copperhead
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If oil hits $10 a Barrel any predictions on the PM market
If oil hits $10 then silver will be $1000 and gold $25000 an ozt and i can finally marry Tinkerbell in Neverland .copperhead said:If oil hits $10 a Barrel any predictions on the PM market
copperhead said:If oil hits $10 a Barrel any predictions on the PM market
But despite the glut in global oil production somewhere around 1 mb/d the margin from excess to shortage is thinner than most people think. OPEC is producing flat out and spare capacity is actually remarkably low right now. The EIA estimated that OPEC spare capacity stood at just 1.25 mb/d in the third quarter of 2015, the lowest level since 2008.
As a result, even though it remains a remote possibility, direct military confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran could well put oil back into triple-digit territory in short order.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-13/war-between-saudi-arabia-and-iran-could-send-oil-prices-250
Crude is "stabilized"......................low but stable.copperhead said:The middle east has it's eggs in one basket , There is wealth there . Not looking to point fingers
but there are people there willing to die for a cause .
So I worry could OPEC members create a war with no regard to human life ( as it's not theres )
to cause a shortage to stabilize crude . In the long run we are blackmailed to OPEC .
Picture the middle east with no more oil income . They would not be particularity happy
bubbleboy said:the oil to gold ratio is a long term average of about 15:1,
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vwdWyby1L...1600/Gold+Oil+Ratio+40+years+1970+to+2011.png
Source: Bullion Baron
The current ratio is around 35 or 36 to 1, this is an all time high. This situation cannot last and we know oil is not going back up for a few years and may fall much further.
Oil at $30 means the gold price is going to $450, oil at $10 means gold will go to $150. If the ratio undershoots to 7:1 as it has done and oil hits $10 then gold will be $70, yes paper gold futures might go to $70 per paper ounce.
These gold prices are for the paper markets and while I do expect we will see a huge drop. I also expect physical bullion to be completely unavailable under the cost of production (~$833).