It was starting to feel like Groundhog Day – the same range, time after time… then last week gold finally broke out to the upside. Not by much, but the range has changed and we are now in a period of consolidation. With the exception of just under a fortnight in November last year when […]
Silver under pressure
As ever, the news from the Federal Reserve has been a key element in the precious metals markets over the past week, with Fed Chair Jay Powell’s testimony to Congress capturing the financial markets’ attention all round. On Tuesday he testified before the House Banking Committee (and the same testimony was delivered on Wednesday to […]
Yet again the Fed is in focus
this time gold falls before the meeting, rather than afterwards (although that can’t be discounted either). For some months now the markets have been Fed-watching even more closely than usual, as economies have been recovering from the impact of the pandemic, supply chain dislocations have exacerbated inflationary pressures that are generated in an economic recovery […]
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 […]
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 […]
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