Cara-Cara Mudah Membeli Emas Public Gold Secara ONLINE

Sebenarnya membeli emas secara ONLINE daripada Public Gold amatlah mudah. Anda boleh membuat tempahan sendiri tanpa perlu berhubung dengan saya dengan syarat anda mencatitkan Nama dan Nombor ejen saya iaitu Saadon Bin Saad, PG021063. Ini penting kerana tanpa nama dan nombor ejen ini, pendaftaran anda tidak dapat dilakukan. Disini saya tunjukkan cara-cara membeli emas Public Gold secara ONLINE langkah demi langkah yang amat mudah. Pertama sekali sila klik link laman web Public Gold dan kemudian ikuti langkah-langkah berikut:-

1 - Klik Login

2 - Klik Register

3 - Isi maklumat penting yang bertanda * , manakala maklumat-maklumat lain boleh diisi kemudian.

4 - Klik Register

5 - Setelah itu periksa email anda yang didaftarkan tadi dan klik link yang diberikan.

6 - Dari laman yang dipaparkan, klik Order dan kemudian Place Order untuk membuat tempahan emas/silver anda. Sementara itu juga sila lihat harga PG Sell yang ditawarkan ketika itu untuk makluman anda.

7 - Sila baca Terms of Sale yang dipaparkan.

8 - Setelah itu klik I Agree.

9 - Setelah anda klik I Agree, laman seterusnya ialah senarai emas/silver serta jumlah unit yang hendak dibeli. Disini sila isikan unit yang hendak dibeli di ruang yang ditunjukkan di bawah.

10 - Di bahagian bawah sekali sila isikan maklumat seperti yang ditunjukkan. Di bahagian Payment Option, sila buat pilihan samada Full Payment (cash) ataupun Easy Payment Purchase(sila berhubung dengan Cawangan Public Gold terdekat), bank pilihan anda (untuk internet banking) dan Collect from (Cawangan Pilihan yang terdekat dengan tempat tinggal anda). Bayaran secara tunai mengikut jumlah yang sesuai (bagi tujuan keselamatan) boleh dibuat di Cawangan Public Gold).

11 - Setelah itu sila klik Update Cart (ketika ini laman web akan refresh untuk memaparkan harga terkini (harga emas/silver mungkin berubah dan mungkin juga tidak berubah daripada yang anda lihat sebelum ini kerana setiap 20 minit laman web Public Gold akan refresh untuk harga terkini) dan setelah itu sila klik Checkout.

12 - Apabila selesai membuat tempahan emas/silver anda, sila periksa email anda sekali lagi dan klik View ataupun Download file PDF seperti yang ditunjukkan di bawah. Sila buat bayaran yang dinyatakan dalam Purchase Order dan setelah itu bawa slip Order dan bukti bayaran tersebut ke Cawangan Public Gold pilihan anda tadi. Bagi bayaran secara tunai di pejabat Public Gold dan Easy Payment Purchase, anda dinasihatkan supaya menghubungi pejabat Public Gold terlebih dahulu untuk memaklumkan tujuan anda tersebut. (Dimaklumkan pihak Public Gold hanya memberi masa selama 24 jam untuk membuat bayaran, jika tiada maklumbalas dalam tempoh tersebut maka tempahan tersebut akan dibatalkan, oleh itu amat penting anda memaklumkan kepada pejabat Public Gold terdekat tentang apa juga cara bayaran yang anda cadangkan). 

Akhir sekali, jika ada apa-apa kemusykilan atau pertanyaan, sila SMS saya di 0133691883 (jika waktu pejabat) dan hello selepas waktu pejabat (5 ptg. ke atas). Saya akan cuba memberi bantuan dan maklumat lanjut bagi membantu anda. Sekian, terima kasih.

...beli emas untuk simpanan, elakkan riba di bank...

