Stephen Briggs Quotations

The underlying attitude towards metals in general and gold in particular is still positive. The bias still has to be to the upside, but people are reminded that this isn't a one-way street.

We are now in a situation really where investor interest is so much that gold can benefit if the dollar declines, but it doesn't suffer particularly if the dollar strengthens.

Clearly the dollar weakness is a big factor, not just for gold but for the other metals as well.

So it doesn't matter really whether it is or it isn't, the gold market has decided it is an issue.

And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.

You should see a reacceleration in demand growth this year.

The appetite for metal commodities is enormous at the moment.

There's no reason with the amount of gas we have in storage for the price to keep going up.

Most people agree it's the metal of the year for general fundamentals, but they are all heavily affected by massive speculation.

The zinc market is going to become as tight as copper. Every speculator is buying zinc now.