What Is "Gold This Week"?
For more than five years (January 1996 - March 2001), "Gold This Week" (our weekly Gold Commentaries) was freely available to all who visited The Privateer website. These commentaries contributed greatly to the reputation of our website, and to the reputation of The Privateer market letter itself.
On March 3, 2001 (March 2 in North America), Gold This Week (GTW), was upgraded, daily updates were included, and the whole was made part of The Privateer market letter. All Privateer subscribers have complete access to GTW at no extra cost as part of their subscription. For non Privateer Subscribers, the daily and weekly commentaries on GTW became a subscription service on March 31, 2001 (March 30 in North America).
There are two ways to access Gold This Week (GTW):
The rest of our Gold pages, including the archives of our Gold commentaries up to and including Gold Last Week remain freely accessible.
Now, here's what you will find on Gold This Week (GTW)
Our Daily Gold Updates
LBMA Gold Lease Rates
Daily lease rates on Gold calculated by the LBMA (London Bullion Market Association). One month, three month, six month, and one year. With charts.
Gold/$US Index
Daily and weekly charts of the spot future Comex Gold price and the U.S. Dollar Index. In addition, there are charts showing the relationship between Gold and the $US index. One chart shows the relative performance of the two using a common starting point of 1/1/2000. The other shows the ratio between the two (Spot future Comex Gold / U.S. Dollar Index) starting on 1/1/2000
Our Weekly Gold Commentaries
Gold This Week
Our premier Gold commentary. We don't confine ourselves to just the Gold price or the Gold market, we analyse Gold in the context of the entire economic, financial, and (not least) political situation. Includes a daily chart of the Comex spot future Gold price and details on the course of trading and open interest for all futures contracts. This page also includes complete daily price data on spot future Gold (available for download and updated weekly) going back to January 1996 - the start of the current bear market.
The Gold "Bottom" This Week
Has Gold actually "bottomed"? If it has, what are the prospects for a rise in the price? The Privateer has long maintained that a new Gold bull market cannot occur until the price regains the $US 300 level and stays there. When (if?) that happens, we will change the title of this page to "The Gold BULL This Week". Detailed Gold charts are included with the commentary.
$A/$US Gold This Week
Australia is the third largest Gold-producing nation in the world (after South Africa and the U.S.). In the past, the $A Gold price has acted as a very good "lead indicator" for a turnaround in the $US Gold price (the one everybody watches). We examine the relationship between the two on this page.
Australian Gold Stocks This Week
From this page, you can look up price data on EVERY Australian Gold stock. A listing with name and stock code is included. We also include weekly bar charts with 20-week moving averages and volume covering twenty-four of the top Gold stocks on the Australian stock exchange.
All these commentaries are archived. Free access to our Gold pages includes access to all the archives, right up to last week's commentaries. It does NOT include the CURRENT commentaries. For that, a subscription to Gold This Week (GTW) - or - a subscription to The Privateer is required.