Peluang masih terbuka luas untuk pelabur-pelabur emas

Walaupun dlm satu minggu kebelakangan ini, harga emas telah menunjukkan kenaikan, namun ia masih berada di paras harga terendah dalam tempoh 8 bulan ini. Sila baca artikel daripada William Patalon III berikut:

Bullion Prices: How to Climb the ‘Golden Staircase'

By William Patalon III

May 2, 2012 • Reprints

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When UK subscriber John M. wrote in this week, he got right to the point.
Asked John: "What's happening to gold prices? Why are they dropping?"
For an answer, I speed-dialed Real Asset Returns Editor Peter Krauth – our resident expert on mining and precious metals.
Peter is based in Canada, which keeps him close to the natural-resource companies that proliferate north of the border. He gave me a detailed and insightful answer to John M.'s question.
And he recommended three ways to profit – including an ETF he says is perfect for first-time gold investors.
To explain what's happened with the "yellow metal" – and to project where gold prices will go next - Peter invented a pricing theory that he christened the "Golden Staircase."
"The bottom line, Bill, is that the price of gold has simply entered a consolidation phase – much like it has done numerous times since it entered this secular bull market back in 2001," he told me.
Gold futures were at $1,662.40 an ounce yesterday – well off the yellow metal's high. Here's why.
"If you think back, when gold hit its all-time high of $1,900 last August, we were in the midst of wild speculation that the US government wouldn't resolve its debt-ceiling crisis," Peter explained. "A deal in Congress was reached in time, but Standard & Poor's went on to downgrade the nation's credit rating for the first time in history. Since then, there's been considerable apathy towards gold by the general investing public, pushing its price down about 13%. What's more, government-calculated inflation looks benign, taking away from gold's luster."
And here's where it gets interesting.
Gold Prices, Inflation and the "Golden Staircase'
You see, as we've detailed to you a number of times, inflation is much, much worse than Washington would have us believe.
The consumer price index (CPI) - the "official" gauge of U.S. inflation, fell to 2.7% in March. But the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) says everyday prices – the ones that matter most to working Americans – are up a good 8% over the past year.
"Don't be fooled by the "official' numbers," Peter said. "What this means is that the "real' rate of interest (the interest rate you can earn on the safest investment minus inflation) is down around negative 3%. That scenario has typically kept gold in a bull market. That's why I still expect that we'll see $2,000 gold by late this year or early 2013."
To forecast the timing of that rebound, Peter invoked his "Golden Staircase" theory.
"Since the beginning of gold's secular bull, the ‘Golden Staircase' has demonstrated that it typically takes 12 to 18 months for gold to establish a new price high once it retreats from a strong run-up. Eight months have already passed since gold reached $1,900. The ‘Golden Staircase' theory tells us that it will take between four and 10 months to see new highs."
Here are three ways to position your portfolio to profit from this rebound:

• If you're a newcomer to the gold market – or you are somewhat risk-averse – Peter suggests the physically backed Sprott Physical Gold Trust ETV (NYSE: PHYS).

• If you're game for somewhat more leverage, Peter likes Newmont Mining Corp. (NYSE: NEM). It's currently yielding 3%, is stable and well-diversified, and its dividend is linked to the price of gold, Peter said.

• If maximum profits are your goal, Peter's favorite play – and his personal pick for the Private Briefing report "The Five Stocks You Have to Own in 2012" - is Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (TSXV: SSL). This streaming-gold company is the riskiest of the three. But it's up 39% since Peter recommended it, and forecasts call for years of rapid growth.

So, yes, gold prices are down lately. But don't expect the downturn to last.
[Money Morning Editor's Note: Since its launch, Private Briefing has delivered as many as 45 winners. Two dozen of them have been double- or triple-digit gainers – all in just eight months.With his 24/7 access to stock market gurus like Martin Hutchinson, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Shah Gilani and Dr. Kent Moors, Bill is able to provide Private Briefing subscribers with an inside look at some of their key recommendations. To learn more about Private Briefing, click here.] 

About the Author

William Patalon III

William (Bill) Patalon III is the Executive Editor and Senior Research Analyst for Money Morning, and The Money Map Report. Before he moved into the investment-research business in December 2005, Patalon spent 22 years as a journalist, most of it covering financial news as a reporter, columnist, and editor that included stints with Gannett Co. Inc., and The Baltimore Sun.

