Market Updates

Precious metal investors have enjoyed a solid start to 2014, with physical gold and silver prices up 10.6% and 11.8% respectively in USD terms. Australian dollar gold investors have been similarly rewarded, with an ounce of gold now trading at $1460.

With the Winter Olympics starting in Sochi, Russia, this short report looks at the nature of the Olympic Gold medal itself. Given to the best athletes in their respective disciplines, it is the logical prize to recognize the ultimate achievenment. Unfortunately for the winning athletes though, the medals themself don't do justice to the fantastic efforts the athletes go to in winning them, with very little actual physical gold in the medals. It wasn't always that way.........

Jordan Eliseo muses on whether or not the upcoming non-farms payroll data will confound analysts, and takes a closer look at the current state of the gold ETF market.

Australian housing prices rose 10% in 2013, with Sydney at the forefront of the nationwide boom, leading to talk of a property bubble once more. For others though, bubble or not, the bigger issue is the affordability or otherwise of what is clearly an essential item, with alarming figures of late confirming that the market is being propped up by investment dollars, at the expense of younger Australians and first home buyers who are finding it harder to get on the property ladder. In this article, ABC Bullion Chief Economist looks at average mortgage rates over the past 30 years, and current affordability for everyday Australians.

In early January 2014, Barry Ritholtz published a piece in Bloomberg and elsewhere titled "10 reasons the gold bugs lost their shirts". An interesting read, it has provoked admiration and outrage in certain circles. In this piece, ABC Bullion Chief Economist Jordan Eliseo offers his thoughts on the article, analysing each of the reasons Ritholtz highlights, as well as why it doesn't change his bullish outlook for precious metal prices in the coming years

With 2014 now well and truly underway, it's the perfect time to run our eye over the major investment markets, and the risks and opportunities that exist going forward. To help do so, Jordan Eliseo has put together the following article whilst keeping in mind the '10 Rules of Investing' made famous by the legendary Bob Farrell. There's a lot he'd be paying attention to as we enter the New Year, which promises to be another eventful one.

Chief Economist Jordan Eliseo wraps up the year.

As 2013 draws to a close and precious metals look certain to clock their first annual decline in a decade, this report looks at the performance of gold over the past 5 years since the grand Quantitative Easing experiment began, the performance of one of the best international equity managers in Australia, and encourages bullion investors not to panic despite the price slide this year.

In this week's market report, we take a look at the continued choppy trading in precious metals, the latest economic news from around the globe, and include a special section on the very wise move to repatriate Australia's bullion reserves, a petition anyone can support.

In this week's precious metal report, chief economist Jordan Eliseo touches on the negative sentiment towards precious metals, with headlines including 'gold is crumbling' seen in the mainstream. In other news, we take a look at the timeline of dominant international currencies going back across the centuries. Hint: gold features heavily.

In his weekly, Market Update, Chief Economist Jordan Eliseo discusses the implications of comments made by Janet Yellen during her confirmation hearing, the latest supply and demand figures in the physical gold market and the winners and losers of quantitative easing globally.

In this week's Market Update, Jordan Eliseo discusses the surprisingly positive data coming out of the US this week, the impact of physical gold demand on the economy and why he thinks we'll see a lower cash rate next year.

In a special report, ABC Bullion's Chief Economist, Jordan Eliseo, assess the level of success of the Federal Reserve's asset buying programmes and what a tapering off of said programmes might mean for bond yields and other markets internationally.

In the Market Report from 31st October 2013, Chief Economist Jordan Eliseo discusses the recent FOMC minutes, RBA Governor Glenn Steven's comments regarding the minutes and the anniversary of Black Tuesday.

This Bullion University article examines the arguments for and against saving in fiat currencies or physical assets such as gold and silver.

In his weekly report, Jordan Eliseo discusses the recent non-farm payrolls data, Aussie investor Matthew Mclennan's views on gold and the Australian inflation figures.

Jordan Eliseo outlines the reasons for scepticism with regard to the Australian housing market, and covers off the ways in which gold could prove a better bet for Aussie investors.

Chief Economist, Jordan Eliseo discusses industry sentiment at the recent LBMA conference, Dutch pension funds and whether or not the June 2013 lows mark the bottom of this cyclical correction.

Jordan Eliseo and Ronald Stoeferle close the ABC Bullion September 2013 Seminar by taking questions from the floor.

Guest speaker, Ronald Stoeferle joins us from Europe to take to the stage at the ABC Bullion September 2013 Seminar.

ABC Bullion CEO, Janie Simpson greets the audience and gives an overview of the past 6 months at ABC Bullion.

Market report from the 19th September 2013 covers the recent upsurge in precious metals following the Federal reserve statement that this will not in fact be tapering QE3.

Jordan Eliseo elaborates on the latest jobs data out of the US, a recent non-manufacturing report and why post-election Australia could be a ripe climate to reasses your superannuation fund.

Chief Economist, Jordan Eliseo discusses gold's rally, further vagueness from FED spokespeople and the implications of economic data from India, China and Japan on the demand for precious metals.