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Gold Challenges Resistance at $1,750/oz
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Gold Challenges Resistance at $1,750/oz – Technicals and Fundamentals Remain Very Positive
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,747.50, EUR 1,326.68, and GBP 1,102.80 per ounce. Yesterday's AM fix was USD 1,744, EUR 1,327.65, and GBP 1,106.74 per ounce.
Cross Currency Table - Bloomberg
Gold has seen quite volatile up and down trading in Asia and Europe but within a narrow $10 band.
It saw gains initially in Asia to $1,752/oz before a retracement to $1,744/oz. It then rose to $1,750/oz again as Asian trading closed.
Early European trading saw gold quickly fall from over $1,750/oz to below $1,746/oz prior to a quick reversal and gold reaching an eight week high at $1,753.45/oz.
Resistance is at $1,750/oz and there appears to be a determined seller at these levels.
Gold Spot $/oz - 2 Days (Bloomberg)
However, the short term technicals are positive with a series of higher lows and higher highs.
Gold has risen to 8 week highs despite positive manufacturing data, higher factory activity in Germany, China and the US and the hope that a Greek debt restructuring solution is imminent.
Demand for physical in Europe, Asia and internationally remains robust which is supporting gold.
Investors will today watch the US weekly jobless claims data for the week ending January 28th.
Adding to the very gold supportive interest rate backdrop, Japan's finance and economic ministers are putting pressure on the Bank of Japan to consider easing monetary policy even further.
Negative yields on some bonds (such as TIPS) are very gold positive as is moves to let investors buy short term bills with negative yields.
Gold is also being supported by central bank buying. Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves rose to $504 billion in the week to Jan. 27 from $499.7 billion a week earlier.
Knowledgeable industry participants continue to be bullish on gold.
Newcrest Mining, the world's third largest gold producer, expects gold to trade as high as $2,500 an ounce and retain its safe harbour status for as long as the world's financial system remains in crisis.
Newcrest chief executive Greg Robinson said today that gold will remain a hedge against a global financial breakdown, citing risks such as a devaluation of the U.S. dollar, today’s global currency, European economies in dire shape and persistent political tensions throughout the globe.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch said today that gold bullion may reach $2,000/oz in Q4, up from a 1Qtr estimate of $1,850.
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SILVER
Silver is trading at $33.72/oz, €25.66/oz and £21.30/oz.
PLATINUM GROUP METALS
Platinum is trading at $1,618.00/oz, palladium at $689/oz and rhodium at $1,400/oz.
(Bloomberg) -- China’s demand for gold will continue to rise on growing incomes and investment against inflation, Albert Cheng, World Gold Council’s managing director for the Far East region, says in email. Given the country’s “strong affinity to gold” and record imports in November, this year is “set to be a strong year” in a part of a longer-term trend, Cheng says
(Bloomberg) -- Turkey’s gold imports were 2.96 metric tons in January, the Istanbul Gold Exchange said on its website today. Silver imports were 4.2 tons last month, the data show. Holdings rose from 4.4 million ounces in October and 3.7 million ounces in September, according to the data. In September and November, Turkey’s central bank increased the proportion of required reserves that commercial banks can deposit in gold. The changes have increased the amount of gold Turkey declares in its official reserves.
(Bloomberg) -- Iran has $120 billion in foreign currency reserves and 907 tons of gold, the Tehran Times reported, citing Yahya Ale-Eshagh, who heads the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines.
The gold reserves have a total value of $17.5 billion, the newspaper cited Ale-Eshagh as saying. Iran has “no shortage” of foreign currencies or gold to meet domestic demand, he said.
Ale-Eshagh said recent fluctuations in the gold and currency markets were a result of mismanagement by some state bodies; he called for tighter monetary control by the government, according to the report.
NEWS
(Reuters)
Gold rises to 8-week high, firm euro supports
(Reuters)
Gold in a bubble? Not in Europe, where public can't sell fast enough
(Reuters)
Economic woes could push gold to $2500-Australia's Newcrest
(CNBC)
Fed's Low Rates Killing Credit, Slowing Recovery: Gross
(BusinessWeek)
California Will Borrow Up to $1 Billion to Skirt Cash Crisis
COMMENTARY
(Max Keiser)
The Historical Case For $960 Silver
(Benzinga)
Central Bankers Weaken Their Currencies, Boost Gold
(The Economic Collapse Blog)
34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt
(RT)
Chinese 'gold rush': Country diversifying assets
(Ludwig Von Mises Institute)
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Volatility in the AUD.USD..... Several out of ordinary price bars already. Something coming ? This may be getting ready to break to the downside in a big way. Who knows. Just a thought..... data is interesting though.
http://displacedema.blogspot.com/2012/02/audusd-5m-range-17pip-bars-are-...
Gold should be over $2000. Fair value with the last debt ceiling raise was $1900s.
Hot QE cash holds gold at $1750......but how much is it costing them?