Russia & Mexico Buy Gold Worth Nearly $1B in March

Saya terima email berkaitan berita semasa emas dunia. Artikel yg agak panjang tapi menarik dan penting juga kita tahu berkaitan pasaran emas dunia semasa iaitu berkaitan Russia dan Mexico telah membeli emas sekitar USD1B. Apa pentingnya tentang berita ini kepada kita. Disini saya syerkan link untuk artikel berkenaan: KLIK

Siri 2: 2600 BC

Permulaan rekaan barang kemas

Dicipta oleh tukang emas purba Mesopotamia (sekarang Iraq). Kraf dalam bentuk kepingan emas sebagai barang kemas terawal serta tengkolok pengebumian dengan manik lapis dan akik merah yang dihiasi dengan dedalu loket emas yang berbentuk daun.

Barang kemas yang diperbuat daripada emas diperhatikan sebagai barangan yang diminati sejak zaman purba lagi dan ini telah berlanjutan sehingga zaman kita sekarang. Lihatlah sejarah mengaitkan emas dengan Zaman Firaun dan zaman-zaman selepasnya. Keranda emas, kerusi emas, katil emas, pakaian dll lagi.

Time to Favor Gold Equities

Artikel terbaru drp:  From http://www.resourceinvestor.com/


Time to Favor Gold Equities

BY ADRIAN DAY

April 18, 2012 • Reprints

It’s not news that gold stocks are trading at some of their lowest valuations in the last decade; indeed by some metrics, they are at their lowest since the start of this bull market.  There are many indicators to consider, demonstrating just how low the gold stocks have fallen. 

Current price to cash flow, for example, for the XAU index is barely above eight times, the lowest level since 2000. It’s down from almost 14 times at the end of 2010 and 20 times the year before. 

In terms of price, most senior gold stocks are down 25% or more over the past year; many are considerably lower today than they were in early 2008, when gold was trading under $900 an ounce; Newmont even traded higher in 1996! 

Why are they so cheap?

Before trying to decide if the turn might be at hand, we should examine what has caused this astonishing underperformance, given gold’s strong record. Some culprits are well known. In the early years of the bull market, miners’ costs (notably energy) rose even more than did the price gold, squeezing margins even as the gold price jumped. Indeed, it was not until the second half of 2008, nearly eight years into the bull market, before major miners, in aggregate, actually made money.

Moreover, gold miners did not actually help themselves – well, they did help themselves – with excessive stock issuance to finance frequently pricey acquisitions that did not work. The sector as a whole has a terrible record of wealth creation. This poor record only helped drive many investors towards the gold bullion ETFs when they came out in 2005. Their dramatic growth in assets reflects this, and also that gold ETFs do not disappoint; the gold price goes up, the ETF goes up. Simple!

Why are people buying gold?

More recently, however, two other factors have come into play. A weak stock market last year, following a relatively nervous rally since the credit crisis in 2008, caused many investors, particularly individuals, to be skeptical of stocks…and that included gold stocks. And the very reasons that more people have turned towards gold assets in the last few years – protection from  deflating currencies, insulation from global monetary and debt woes – favors gold bullion (or ETFs) over volatile mining stocks, which have numerous extraneous influences beyond the price of gold.

When profit replaces protection as the primary motive for gold buyers is when they will favor gold stocks over bullion.

Gold companies dealing with problems

In the meantime, some of the problems with the gold stocks are taking care of themselves. Margins finally are expanding, and mining companies have lots of cash on their balance sheets. Mining companies are exercising better financial discipline than in years past, largely as a result of shareholder pressure after a series of well-publicized write offs and write downs of prior expensive acquisitions.  Many have boosted dividends (most notably Newmont, whose dividend is now tied to the price of gold) as a way of differentiating themselves from the ETFs (which of course has no yield).

So, many of the factors that hurt gold stocks have turned to the stocks’ advantage, while increasingly cash-rich companies are in a position to make acquisitions without equity dilution. Finally, valuations are now low enough to attract buyers; on three previous occasions during this decade-long bull market when valuations for gold stocks fell deeply into oversold, undervalued territory, they were followed by rallies of over 100%.  We don’t know where the bottom will be, but the recovery will be strong enough to justify buying now.

Adrian Day will talk on " Top Seven Low Risk Resource Stocks for the Year Ahead" and "Is the Resource Boom Over" on Monday, May 14, and participate in a "Bulls & Bears"  keynote panel on Tuesday, May 15, during the New York Hard Assets Investment Conference. 

