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ECB cuts interest rates, More printing

PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:43 am
by deacon
Looks like like the European Central Bank cut interest rates to .75%, and the United Kingdom is printing 50B pounds. The New York exchange hasn't opened yet, but silver is down 2%. It will be interesting to see what happens when the market opens, and people start selling/shorting silver.

Re: ECB cuts interest rates, More printing

PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:57 am
by henrysmedford
deacon wrote:Looks like like the European Central Bank cut interest rates to .75%, and the United Kingdom is printing 50B pounds. The New York exchange hasn't opened yet, but silver is down 2%. It will be interesting to see what happens when the market opens, and people start selling/shorting silver.

Big down.

Re: ECB cuts interest rates, More printing

PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:23 am
by NHsorter
Guess I am stupid, but I thought more money printing would mean higher PM's? Or is this because it's foreign printing = dollar strengthening = lower PM in dollar terms? Think I kinda figured it out as I was typing.

Re: ECB cuts interest rates, More printing

PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:35 am
by AGgressive Metal
NHsorter wrote:Guess I am stupid, but I thought more money printing would mean higher PM's? Or is this because it's foreign printing = dollar strengthening = lower PM in dollar terms? Think I kinda figured it out as I was typing.


Yeah you got it. PMs will go up in Euros but not in dollars yet. The currency/bond markets are WAAAY bigger than stock markets and the stock markets are way bigger than the gold/silver market. Gold get pushed around by these bigger forces in the short run, but as we've seen over the last 10 years, it goes where it wants to in the longer term.

Re: ECB cuts interest rates, More printing

PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:10 pm
by AGgressive Metal
USD rallying hard today, up 0.55 on the index as I type. This makes for a good Saturday to buy PMs at your local coin store, since they will probably price things based on Friday's close.

Re: ECB cuts interest rates, More printing

PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:51 am
by PADFH
Too little too late. What needs to be done can't be done politically. The Euro is doomed.