2011年10月20日星期四

花旗银行:黄金价格短期内或将跌破1500

花旗集團(Citigroup)旗下技術研究部門CitiFX週二(10月18日)表示,金價短期內可能跌破1,500美元,因金價近幾週表現一直遜於其他資產,且看似喪失避險吸引力。
CitiFX分析師指出,黃金避險工具轉變成風險交易,預計未來數週或數月,市場緊張情緒料將持續,黃金重測1,535-1,485美元區域甚至更低的可能非常高。
不過,該機構稱,仍預計黃金在結束調整後將突破2,000美元大關,並最終上漲至3,400美元的高位。

 http://gold.forex.com.cn/html/2011/guandian_1020/17130.html

黃金白銀價格料分別漲至2500美元和46美元

匯通網10月19日訊
儘管近期美元反彈導致黃金避險買盤減少,經濟研究機構Capital Economics週二(10月18日)發布季度報告指出,貨幣政策環境仍利好黃金。該機構同時預計投資需求將推動白銀走高。
Capital Economics指出,在可預見的未來發達經濟體利率將持續位於較低水平,這減少了持有黃金的機會成本,且一旦希臘發生債務違約,黃金將比其他任何貨幣受益更多。
Capital Economics預計,黃金最遲於2013年觸及2,500美元/盎司。該機構還認為,白銀也將受益於投資需求的增長,並預計2013年底時白銀將上漲至約46美元。
北京時間14:48,國際現貨黃金報1,652.37美元/盎司,下跌5.60美元,跌幅0.34%; 國際現貨白銀報31.67美元/盎司,下跌0.40美元,跌幅1.25%


http://gold.hexun.com/2011-10-19/134356381.html 

資金緊絀 紫金撲水生產借入黃金

紫金礦業( 2899)宣佈,為解決短期資金需要,董事會昨日同意,透過內地金融機構辦理融資性黃金租賃業務,根據資金需求及市場情況分批實施,租賃期將不超過 1年。有市場人士指出,黃金生產商借入黃金,好處是不受銀行貸款相關法規所限制。
紫金指出,集團同意授權財務總監負責具體實施事宜,並通過遠期黃金交易來規避黃金價格波動的風險。有市場人士表示,黃金租賃只適用於黃金生產商的真正用家,以避免非黃金生產商透過借金進行炒賣,到期時須歸還黃金及支付相關手續費。
他又指,黃金生產商喜歡「借金」,主因「借貸」不受銀行貸款政策限制,更可降低黃金價格波動的風險,屬正常行為。但紫金開宗明義表明借金是為了「解決短期資金需要」,可能資金緊絀已影響生產活動。
內地《新浪財經》亦報道,內地資金緊絀,已對部份早前熱衷放貸的 A股上市公司構成影響,未能如期收回貸款,例如香溢融通委託寧波銀行借給浙江長興兩家貿易公司各 3000萬元人民幣貸款,須延長還款期 6個月。

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黃金價格暴跌長線投資良機已現

9月下旬金市再掀波瀾,金價從1800美元/盎司高位,下跌至最低1536美元/盎司。近300點的跌幅僅僅在短短3天時間內完成,其單日下跌幅度最大達到17%。儘管一時市場風聲鶴唳,哀鴻遍野,但筆者仍然對金價長期走勢看好,基於兩方面原因:
首先,支撐金價3年以來上漲的根本因素避險和抗通脹其實並未消失,亦即基本面並未發生變化。就前者而言,全球關注的焦點美國和歐洲經濟前景仍然一塌糊塗。儘管美國9月的就業數據超過預期,致使市場短期恐慌情緒稍作安定,但從長期來看,美國經濟陷入二次衰退已是毋庸置疑,其變相的量化寬鬆(扭曲操作和就業刺激計劃方案等)政策,不過只是讓美國經濟苟延殘喘而已。


 另一面,歐盟針對希臘違約問題來回討論救助基金擴容的方案,只要希臘實體經濟無實質性複蘇,寬鬆政策就不可能避免會不斷推出,氾濫的流動性必然會繼續推高各類資產包括商品的價格,其通脹壓力仍然不可小視。因此從根本上看,支撐黃金上漲的根基仍未動搖,在當前變化莫測的經濟環境下,暴跌後的黃金仍然具有投資價值。
其次,從月線級別走勢來看,金價仍然保持在自2008年10月以來完美的上升通道中。辯證來看,暴跌擠壓了前期過度投機的泡​​沫,為金價再次蓄勢發力積蓄能量。其實作為黃金市場上最大的買家各國的中央銀行,都趁金價下跌之機大量購入。據10月5日歐洲央行公告:截至9月30日當週,歐元系統黃金及應收黃金儲備較前上升568億歐元,達到4200餘億歐元。而歐元系統7月8日當週(金價1630美元/盎司)持有至9月9日當週黃金增加0.1億歐元,推高至3632.49億歐元後,一直維持沒有減持的格局。
從國慶以來的黃金行情來看,黃金波動明顯變窄,近期黃金價格走勢與股市和商品同漲同跌,表明金市在經歷暴跌後,市場恐慌情緒尚待恢復。大傷元氣後,修復市場心態必須假以時日。而筆​​者認為這恰為黃金長線投資提供良機,目前從價位上來看,金價1600美元/盎司將成為中線買入的底部,入市的風險收益比較高,故目前入市黃金應是絕佳的良機。


http://www.cngold.org/ 

2011年10月19日星期三

Sprott makes a bet on a different kind of bank



加拿大環球郵報 Globe And Mail 的消息: “Sprott Makes A Bet On A Different Kind Of Bank”。Eric Sprott 和他建立的貴金屬基金公司 Sprott Asset Management Inc. 已經向加拿大聯邦政府申請銀行牌照,相信明年初會得到答復。

