I can dream, can’t I? The gold bugs perennial wet dream=”the yellow metal would explode:”

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I can dream, can’t I? The gold bugs perennial wet dream=”the yellow metal would explode:”

Posted by Richard640 @ 12:30 on May 1, 2020

Saxo Bank’s head of commodity strategy, Ole Hansen, observed that a lockdown is occurring in two biggest gold hubs in the world, New York and London, so many traders are working from home. “This has caused a breakdown in the marketplace”, he said.

“There is no price discovery in the market right now,” he said Tuesday morning. “If you need to borrow gold in the OTC [over-the-counter] markets right now, you are going to pay a king’s ransom.”

Then we had the even more stunning negative prices for front-month WTI crude futures as prices converged to negative spot prices at expiration/delivery, thanks to a lack of storage and ETF-driven illiquidity issues. This sparked major losses for some very large market brokerages and clearing houses, among them, Interactive Brokers:

CNBC: “Across the industry, do you think there is going to be some really serious pain?”

Peterffy: “There is about another half a billion dollars of losses that somebody is sitting on… and I do not know who those folks are.”

We also reported that one distinct possibility is that one or more clearing members had run out of physical, something that was indirectly confirmed by the COMEX’ own report exposing the conditions behind the physical crunch. In fact, we reported on this distinct possibility on more than just one occasion:

So, it is with great interest that we note that the CME Group, said its precious metals-trading COMEX subsidiary entered into an amended credit facility for a $7 billion revolving secured credit facility.

As Bloomberg reports, in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, CME entered into an amendment to its 364-day multi-currency credit facility with Bank of America N.A., as administrative agent, Citibank N.A., as collateral agent and collateral monitoring agent and some of the banks under its existing facility.

The amended facility is for a multi-currency revolving secured credit facility of $7 billion, which is eligible to be increased to $10 billion.

Specifically, the filing says, the new credit facility is “intended to provide temporary liquidity to CME in the event of a clearing member default, a liquidity constraint or depositary default, or in the event of a delay in the payment systems utilized by CME.”

Which begs the question: is there a potential $7 billion shortfall about to emerge as a COMEX member collapses – whether due to a physical gold shortfall or otherwise – and if so, what happens to the price of gold if the market suddenly realizes there is a massive hole backing billions in gold paper deliverables? While we hope to find out soon, we bring up a recent tweet from Jeff Gundlach on a topic we have covered extensively in the past, namely the divergence between gold open interest (deliverable claim) to registered gold (actual physical holding) disconnect…

. and how if all gold longs who owned gold on paper demanded physical delivery the price of “

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/after-gold-oil-contract-chaos-cme-group-secures-7-billion-credit-line-case-clearing-member

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I can dream, can’t I? The gold bugs perennial wet dream=”the yellow metal would explode:”

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