>Hallo zusammen,
>hier ein Information zu Harmony Gold:
>op Financial News > Wed, 07 Feb 2001, 4:03pm EST > Gold Falls After Harmony Announces Plans for Forward Sales > By Claudia Carpenter
> > New York, Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Gold fell more than 1 percent, the biggest drop in three months, after Harmony Gold Mining Co. > said it may join other South African producers in selling borrowed gold. > Harmony, South Africa`s third-largest gold company, said it secured an option to sell 1 million ounces of borrowed metal, to be > repaid from later output, to help fund an acquisition. Forward sales are bearish because they add supply to the market and suggest > producers expect prices to fall before the gold is repaid. > ``It`s definitely not bullish news, especially since it`s coming from Harmony,`` said Donald Eckert, co-head of precious metals > trading at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in New York. > Gold for April delivery fell as much as $3.60, or 1.4 percent, to $263.80 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile > Exchange, the biggest one-day drop since Oct. 25. > In London, gold for immediate delivery fell $2.225, or 0.8 percent, to $263.425 an ounce. > Spot prices aren`t likely to fall much lower than $262 an ounce because of buying by jewelers and other users taking advantage of > the decline, said Peter Fava, head of precious metals trading at HSBC Bank PLC in London. > Prices have fallen 17 percent from a four-month high reached last February, when AngloGold Ltd., the world`s largest gold > producer, joined other mining companies in saying it would cut back on forward sales as a hedge against lower prices. > Previous forward sales by AngloGold and others had contributed to the drop in gold prices to a 20-year low of $253.20 an ounce in > July 1999. > Sales Resume > Forward sales by mining companies resumed during the second half of 2000, according to a survey last month by Gold Fields > Mineral Services Ltd., a private research firm in London. The increased supply contributed to a drop in prices to a 13-month low in > October. > Selling borrowed gold can be profitable for mining companies when prices are falling, because they can repay the metal from future > production that would otherwise bring a lower price on the market. > Harmony Chief Executive Bernard Swanepoel said the company agreed to hedge 1 million ounces of future output to help obtain > bank loans for the 1 billion rand ($128 million) acquisition of the Elandsrand and Deelkraal mines from AngloGold. > AngloGold said today it will continue to hedge half of its production over the next five years. The company said it expects to mine > 7.1 million ounces of gold this year. > Traders have sold gold futures contracts, increasing their ``short`` position, on expectations that increased supply from producers > and sales by central banks will send prices lower in coming months. > Speculators as of Jan. 30 had sold 53,815 more gold futures contracts than they had bought on the Comex, close to the largest > ``net short`` position since September 1999, according to a report Friday from the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission.
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>Gruß
>Albrecht
Hallo Albrecht,
ich schätze mal, daß die Banken darauf gedrängt haben, um auf jeden Fall ihre Kredite gesichert zu bekommen. Solange es nur Optionen sind, ist es nicht so tragisch, außer daß Harmony die Prämie verlieren wird. Aber vielleicht kommen noch die 200$ und dann sind sie froh. Einen Teil so abgesichert zu haben, ist sicher nicht von Nachteil. Die 1 Mio. oz sind nach der Übernahme die Produktion von 0,33 Jahren. Null problemo.
Ahoi!
Jan
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