About the Author

Adrian Day

Adrian Day is president of Adrian Day Asset Management, a boutique money management firm which handles accounts in both global and gold equities for individuals. Contact him at assetmanagement@adrianday.com or www.adriandayassetmanagement.com.

Sejarah awal emas.

Emas sebagai 'Warisan'
Emas mempunyai ciri-ciri unik yang tiada tandingan, ia satu bahan lengai. Ia tidak bermakna apa-apa sehingga manusia menemuinya dan melombongnya. Menapisnya dan melenturnya mengikut citarasa masing-masing. Jadi emas mempunyai terlau banyak sejarah dan tamadun. Di sini dan seterusnya dalam beberapa post akan datang dicatitkan beberapa hal sejarah berkaitan emas dalam tempoh di mana sejarah itu terjadi.

Siri 1: c. 3600 BC
Permulaan meleburkan emas
Tukang emas orang Mesir melaksanakan kerja-kerja peleburan atau memisahkan logam-logam yang terdapat di dalam bijih-bijih yang dilombong. Mereka menggunakan sumpitan yang diperbuat daripada lempung tahan kebakaran bagi memanaskan relau peleburan.

Kenaikan harga emas sepanjang minggu.

Sedikit ringkasan harga emas sepanjang minggu lepas:
Minggu lepas emas ditutup pada tahap harga sekitar $1630. Pada malam sabtu emas kelihatan seperti ditutup kira-kira $1670 selepas mendapat setinggi $1680 sebelumnya. Itu adalah lebih daripada 2% naik berbanding minggu sebelumnya dan keseluruhanya menunjukkan harga emas keseluruhannya pada asasnya adalah rata(flat) setakat ini.

Maklumat emas yang agak penting

A message from: http://www.goldmadesimplenews.com

As the gold price takes another leg lower it’s ‘bigger picture’ time once again

Promosi terbaru Public Gold

Sedikit Kupasan Pasaran Emas Sepanjang Minggu Lalu drp www.goldmadesimple.com.

Saya telah menerima berita terbaru dan kupasan berkaitan pasaran emas dunia melalui emel drp www.goldmadesimple.com yang saya langgan bagi mengetahui berita-berita terbaru berkaitan kommoditi ini. Antara lain menyelitkan perkara-perkara berkaitan harga emas yang telah mencecah harga terendah sebanyak tiga (3) kali dalam bulan Mac. Ini petikan penuhnya, saya tidak membuat alih bahasa karana khuatir berlaku kesilapan fakta: 

Gold Made Simple News Goldmadesimple@cmp.dotmailer.co.uk

Mar 31 (2 days ago)
This week is really all about the very sorry state that the UK economy finds itself in. Our main article features news from the OECD that they're predicting that the UK will officially be in recession next week when we get a first look at the GDP figures for Q1 - Nobody should be surprised by this, after all taxes have gone up, the debt has increased by some 30% in two years and unemployment is higher now than the peak reached at the height of the recession. In short we're still in the same recession that started in 2008. No prizes for what we think the BoE will do as a result of this news.

We also feature a very interesting clip of Bill Gross, who runs the worlds largest bond fund, essentially advising every investor to look towards adding gold to their portfolio - and this is from a bond guy.

Before we get into gold's performance this week we'd like to draw your attention to a very special offer that Gold Made Simple are running. We have a 1kilo gold bar that we're going to sell at the spot rate of gold. Usually a 1kilo gold bar sells for anywhere between 2%-4% over the spot rate, we can virtually guarantee that you won't be able to buy a 1kilo bar cheaper anywhere in the UK.

However we only have 1 bar to sell at this rate and will be sold very much on a first come first serve basis - for more details go to www.goldmadesimple.com.

On the gold front we're at the end of another month (maybe Mckenna was onto something about timing speeding up after all?) and it's looking like gold will be putting in back-to-back down months. This will only be the 12th time that gold has achieved such a feat in the entirety of its 12 year long bull market.

A couple of weeks ago we put out a piece looking at the amount of 'up' and 'down' months over the course of gold's bull run. We found that there has never been a time since 1999 that gold has put in 3 consecutive down months. Something to remember as we head into April.

