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Gold Price Volatility Low Like Eve of 2000s' Bull Market as France Readies for 'Hard Brexit', ECB Vows 'Stimulus'

Thursday, January 17, 2019 7:27

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

GOLD PRICES held tight against the Dollar yet again on Thursday, trading unchanged for the week so far at $1292 per ounce as politics again dominated the headlines in Europe.

The US currency edged higher after new data showed a drop in claims for weekly jobless benefits in the world’s largest economy, but applications are growing from government workers missing payment in the ongoing shutdown of some federal agencies over Washington’s failure to agree a budget.

Asian stock markets closed the day higher but European stock markets fell for the 5th time in 12 sessions so far in 2019 as British Prime Minister Theresa May met with other UK lawmakers to discuss “finding a way forward” after the Brexit withdrawal agreement she negotiated with the European Union was rejected out of hand by the British Parliament.

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to attend, calling instead for a General Election after failing to defeat May’s Conservative Government with a confidence last night.

The UK gold price in British Pounds per ounce briefly dipped this mornig below £1000 for the third time this week, a little over 3% below New Year’s spike to 16-month highs.

Euro gold prices held firmer, coming within 25 cents of early January’s 19-month peak above €1136 as the single currency edged back on the FX market.

With Brexit now 10 weeks away, France’s Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said on Thursday he has ordered contingency planning to prepare for a so-called ‘hard’ or ‘no deal’ Brexit on 29 March, including €50 million of assistance for ports and airports.

Gold priced in the Dollar has so far in 2019 moved barely 1.1% top-to-bottom at London’s twice-daily benchmarking auction.

The tightest 3-week range since June last year, that’s approaching the flattest action in gold since Spring 2005 – just before the metal rose 75% over the following 12 months – and before that late-2000, when gold prices began a decade-long rise from multi-year lows.

“[After] gold remained range-bound yesterday in what was a fairly dull day of trade,” says a trading note from Swiss refining and finance group MKS Pamp, “gold jumped up when Shanghai opened [today] but once again we saw decent [miner] producer offers [to sell] which capped any further rise.”

Betting that the US central bank will keep its key interest rate on hold until at least February 2020 meantime grew again overnight, reaching 66% of all speculative contracts from below 40% this time last month according to data from the CME futures exchange.

“It might be a good time to pause our interest rate normalization, study the incoming evidence and data, and verify our current location,” said Kansas Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George in a speech Tuesday, repeating the Fed’s new “patience” stressed at New Year by chairman Jerome Powell and again last week by a raft of other Fed officials.

“There is no room for complacency,” said Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, on Wednesday when presenting the ECB’s Annual Report to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

“A significant amount of monetary policy stimulus is still needed to support the further build-up of domestic price pressures and headline inflation developments over the medium term.”

After UK inflation showed an uptick in the ‘core’ cost of living for December – rising by 1.9% per year on official data – Eurozone data today showed no change at 1.0% across the 19-nation single currency union.

“Recent economic developments have been weaker than expected,” the ECB’s Draghi went on Wednesday, “and the uncertainties, in particular relative to global factors, remain high.”

France’s “gilets jaunes” are now preparing ‘Act X’ according to posts on Facebook and other social media, arranging a 10th weekend of protests in Paris despite President Macron beginning what he called a series of “big debates” this week with local politicians from across the Republic to try and address the movement’s concerns.

“It’s useless,” says one protester. “Everyone knows what the people are asking! Fewer elected officials, fewer privileges, more transparency, that the people are consulted systematically in case of disagreement!”

Meantime in Rome, where the right-wing Lega members of Italy’s ruling coalition have reportedly invited the far-right Brothers of Italy party to join the Government, the finance ministry has begun detailing the 7 new types of state pension available after agreeing Rome’s 2019 budget deficit spending plans with the European Union in Brussels.

“In reality,” says newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, “this adds measures rather than cutting existing ones. In fact, the standard channel of early retirement remains open.”

“We need to change this government,” said media tycoon, convicted tax-fraudster and 4-time Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday, lambasting the left-wing M5s part of today’s ruling coalition while announcing his candidacy in May’s forthcoming European Parliament elections.

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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