It seems unlikely that there is a car with more bling on it than this Mercedes SL, spotted at an auto show overseas. From a distance, it almost appears that the car is coated in glitter, but it is actually covered in diamonds. I won't speculate on the value, but you can bet that this isn't a car just anyone will turn up in.
Holdings at the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, the SPDR Gold Trust dropped to 1,104.45 tonnes as of April 23, down 1.53 tonnes or
The world's largest gold-backed exchangetraded fund, the SPDR Gold Trust, said holdings rose to 1,105.62 tonnes as of May
13, up 1.53 tonnes from the previous business day.
The dollar rallied broadly on Wednesday as an unexpected decline in April's U. S. retail sales raised concerns about the state of the economy and rekindled demand for the greenback as a safe haven.
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Gold tracked back from its lows yesterday as the dollar retreated from earlier highs, with worse-than-expected US macro data and weaker European equity markets fuelling doubts about the recent bull run being sustainable.Gold holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust, the biggest exchange-traded fund backed by bullion, stood unchanged at 1,105.62 metric tons yesterday. They rose the day before for the first time since April 9.
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What does all this mean? Well, I think the backwardation reflects the market’s uncertainty of silver’s role as money. The chronic silver backwardation began on 8 December 2008, the same day I wrote about gold in backwardation, and silver was priced about $9.60. Currently silver is trading about $13.82. Predictably, the gold/silver ratio is narrowing. If the backwardation persists it will be interesting to see if silver’s price in illusory FRN$ continues rising.
In my opinion, as the great credit contraction grinds on and intensifies the commodity silver will reassert itself as money and eventually currency. As I mentioned during the interview with Contrary Investors Cafe what would be really interesting is if the central banks decide to start hoarding silver!
While there are cheaper ways to purchase physical silver bullion, like GoldMoney, these huge premiums over spot beg the question: What is the real silver price? With the specter of counter-party risk driving silver into backwardation if there is a failure to deliver then it will likely cause the silver price to shift from the COMEX just like a failure to deliver would cause the gold price to shift from the COMEX.
all that glitters not gold … goes the famous saying. It simply means that not everything is what it seems. Wondering why i am talking about Gold and its “properties” ? … Its because, i have been thinking a lot about “Gold” and “Wealth” and its significance in Hindu Culture.
The readers of my blog have by now understood that i am myself trying to “comprehend” what Hindu Culture is … and what are the factors or foundations that Hindu Culture has, which makes it survive its vast history through time immemorial.
Surely, that fact that Hindu Culture has “Survived” this long period in the Human History, means that essentially there must be some … “good and wonderful” … “essentials” … in this Hindu Civilization … those “essentials” which are must for any civilization to survive for mammoth periods of time.
Over 2000 minerals have been identified by earth scientists. Table 10d-2 describes some of the important minerals, their chemical composition, and classifies them in one of nine groups. The Elements Group includes over one hundred known minerals. Many of the minerals in this class are composed of only one element. Geologists sometimes subdivide this group into metal and nonmetal categories. Gold, silver, and copper are examples of metals. The elements sulfur and carbon produce the minerals sulfur, diamonds, and graphite which are nonmetallic.
A diamond is the oldest item that anyone can own - it's three billion years in age, a strategic and high tech super material for our technological society that is formed in the earth's interior and shot to the surface by extraordinary volcanoes.
Pure gold is too soft to withstand the stresses of every-day wear, so it is alloyed with a mixture of metals like silver, copper, nickel, and zinc to give it strength and durability.
PLATINUM
The most appealing characteristic of platinum is its durability. Each time other metals are scratched or polished, a tiny bit of metal is lost. In fact eventually, prongs of white gold and yellow gold may wear down enough that you need to have them reinforced with more metal for safety.
Pure silver, also called fine silver, is relatively soft, very malleable, and easily damaged so it isonly combined with other metals to produce a more durable product.
Athletes who win gold at this summer’s Olympics will have an incentive to skip the lap of honour and run straight to the bank. Gold’s price has moved back above $900 an ounce this year, from less than $300 ten years ago. The once forgotten metal is back in demand – from savers and investors worried about inflation, and a growing number of industrial users who target its material properties as much as its symbolic asset value. Because mining activity was run down during the long price slump, the upturn in demand has quickly run up against a limited supply.
In China, India and the Middle East, as Max Flint discovered on his trip to Dubai for The Money Programme, gold’s attraction as a safe store of wealth has never really gone away. Given the scare stories3 circulating about the state of some banks, particularly in China, it’s unsurprising that many households still prefer to keep their savings in a jewellery box than a bank vault. Some analysts lucratively anticipated the emerging world’s gilt-edged appetite 
Elsewhere in the world, gold’s decorative role now competes with some fast-growing industrial uses – as a component in electronic circuits, catalyst for speciality chemical production and air filtration, corrosion protector, and upmarket dental substitute. Industry absorbs little more than 300 tonnes from an annual world consumption of over 4,000 tonnes, but it means those stocking up at the souks and bazaars have some powerful corporate buyers to haggle against.
Even after this year’s rise, gold price is less than half its last (1980) peak price in real terms. The run-up hasn’t been as smooth as that for oil, or even platinum, and there are plenty of reasons why it might be short-lived. There’s a large global stock – held by central banks, individuals who hoarded it before the long price slump, and speculators who bought during the recent recovery – which will be offloaded whenever the price goes too high. Many of those industrial users can turn to substitute metals when gold gets too expensive.
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