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Gold Falls $15 from $1300 on Strong US Jobs Data, India Demand to Buy 'Negligible'

Friday, January 4, 2019 7:54

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

BUY GOLD prices in London’s wholesale market fell $15 from nearly touching $1300 per ounce Friday after new data showed much stronger-than-expected US jobs growth at the end of 2018.

Trading down to $1284, gold priced in Dollars still headed for a 0.5% weekly rise, its third consecutive such rise – and the longest stretch since early October’s recovery from sub-$1200 – after the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the world’s No.1 economy added 312,000 jobs in December, 75% more than Wall Street forecast.

Average earnings also rose faster than analysts expected, but so too did the number of people looking for work.

That nudged the jobless rate – as a proportion of the US labor force – back up to 3.9% from last autumn’s fresh 45-year low of 3.7%.

With Dollar prices to buy gold nearing $1300 per ounce in Asian trade overnight, “We believe that there is still room for gold prices to move higher,” says the latest forecast from specialist analysts Metals Focus.

“However, over the coming months we expect several headwinds to remain in place…in particular, the Dollar.”

The Dollar jumped on today’s US jobs data, knocking the single Euro currency down half-a-cent as longer-term US interest rates jumped in the Treasury bond market.

The US currency will retain support until late 2019, Metals Focus believes, from rising interest rates, a weak Euro and the US-China trade war.

“The United States Treasury has taken in MANY billions of dollars from the Tariffs we are charging China and other countries that have not treated us fairly,” said President Donald Trump on Twitter today.

This week’s news of shrinking Chinese manufacturing activity was joined Friday by news that demand for automobiles in the world’s No.2 economy likely fell for the first time since 1990 last year.

The People’s Bank of China today cut the amount of money commercial lenders must keep back from new loans for the 5th time in the last 12 months, trimming the reserve requirement ratio for large banks to 13.5% by the end of January from more than 17% a year ago.

New Eurozone inflation data meantime showed a hard slowdown in consumer prices from 1.9% to 1.6% annual growth, while factory costs showed a 0.3% drop in December from November.

Prices to buy gold in No.2 consumer nation India fell this week $6 below global quotes, according to Reuters, as retailers faced a dearth of demand.

“In physical market demand is negligible,” says one Hyderabad dealer. “Retail consumers are not comfortable with [gold's] higher prices.”

Prices to buy gold with British Pounds or Euros held onto much of this New Year’s jump meantime, trading around 1% higher for UK, French, German and Italian investors from last Friday’s finish.

Priced in Dollars however, silver also cut its weekly gain following the US jobs data on Friday, heading for a 2.3% rise at $15.73 per ounce.

Platinum edged above $800 per ounce for the 5th time over the last month, trading $10 higher from last week’s finish.

Facing calls to end the partial shutdown of US government agencies by putting his plans for a wall at the Mexican border on hold, “The Shutdown is only because of the 2020 Presidential Election,” President Trump also said on Twitter today.

“The Democrats know they can’t win based on all of the achievements of ‘Trump’.”

With the now Democrat-controlled House opening Thursday with what pundits widely call the “most diverse Congress ever” – including the first Native American women, the first Muslim women, the first openly bisexual senator, and the first Latina representatives from Texas – Trump tweeted a video entitled “Crisis on the border“, highlighting “Crime, drugs, lawlessness” and a need to “Build the wall”.

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.

Please Note: This article is to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events – and must be verified elsewhere – should you choose to act on it.

Source: https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-news/buy-gold-010420182

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