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19 March 2021

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: Polish Central Bank to up gold purchases, but what about Russia?

Last year the volume of central bank gold purchases diminished sharply but the WGC still sees net purchases in 2021 with some countries, including Poland indicating plans to add to reserves . We suspect Russia could resume gold buying too.

25 February 2021

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: Russian central bank ‘sells’ tiny amount of gold in January - corrected

Russia reported arelatively insignificant reduction in its gold reserves in January, but one suspects that this may have been an accounting adjustment rather than an indication of a change in policy.

16 January 2021

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: U.S. gold price could skyrocket on political unrest and COVID under new Biden Administration

Be prepared for the worst following the handover of the U.S. Presidency to Joe Biden just in case it is followed with serious political unrest. The country is hugely divided.. And of course there is the seemingly accelerating virus pandemic ,,,

20 December 2020

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: Gold, lies and statistics.

Following the latest U.S. Fed statement following this month's FOMC meeting, gold should perhaps have reacted more positively than it did. This article looks at gold in the light of massaged statistics and price suppression.

01 July 2020

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: World top 20 Gold Mining Companies 2018/2019

The world's biggest gold mining companies of last year ranked. These are thye 'blue chip' stocks of the gold mining sector and should be of particular interest to investors wishing to follow the gold equities route.

26 June 2020

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: Top 20 Gold mining countries – Russia now No.2

The latest Gold Focus report from specialist consultancy Metals Focus is .cautiously optimistic on the gold price looking forward.. It also incorporates the consultancy's latest estimate of global country-by country gold output

24 May 2020

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: The dilemma that is silver

Silver has not performed well overall over the past couple of years in comparison with gold and the Gold_Silver Ratio is still above 100 - a historical high level although an improvement on a few days ago.. Could this change?

26 April 2020

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: World top 20 Silver Producers – countries and companies

The Silver Institute's annual silver survey, this year prepared by UL precious metals consultancy Metals Focus, has been released and the article below looks at the Top 20 producing nations and mining companies.as well as price guidance

02 April 2020

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: Russia halts gold purchases for the time being

The Russian Central Bank has announced that it is ceasing its gold purchasing programme as from the beginning of the current month. We examine why this may be.

23 November 2019

LAWRIE WILLIAMS: Does China hold more gold than the USA?

It has long been considered by many analysts that the Chinese state in reality holds rather more gold than it reports to th.e IMF - but how much more? Does it in fact hold even more gold that the U.S.'s reported holding of just over 8,133 tonnes?