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Lowest Friday Gold Fix Since April 2010, But Price 'Remarkably Strong', Gains vs Euro as US Stocks Sink

Friday, March 13, 2015 8:52

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Adrian Ash is head of research at BullionVault, the world-leading gold trading & ownership service online…

DOLLAR GOLD PRICES recorded their lowest Friday PM Fix since April 2010 in London today, clearing at $1152 per ounce as the US currency rose to new 12-year highs on the FX market.

Gold priced in Euros held firm, trading near €1095 per ounce for its highest weekly close since January’s 20-month highs at €1155.

Eurozone stock markets rose, but Wall Street shares sank at Friday’s opening, losing more than 1% inside 2 hours to head for their third weekly loss in sucession.

“Gold looks to be finding some support around $1150 per ounce,” Reuters quotes one Asian trading desk, “although the short-to-medium term bias is still to the downside.”

“The gold price has held up remarkably well given the extent of the Dollar’s move,” says a note from Julian Jessop, head of commodities research at London consultancy Capital Economics.

Looking at US bond yields, “The gold price has already fallen much further than the current level of the real yield [adjusted for inflation] might justify,” Jessop adds.

But “normalization of US interest rates,” counters a new Commodity Watch from US investment bank Goldman Sachs, “has been the dominant force pushing prices lower.”

Data from the US Treasury show the yield on 10-year inflation-linked bonds (TIPS) rising above 0.40% this week from February’s 18-month low of 0.03%.

“In line with our economist’s forecasts for continued [US] growth, labor market recovery and increase in real rates,” says Goldman, “we maintain our long-held bearish outlook on gold prices.”

Russia’s central bank today joined South Korea, China, India and Brazil and 19 other monetary authorities in making a surprise cut to interest rates already this year.

With Moscow’s repo rate now 14% per annum – down from the 21st century high of 17% set to try and stem the Ruble’s collapse to record FX lows this winter – the Ruble today edged 1.5% lower from last week’s finish.

Spot gold prices converted to Rubles pushed above RUB70,500 per ounce, but held some 20% below January’s post-1990s record.

Shanghai’s main gold contract meantime ended the week at a $4.75 per ounce premium to London quotes, up from around $3 per ounce last Friday and incentivizing wholesale imports into China, the world’s No.2 consumer market.

UK gold exports – reflecting global demand for wholesale bars vaulted in London, the world’s main stockpiling center – outpaced imports by the smallest margin in 5 months in January, new data showed this week.

Net UK outflows totaled 4.2 tonnes as Dollar gold prices hit 5-month highs at New Year. Net exports in 2014 reached 468 tonnes, down more than two-thirds from the outflows on 2013′s thirty per cent drop in world prices.

Gold imports to India, the world’s No.1 consumer market, rose for a second month running in February, new data said today, reaching almost $2 billion by value.

“Demand has increased a little bit because of [this week's] drop in prices,” says Bachhraj Bamalwa at the All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation.

But with the Hindu wedding season not returning until April, and the Akshaya Tritiya festival falling at the end of next month, “there is no big rush,” he adds.

Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and head of editorial at the UK’s leading financial advisory for private investors, Adrian Ash is the editor of Gold News and head of research at BullionVault – winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation, 2009 and now backed by the mining-sector’s World Gold Council research body – where you can buy gold today vaulted in Zurich on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.

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Thank goodness the Chinese National Bank is taking over the gold ‘fix’ (strange term, eh?) on March 20th, and wresting control from the London Inner City scumbags. The Chicomms are sitting on thousands of tons of real, physical gold, and now are ready to drive up the price to support their soon-to-be gold-backed currency. Then it is good-bye to the U.S. dollar, and the Euro.

And wait until thousands of people who think they own physical gold find out the market is leveraged 100:1 paper/actual gold. Oh boy….what a panic then. The truth is that for the past 2 years the physical bars have been moved to China, after being melted down in Hong Kong and reconstituted for the People’s Bank of China, and out of the U.K. and U.S. big banks’ vaults. Oh what a tangled web (of lies, market manipulation and deceit) we weave…

Mar 13, 2015, 2:33 pm 0 Reply

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