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Gold Bullion 'Capped by Safe Haven Dollar' as Global Growth Slows, EU Challenges London Market

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

GOLD BULLION failed for the 3rd session running to hold a rally above $1285 per ounce in London on Thursday, edging $6 down despite new data showing manufacturing growth slowing worldwide in New Year 2019.
 
Japan has “stalled” after its best run in a decade, says the Financial Times of today’s Nikkei PMI survey, while the 19-nation Eurozone is “barely growing” with a drop in new orders says Reuters.
 
The European Central Bank today held its negative rates and QE bond purchases unchanged at today’s policy decision in Frankfurt.
 
Global stock markets meantime edged higher after the MSCI World Index fell 1.1% yesterday, cutting its rally from December’s 7-month lows to 9.8%.
 
Crude oil in contrast slipped again, edging down to $60.50 per barrel of Brent and now erasing the last week’s gains after setting 18-month lows in late December.
 
Major government bond prices rose, pushing 10-year US Treasury yields down to 2.71% – a 10-month low when reached during last month’s crash in world stock markets.
 
 
“That gold is not doing better in this environment of uncertainty and slower growth…is testament to the US Dollar being the go-to safe haven at present,” writes strategist Jonathan Butler at Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi.
 
“Further economic slowdown and an escalation of trade tensions bode ill for industrial prospects. Conversely, gold could look more attractive as a risk hedge in this environment of looser monetary policy in China.”
 
With US-China trade tariffs set to return in full on 1 March, the United States is still “miles and miles” from a trade deal with China, said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to CNBC today.
 
The partial US government shutdown meantime means President Trump cannot give the annual State of the Union address next week.
 
Washington may sanction oil exports from No.1 crude reserves holder Venezuela, officials said overnight, after the US, Canada and several Latin American nations recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidoas as interim president in Caracas amid widespread protests against the violent government of Nicolas Maduro.
 
Trump also refused to rule out using US military force as an “option” in Venezuela, repeating a position he first laid out in August 2017.
 
The UK’s situation with barely 9 weeks until Brexit is a “disgrace” says aerospace engineer Airbus’ CEO Tom Enders, warning that his own firm “will have to make potentially very harmful decisions for the UK” if the country leaves the European Union without an agreed withdrawal deal.
 
The London Bullion Market Association today told Reuters that Brussels has rejected its call to reduce the level of cash which banks must hold against positions in gold, set to jump in 2022 and potentially forcing the City’s bullion banks to quit the business even after Brexit.
 
“We are still optimistic,” says LBMA general counsel Sakhila Mirza, hoping that the European Banking Association – to which the EU has referred the decision – will recognize the gold market’s deep liquidity and lower the required funding ratio from 85% to 50% or preferably zero.
 
While the US-based Comex exchange saw a daily average of $31.3 billion in gold futures contracts change hands last week, the London bullion market traded $37.4bn according to the latest data released today.
 
The EU is also set to sue the UK government over London gold and commodities trading, the Financial Times reports, after London rejected Brussels’ demand to apply European tax rules on derivatives contracts, citing the 1973 Terminal Markets Order.

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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