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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Fed decides direction of the market

The US Federal Reserve has signalled the next move in the market. From herein we are looking at a sustained period of USD weakness, which in the short term will mean a strong gold prices. In fact all precious metals will perform well, particularly silver, and of course commodity based currencies.

The Fed has announced its intention to spend $300 billion on long-term Treasurys.The Fed is of course the bank of all banks, and the fact that it is taking this path of "quantitative easing" shows that it recognises that it cannot hope to pay its debt, so its going to sustain spending by refloating the economy on a sea of paper money. The impact of course is to delute the value of the USD. This is however not just US policy. This is an organised campaign by all central banks around the world in similar straits. We can see a pattern of 'cohorts' supporting each others 'fairytale' monetary policy. This is what evil government does. On the one hand they offer you lower interests, with the other hand they (the banks) restrict your ability to get a loan, no matter how good your credit rating. Banks are no longer in the lending business, they are in the speculating business.
On the one hand they are offering you tax cuts, on the other hand they are increasing the tax rate through inflation. Bracket creep will very quickly see you paying the top marginal tax rate.
This is not just the US Fed Reserve and US government, these policies are supported by a number of foreign central banks. Sorry but Obama is no different. But don't feel bad you really didn't have a choice. They are all bad. The system is rotten.

The "quantitative easing" will increase the volume of dollars in the financial system (i.e. increase money supply), and of course that action will eventually feed into inflationary expectations. You cannot fake reality. So when they pretend to be surprised when inflation shows up in a few months, you can cynical sigh that it 'was meant to be'.

The US Federal Reserve is not the only central bank to take such steps. The British and Japanese central banks have already announced that they would purchase their respective government debts, while the Swiss National Bank is selling its francs to weaken its currency.

Gold responded as we expected - up $17/oz overnight, closing at $US956.95. I might add that gold also found support at the $880/oz level as expected.

There are a number of ways you can gain exposure to gold:
1. Derivatives such as options, Contracts for difference, futures
2. Gold mining stocks
3. Funded emerging gold producers
4. Exchange traded funds (ETFs)


The gold holdings of the world's largest gold-backed ETF, the SPDR Gold Trust, rose to a record 1,084 tons on March 18, up 1.4% in a single day. Silver holdings in the world's biggest silver-backed ETF, iShares Silver Trust, rose 1.3% on Wednesday. People might talk about "an ebb in demand for gold in India", but trust me its not going to be Indian consumers driving gold to $2,000. Its going to be speculative investment in the financial capitals. People like me have been talking about this day for 10 years. This is it - the wave has crest. Don't be shy - your time is here. Jump up on that surf board because the Fed sharks are in the water. Just let them drown in their own paper money.

India gold demand also ebbed on Thursday as traders said prices were too high. Demand should pick up in mid-April to May as the wedding season begins. Other precious metals tracked gold higher, also benefiting from the weaker dollar. Spot silver surged to $13.68 an ounce, its highest since Feb. 26. It was last at $13.45/52 an ounce from $12.88.
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Outlook for the Dow Jones

The Dow Jones has fallen to new lows over the last week. It appears to have broken a very strong support. But I would hold out hope of it building a support at these levels. I see this as once again a good time to trade stocks.
News that the Chinese government is going to have some stimulus means squat to me. The only stimulus that matters is the big amounts thrown around by the US Treasury. At some point they are going to have to print money. That is ultimately what is going to keep asset prices like equities high. Here are the 3 D's in case you missed the 1929 lesson:
1. Delay monetary tightening and poor on more stimulus and tax cuts
2. Deny responsibility - blame business for selfish greed
We are here!
3. Diminish the USD value by printing money
3. Depression - all the time decrying this as an unprecedented event. Really?

I would suggest to you that equity asset prices are about priced at the right level for the times, though property still has a long way to fall. For this reason equities are going to be trading sideways until we see a bottom in household assets because no one is going to be doing much lending until then. I give it 4 years to absorb the property in the US. It will take time for banks to wipe their non-performing loans clean, and there will be inflation in the interim which will bring others undone as well. The inflationary phase has yet to start.
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