Gold:silver ratio at a 22-month high; manged money position net longs at three-month lows The weakened sentiment in the gold and silver markets has persisted, with prices drifting lower in several currencies, not just the dollar, reflecting a broad softness in the market. Silver was already underperforming gold even when gold was rising in mid-April; […]
Gold trying to break higher – markets firmly in risk-off
It’s always a sign of extreme nervousness when the dollar, Treasury yields, and gold are all moving higher. With the markets now fully expecting a 50-point rate hike from the Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting of 3rd and 4th May, attention has been increasingly focused on geopolitical risk, which of course revolves largely […]
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 […]
Increasing signs of life in silver bode well for gold
We noted last week that gold was coming close to completing a triangle formation, which would point to a break-out. That happened last Thursday 21st October, with gold breaking higher and running up towards $1,820 before correcting. The uptrend line that formed part of the apex of that triangle should now provide support. The narrowing […]
Still sideways in stagnant conditions; inflection point coming
When we last wrote a fortnight ago gold was trading between $1,750 and $1,760, having rallied from lows in the region of $1,720. Since then it has traded between technical indicators, albeit with a mild upward bias. Dollar movements (tied in with bond yields), as is so often the case when external forces are muted, […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 20
- Next Page »