On a weekly basis gold got off to a great start on Monday rallying all the way up to $1690/£1060 on the back of Ben Bernanke hinting at more money printing to come. But after that gold has drifted lower for the rest of the week.

Yesterday we got all the way back down to $1644/£1034 before staging a come back today to close out the week and the month around the $1663/£1040 level and once again flat on the week. This is the third week in a row that we've closed on a Friday at these levels.

Silver is very much the same as gold, for the week it has put in a 'doji' formation (essentially silver's gone up, gone down and then ended the week back where it started) and is looking to close around the $32.2 level - fractionally up on the week.

Last week we postulated that gold had bottomed at the $1630-40 level - this week certainly adds weight to that argument but we're not going to know for sure for the next couple of weeks as the precious metals market looks set to be stubbornly indecisive for a while yet.

Have a great weekend - the Gold Made Simple team  
From : www.goldmadesimple.com.

Kenapa saya beli emas.

Ini adalah kisah bagaimana saya membeli emas Public Gold dan pendapat saya tentang emas serta perniagaan direct selling/MLM.

Yes…Public Gold bukan sistem perniagaan MLM, ia adalah ‘single level’ dimana anda beli emas daripada Public Gold dan kemudian menjualnya kepada individu lain mengikut harga pasaran semasa PG Sell dan PG Buy yang ditetapkan oleh Public Gold…itu saja!

Saya telah mengikuti dan berkecimpung dalam dunia MLM/direct selling yang tidak kurang drp 20 buah syarikat sejak saya memulakan kerjaya iaitu sekitar tahun 1985 lagi di Seberang Prai(ketika itu berumur 22 thn) sehingga yang terakhir di Kuching beberapa bulan yang lalu(modal RM408.00), yang mana satu pun daripada perniagaan ini tiada yang memberi laba yang positif buat saya, mungkin itu bukan jalan saya ataupun memang telah ditetapkan tiada rezeki saya dijalan itu…dan yang paling saya kecewa apabila saya join satu kumpulan MLM yang amat terkenal di negara kita pada ketika itu iaitu pada tahun 2008 (tahun Public Gold dilancarkan) dengan modal bukan sedikit bagi saya iaitu RM6954.00. Akibat bimbingan daripada sponsor yang ‘ala kadar’, maka saya pun gugur dengan hanya pulang modal sekitar RM2400.00 sahaja.

Dalam masa yang sama juga saya bermain FOREX sejak tahun 2005 lagi dan dari sini bermacam-macam ilmu matawang yang saya pelajari samaada online mahupun dengan membeli ebook. Pun sama, tiada apa boleh dibanggakan melalui FOREX ini, kerugian mahu lebih RM3000.00 (tahu ada orang lain yang rugi lebih banyak drp itu…). Saya berhenti FOREX setelah fatwa dikeluarkan oleh Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan berkaitan FOREX pada Februari 2012. Dalam masa yang sama juga saya melabur dalam beberapa Unit Trust melalui Public Bank Bhd. Melalui pelaburan Unit Trust ini saya tidak pernah rugi, kalau rugi pun dari segi untung yang sedikit kerana modal yang saya labur sedikit saja, maklum ketidakyakinan menguasai diri kerana pelaburan dalam Unit trust juga mempunyai risiko turun naik harga dan kita perlu membuat kajian sebelum menjual semula supaya untung… Melalui FOREX dan Unit Trust saya banyak mempelajari dan memperaktikkan ilmu ekonomi dunia samaada melalui geraf matawang mahupun secara fundamental(berita-berita semasa dunia yang mempengaruhi ekonomi).

Sehingga tiba masanya Majlis Fatwa mengeluarkan fatwa berkaitan FOREX, maka saya mula mengkaji emas dan nilai emas serta sejarahnya. Ini amat perlu untuk kita semua sebelum membeli emas. Fahami apa itu emas, pengaruhnya kepada ekonomi dunia malah kegunaannya sebagai nilai matawang paling stabil di dunia. Perlu juga tahu apa pengaruhnya kepada ekonomi kita sebagai individu yang bergantung kepada wang kertas.

