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Newly Emphasized Gold And Silver Price Suppression Tactic Unleashed
Newly Emphasized Gold And Silver Price Suppression Tactic Unleashed
There are a wide variety of tactics whereby gold and silver prices could be suppressed.
Perhaps the most frequently used method over the years has been for central banks to dump their physical gold reserves onto the market through the use of leases. By doing so, it appeared to increase the availability of physical supplies while the central banks continued to report the entire amount of gold as still being in reserves.
The second of the two most common tactics is to sell paper contracts for future delivery of gold or silver. These sales in many instances are made by parties that simply do not have the physical metals to make delivery upon maturity of the contracts. Once again, this tactic makes it appear that there is more physical metal available than there really is.
In the past week, there have been some significant moves by those holding short physical positions to buy back their positions. When short sellers cover, they anticipate that future prices will be higher than current prices. Such moves squeeze available physical supplies. However, there are always more gloomy economic reports being released where even the spin-meisters cannot fully hide the truth.
In addition to this current strong demand for physical precious metals to cover shorts, there continues to be strong demand coming from the Middle East and Far East. As a consequence, gold and silver prices have enjoyed some strength over the past two weeks. Read more>>
