The Real Asset Company

I think most of humanity, myself included, is fairly dim, but what’s happening right now takes the cake. There is an electronics chain store called Tweeter that filed bankruptcy during the...

On Tuesday the gold price fell on the back of expectations that the government shutdown would be short lived, however this appeared to be forgotten yesterday as gold climbed 3%, and silver 4%,...

‘Mr Speaker, it is now midnight and the government of the United States is now closed.’ These were the words that rang out across America last night after a deal failed to be made over the...

Is gold about to have its first positive quarter in a year? It certainly looked likely last night as the gold price hit a nine-day high, reaching $1,354 on the back of looming deadlines in the US.We...

Yesterday’s better-than-expected jobless claims outshone the weak US GDP data yesterday, which helped to push COMEX gold lower. The gold price remains on course for its first monthly loss since...

The gold price gained 0.8% overnight as fears over the US debt ceiling have prompted some safe-haven buying. Concerns that the US government could ‘shut-down’ on October 17th grow...

Gold managed to snap its three day decline yesterday but continues to trade in a narrow range as it awaits further market developments. With no major announcements, data or geopolitical developments...

Yesterday the gold price fell once again, although a better than expected HSBC PMI report from China helped to support prices. Both the gold and silver price found little support in comments from Fed...

India’s gold imports are expected to begin climbing this week after the government met to clarify rules over the matter. Since June, when new import rules were implemented, official gold...

Gold has faltered from its upward streak following from the Fed’s ‘surprise’ decision but still looks set to finish with its biggest weekly climb in five weeks. Today may, however,...

Just as the readers and clients of The Real Asset Company predicted, the FOMC decided not to taper QE. In response to this ‘surprise’ from Bernanke, the spot gold price jumped...

Later this afternoon the Federal Reserve’s FOMC are widely expected to announce the tapering of QE. This month’s meeting has long been eyed as the one where Bernanke will make such an...

I often talk about how the gold trade is really two separate trades. There’s the 'fear trade' that buys gold out of fear of war or poor government policies. This crowd sees the precious metal as...

Next week the FOMC will meet for one their eight scheduled meetings. It is this particular meeting that has had traders, market commentators and investors almost in frenzy as they try to predict the...

Last week we looked at an academic paper that asked if gold was an inflation hedge. The findings contradicted what so many of us had previously believed showing that data needs to be regularly...

In yesterday’s Social Gold Mine we featured a couple of tweets regarding India’s ongoing currency wars; the rupee versus gold. Despite the rupee sitting at an all-time low against the...