China is remonetizing gold
Gold Warrants on the Shanghai futures exchange are UP 25x since the beginning if the year. What is a Gold Warrant? A gold warrant on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) is an electronic certificate representing ownership of a specific quantity of physical gold stored in an SHFE-approved delivery warehouse. They are used as the basis for physical delivery against gold futures contracts. Each standard gold warrant typically represents 3,000 grams of gold that meets exchange standards for purity and origin. Why are they surging? Shanghai gold warrants are surging due to a combination of record-breaking safe-haven demand, robust central bank gold purchases (notably by the People’s Bank of China), and intense price volatility driving investor and arbitrage activity. Source: Jim Bianco, @AndreasSteno
Gold, Utilities, healthcare and consumer staples are leading the S&P 500 this month
Source: WSJ
Gold is Up 9 weeks in a row.
Gold has never gone up 10 weeks in a row before. Source: Subu Trade on X
Physical gold shortage in Japan ???
Interesting colour from Bloomberg on gold demand in Japan at present... Source: Bloomberg, Krishan Gopaul on X
I’m not a gold buyer, it costs 4% to own it,”
Dimon said Tuesday at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women conference in Washington, referring to storage costs for billionaires who have to store several hundreds gold bars worth billions, and clearly not referring to 99% of actual gold buyers who own a little gold at home and which costs them 0% to own it. That said, Dimon admitted that gold “could easily go to $5,000, $10,000 in environments like this. This is one of the few times in my life it’s semi-rational to have some in your portfolio.” Source: zerohedge, metals mine
$GLD Gold Trust ETFD just broke out of a 5-year cup & handle vs $SPY S&P 500 index ETF.
COVID highs are now in sight. Source: Trend Spider
Relative to inflation, Gold has never been higher than it is today. 13x vs. 9x at the peak in 1980.
Source: Charlie Bilello
Wall Street average allocation to gold: 2.4%
Wall Street average allocation to crypto: 0.4% (source BofA Fund Manager Survey, zerohedge)
