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This August, in Johannesburg, South Africa, BRICS was supposed to present its gold backed currency/token to be used for trade purposes. Or at least some sketch. It showed nothing - to major disappointment of some commentators. So was it nativity to expect ‘grand premiere’, or did BRICS’s project just failed because it is impossible to have gold-backed currency in modern days. Or maybe it was victim of inner-BRICS policies? And could we now finally say now, it is entirely ditched?

There are two main approaches helping to understand and determine price of assets. Narrower is microeconomics, which focuses on analysis of markets, entities, politics, government, legislation, demand/supply etc. Other is macroeconomics, which looks at economy as a whole, dealing with such aggregate phenomena as growth in total output and living standards, business cycles, inflation, unemployment etc. Right now both tell us, good times are gone.

In recent weeks, we had experience high price divergence between Shanghai Free Trading Zone (based on Comex and LBMA pricings) and Shanghai Gold Exchange having its own benchmark and serving domestic market. This peaked as high as 120 USD. So is it finally time for gold’s price de-coupling to occur in between east and west? And should be expect price charts to explode? Nope. Not really. We’re going to try explain what’s happening in our opinion, however need to clearly emphasize, that amount of misinformation and misinterpretations surrounding subject is extraordinary.

OIn recent weeks new tensions emerged, occasionally even temporarily pushing war on Ukraine off the first pages of newspapers. That is military coup d’état in Niger and risk of potential intervention aimed to restore previous government. Allegedly junta threatened to ban gold and uranium exports to France. Which was soon proven to be fake news. But we think it is worthy considering what we have just witnessed and ‘what if and if at all’ effects on precious metals markets

In the past we didn’t have many opportunities to discuss subject of gold miners on Metal Market Europe blog. We’d like to address this matter, as since couple years we witness strong trend on great sectoral mergers and acquisitions. Some could be even considered as tectonic in size, as relating to biggest names in industry.

In below series, we focus on the subject of gold in Poland, hoping to cover all gold related aspects and trying to answer important questions of who, where, when, why and how much. We aim to do that deeply, so our esteemed readers could use it as a compendium of facts for years to come. In 1st and 2nd part we focused on official reserves. In 3rd we attempted to describe polish gold deposits and mining. In concluding part of the cycle, we’ll attempt to answer uneasy question – how much gold Poles may own.

In our new series, we aim to focus on the subject of gold in Poland. We hope to cover all gold related aspects and try to answer important questions of who, where, when, why and how much.

In our new series, we aim to focus on the subject of gold in Poland. We hope to cover all gold related aspects and try to answer important questions of who, where, when, why and how much.

Mexico tightens its mining law. Process was ongoing since several years, but this time it has been backed up by legislative changes. How and if that may affect worldwide supply of silver?

Concept of a common BRICS currency and discussions about potential role of gold in, has been an idea of more or less serious considerations and speculations for last several years.

Concept of a common BRICS currency and discussions about potential role of gold in, has been an idea of more or less serious considerations and speculations for last several years.

Gold has reached and crossed briefly 2000 USD on 20th of March 2023. It was 3rd time it has passed through this psychological barrier.

Concept of a common currency for BRICS countries, and quandaries about role of gold in it, has been subject of less or more serious considerations and speculations for several years.

Czy można uwolnić się od złota? Zanim odpowiemy sobie na to istotne pytanie sprawdźmy najpierw, czy faktycznie jesteśmy od niego w jakiś sposób uzależnieni.