The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has banned banks from lending against gold. “…it is advised that no advances should be granted by banks for purchase of gold in any form, including primary gold, gold bullion, gold jewellery, gold coins, units of gold Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) and units of gold mutual funds,” RBI said. RBI further ordered, “No advances should be granted by banks against gold bullion to dealers or traders in gold if, in their assessment, such advances are likely to be utilised for purposes of financing gold purchase at auctions or speculative holding of stocks and bullion.”

This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Serious gold and silver investors would want to take notice of Core Producer Price Index (PPI) released this morning. The reason Core PPI is considered one of the best indications of future inflation is that when producers are experiencing inflation, it ultimately spills into inflation for consumers. October Core PPI came at -0.2% vs. 0.1% consensus. Last month Core PPI for September came at 0.0% vs. consensus of 0.2%. The point is that two months in a row the most important inflation data is coming lower than expectations.  Further, in October, Core