Setelah mengetahui dan faham perjalanan jualbeli dan keperluan memiliki dan menyimpan emas barulah saya berani membuat pembelian emas. Ya…saya tidak lagi ragu-ragu untuk membeli dan menyimpan emas setelah mengetahui ia boleh menjamin malah memberi keuntungan jangka panjang. Terlalu banyak ‘forecast’ daripada pakar-pakar ekonomi dunia yang menunjukkan kenaikan dan permintaan terhadap emas pada masa akan datang, ini terutamanya dari negara-negara pembangunan utama dunia seperti China, India dan Rusia yang sedang meningkatkan pembelian emas dari tahun ke tahun manakala kadar pengeluaran emas dunia dari lombong-lombong emas terkemuka dunia semakin berkurangan oleh sebab permintaan yang tinggi tadi. Ini semua kan menaikkan nilai emas! Itu hanya satu contoh, banyak lagi contoh-contoh lain yang sedang mempengaruhi kenaikan nilai emas.

Saya ingin memberi sedikit maklumat tentang perbezaan pelaburan membeli harta tanah(andaian tanah kosong) dengan emas(dalam konteks ini Public Gold) kerana saya banyak mengkaji perbezaan antara keduanya sebelum membuat keputusan membeli emas.

Dimaklumkan saya telah bekerja dalam bidang harta tanah sejak tahun 1985 lagi iaitu sekitar 27 tahun yang lalu dan agak arif berkaitan harta tanah. Sedikit saja beza antara emas dan tanah kosong. Emas amat mudah untuk kita cairkan kepada wang tunai iaitu hanya dengan menjual kepada individu lain(pastilah masa tu ada untung..) atau pun dengan menjual kepada Public Gold sendiri yang hanya mengambil masa tidak sampai 30 minit, manakala bagi tanah kosong ada sedikit kesukaran untukdicairkan kerana ia memerlukan masa untuk mencari pembeli yang sah(genuine buyer) dan seterusnya untuk menguruskan perkara-perkara berkaitan Surat Perjanjian, Cukai Setem, Pindah Milik, urusan peguam, Pejabat Tanah dll. lagi yang biasanya akan mengambil masa antara 1-6 bulan untuk selesai segalanya dan mendapat wang jualan tadi. Untuk makluman juga, tidak sedikit penjual tanah yang ditipu oleh samada pembeli mahupun ejennya. Bagaimana kalau sekiranya kita perlukan wang pada kadar segera? Lain orang lain pula bicaranya, ini pendapat saya dan apa yang saya alami…itu tanah kosong, kalau ada bangunan, ada pula kos pengurusan seperti pembaikan, upah urus, air, elektrik, cukai(macam-macam ada..) dll. malah saya sendiri nak uruskan rumah saya yang disewakan di Seremban pun kacau juga….mahu juga di jual dan beli emas…!?

Sepanjang saya mengkaji tentang emas, terlalu banyak kebaikan yang ditemui dengan membeli dan menyimpan emas. Antaranya kenaikan berterusan dari 1883-sekarang, permintaan emas yang meningkat, kejatuhan nilai matawang AS, kejatuhan ekonomi negara-negara Eropah dan lain-lain amnya, kadar pengeluaran emas yang semakin berkurangan, nilai matawang yang dipengaruhi inflasi dan lain-lain faktur yang lebih teknikal.     

Hayatilah maksud hadis Rasulullah SAW ini:

Abu Bakar Ibn Abi Maryam melaporkan bahawa beliau mendengar Rasulullah S.A.W. bersabda "Akan tiba satu zaman di mana tiada apa yang tinggal dan boleh digunakan oleh umat manusia maka simpanlah Dinar ( Emas ) dan Dirham ( Perak ) [Musnad Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal]

Inilah antara sebab-sebab kenapa saya beli emas. Selain dari membaca artikel ini, adalah dinasihatkan juga anda membaca berita-berita semasa berkaitan emas dunia yang terdapat di bahagian kiri blog ini serta link-link lain yang ada kerana ia kebanyakan nya adalah link berkualiti dan terpilih mengikut keutamaan.

Sekian, terima kasih. Please share.

Gold: A nice comeback staged by the bulls

The UK economy came under close scrutiny this week. We had the inflation numbers, the government borrowing figures, the budget and the consumer confidence numbers. And on every metric the news was pretty grim especially for savers and those on fixed income.

