GATA's Bill Murphy on the JP Morgan Silver Shortage and the next Bullion Bank Run!

GATA Chairman Murphy grew up in Glen Ridge, N.J., and graduated from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1968. In his senior year he broke all the Ivy League single-year pass-receving records. He then became a starting wide receiver for the Boston Patriots of the American Football League. He went on to work for various Wall Street brokerage firms and specialized in commodity futures. He began as a Merrill Lynch trainee and went on to Shearson Hayden Stone and Drexel Burnham. From there he became affiliated with introducing brokers and eventually started his own brokerage on 5th Avenue in New York. He now operates an Internet site for financial commentary,





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Gold Boosted By Far East Physical Demand, Investors Seeking 'Undervalued' Asset

(Kitco News) -Gold is starting 2014 on a stronger note, getting a boost Thursday from good physical demand in the Asian region, traders said.

Some also said the metal might be drawing a second look from investors as an “undervalued” asset after posting its worst year in three decades during 2013. Gold has bounced since the middle of a holiday-lightened session Tuesday when short covering set in after the market held its lows for the year on chart for the spot market and also on a futures-continuation chart.

As of 7:54 a.m. EST, gold for February delivery was $11.90, or 1%, higher to $1,214.20 per ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. March silver was up 57 cents, or 2.9%, to $19.94 an ounce.

“The Far East came in as buyers,” said Afshin Nabavi, head of trading with MKS (Switzerland) SA. Physical demand appeared to pick up. Meanwhile, there appeared to be a shortage of physical metal availability for immediate delivery due to a number of closures around the world over the last week during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, he continued.

Gold & Silver Lose Their Attraction For Wealth Retention

Gold tumbled again this morning to trade at 1197.90 and is expected to end the year just under the $1200 price level. Gold continues to lose its appeal for wealth retention and as a hedge against inflation as the US is showing a strong recovery and the global recovery seems to be well underway. Silver fell by 130 points to trade at 19.485 while palladium remains in the green adding $2.90 trading at 712.40 as its industrial demand edges up with increased auto sales offers more demand for the metal for catalytic converters. Platinum dipped by $1.45 to trade at 1358.90 following cues from the precious metals family. Gold prices fell on Monday below $1200 an ounce, heading for its biggest annual loss in three decades as U.S. equities soared to six-year highs and prospects of global economic recovery boosted appetite for riskier assets. Gold would be facing the first annual loss since 2000 while silver is set for the worst annual performance since 1981. According to CFTC, hedge funds and money managers cut their bullish bets in gold and silver in the week to Dec. 24. Gold ETF’s witnessed outflows of 864.8 metric tons in 2013 which were more than combined inflows in the previous three years, wiping about $73.7 billion from gold funds. Gold prices are expected to move further down as strong US growth prospects and gains in equity markets are likely to hurt gold prices. Precious metals fell in thin holiday trade on Monday, heading for its biggest annual loss in more than three decades at nearly 30 percent, as rising appetite for risk and the prospect of a global recovery tarnished its allure.
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Gold & Silver Lose Their Attraction For Wealth Retention

MAKE SURE YOU GET PHYSICAL SILVER IN YOUR OWN POSSESSION. Don't Buy SLV, or Futures or Pooled Accounts or any other BS paper silver product .Remember anything on paper is worth the paper it is written on. Go Long Stay long the bull market have even started yet

5 CHARTS: The Real Story Behind Silver

 Steve St. Angelo, SRSrocco Report
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As the world continues down the road of self-destruction via its highly leveraged paper financial markets, there's a much more fascinating story worth looking at. Hidden from the majority of the public and misunderstood by many of the so-called professional metal analysts, is the Real Story Behind Silver.

One of the reasons why we are all in such a big mess today, is due to the failure of the analyst community to provide the public with honest, meaningful and proper data and information. As I have mentioned several times before, there's only a few good analysts out there.... and a whole bunch of losers. Unfortunately, the investing public has no idea that it is being misled due to this increasingly worthless shortsighted analysis.

Thomson Reuters GFMS put out a new Silver Update last month that was already covered by BrotherJohnF's website last week (which many have already seen). However, I took some time to closely examine the presentation and found some interesting charts worth explaining.

The first chart below has to do with the change in Silver Bullion Coin Sales. According to GFMS, they show approximately 43 million oz in silver coins sold in North America in the first 9 months of the year.
 North America in the first 9 months of the year.

They don't give you the exact figures, so we have to just eyeball the red bars and estimate what the amount would be by the scale on the left. I came up with the following:

2013 Q1 = 14 million oz

2013 Q2 = 15 million oz

2013 Q3 = 14 million oz

Total = 43 million oz