In Case You Missed It – Week Ended May 28, 2016

In Case You Missed It – Week Ended May 28, 2016.

Stories from the week ended May 28, 2016.

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The big economic news of the week was the continued open mouth operations of the Fed calling for interest rate hikes in 2016, reaching its peak on Wednesday with Fed Chair Janet Yellen saying a rate hike in the coming months would be appropriate. The dollar continued to rise and gold and silver fell.

Gold and silver

Gold closed last week at $1251.90 and closed this week at $1212.80
Silver closed last week at $16.50 closed this week at $16.20

The gold and silver ratio ended the week at 74.86

Illustration of the gold silver ratio

The gold silver ratio illustrated with seven American Silver Eagle coins, two 1/10 ounce silver rounds and one 1/10 American Gold Eagle coin.

Chart of the Week

gold etf may 29 2016

Money continued to flow into gold ETFs last week.

Here are the stories we wrote, followed or commented on.

May 22, 2016

Fed Chatter

Fed’s Williams says Fed will raise rates even in election year

Oil

Iran – No plans to freeze oil production

May 23, 2016

From Smaulgld.com

Podcast – If the Fed has to Raise Interest Rates, It Will

Fed interest rate policy circus daily coin you tube

Fed Chatter

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard see U.S. Economy at “past full employment”

Non Voting Williams Fed Member Yacking Rate Hikes for the 3rd Time: US rate hikes despite Brexit risk, more in 2017

So much talk/noise about the one rate hike the Fed will do this year- It started out as a quiet Four now its a loud ONE https://twitter.com/Smaulgld/status/734757547404623872

Gold

Gartman lends his prodigious Gold buying knowledge to the mix: Buy gold … but only after Fed Rate hike

From the Bank that says “gold is a 5,000 year old bubble” : This could send gold tumbling below $1,000 again Citi

U.S. Econommic Data

MARKIT U.S. MFG PMI 50.5, EXP. 51.0, LAST 50.8; FACTORY INDEX IS LOWEST SINCE SEPTEMBER 2009

U.S. Mint Sales Update

U.S. Mint reported selling 829,000 American Silver Eagles & 8,500 American Gold Eagles today.

MTD American Silver Eagles sold 3,857,000 & American Gold Eagles sold 47,000

YTD American Silver Eagles Sold 22,771,500 /American Gold Eagles sold 326,000

The U.S. Mint reported selling 2,000 American Gold Buffalo coins.
MTD 15,000 sold YTD 94,500 sold

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May 24, 2016

From Smaulgld.com

Silver

First Quarter Canadian Mint Set Sales Record</strong>

Canadian Mint Silver Sales

royal canadian Mint silver sales 2004-2016

First Quarter Royal Canadian Mint sales were higher than 2009’s then record sales of 9.7 million.

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U.S. Economic Data

Richmond Fed -1, Exp. 8.

Real Estate

New Home Sales 619K, Exp. 523K

Fed Chatter

Another NON VOTING MEMBER shoots his mouth off about June rate hikes: June Rate Hike appropriate unless data weakens:Fed’s Harker

Calls labor market “extraordinarily dynamic”

Past as Guide:There will be ONE rate hike this year after Fed forecasting FOUR earlier in the year, then YACKING 2-3 the past three weeks

Reuters: The “economy has recovered from the weak winter”!

U.S. Mint Sales Update

U.S. Mint reported selling 32,000 American Silver Eagles & no American Gold Eagles today.

MTD American Silver Eagles sold 3,889,000 & American Gold Eagles sold 47,000

YTD American Silver Eagles Sold 22,803,500 /American Gold Eagles sold 326,000

The U.S. Mint reported selling 2,000 American Gold Buffalo coins.
MTD 15,000 sold YTD 94,500 sold

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May 25, 2016

Gold

From Smaulgld.com

Canadian Mint First Quarter Gold sales up 18.6%

Canadian Mint Gold Sales 2007-2016

The Canadian Mint has averaged sales of over one milllion ounces of gold a year since 2008.

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Venezuela sells gold 16% of its gold in the first quarter of 2016

Silver

First Majestic Silver CEO sees $20 by year end
Hecla Idaho Mint Sunk nearly 10,000 feet

Fed Chatter

Yack Attack Retreat

Fed realizes they may have oversold a rate hike, trots about Bullard again:

“June rate hike not set in stone”

US Economic Data

Markit Service PMI 51.2, Exp. 53.1, Last 52.8

De-Dollarization

Russia to bypass foreign banks in future bond issuances

Gold

Gold Nano particles help make solar cells work better

May 26, 2016

US Economic Data

DURABLE NEW ORDERS +3.4%; EXP. 0.5%
EX-TRANSPORTATION +0.4%, EXP 0.3%

Initial Claims 268K, Exp. 275K

Kansas City Fed mfg activity: -5, exp. -3, Last -4

Pending home sales 5.1%, Exp.0.6%

Too Big to Fail Bank Corruption

Citi fined $425 million in rate rigging case

Fed Chatter

Fed Governor Powell- A Rate Hike May Be Appropriate Soon

Gold

Digging for Gold In Egypt’s Desert

Trump clinches nomination, agrees to debate Sanders

May 27, 2016

Gold

Chinese Load up on Gold ETFS

US Economic Data

UMich Final 94.7, Exp. 95.4, Prelim 95.8

NY FED 2Q NOWCAST GDP FORECAST +2.2% VS PREV +1.7%

Atlanta Fed 2.9% up from 2.5%

Yellen Yacks Rate Hike

Yellen admitted Fed needs to raise rates not because the economy warrants it but because they need higher rates so they can lower them later

Fed Open Mouth Operation End with Yellen Speech- Now Time To Raise Rates in June or July or keep the mouths SHUT!

THE federalreserve serves the Treasury & the Dollar without which which there would be no TBTFs.The Markets/Main Street are secondary.

Yellen one liner: “Ben was immensely courageous,”

De-Dollarization

China issues first renminbi-denominated sovereign bond abroad

U.S. Mint Sales Update

U.S. Mint reported selling 30,000 American Silver Eagles 10,000 no American Gold Eagles today.

MTD American Silver Eagles sold 3,919,000 & American Gold Eagles sold 57,000

YTD American Silver Eagles Sold 22,833,500 /American Gold Eagles sold 336,000

The U.S. Mint reported selling 1,000 American Gold Buffalo coins.
MTD 16,000 sold YTD 95,500 sold

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