Salient to Investors: Billionaire hedge fund managers have been heavily buying gold. John Paulson has been accumulating gold and gold mining stocks at a fevered pace. George Soros, Louis Moore Bacon, Julian Robertson et al have been buying gold, mining equities and ETPs. Bill Gross at Pimco has urged investors to buy precious metals. George
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Lawrence Williams writes: Virtually everything happening in the global economy suggests gold should be rising yet its stuck in a trading range of $1680 – $1750. A strong similarity exists with setback in late 2008 to a similar pullback back in 2006. The only way the gold price could burst downwards
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: EPFR Global said the increase in inflows into commodity funds in 2012 was 92 percent higher than the increase in 2011. The S&P GSCI, of which energy comprises 70 percent, fell 0.9 percent in 2012, the MSCI All-Country World Index rose 13 percent, the Dollar Index fell 0.9 percent, Treasuries returned 2.3 percent. Barclays
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: John Stephenson at First Asset Investment Mgmt said the Fed basically admitted that they don’t have what it takes to deal with the fiscal cliff, and it dimmed the idea that unlimited money printing will help commodities. Saumil Parikh at Pimco said global growth will slow to near stall speed in 2013
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Larry Edelson is short-term bearish on gold but long-term bullish. Both possible outcomes for the world economies are bullish for gold. Scenario 1 – least likely – is the stock market continues to rally and the US economy begins to recover. The up to $20 trillion of monopoly money printed by the Fed floods
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bachhraj Bamalwa at All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation said Indian households and temples hold 25,000 metric tons of gold – 10 percent would ensure supplies to Indian jewelers for 3 years. Bamalwa said Indians will continue spending on gold on marriages and in festivals, and with no social security, investment in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Gold producer shares head for the first back-to-back annual drop since 1998 despite gold’s 12 years of gains because of failure to control expenses – the average cost to extract an ounce of gold by the largest miners rose 23 percent to $584.70 in 2011 versus a drop of 12 percent to
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jeffrey Currie at Goldman Sachs said investors should be overweight in commodities because prices will gain 7 percent in 12 months on improving global economic growth, while rising consumption may limit immediate supplies and raise near-term prices above longer-dated contracts. Goldman said gold’s longest winning streak in at least nine decades
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bill Gross at Pimco said: Interest rates are so low and corporate spreads so tight that you have to be leery of prices going the other way. Structural headwinds may reduce real GDP below 2 percent in the US and other developed nations. With globalization, technological and demographic changes
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Peter Richardson and Hussein Allidina at Morgan Stanley said: Calls for the end of the commodities super-cycle is too simplistic as commodities are cyclical but the elasticity of supply and demand and length of the cycle vary significantly. Gold, silver and corn will outperform other raw materials next year
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