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Message: There are negative lease rates

There are negative lease rates

posted on Aug 12, 2009 07:10PM
There are negative lease rates in every precious metal. I have never seen that before! The negative rates are spreading out along the curve too and intensifying. Why? The simplest esplanation is LIBOR has been forced down to unnaturall levels to rekindle the credit markets, while forward rates have risen of late to above the LIBOR rates. I think this signals a shortage of metal in the market. After all, the real lending rates are the forward rates and if the central banks are cutting back on lending, the rates rise.
Lease Rates -Derived from Market data
(Expressed as an annual percentage rate)

Gold

Aug 11, 2009

Silver

Aug 11, 2009

Platinum

Aug 06, 2009

Palladium

Aug 11, 2009

Change

Change

Change

Change

1-month

-0.1926%

-0.0643

-0.2441%

+0.0426

-0.0244%

0.0000

-0.0755%

-0.0505

2-month

-0.1894%

-0.0602

-0.2008%

+0.0417

0.0225%

-0.0019

0.0225%

0.0000

3-month

-0.1013%

-0.0468

-0.1056%

+0.0006

0.1644%

-0.0037

0.1588%

0.0000

6-month

0.2699%

-0.0432

0.3070%

-0.0028

0.7088%

-0.0006

0.6413%

+0.0332

1-year

0.6977%

-0.0278

0.8706%

-0.0415

1.4106%

+0.0100

1.4606%

+0.0118

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