這間銀行,名為加拿大洲際銀行 Continental Bank of Canada,將會與一般現時的銀行不同,最大的分別在於不會以借貸形式來經營。此銀行的利潤全靠收取服務費。客戶的存款全是黃金與白銀。客戶可以銀行的 支票作日常交易之用。各商戶收到的支票可以向銀行取回現鈔,而銀行則以當日的報價在存戶的戶口扣除相對的金額。

Eric Sprott有信心能成功辦理這間銀行,因為他已現有固定的顧客和相當數量的實物貴金屬存貨。他還相信在今天各人都開始對一般商業銀行失去信心之際,越來越多的人會投向這種新模式的銀行,因為他們存放的資金受到100%的保障。
相反的,現時一般銀行會把客戶的大部份存款(可能超過90%之多)借出,風險相當高。
 
銀行除了買賣外匯和貴金屬以外,還可以發出旅行支票和信用咭。銀行會為這些服務向客戶收取手續費。初步估計會有十七間分行。

Eric Sprott, one of the most vocal critics of the global financial system, wants to start a bank. But it won’t be like any bank most people are used to seeing.
Mr. Sprott and the asset management firm he founded, Sprott Inc. (SII-T7.00-0.02-0.28%), are investing in an Ontario-based currency trading company known as Continental Currency Exchange Corp. They, along with the current management of Continental, are applying to federal regulators for permission to turn the 17-branch operation into the Continental Bank of Canada. They expect to get a decision early next year.
The bank Mr. Sprott and his partners envisage would seek to address all the things that Mr. Sprott has warned against in the global financial system, such as too much leverage and a lack of confidence in paper currency.
Continental Bank would take deposits, but it would make no loans, unlike most current banks that are built on a model of lending out far more money than they actually have on hand.
Taking it a step further, customers who don’t trust government-issued currency may some day be able to keep their deposits in the form of gold and other precious metals that they could tap for everyday purchases. That idea is in keeping with Mr. Sprott’s musings about chequing accounts backed by precious metals – customers could deposit gold, then make purchases by cheque and have their accounts debited accordingly.
“Our firm, Sprott Inc., and Eric have taken a very committed view that the financial system requires a substantial reset,” Sprott Inc. chief executive officer Peter Grosskopf said in an interview. Given that, “Eric has always thought that offering consumers access to an unlevered bank is a good idea,” he said.
In a levered financial system, relatively small losses by banks on their loans and investments can push a bank close to collapse. This bank would have no leverage and instead would make money thanks to profit margins on services such as selling foreign exchange and precious metals.
“It’s the old commerce model of providing service instead of credit,” said Scott Penfound, vice-president of operations at Continental Currency.
Mr. Penfound will stay on to manage the business and he and his family will continue to own 49 per cent of the company. Mr. Sprott and Sprott Inc. would together control 51 per cent of the bank, with Mr. Sprott having the larger share. Sprott Inc.’s stake would be a passive one, Mr. Grosskopf said.
Fear of financial system meltdown and a loss of value in paper currency as central banks print more and more money drove gold to record highs approaching $2,000 (U.S.) an ounce before last week’s big selloff in financial and commodity markets.
Much of the buying has been driven by people who share Mr. Sprott’s concerns about the financial system and who believe that some day gold and silver may once again be the foundation of commerce. Mr. Sprott wrote in a July commentary that he believes that “gold and silver are the ultimate alternative for a chequing account in a vulnerable banking jurisdiction.”
One of the criticisms of gold as an alternative to paper currency has always been that it is not very practical. Secure storage is an issue, and it is not easy to take a few ounces to the store to buy groceries or to pay for the dry cleaning.
Being able to write a cheque against an account at an institution that actually holds physical gold or silver brings the idea of precious metals as an everyday currency closer to reality.
To be sure, the gold-based banking idea is a long-term goal. For Continental, having a stamp of approval from regulators will set it apart from other companies operating in the foreign exchange and metal sales businesses, Mr. Penfound said. The company will also have more capital, thanks to the new investors, to expand and to deal with regulatory requirements.
Another more immediate benefit of a banking licence is access to the interbank foreign exchange trading system, which would allow Continental to offer more services to customers, Mr. Grosskopf said.
For example, instead of simply offering to exchange Canadian dollars for foreign currency at its branches around Ontario, Continental could sell its clients pre-paid currency cards that they could take when travelling to foreign countries.
“We can sleep at night because risk is not something in the model,” Mr. Penfound said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

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