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Gold Prices 'Consolidating' vs Rising Dollar as US Jobs Surprise, Scrap Sales Grow

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 7:44

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

GOLD PRICES held firm against a rallying US Dollar in London on Wednesday, trading above $1230 per ounce as Western stock markets failed to extend a strong surge in Asian equities overnight.

After new data Tuesday said US manufacturing recovered a little in February from its worst showing since 2009, private-sector payroll figures from ADP Inc. reported a jump of 214,000 – well ahead of economists’ consensus forecasts.

The US government’s estimate of non-farm payrolls growth in February will be released Friday.

Commodities paused after the recent 30% jump from 13-year lows in crude oil, and silver prices also held flat below $14.90 per ounce, while major government bond prices retreated, nudging 10-year US Treasury yields near 1-month highs at 1.85%.

“If the world economy and financial system is indeed heading for the rocks,” reckons London-based Capital Economics, “an extended period of looser monetary policy and strong demand for safe havens should boost the precious metal further.”

The odds of a US Federal Reserve rate-rise to 0.75% at the mid-March meeting now stand below 1-in-50, according to futures trading, down from 1-in-6 a month ago.

“However, we suspect that a new factor – the return of inflation – will also be increasingly important [and] any correction in the gold price will be short-lived,” the consultancy concludes, repeating its end-2016 forecast of $1250 per ounce.

Wholesale bullion trading “could continue to see some profit-taking and the market slip back,” says a note from brokers Marex Spectron in London.

But “consolidation remains underway,” counters a technical analysis of price charts from Canadian bank and London bullion market maker Scotiabank.

Consolidation should be seen “in a positive light,” agrees the latest Bullion Weekly Technicals from German financial services group Commerzbank, repeating that February “saw the market break through the 2014-2016 downtrend at $1200…

“[Now] we are seeing the market hold sideways below $1263.50″ – the early February high for Comex gold futures contracts.

Meantime in India – the world’s largest consumer gold market – “most jewelry showrooms remained closed” on Wednesday reports Rediff, as the industry protested this week’s new 2016 Budget tax hikes on gold imports and sales.

“The proposed excise duty will lead to a drastic fall in business,” says Surinder Kumar Jain, vice-president of the All India Sarafa Association, which had previously supported the BJP government’s policy of trying to curb gold imports by offering deposit and bond schemes – schemes further favored with the exemption of capital gains tax in Monday’s Budget.

“Scrap imports from Asia [to Italy and Swiss refiners] have boomed,” says the latest gold note from precious-metals analysts Metals Focus, reporting that 2015′s decline on falling prices has “all changed”.

“Domestic volumes responded strongly to prices breaching €36 per gram” in late February say refining industry contacts, Metals Focus reports, pointing to €1120 per ounce – a price last seen by European scrap dealers and refiners in April last year when gold failed to recover its sudden spike of last New Year 2015.

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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Source: https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-news/gold-prices-030220165

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