Bob-C thank you, MM News today - Italian banks plummet on more woes for BMP/More Spanish problems/Greece enters 6th day of a strike as the Greek isles cut off from Mainland
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen:
Gold closed up today to the tune of $5.80 to finish the comex session at $1675.20. Silver however finished lower by 24 cents to $31.70. Today was quite a day as the bankers showed up early bashing gold and silver but that was to no avail as gold and silver rose despite the huge fall in the Euro. Gold in Japanese yen rose to 155,180 yen per oz.
The big news for today without a doubt comes from Europe.
i) The Greek isles have been cut off the mainland for 6 straight days as strikes intensify. Slowly but surely Greece's GDP will spiral done to nothing. Can you imagine all of its sovereign bonds that are used as tier one assets allowing the 24:1 leverage we are witnessing at major banking institutions.
ii) Problems inside the Italian Banca Monte dei Paschi: Today we learn that Draghi lied outright. He knew about the derivative losses while he ran the Central Bank of Italy. However he claims that he could not do anything about it, it was the job of bank supervisors. However the bank supervisors claim that Draghi refused to do anything as probably in 2008-2009 it could have very well brought the whole house of cards falling down. Monte de Paschi is a public company and not to do anything and allowing investors to buy the stock claiming everything is OK is simply shameful.
Mr Bersani, the leader of the party wishing to win the Premiership of Italy has strong ties to the bank. Mr Bersani is now faltering at the polls and Berlusconi is the recipient of this largess. Berlusconi, if you will recall was thrown out of office by Draghi and you can bet the farm that Berlusconi would like to return the favour.
The problem with Berlusconi: he wants to exit the EU.
iii) The Spanish leadership has received "donations" from construction companies for many years and many of the Spanish leaders benefited greatly from this. The leaders lavished themselves with euros and deposited much of this in Swiss bank accounts. They rewarded contractors with public projects. This will surely bring down these politicians..and thus Spain.
US DOLLAR VULNERABLE TO A LOSS OF CONFIDENCE EVENT, MASSIVE SHIFT FROM FIAT PAPER TO GOLD & SILVER HARD ASSET UNDERWAY -
US debt negations have been delayed again, by squabbling political parties.
We are told that in May everything will be fixed, but the debt continues to grow, and so does pressure on the fed USD fiat currency.
The USD fiat dollar is vulnerable to a “loss of confidence” event.
That could create a stunning decline, and a powerful move higher in the price of gold & silver hard assets.
This chart has numerous head & shoulders top patterns on it, and it closed out the month of January below 80.50, which is great news for gold & silver bull prices -
As the EURO & US debt crisis continues to unfold, I expect more investors to transfer fiat paper currencies to gold mining -
As gold stocks have fallen by about 25% since the high last fall, the Aroon indicator has continued to climb higher. It tells me that the bears may be in store for quite a nasty surprise, very soon.
The spike in the euro will be followed by a gold price rocket, and gold stocks to follow I think it is!
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