Physical Gold Fund Podcasts

Physical Gold Fund interviews Director of one of the largest Swiss Refineries

09.23.2015 - By Physical Gold Fund PodcastsPlay

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Topics include:

*Why trying to correlate physical flows with the price can be misleading

*On-going tightness in the physical gold markets

*There is less liquidity in the physical market

*The physical tightness of flow is reflected in the price "not at all"

*As long as the spot market is settled with cash settlement, the physical flows are not determining price

*If investors dealing in cash markets begin to take delivery, the physical is just not around

*The current pricing mechanism can continue indefinitely unless investor behavior changes to taking delivery versus cash settlement

*The gold price has "no correlation to the physical market"

*If this behavior changes (to taking physical delivery) it could become dramatically dangerous

*Gold is moving in one direction from west to east with small exceptions over the last year

*90% of the refinery's business is currently supplying demand from the east (India, China) and 10% to western markets

*China has imposed a new standard on the LBMA good delivery system of 1 kilo, 999.9 fineness

*400oz bars being melted and refined to 1 kilo 999.9 fine bars and shipped into China are coming out of London and particularly the ETF's such as GLD

*In the next gold upleg, scrap may not be readily available - overall scrap has decreased remarkably

*Declining investment in the mining sector and geo-political issues affecting mining viability will unavoidably reduce gold supply moving forward

*The danger of less supply moving forward is more likely than the comfort of more supply

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