What Does a Flattening Yield Curve Mean for Gold?
Source: Sam Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (1/23/12)
"The yield curve is an immensely useful economic indicator and hence can be used as one of the determinants of the gold price." More >

Gold Touches Six-Week High as Technicals Turning More Bullish
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault  (1/23/12)
"The U.S. dollar cost to buy gold hit a six-week high of $1,677/oz Monday morning in London, as stock markets, commodities and the euro all pushed higher and U.S. Treasury bond prices dipped." More >

Gold Confiscation: A Reality? (Part III)
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (1/21/12)
"We would go so far as to say that all the world's central banks are very aware of the need to continue to use gold in the monetary system and, more pertinently, that that role is growing, much as they hate that prospect." More >

A Path to Gold and Copper Production: Kwong-Mun Achong Low
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (1/20/12)
Kwong-Mun Achong Low, an analyst with Northern Securities in Canada, thinks that copper and gold juniors are in for a better run this year. He's ferreted out the juniors with the most promising management and assets that are on a path to production—not to mention rising stock prices. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Achong Low discusses why copper may have a slight edge on gold in 2012 and what companies are the crown jewels of his coverage list. More >

Gold for the Week Down in Euros, Up in Dollars
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (1/20/12)
"'With physical demand providing little support, the dollar continues to largely dictate movements in gold.'" More >

Gold-Stock Upleg Cycles
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence  (1/20/12)
"Traders aren't very enthusiastic about the gold mining sector at the moment. But they sure would be if they understood the gold-stock upleg cycles." More >

Inflation Concerns Remain as Gold and Silver Climb Higher
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (1/20/12)
"A growing consensus of economists predicts that the Federal Reserve is likely to inject another $1T worth of easing to stimulate the economy. Such a move will provide yet another blow to the U.S. dollar and another catalyst for higher gold and silver prices." More >

QE3, $2,200 Gold, and the Trillion-Dollar Bazooka
Source: Peter Krauth, Money Morning  (1/20/12)
"According to SocGen, QE3 is headed our way this coming March, focused on mortgage-backed securities purchases on the order of $600B over six to eight months. They see U.S. equities, European equities, oil and especially gold benefiting from this new round of fiat money printing." More >

Safe Havens
Source: Guiseppe Borelli, The Unpunctured Cycle  (1/20/12)
"I believe the gold price bottom we saw in late December is of extreme importance as it represents the transition from the second phase of the bull market on into the third phase." More >

Derisking Gold Juniors, Step by Step: Rick Mills
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report   (1/18/12)
If you're among the many who consider investing in the junior resource sector nothing more than a crapshoot, look into Ahead of the Herd Publisher Rick Mills' steps to derisk the inherently risky business of investing in junior resource companies. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mills not only spells out the steps involved in the derisking process, but also cites specific examples of juniors he especially likes and discusses the features that put them ahead of the herd. More >

Gold Seeing Resistance at $1,667/oz
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault  (1/18/12)
"The spot market price to buy gold climbed to $1,658/oz during Wednesday morning's London trade, following reports that the International Monetary Fund is seeking to boost its lending capacity by $1T." More >

Silver's 2011 Big Move: Was It The End Or The Beginning?
Source: Hubert Moolman  (1/18/12)
"I see no evidence to suggest that anything we've seen so far was the end of the silver bull market, so I am expecting a very powerful upleg yet to unfold." More >

Gold ETFs May Continue to Shine in 2012
Source: Neena Mishra, Zacks Investment Research  (1/18/12)
"Some of the factors that will likely support gold's upward trend in 2012 are rising inflationary expectations and heightened macroeconomic uncertainty in many countries." More >

Resource Stocks Breaking Out of Bases and Forming New Uptrends
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (1/18/12)
"We noticed positive signals on our indicators suggesting that an impressive rally was in the offing, especially in our deeply oversold industrial metal miners." More >

When Will Gold Reach a New High?
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research  (1/18/12)
"We're confident that a new high in the gold price will come at some point, because many major currencies are unsound and overburdened with debt. Indeed, the ultimate high could be frighteningly higher than current levels." More >

Chinese Dragon to Unshackle Renminbi?
Source: Axel Merk, Merk Funds  (1/18/12)
"Chinese consumer spending is likely to have been underreported for some time; we don’t think a housing bust in China will stifle consumer spending as much as some fear." More >

Will China Unleash More Stimulus and Boost Gold Prices?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (1/18/12)
"Although China may not provide more monetary easing through rate cuts, the nation avoiding a hard landing is bullish for precious metals and commodities." More >

Real Risks to the Gold Price
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault  (1/18/12)
"It's the real rate of interest that really matters to the ebb and flow of gold demand in the end." More >

Gold and Silver Outlook in 2012
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold   (1/17/12)
"The bull market is far from over. Gold and silver have incurred technical damage and it would be excessive to expect more than a gradual recovery." More >

China: Hub of the Global Gold Market?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (1/17/12)
"With demand at its current levels, gold imports unrestrained and its own gold production now the world's largest national production level, China is inexorably moving to the heart of the gold world. It's therefore expected that China will aim to do what it can to exercise administrative dominance over it." More >

Has Gold's D-Wave Bottomed?
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents  (1/17/12)
"Gold is about to be severely tested. How gold handles that test will be a big clue as to whether or not the correction is over." More >

Gold Stock Investors—Buy "Best of Breed": John Stephenson
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report  (1/16/12)
When it comes to picking gold mining names in the current market environment, John Stephenson, author and portfolio fund manager at First Asset Investment Management, believes that buying the "best of breed" is the way to go. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he explains his reasoning in light of how the current global economic environment is affecting prospects for the metals markets and valuations of mining company stocks. He also talks about his favorite picks in a range of three production classes and why he likes them. More >

Gold Gains Alongside Dollar
Source: Ben Traynor, Bullion Vault  (1/16/12)
"U.S. dollar spot gold prices climbed to hit $1,647/oz Monday morning in London, while stock and commodity markets were broadly flat as markets absorbed Friday's news of cuts to nine Eurozone sovereign credit ratings." More >

Gold Trend Forecast for Q112
Source: Chris Vermeulen, The Gold and Oil Guy  (1/15/12)
"Expect a bumpy ride for both stocks and commodities in the first quarter of 2012." More >

Revisiting Our Proposal for an Overnight Gold Fund
Source: Sam Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (1/15/12)
"The majority of gold's declines in the recent major correction occurred during the intraday trading session, not the overnight trading session." More >