Mr Pipples

A few reads posted over at GATA: Gold backwardation examined on Canada's Business News Network A video of GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's debate on gold market manipulation with Tim Wood, vice president of International Investment Conferences Gene Arensberg: Gold, silver short positions grow still more concentrated

Guess Casimir means money held in £,$, euro, CAD$ savings with them. Casimir - give GM a ring/email to see maybe - let us know what they say.

Yep, he is loving the gold. Low next week he reckons. More from the man: http://www.321gold.com/editorials/hoye/hoye120608.pdf For a deflationist, he's pretty confident about this upturn.

Bob Hoye expects a low in gold next week: http://www.howestreet.com/index.php?pl=/go...ediaplayer/1048

Got this response from GM (Ha - they must love me! Keep testing them!) So, if you want to be extra-incognito, you could get Via Mat to shift bullion the 5 miles from Via Mat, Kloten, Zurich to the 'free zone' Via Mat, Zurich Airport and back again, without the LBMA 'chain of integrity' being broken. In other words, you could 'hide' it then have it re-accepted by GM, without any assaying problems. Of course, this would all need confirming by Via Mat... And, unfortunately, you'd need min @400oz gold (a full bar) to do it. Or 30000oz (min' possession at Kloten) of silver (ahh, but GM state they won't, as yet, accept silver). However, this Via Mat situation may be relevant to Comex bars (100oz) too (Note Jim S's recent stuff about shipping to the Via Mat 'free zone' depository at Zurich Airport.

But when you're trying to time a buy - it does matter. (Sometimes a big difference day to day.)

I am actually finding the lack of recent cgnao posts somewhat unnerving... No news is good news? Doubt it!

Personally, it would have to be a hefty bit of cash coming your way to make the deal seem good. As I'm sure you realise, coins have several advantages (eg. harder to fake) which account for some premium over ingots.

Well, it is yellow, compact and of high quality... May go smelly when left in a vault for too long though. Ahhh crap. I was expecting something more drastic then that! Frickin £'s fault.

Eh? The £500 'kiss goodbye' hasn't happened yet has it? Are you meaning tomorrow CC?

Shock and Awe at COMEX - http://www.financialsense.com/Market/wrapup.htm

Good find, Wren.

Too right. Wish I'd exchanged my money-on-the-side at GM into Euro or $ last Friday!

Taken from Trader Dan's comments re. Comex: http://jsmineset.com/index.php/2008/12/01/...-trader-dan-20/

Gold: The Next Reserve Currency Player - http://seekingalpha.com/article/108415-gol...opular_articles

J.P. Morgan report likes gold - from www.gata.org

Is The End Of The COMEX Nigh? By Andy Hoffman - http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1228061100.php Last paragraph:

What did you pay and where from - if you don't mind me asking.

http://weightoncoin.com/coins/index.php?ma...roducts_id=1304

For the first time in a long time, I'm actually in the 'hoping-for-a-slapdown' camp... cgnao's £500 kiss goodbye? Remember Comex was closed yesterday though.

Like I've said before, I rate GM a little over BV cause: C.I. based, 'simpler' process for physical collection (though my view on this has changed recently - re. silver bars collection constraints) gg transfers. This facility might offer real potential... Someone commented on this over on the Letters of Credit thread. Re. Viamat - a question... (I've asked them directly but, emails really aren't their strong point. Last reply I got from them didn't answer question and included a response to another clients storage query - along with item details! ) As Viamat are a member of the LBMA, does that mean that all Viamat storage locations are covered under the LBMA 'chain of integrity' or just some? If bullion is moved, by Viamat, between Viamat's different storage locations (Viamat, Kloten to Viamat, Zurich Airport and back again), would the bullion remain within the LBMA members chain of integrity - and, therefore, would not require re-assaying at any point? Thanks.

Don't quite get what happened there - a misunderstanding of ambiguous emoticons maybe?

Whoever's in charge of the green felt-tip at Kitco has a very twitchy hand.

The Hoye-ster: Gold sector update - http://www.321gold.com/editorials/hoye/hoye112708.pdf

Bizarre! Does Ker work on the charts at Kitco? Not showing on any other charts I can find. Glitch I guess(?)