Don’t let the dollar’s strength confuse you Miserable gold generates even more bearish technicals, but is now oversold Silver is relatively stable given gold’s action; the ratio is down from 96 to 94, but still very high. Net short the largest since May 2019. Dollar remains strong but gold is now holding just above $1,700 […]
A cautious start to the New Year 2022
Price performance since the start of this year has seen gold eke out small gains, while silver has come under some light pressure, although neither of them have moved by much. Gold’s interesting move last week came on the back of the Consumer Price Index release from the United States. The number was more or […]
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 […]
Risk-aversion hits silver
After the washout in mid-June following the Fed’s shift in stance, the bargain hunting that we noted over the following two weeks extended into last week also, taking prices up to a test of $1,830 last Thursday, before running out of momentum. At that stage, based on the technical study Bollinger bands, and to a […]
Gold’s technical picture is improving; silver is more sluggish.
When we last wrote this column a fortnight ago gold and the bond markets had both heavily overreacted to the Statement following the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, with gold prices falling heavily and the bond yield curves initially steepening. It didn’t take very long for the bonds to settle down and the […]