Mid-Day Gold & Silver Market Report – 4/11/2011
Peter LaTona
4/11/2011 12:26:00 PM
PIMCO BETTING AGAINST US GOVERNMENT DEBT
Pimco, the world’s largest bond fund, began betting against the government debt last month, by selling all of the fund’s holdings in US government-related debt holdings. Bill Gross, Co-Chief Investment Officer, believes there will be a lack of buyers for US Treasuries, once QE2 has run its course. Pimco expects that an easy monetary policy, combined with a budget deficit will fuel inflation and continue to de-value the dollar.
THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) lowered their economic forecasts for the US and Japan. In both cases the IMF is concerned about deficit reduction strategies and rising commodity prices. Of course, Japan also has the after effects of earth quakes and tsunamis to deal with. “U.S. forecasters became overly optimistic in the latter part of last year,” John Greenwood, chief economist at Invesco Ltd. in London, said in a telephone interview. He further went on to say that they forecasting community needs to pay more attention to the long term effect of government and private debt.
At 12 PM (CT) the APMEX precious metal prices were:
- Gold price - $1,468.10 (down $6.00)
- Silver price - $40.83 (up 15 cents
- Platinum price - $1,793.80 (down$17.30)
- Palladium price - $788.40 (down $6.80)
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