This article you mean? By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) Has gold turned the corner? Gold watchers see several positive signs. Gold had its first up week of the year, but Friday was a disappointing day. A spectacular rise on Thursday, $20.90 in the CME April contract, broke the downtrend that set in at the end of last year. But a further rally attempt fizzled and April gold closed down $4, on low volume. Both gold and gold shares (as represented by the Arca Gold Bugs Index (HUI 527.81, -3.77, -0.71%) seem to have broken their New Year downtrends but strong confirmation was tantalizingly lacking. However, another part of Friday's market activity greatly excited two very experienced gold followers: the Treasury sell-off. At JSMineSet, Dan Norcini stressed on Friday evening: "The big development in today's market session was the breakdown in the long bondbonds have been carving out a 5-week old sideways trading pattern the longer a market runs in a sideways pattern, the more significant the breakout tends to be when once it occursIn the case of the bonds, the breakdown was to the downside. I should also note that volume on the sharp move lower was very heavy, always a good sign that the move is legitimate." Australia's The Privateer was even more direct on Saturday in a commentary cheerfully entitled, "Look At Those Treasuries Go!" "Regardless of anything else going on around them, the yield on Treasury paper is inexorably rising and the pace of that rise is accelerating.As The Privateer has pointed out MANY times, the REALLY BIG bull markets in precious metals come when the yield on their 'substitute' as money government bonds show rising yields and falling prices. The rising yields show an increasing unwillingness to hold them." Despite Friday's misfire, the week saw other concrete positive news for gold. It started with the influential Gartman Letter increasing its model portfolio gold holdings on Monday. It continued with several reports of buying of physical gold from India, both on Le Metropole Caf, which always stresses the premiums over world gold in the country it likes to call the world's largest gold importer, and from Edel Tully, the gold analyst at UBS, a major bullion dealer. On Wednesday, UBS published a valuable chart of an index of the bank's gold shipments to India, clearly showing a recent surge, and offered the remarkable comment: "We struggle to recall a month when our total physical sales have been stronger." In fact, the reason for this is not so much India as China, as UBS makes clear. In early December, the Chairman of the Shanghai Gold Exchange revealed that gold imports into China had quintupled in 2010, being already 209 tonnes by the end of October, a very serious number in the context of gold. ( See Dec 6 2010 column.) On Wednesday, the Financial Times published a story quoting bullion dealers saying China imported another 200 tonnes in the following 3 months. Many observers are amazed. China is currently celebrating the Lunar New Year, which lasts until Wednesday. It is possible that this buying, while unprecedented, is highly geared to this important holiday. But UBS reports that Chinese importers have been seeking shipments for after the holiday. So it appears from a macro and a very gritty physical trade level, the outlook for gold looks great. But will the price notice?
Nope, go to Marketwatch.com and you'll find it. I wasn't real interested in the article, just the headline... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/avoid-gold-and-emerging-markets-2011-02-07?link=kiosk I did find this comment quite entertaining though. "De Vaulx is even edgy about gold. He has been holding some gold in his portfolios for years, but recently cut it from 6.1% to 4.5% of the fund. The reason? It wasn't behaving like gold anymore, he said. It was rising along with everything else. " Derrrr --- that is the time you should be owning gold!!!
At least it's a great laugh to those in the know. The propaganda machine is working overtime lately to keep everyone in the paper market because if they actually wake up to it on a global scale, it's game over. I read this sort of stuff, have a giggle and turn the page over. After you take the red pill, you can't really get angry at these spruiks anymore - it's more a source of light entertainment than anything. It's interesting to watch the propaganda machine from the outside doing it's thing though in keeping the sheeple asleep. It's so obvious when you're detached from it to see just how it works.
