Pirocco
Well-Known Member
Gonna give an example to illustrate the point I'm gonna make.
There is a big supermarket in my country (amongst other countries).
One of the biggest of all.
In 2014, it realized a loss instead of a profit.
But wait, it didn't.
Because the company (few people knew) was also active in the heavily state sponsored renewable energy sector (notably windmills).
And there, it made a profit, that undid its supermarket divisions loss.
Well, that big supermarket sold in 2014 below its "production cost". That's what a loss is: in less than out, prices didn't suffice.
The same applies to silver miners / recyclers, and even stockpilers / funds.
It's possible that they can cope with a loss, due to compensation elsewhere / in other ways, and it wouldn't surprise me that institutionales, like big banks, like bullion banks, have no problem to compensate (read: sponsor) selected ones.
But again, what's the importance of production cost, when most of the price trend was/is due to stockpiling / destockpiling, and / or the futures markets bogus (they don't even need to relabel ownership of ounces, all they do is putting and cancelling orders) version of it ?
We talk here about silver. Why: because we buy it. And, sell it.
There is a big supermarket in my country (amongst other countries).
One of the biggest of all.
In 2014, it realized a loss instead of a profit.
But wait, it didn't.
Because the company (few people knew) was also active in the heavily state sponsored renewable energy sector (notably windmills).
And there, it made a profit, that undid its supermarket divisions loss.
Well, that big supermarket sold in 2014 below its "production cost". That's what a loss is: in less than out, prices didn't suffice.
The same applies to silver miners / recyclers, and even stockpilers / funds.
It's possible that they can cope with a loss, due to compensation elsewhere / in other ways, and it wouldn't surprise me that institutionales, like big banks, like bullion banks, have no problem to compensate (read: sponsor) selected ones.
But again, what's the importance of production cost, when most of the price trend was/is due to stockpiling / destockpiling, and / or the futures markets bogus (they don't even need to relabel ownership of ounces, all they do is putting and cancelling orders) version of it ?
We talk here about silver. Why: because we buy it. And, sell it.