Whilst the usual cheerleading met the news that CPI inflation had fallen to 3.4% (still miles above the government mandated target let's not forget), the 27th month in a row the BoE has failed miserably to do its job. But what most in the MSM seemed to miss was the massive month-on-month jump in inflation. That rose at an eye watering 7.2% annualised rate.

Then there was news that government borrowing in February reached an all time record for that month - the market was expecting a borrowing number nearer £8bn when in actually fact the government borrowed more than £15bn - the reason was a 12% collapse in income tax receipts. And there was us thinking that the Chancellor was trying to reduce deficit spending not take it new all time records highs!

Then there was the budget where the spending and debt increases carry on their insane path. The reason that the numbers weren't as bad as they should've been was the rather predictable news that the UK government is now raiding people's pensions - stealing some £24bn from the Royal Mail pension pot. Something all governments do as a last desperate attempt to fudge the numbers.

Gold was looking like having its 4th down week in a row this morning. But this afternoon there has been a nice comeback staged by the bulls and it looks like gold will now close out the week around the $1665/£1048 level - essentially flat on the week.

Yesterday gold got as low as $1627/£1030 so this afternoon's comeback is even more impressive and should calm some goldbug fears going into next week.

Silver was similarly looking like having another bad week this morning but has followed gold up and is looking to close the week around £32.1 level - a smidgen down on the week.

All-in-all until this afternoon the grind lower over past few weeks in the precious metals looked set to continue into next week. But the nice pop this afternoon in fairly quick fashion will give some momentum for the bulls going into next week the last trading week for the month of March - maybe even gold's sell-off has bottomed here?
Article from: www.goldmadesimplenews.com

They're Looting the Palace: GOLD Falls

By Christian A. DeHaemer | Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

When we awoke this fine spring day along the Chesapeake Bay, the cherry trees were in full bloom and the fog was rising off the water...

The news greeted us like a hammer.

“They are looting the palace,” it read in USA Today.

“Randgold (GOLD) is down 15% in pre-market,” said Seeking Alpha.

“Soldiers Declare Coup in Mali,” declared a headline in the New York Times.

Mali appeared to be done for.


13-Year Gold Insider Releases Largest Find Yet

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The foreign mercenaries who fought a nasty fight with Gaddafi against the rebels in Libya packed up and left when their paymaster took a bullet to the head.

This is one of those unintended consequences caused by bombing other countries. The CIA refers to it as “blowback.” And they should know.

The mercenaries were from the Tuareg tribe. Along with being a poor-selling Volkswagen, the Tuaregs are warlike nomads from the Sahara.

They were a key component of Gaddafi’s army.

After they lost the Libyan war to the U.S. Navy, they returned to Mali heavily trained, heavily armed, and looking for a fight...

The Tuaregs swiftly took over several villages in the Mali desert. Mali forces were out-gunned and out-matched.

Until yesterday, Mali was a shining beacon of stability in West Africa. The democratically-elected President Toure was stepping down after his second term. A new election was scheduled for next month.

Disgruntled Mali army officers were tired of fighting the Tuaregs with little food and fewer weapons, and so they seized the palace last night...

President Toure managed to escape.

That’s where we stand as I write this.

Major Gold Down 15%

Randgold Resources (GOLD) is a $9.35 billion company. They have half a billion in cash and almost no debt.

The company has a forward P/E of 15, a PEG of 0.34, and a 33% profit margin.

Good Stock to Own

As you can see from this ten-year chart, GOLD was a nice buy over the past decade.

Its competitor, Goldfields (GFI), has a lower P/E — but has more than twice as much debt as it has cash.

And most telling: If you owned Goldfields over the past 20 years, you would be at about breakeven.

The ten-year gain is about 120% if you bought at the lows of 2002, but all of that gain came in 2003. Goldfields has been stagnant since then.

In contrast, Randgold has been a long-term consistent winner.

The downside is that two-thirds of its production is in Mali.
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The most recent news is that the mines are running as normal. Euronews is reporting:
Gold miner Randgold Resources (RRS:London) said its operations in Mali, which account for roughly two-thirds of its production, are running normally, despite worries over unrest as renegade soldiers say they have seized power in the West African country.

