After sliding by almost 9% in six trading days from its early-March peak of $2,070 to touch a low of $1,895 in mid-month, gold has been trading in relatively thin conditions in a sideways range bounded by $1,890 and $1,944. The past week has seen it confined within those boundaries and testing neither (all prices […]
Gold — A short-lived recovery after the speculative clear-out — US potentially freezing Russia’s gold reserves
With the Fed March meeting now out of the way, geopolitics has been the primary focus of the markets over the past week – although the increased hawkishness from Chair Jay Powell and other members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) at the start of last week, only a couple of days after the […]
Gold – off the highs in a speculative retreat
When we wrote at the start of last week gold was trading in the region of $1,975, having come off the approach to record levels in the previous week. Prices continued to fall into midweek, briefly testing $1,900 before finding some tentative support and since then it has been looking to consolidate between $1,920 and […]
Gold – reached to within a whisker of the record
The invasion of Ukraine had been expected by many in the markets and this would tend to suggest that those who intended to use gold as a risk-hedge might well have been positioned days or weeks before the invasion itself, which was 24th February. Gold clearly did rally on the day of the invasion, although […]
Fresh gains on geopolitical tensions
When we last wrote a fortnight ago, gold looked as if it had [presented us with a “false dawn”, breaking out of its six-week long range, but falling back again relatively quickly. Since then, as the markets focus increasingly on the tensions over the Russia/Ukraine border, prices have been climbing steadily, to touch highs last […]
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