magazines."Inflation rates of over 5% are ringing alarm bells for many Germans, so gold is in demand again as a safe haven," WiWo says."The trading platform BullionVault reports th...Read More
LONDON, 6 January 2022 - Leading German finance magazine Das Investment today reports at length on BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index data."Private investors in this country were more interested in gold again in December," says the report, noting that the Gold Investor Index Deutschland "climbed to a 3-month high of 57.4 points."Find Das Investment's full report (in German) on BullionVault'...Read More
This past Monday was brutal.The Dow plummeted 1,000 points. The S&P 500 lost nearly 4% of its value, and the Nasdaq lost nearly 5%.The only stocks that were paying off that day were defense stocks and ETFs that short the broader markets.But that's just the nature of the markets.Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.Although it doesn't always have to be that way.Truth is, there is one investment y...Read More
LONDON, 7 December 2021 - Comment from BullionVault today leads gold-market news published by popular investment news-site Business Insider.The recent spikes in gold and silver prices "invited a little profit-taking among existing owners," it quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault, but "new buyers continue to enter the precious metals markets, taking a position in physical bullion...Read More
The fear in today's market is palpable, and blood is spilling freely.You can taste it everywhere you go, like a crimson snowflake littering portfolios up and down Wall Street. Over the last three weeks alone, we've seen the tech-heavy Nasdaq shed 15%. For some people, their proclivity to panic has put them in full distress.Others, however, know that a bloody market is one of the most profitable o...Read More
LONDON, 3 December 2021 - In-depth analysis from BullionVault of Asia's world-leading gold demand is published today by Das Investment, one of Germany's leading personal finance magazines."Around 40% of global demand for gold comes from India and China," says the exclusive article."The peculiarity that unites both nations? Once the gold is in the country, in most cases it cannot be re-exported as...Read More
LONDON, 16 November 2021 - Leading financial news-site MarketWatch today quotes BullionVault in its latest gold-price report."Investment flows are what drive gold prices," says Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault, "and after gold smashed through downtrend resistance as well as this summer's highs on last week's inflation shock data, it's no surprise to see some of the hot money closin...Read More
LONDON, 10 November 2021 - Analysis and comment from BullionVault today leads the latest gold-price report published on investment ratings site Morningstar.With the US Consumer Price Index up 6.2% year over year in October, "The worst inflation in three decades means the worst ever loss of purchasing power for cash savers," it quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault."Bitcoin has ju...Read More
LONDON, 15 October 2021 - Global news-wire and data agency Bloomberg today highlights BullionVault as a way for European Union citizens to invest in silver without incurring VAT.While rule changes in the EU have shut down a loophole for silver coins shipped from Estonia, "BullionVault provides an opportunity to avoid VAT on silver," explains Bloomberg Bulgaria's TV channel, interviewing the London...Read More
LONDON, 15 October 2021 - Comment from BullionVault features in a gold-market update from global data and news providers Bloomberg."The gold investment market is still suffering a hangover from last year," Bloomberg quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault."It was always going to be a hard act to follow."Read the full story at Bloomberg here:Gold Trims Weekly Gain as Yields Rebound...Read More
About seven weeks ago, on December 7, 2021, I put out an alert with the subject line "I Hate to Say This, But..."Here's what I wrote:This is the most ominous chart I've seen in years:This is a five-year monthly candlestick chart of the SPX. The SPX is based on the 500 top companies in the United States.Each candlestick represents a month. The chart goes back to 2017.That red candlestick from two m...Read More
LONDON, 12 October 2021 - Leading German investment magazine WirtschaftsWoche today published an exclusive interview with BullionVault's director of research, Adrian Ash.Noting that BullionVault is "the world's largest online platform for trading gold, silver and platinum," WiWo asks Adrian about the impact of inflation on gold prices, the longer-term outlook for German investors, and whether fi...Read More
LONDON, 30 September 2021 - Comment and analysis from BullionVault features today in a detailed report on the outlook for silver prices published by Barron's, the USA's longest-running investment magazine."While silver typically finds over half its end-demand from tech and industrial uses, investment flows are what drive prices higher or lower," the magazine quotes Adrian Ash, director of research...Read More
Russian forces have made minimal progress against Ukraine in recent days. Unlike the invader, gold rallied very quickly and achieved its long-awaited target - $2000!Nobody expected the Russian inquisition! Nobody expected such a fierce Ukrainian defense, either. Of course, the situation is still very dramatic. Russian troops continued their offensive and – although the pace slowed down consi...Read More
Crude Oil Climbs High. Is It Enough to Enjoy a BetterView?The threat of sanctions caused a stirin the markets: WTI spiked above $130 and Brent is nearing the $140 mark. Whereis crude oil going next?A possible Western embargo on Russian oilcaused oil prices to soar again on Monday, as stock markets feared persistentinflation and a consequent economic slowdown.On the US dollar side, the continuedral...Read More
This month, the Fed is expected to hike interest rates. Contrary to popular belief, the tightening doesn't have to be adverse for gold. What does history show?March 2022 – the Fed is supposed to end its quantitative easing and hike the federal funds rate for the first time during recovery from a pandemic crisis . After the liftoff, the Fed will probably also start reducing the size of its ma...Read More
After the war-driven gold rally, oilis starting to outperform. History between these two has already shown thatsomeone may suffer. Many suggest: gold miners.The precious metals corrected some oftheir gains yesterday, but overall, not much changed in them. However, quite a lothappened in crude oil, and in today’s analysis we’ll focus on whatit implies for the precious metals market and,...Read More
The gold miners’ stockshave mostly been consolidating sideways over this past half-year. They’ve been held down by periodic bouts ofheavy gold-futures dumping on Fed-tightening fears. But as those traders exhaust their selling firepower,gold stocks have formed a strong technical base that is birthing their nextmajor bull-market upleg. And a stifftailwind is mounting a...Read More