The soldiers earlier went on state television to declare they had seized power in protest over the government’s failure to quell a rebellion in the north of the country.

Concern over Randgold’s Loulo, Gounkoto operations and its joint venture Morila weighed on the miner’s shares on Thursday, trading down 12 percent to 5,810 pence at around 1240 GMT. But both Randgold and other miners in the country state that their operations in Mali are running normally right now.

Chief Executive Mark Bristow, who is at the company’s Loulo complex some 350 km from the capital Bamako, said exact details were unclear, but the situation at the flagship mine was calm:

“Malians respect laws and I don’t believe this will come with a high-handed change in political direction,” he said in a statement, adding the company was monitoring the situation. “We don’t expect any subsequent governments to disregard proper and due process.”

There are eight other companies with some exposure to Mali, including one small Canadian company that only produces gold in Mali.

I expect these companies will get hit hard over the next few days.

Opportunity

That said, my readers at Crisis and Opportunity are looking for the chance to buy the best gold-mining company in the world at a significant discount.

I also expect to make a lot of money off the small, little-known companies that have significant presence in Mali.

My readers have been cleaning up in Africa lately — banking triple-digit gains in Mozambique natural gas and watching our Somalia oil play hit three-year highs, as well as making money on the best exploration company in Kurdistan.

Nothing beats a coup d'état for picking up bargains...

It’s too early yet, but keep an eye on Randgold Resources.

And while you're waiting, check out this gold buy.

Good hunting,
Christian DeHaemer
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Why Gold Can Go the Distance

Gold’s been knocked down lately, but several enduring factors have conditioned the yellow metal for an inevitable comeback.

Since the beginning of 2012, gold has trailed its precious metals peers, gaining only about 6% compared to double-digit returns for silver and platinum. At the end of February, gold was especially hard hit, following Ben Bernanke’s announcement that there would be no additional quantitative easing and the European Central Bank offering additional LTRO loans to banks.

With this news, we’ve witnessed the fairly rare event of bullion falling below its 200-day moving average. In fact, over the past 10 years, there have only been about 30 times (or around 3 times per year) where gold has fallen below its 200-day moving average. And each time, gold has been down for the count for only an average of 10 days. This time around, I believe gold has the resilience to endure, as the long-term drivers remain in place.

In his latest Gold Monitor, Dundee Wealth Economics Chief Economist Martin Murenbeeld lists eight factors in support of the bear argument. He points to a stronger dollar, fiscal retrenchment in the European Union, improving equity market confidence, and an exit strategy from the Federal Reserve forecasting a federal funds rate hike well before late 2014 as significant factors driving gold lower.

Dr. Murenbeeld adds a caveat: while this bearishness may be a “new, exciting story” for the markets, it doesn’t make the case for gold any less compelling. In fact, he “anticipates market sentiment to flip back to the bullish half of the story as the year progresses.”

On the bullish side of the ring, Dr. Murenbeeld says there are 10 positive factors for gold, one of which is monetary reflation. I’ve discussed how global money supply has been growing in recent months, which provides liquidity for the market, but also can devalue the currency. Dr. Murenbeeld reminds readers that “money doesn’t grow on trees; it will have to be borrowed by some government and/or it will have to be printed by some central bank.”

While in Hong Kong, Global Resources Fund Portfolio Manager Brian Hicks appeared on Bloomberg to talk about the drivers for oil and gold with John Dawson earlier this week. For gold, Brian says the positive factors are alive and well, namely, rising wealth in China, Europe’s financial instability and high fiscal deficits in the U.S.

The US debt situation hasn’t been on investors’ radar for a while, but it’s still a significant factor in gold’s eventual recovery. Take a look at the chart below, which shows the condition of all Federal Reserves Banks’ total assets over the last 10 years. During 2008, total assets jumped vertically and since then, the Fed’s balance sheet has maintained a much higher level.



In addition, real interest rates are still negative for many areas around the world. Historically, negative real interest rates (the inflationary rate is greater than the current interest rate) combined with global stimulative money supply efforts have been an especially powerful combination for gold prices.

I believe the yellow metal will go the distance, and with bullion below its long-term average, it makes for a rare and attractive entry point for investors today.

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