Gold analysts are the most bullish in six weeks as Janet Yellen, the nominee to run the Federal Reserve, signaled the U.S. central bank is in no hurry to curb economic stimulus, reviving demand for the metal as a haven. Eighteen analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News expect price... read more

As the price of gold hit new highs following the 2008 financial crisis, Republicans saw the yellow metal’s steady ascent as a sign of trouble ahead. To Representative  read more

Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Kit Juckes, global strategist at Societe Generale SA, and James Rickards, senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners LLC, discuss the impact of Federal Reserve policy on the European economy and currency. They speak with Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse." (Source: Bloomberg) read more

The doves are seizing control of the European Central Bank. They are already laying the ground work for a blitz of Anglo-Saxon QE, whatever the Germans, Dutch, Austrians, and Finns (?) have to say about such wicked Latin conduct. Welcome to the next fascinating phase of the EMU opera buffa, opera tragica. The ECB's Peter Praet – the board member in charge of setting economic policy deba... read more

When the euro arrived on the scene, it took over around 32% of global foreign exchange reserves from the USD, with the tacit approval of the U.S. This dropped the USD’s percentage of global reserves from 95% to around 63%. Since then [2000] its percentage of reserves dropped from 63% to 53% and now has risen b... read more

Last week the gold price jumped when markets heard that the ECB was cutting rates. But then Draghi spoke and when he did he alluded to the dreaded ‘D’ word, not deflation but disinflation. What is it about disinflation that spooks the price of gold?

Disinflation disgusts gold

More often than not the terms deflation and disinflation are confused and used interchangeably. In fac... read more