Gold and Silver: The Numbers Are an Estimate. China Just Bought 21 Tonnes.
Gold and Silver: The Numbers Are an Estimate. China Just Bought 21 Tonnes. Dear investor. Gold at $ 4,104 today. Silver at $ 59.78 . Two developments this week define the entire narrative of the fourth quarter before it has barely begun. The first: the LBMA annual conference, where the physical gold and silver market's most important institutions gather each year, published its delegate price survey. The professionals who refine, vault, transport and settle the world's bullion projected gold at $ 5,000 and silver at $ 97 within the next 12 months. Not a research note. Not a bank forecast. The median view of the people who are closest to the physical market every single day. The second: China's central bank confirmed today that it purchased 21 tonnes of gold in September, its largest single monthly acquisition in three years and its 23 rd consecutive month of accumulation. China bought at these prices, at these levels, in the same month that bond yields we...