Still sluggish and the gold:silver ratio hits near two-year highs Gold and silver have remained under a cloud in recent weeks with little interest from the bulls, and under light pressure from the bears. As a result gold briefly slipped below $1,800 towards the end of last week, but has managed to clamber back above […]
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 […]
That didn’t last long…
After showing signs of fresh strength two weeks ago, gold crumbled last week in response to a more hawkish outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee than the markets had been expecting, although it is certainly arguable that the bond markets overreacted by starting to price in the prospect of five interest rate hikes in […]
Gold more resilient than the headlines suggested last week
Last week we were looking back at the heavy fall, subsequently unwound, in gold the previous Monday in the so-called “flash crash” which took over $100 or just over 1% off the price. The CFTC numbers for Commitment of Traders, released on the Friday of that week, relate to a trading week ending on Tuesday […]