quelques news deci delà sur le gold et silver avec les événements géopolitiques de la semaine :
Gold steady ahead of Fed, platinum near 5-mth high - Reuters
Gold May Gain Before Fed Policy Decision Amid Record ETP Assets
Geopolitical risks remain elevated and means that an allocation to gold remains important.
Geopolitical risk continues to support gold with riots and attacks aimed at American interests spreading across the Middle East, North Africa and even into West Africa.
The strikes and violence in South Africa's gold and platinum industries are supporting and may contribute to higher prices.
Machete-wielding strikers forced Anglo American Platinum, the world's No.1 platinum producer, to shut down some of its operations in South Africa, sending spot platinum to a five month high of $1,654.49.
Gold is a tad higher today in most major currencies. Investors await the policy decision by the US Federal Reserve and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s news conference at 1815 GMT.
Yesterday’s German Constitutional Court’s decision allowing Germany to ratify the €500 billion ESM with strict conditions sent gold to its highest price since last February (in dollars) and silver back above $34/oz briefly. - Goldcore
South Africa is now in serious trouble as their miners are set to bring a national strike on the country.
This should cripple supplies in both platinum and gold:
(courtesy zero hedge)
Patrick Heller: Suppression will cause higher rebounds for gold and silver
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2012-09-13 14:28. Section: Daily Dispatches
10:23a ET Thursday, September 13, 2012
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Writing for Coin Week, Patrick Heller of Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Michigan, argues that Western central banks were holding gold and silver prices in check upon the announcement by the German Constitutional Court that it would not stop German participation in European Central Bank bond monetization. But, he adds, the more that monetary metal price are suppressed during these interventions, the higher they will rebound. Heller anticipates such a rebound after the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee announces its latest plans today. Heller's commentary is headlined "The More Gold and Silver Prices Are Suppressed, the Higher They Will Rebound" and it's posted at Coin Week here:
http://www.coinweek.com/commentary/the- ... es-are-s...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
And now for other important paper stories which will have an influence on our physical prices of gold and silver:
Overnight in Australia, we saw this nation's largest iron ore producer, Fortescue, hit hard due to the massive slowdown in China. It has asked for debt waivers as liquidity fears have sent this once highly stock plummeting. As I have mentioned to you on many occasions, if China catches a cold, the rest of world catches pneumonia
South Africa gold production fell 5% versus a year ago further confirming South Africa’s has reached peak gold. - Bloomberg