Gold Price Exploding In Emerging Markets | Gold Silver Worlds

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 02:44 PM PST

Mainstream economists and mainstream media remain convinced that the economy and markets are in full recovery mode. Along the same lines, gold is unanimously expected to decline in the year(s) head.

One of the most recent appearances of that kind was the 2014 outlook of IMF economic counselor, Olivier Blanchard, who explained last week that global growth would average 3.7% in 2014.

Ironically, the recovery story, based on the central bank premise that they can create wealth by simply exploding their balance sheets, seems as solid as a "house of cards." Past week Thursday and Friday, several emerging markets suffered from an economic earthquake, especially in their currency markets, which resulted in losses in most developed world markets not seen since 6 months. The Yen and the Swiss Franc were considered a safe haven, just like gold and US Treasury bonds.

Bloomberg says this is the worst selloff in emerging-market currencies in five years, revealing the impact from the Federal Reserve's tapering of monetary stimulus. "Investors are losing confidence in some of the biggest developing nations, extending the currency-market rout triggered last year when the Fed first signaled it would scale back stimulus. While Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa were the engines of global growth following the financial crisis in 2008, emerging markets now pose a threat to world financial stability."

Argentina, Venezuela and Turkey have been hit hard. Argentine's Peso and Turkish Lira lost significant value against other major currencies in the past week. They recovered slightly today.

In Argentina, the central bank pared dollar sales aimed at propping up the peso to preserve international reserves that have fallen to a seven-year low. "The central bank said it would lift two-year-old currency controls and allow the purchase of dollars for savings starting next week. […] The government told today it isn't intervening in the peso's decline, allowing the market, which is mostly closed to buyers of dollars, to adjust prices. It wasn't a devaluation induced by the state. For the lovers of free markets, supply and demand was expressed in the capital markets yesterday."

The Turkish central bank tried an unscheduled intervention in the market to stop the lira from falling to record lows, something they haven't done since two years. "Investors are speculating the central bank's efforts to prop up the lira by burning through foreign-exchange reserves will prove futile without raising interest rates."

The loss in purchasing power for people holding Argentine's Peso is astonishing:

The Peso closed on Friday January 24th at USD 8.0.
Week on week, the Peso lost 17.6% of its value against the USD.
Three months ago, the Peso stood at USD 5.9, a decline of 35.5%.
Since September 2012, the Peso lost 69% against the USD.

The loss in value of the Turkish Lira is not as dramatic as the Peso, but it is still very bad:

The Lira closed on Friday January 24th at USD 2.24.
Week on week, the Lira lost 4.4% of its value against the USD.
Three months ago, the Lira stood at USD 1.97, a decline of 19.2%.
Since September 2012, the Lira lost 27% against the USD.

The interesting part for us, gold enthusiasts, is the price of gold in the slaughtered currencies (prices on the close of January 24^th):

Gold in Argentine's Peso is up 30% in the last 30 days; it is trading at all time highs.
Gold in Turkish Lira's is up 17% in the last 30 days; it is trading just 10% below its all time highs of September 2011.

This chart shows the price of gold in USD (yellow line) and in Peso (blue line). The black line is the currency exchange rate Peso against the USD. Chart courtesy: Sharelynx.

Interestingly, the explosion of the gold price in Peso and Lira has pushed the gold price higher in the Western currencies. That is an important evolution, as it indicates what gold really stands for: a monetary asset. One should note that gold has gone higher even without inflation fears. This could be one of those catalysts that could break the downtrend in gold in major currencies.

The underlying reason for the emerging market turmoil is said to be attributed to capital flight out of those markets. Directly linked to that is the tapering fear from the US Federal Reserve.

What is the importance of this for Western investors? There could be a counter intuitive answer to that question.

Basically, up until today, there was a narrative surrounding the Federal Reserve who got credit for the positive economic results after having stopped the implosion of the financial system in 2009. However, there is still no empirical evidence that the plan has worked, because the world is still on the monetary infusion. We should note that the present type of situation, characterized by tapering in a global fiat based monetary system with huge amounts of debt, is unique in human history.

As John Mauldin pointed out this week, if the narrative about central planning changes, indicating that the present monetary experiment was the wrong answer to the problem, there could be very nasty effects, especially out of the emerging markets. This is why (courtesy of Ben Hunt):

For 20+ years there has been a coherent growth story around Emerging Markets, where the label "Emerging Market" had real meaning within a common knowledge perspective. Today … not so much. Today the story is that it was easy money from the Fed that drove global growth, Emerging Market or otherwise. Today the story is that Emerging Markets are just the levered beneficiaries or victims of Fed monetary policy, no different than anyone else….

I'm not asking whether the growth rate in this Emerging Market country or that Emerging Market country will meet expectations, or whether the currency in this Emerging Market country will come under more or less pressure. I'm asking if the WHY of Emerging Market growth and currency valuation has changed. The WHY is the dominant Narrative of a market, the set of tectonic plates on which investment terra firma rests. When any WHY is questioned and challenged you get a tremor. But if the WHY changes you get an earthquake.

