We noted last week that the U.S. yield curve was nearing inversion; well now we are at the tipping point, with the two-year and ten-year rates level. A yield curve inversion reflects risk-off sentiment with particular respect to fears of a recession. Investors tend to buy the long-term bonds with a view to locking in […]
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 — 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 […]
Quarterly Gold and Silver Market Review Q2 2021
Spot gold, silver and the ratio Gold’s intraday range in the third quarter was even narrower than that of the second quarter, between $1,832 on 4th August, to the quarter’s low of $1,691 just three trading days later for a range of 8%. That of silver, in keeping with its more volatile nature, was much […]
Weekly markets round-up for Coininvest
Welcome to a very brief overview of the recent performance in the markets. The essentials are captured in the table below and each week we will show a chart of interest. Last week’s gold price shot up in the wake of the announcement from the Federal Reserve Board in the United States (I.e. the U.S. […]