It appears we are doing nothing more than subsidizing Chinese gold purchases.....perhaps that is the quid pro quo.
We don’t need no stinking charts.
It’s a counterfeit market, the numbers don’t add up.
What resistance at $1750? TPTB don’t want gold to go expediential like everything else so they just fake it.
Lock it down ! Don't flash your stash...its getting tight out there !
$3 million in gold nuggets stolen from Yreka courthouseThieves in Yreka, Calif., made off with $3 million in gold nuggets Wednesday after breaking into the Siskiyou County Courthouse and smashing a glass case that contained a display on the area's mining history, officials said.
The collection in the town near the Oregon border was about the only remnant of the Northern California county’s little-known Gold Rush days.
Founded after gold was discovered there in 1851, Siskiyou County came to be known as “the second Mother Lode,” said local historian Claudia East. “But a lot of times, we’re just kind of left out.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/3-million-in-gold-nuggets-stolen-from-yreka-courthouse.html
I'd bet it was a take down by the Hoffman/Schnabel Gang.....
gotta find gold somewhere...
the banking cartel keeps gold down to allow china to accumulate. and to allow an orderly decline in the us dollar. it is actually very nice of them and responsible. thanks ben and the boys. china apreciates this also.
lol @ "...and there appears to be a determined seller at these levels"
Alf Field's latest prediction was $4500 for Gold and is now also calling for $158 Silver, interesting times http://www.bullionbaron.com/2012/02/what-about-silver-alf-field-february...
It's the only currency worth anything right now. We will see more and more direct trade action using gold and silver as the currency medium to trade.
The powers that be wanted an international currency. Well it got one. Just not one they wanted.
The only reason not to buy gold today is that you bought a lot yesterday.
Don't wait and buy Gold....Buy Gold and wait.
Aren't the unemployment numbers leaked 48 hours in advance? What are they?
Predictions about the price of gold and silver are a dime a dozen in a market that is rigged.
Predictions about future value of precious metals against a basket of goods and services would be more relevant.
"It appears we are doing nothing more than subsidizing Chinese gold purchases.....perhaps that is the quid pro quo."
I agree 100% with this...The Chinese are not stupid...they negociated this years ago I bet...."we will buy your treasuries..but we want insurance"...IMHO
and the end game is when they have enough PM´s..they will introduce a new money backed by PM´s for the world..
Resistance, support, 50-day and 200-day moving averages, head and shoulders formations, flags, etc. are all technical trading metrics for the paper trade. Physical doesn't pay attention to technicals. All this is simply commentary on the paper trade, which is diluted by the day.
Stack. Wait. Win.
"Turkey’s gold imports were 2.96 metric tons in January, the Istanbul Gold Exchange said on its website today. Silver imports were 4.2 tons last month."
Agreed. Does this look like 51:1?
Patience all, patience. It is working out just fine.
Gold right now is diverging heavily and is compressing. Will be interesting to see if there is any reaction during the Bernanke speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9GhlfcjqFY
Ben is good at moving it, ain't he?!
Why doesn't Goldcore get the "Guest Post:" prefix...?
Bust a move!
Ok, we got near unanimous agreement that demand is robust and everybody wants gold. So who's selling and keeping the lid on this at 1750? Remember, last NFP we got to 1762 before rumors of Fed selling gold smacked the snot out of the price. So, more manipulation up here again by the likes of Blythe & HSBC. 4 weeks to get back here, 10 minutes to test support; so what else is new in the never ending global CB manipulation of the PM group.
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It's simple......the Fed takes public money and forces gold down. They and their friends in the know buy the actual physical gold....courtesy of the American taxpayer.
Not to say the Fed is all that bright......Gordon Brown came up the the orginal idea.
Who just junked me? Benny....is that you....or is that you Gordon?
Well, this week most of the steepest falls in the price of Gold seem to happen during US trading hours, after Asia goes offline.
At the same time, the constant increases in the US debt ceiling are only sustainable as long as the US Dollar remains as the world's reserve currency. The rise of a competing store of value that is out of the control of the US Government and which by it's own nature cannot be debased through printing would risk the reserve currency status of the dollar.
Finally, there doesn't seem any independent assessment of the size of the US' physical gold reserves.
1+1 = 2 ?
Does the gold/silver ratio work in reverse? Cuz if silver hit 50 when gold hit 800...as happened back in 1980...gold at 1700 means that silver should be at 150 bucks. if that doesn't happen then would gold gold end up say...below 800 an ounce from here? say like...700?
The true price of gold
If I had one ounce of gold and was able to sell that one ounce one hundred times over, it would be worth $175000.00 right now. That’s what HSBC, Goldman, Morgan……………..and the list goes on.......
got gold in hand?
Love watching these guys on C-span. Wouldn't hire any of them to mow my law.
1757@10:47
hard to believe it's 2012 and people still talk like this.
federal reserve note begs pitifully for support at 1/1750 troy oz.
When fiat printing presses are outlawed, only outlaw banksters will own fiat printing presses.