What are the investments that such an earthquake would challenge? You don't want to be short the yen if this earthquake hits. You don't want to be long growth or anything that's geared to global growth, like energy or commodities. You don't want to be overweight equities and underweight bonds. You don't want to be overweight Europe. You can run from Emerging Markets with US equities, but with S&P 500 earnings driven by non-US revenues, you cannot hide. If you think that your dividend-paying large-cap US equities are immune to what happens in China and Brazil and Turkey … well, good luck with that. My point is not to sell everything and run for the hills. My point is that your risk antennae should be quivering, too.

Nodoby knows how exactly a change in the narrative will play out, but given this week's evolution, it seems likely that a flight out of risk assets into gold as a safe haven is very likely. Once the narrative changes, the product of the most powerful central bank, i.e. the US dollar, could be hit by a serious trust crisis. That is the point where the Western world could rediscover the monetary value of gold. That is the point where the correlation between the commodity index and precious metals prices (as evidenced since 2011) will break. Gold is more than a commodity. It is the ultimate protection against the central banking illusion.

There really is a reason why we advocate holding physical gold outside the banking system.

New Gold Price Bull Market Cycle Has Started :: The Market Oracle ...

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 01:17 PM PST

Commodities / Gold and Silver 2014 Jan 12, 2014 - 06:17 PM GMT

By: Chris_Vermeulen

2013 was one of the worst years for gold in a generation and the strangest part of it is that this loss came during a time in what should have been a banner year for gold.

When the Fed launched its QE1 and QE2 programs, gold posted huge gains but with QE3, we only had a brief rally in late 2012, it's been all downhill for there.

The price of gold over the last year highlights just how much Europe has become a powerful driver behind gold vs. the US which has historically been the main mover. When the European debt crisis started a few years ago, people fearing a financial meltdown in Europe put a lot of their money into gold as it was the save haven of choice.

However, with financial and political risk in Europe subsiding, we have seen money leave gold and move into other markets, hence the big outflows from gold ETF's.

Other factors that have dragged on gold over the last year include falling jewelry demand, the loss of its role as an inflation hedge with deflation becoming more of a concern in some areas, also tax increases on gold imports in India, and the supposedly improving economy in the US. All these contributed to the selling of gold.

Gold and gold stocks crashed last year in the summer. They have since been going through a stage one base. This suggests that 2014 will mark the start of a new bull market for gold, gold mining stocks and commodities. The commodity sector as a hole should be your focus in the coming months if you want to be able to invest in something for longer than a few days or weeks and make a huge amount of money be sure to check out my gold newsletter.

Gold Market Traders & Manipulators Provide Contrarian Bullish Outlook

Gold market traders and manipulators like some of the commercial banks/brokerage firms have been verbally slamming gold, and it turns out many are not as negative as lead us to believe…

Goldman Sachs we all know are the biggest hypocrites. While advising clients to sell gold in the second quarter of 2013, they bought a stunning 3.7 million shares of the GLD. And when Venezuela needed to raise cash and sell its gold, guess who jumped in to handle the transaction? Yup, GS! So while they tell everyone to sell gold, they are accumulating as much as they can without being obvious.

There is a lot more reasons and fundamentals to be bullish on commodities and gold, but that is not the point of this technical based report.

Weekly CRB Commodity Index – Bull Market Cycle About To Start

Taking a quick look at the CB index which is a basket of commodities, it looks as though a breakout above its down trend line will trigger a new bull market in the commodity sector. While this has not yet happened it looks s though it may happen in the next few months.

On stock market that recently broke out of a Stage 1 basing pattern (new bull market) is the Toronto Stock Exchange. This index is heavily weighted with commodity based stocks. I talk about this more in my new long-term algorithmic trading newsletter.

In this report I want to show you some interesting charts that are pointing to a new gold bull market cycle which looks to be starting.

The chart below of the gold miner's bullish percent index is often misread by many traders and trade off its information incorrectly. Many for example think this index is based on stocks trading above a moving average which is no correct.

How a bullish percent index is calculated is based on Point & Figure buy and sell signals with each individual stock within the sector and in our case the gold minders ETF GDX.

Gold prices peaked in 20111 at $1923 an ounce when the gold mining stocks index was above 80%. Why is this important? Because gold stocks typically lead the price of gold in both directions, tops and bottoms.

As of today we have the reverse situation with the bullish percent index at 13% and showing bullish divergence from that of gold stocks. This is an early signal that the new gold bull market cycle is turning up and it should not be overlooked.

Also we see the 5th and final Elliott wave pattern forming and we could once again whiteness another multi year rally in the price of gold.

Gold Mining Bullish Percent Index – Weekly Chart

Gold Miners ETF – Monthly Chart

Gold stocks have not yet broken out to start a rally as you can see in the chart below. But the important thing to note is that the daily chart has formed a mini Stage 1 Basing patterns and could breakout this week to kick start a multi month/year rally.

Gold & Gold Stock Bull Market Conclusion:

If you have been following me for a while, you know I don't try to be a hero and pick tops or bottoms. We all know that strategy is a losing one over the long run.

Since 2011 I have been a very dormant gold trader. Why? Because the price and technical indicators topped out and confirmed a massive consolidation or bear market was in motion.

With gold, gold stocks and precious metals about to start a new bull market, it is time to get back to trading gold and gold stocks.

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