Gold has traded in a narrow range since our comments of a fortnight ago, with a low LBMA afternoon auction price of $1,733.75 and a high of $1,774.45, just 2.3%. On an intraday basis the range is obviously wider, between $1,722 and $1,770. The change over the period (LBMA auction price basis) was minimal, a […]
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 […]
Gold down last week but reasserting in risk-off ode this morning. Mixed emotions.
Last week saw gold stage its first weekly decline since the big clear-out after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)’s mid-June meeting, but while this fact is catching the headlines the bigger picture shows gold continuing in a period of consolidation in a narrow range centred on $1,800. The technical construction on the chart suggests […]
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 […]
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. We wish all our readers and clients a safe and happy 2021. We noted last week that the political and economic environments were putting […]