{"id":33939,"date":"2018-05-03T07:39:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T12:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33939"},"modified":"2018-05-03T07:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T12:39:26","slug":"tom-cloud-update-rising-interest-rates-to-impact-the-metals-large-investors-make-up-70-of-gold-silver-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33939","title":{"rendered":"TOM CLOUD UPDATE: Rising Interest Rates To Impact The Metals &#038; Large Investors Make Up 70% Of Gold &#038; Silver Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header clearfix\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srsroccoreport.com\/tom-cloud-update-rising-interest-rates-to-impact-the-metals-large-investors-make-up-70-of-gold-silver-buying\/\">TOM CLOUD UPDATE: Rising Interest Rates To Impact The Metals &amp; Large Investors Make Up 70% Of Gold &amp; Silver Buying<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">Today, Tom Cloud provided another interesting precious metals update.\u00a0 He discusses how rising interest rates will impact the precious metals and why the Federal Reserve is forced to continue increasing rates.\u00a0 Tom also explains what is going on with official gold reserves in China and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p>Tom also mentions how his precious metals sales volume has changed since 2007.\u00a0 I spoke with Tom on the phone this week to get an update as he hears a lot of what is going on in the industry.\u00a0 I asked him if he could look at his precious metals sales figures and see how the small and larger investor buying volume has changed:<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you look at the chart below, the smaller precious metals investor had, the larger pie in gold and silver volume during the 2007-2009\u00a0period<\/strong>.\u00a0 According to Tom\u2019s sales figures, the small investor, $50,000 or less, accounted for 62% of total volume while the large investor was 38%.\u00a0 This trend changed in the next period, 2013-2017 as the large investor made up 58% of total volume while the small investor fell to 42%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18651\" src=\"https:\/\/d3hxt1wz4sk0za.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tom-Cloud-Precious-Metals-Sales-Breakdown.png?x65756\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3hxt1wz4sk0za.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tom-Cloud-Precious-Metals-Sales-Breakdown.png?x65756 773w, https:\/\/d3hxt1wz4sk0za.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tom-Cloud-Precious-Metals-Sales-Breakdown-768x549.png?x65756 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"4169752524\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom said that so far this year, the large investor accounted for 70% (or more) of total precious metals sales as smaller investor buying fell further to only 30%.<\/strong>\u00a0 So, the little guy is not participating in the precious metals market as they were in 2007-2009 when the stock and economy was disintegrating.<\/p>\n<p>However, the larger gold and silver buyer is usually the wiser investor.\u00a0 The small investor is more fickle and has to wait until panic comes back into the market before they start buying once again.\u00a0 Furthermore, the small investor is also the one that loses faith much easier and is known to flip-flop by getting out frustrations by writing negative comments about gold and silver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOM CLOUD UPDATE: Rising Interest Rates To Impact The Metals &amp; Large Investors Make Up 70% Of Gold &amp; Silver Buying Today, Tom Cloud provided another interesting precious metals update.\u00a0 He discusses how rising interest rates will impact the precious metals and why the Federal Reserve is forced to continue increasing rates.\u00a0 Tom also explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[374,4190,647,730,12073,19256],"class_list":["post-33939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-gold","tag-investing","tag-precious-metals","tag-silver","tag-srsrocco-report","tag-tom-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33940,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33939\/revisions\/33940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}