If I was the reporter I would have pulled out some cash from my wallet and said what is the intrinsic value of this. People in glass houses ...
Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter, writes today:
"Concerning gold, let's note firstly something sent to us by our old friend John Brimelow, who had a most interesting piece in his commentary this morning regarding the violence of the recent price changes. He noted a piece written by Russell Rhoads, CFA of the CBOE Option Institute, who wrote the following:
"'Friday was a 4.88 standard deviation move in the price of gold. For simplicity's sake let's call it a five standard deviation move. Statistically we get a five standard deviation move approximately once every 4,776 years. So we should not expect another move like this out of the price of gold until May 17, 6789. ... Currently the two-day price change in GLD is 16.65, which can be converted to just over eight standard deviations. I wanted to share what this comes to, but the table I use only goes up to seven standard deviations. Let's just say the sun is expected to burn out first.'"
VRS said:According to some dipstick reporter on ABC radio just now (bear with me... I'm incredulous as I type... still stunned lol!):
RBA Govenor says:
'gold has dropped because it isn't actually that valuable'
Girly reporter then states:
'The reason people think gold is valuable is because they think other people think it's valuable'
UH?!?!?! :/