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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1668791, member: 41665&quot;]<span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #222222">&quot;....precious metals didn&#039;t even budge.&quot;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #222222"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #222222">Sodude-</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #222222">I&#039;m not so sure. Tiny Cyprus wouldn&#039;t be a tipping point (for PMs, globally) but I&#039;d like to see recent PM premiums in Limassol and other towns, charted. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #222222">LOCAL prices for PMs could tell us more, what a PM demand surge might look like against the Euro or another major I suppose.&nbsp; ANY Cyprus residents on board??</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #222222"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #222222">On another issue:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800080"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800080"><a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2013/03/19/gold-price-withstands-etf-outflows-commerbank/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2013/03/19/gold-price-withstands-etf-outflows-commerbank/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2013/03/19/gold-price-withstands-etf-outflows-commerbank/</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m puzzled by the subtext of the Commerzbank analysts&#039; recent note: </p><p><b>&quot;</b><i><b>Evidently the ETF outflows are being offset by strong physical demand elsewhere.</b> In our opinion, the gold price should continue to gain ground.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>1) ETFs are no longer the &#039;be-all &amp;end-all&#039; to POG?</p><p>2) There&#039;s a mysterious <i>bullion demand </i>we&#039;re not fully apppraising, here? </p><p>3) The divergence between Paper Gold and bullion has begun?</p><p>4) ... other ???<a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2013/03/19/gold-price-withstands-etf-outflows-commerbank/?mod=bolblog" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2013/03/19/gold-price-withstands-etf-outflows-commerbank/?mod=bolblog" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p><a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2013/03/19/gold-price-withstands-etf-outflows-commerbank/?mod=bolblog" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2013/03/19/gold-price-withstands-etf-outflows-commerbank/?mod=bolblog" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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