Peter Thomas is a Senior Vice President at the Zaner Precious Metal Division and he is considered one of the leading gold authorizes in the world today. As a licensed floor broker, he was a filling broker in the silver pit when silver ran to $55 an ounce. He currently manages a global cash desk which handles Refiners, Recyclers, Mining Operations and Coin & Bullion companies. He is constantly in demand for his insightful opinions drawn from his 35 years of metals trade to such news companies and magazines publishers as EconoTimes, Bloomberg News, WSJ, The Guardian,US News and World Review, Hard Assets, Kitco, and Modern Trader magazine. Contact him at @Goldbug111, (312) 277-0140 or [email protected].
The Current Shape of the Metals Market
May 20, 2016 05:28 am UTC| Insights & Views
As an add on for my miners and refiners, I do watch the price movement of ferrous metals, and yes, as of late they have just tanked downward with iron leading the pack at -16%, steel (-6%), aluminum (-7%), copper (-9%) and...
The Definitive Guide to Buying Gold Bars
Feb 25, 2016 12:06 pm UTC| Commentary
Once you have made the decision to diversify into a hard asset, the first decision becomes which form of gold should I own, Bullion Bar or Coins? All precious metals have a myriad of costs that are associated with their...
1.2 Million killed so far by air pollution in China this year
Nov 14, 2015 07:08 am UTC| Insights & Views
No matter what happens in the global push for clean air this year, China will continue on its quest to build 500 coal-fired plants designed to create electricity. The vast majority of these plants are going to be built...
Pampaloma bull run has just gone global
Oct 13, 2015 23:36 pm UTC| Commentary
Its hard to believe that a 3,000 year old market can be so vital and dynamic in our current modern society. The recent batch of economists mantra want you to believe that gold is a static market as gold pays no interest,...
Wading into the “safe harbor” of Gold
Sep 14, 2015 23:22 pm UTC|
(Corrects Singapore Gold Exchange to Shanghai Gold Exchange in second paragraph.) As the stock market stumbles and the commodity markets get hit just as hard this huge swirling and ever darkening vortex has the New...
The Fanya Metals Exchange collapse
Sep 01, 2015 08:53 am UTC| Commentary
Last week in an early morning vigilante type move, a group of investors in the city of Kunming, China in only what can be described as daring citizens arrest accosted a Mr. Shan Jiuliang, the Head of the Fenya Metals...
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