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Gold Prices Hover, Trading Sluggish Ahead of Fed Meeting
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Gold Prices Hover, Trading Sluggish Ahead of Fed Meeting
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,632.00, EUR 1,240.97, and GBP 1,014.42 per ounce. Friday's AM fix was USD 1,640.00, EUR 1,246.30 and GBP 1,018.25 per ounce.
Silver is trading at $31.29/oz, €23.80/oz and £19.43/oz. Platinum is trading at $1,564.50/oz, palladium at $664/oz and rhodium at $1,350/oz.
Gold gained $1.20 or 0.07% in New York and closed at $1,642.00/oz on Friday. Gold initially traded sideways in Asia and then took a dip downward to $1,631.37. A slight bounce now shows gold near $1,632.69 in European trading.
Gold fell 1% last week and a stronger dollar has weakened the demand for gold as an alternative investment. The dollar gained strength against the euro as France’s Presidential elections have seen Sarkozy with only 27.1% of the vote behind Hollande’s 28.6% and Le Pen’s surprise 18.1%. Many people see the election as another disruption into a solution to the euro zone crisis. There is also the fear of a dangerous break of the Franco-German alliance if Sarkozy is ousted by a socialist.
The IMF meeting ended yesterday and leading world economies agreed to more than double the lending power of the IMF in an effort to protect the global economy from the euro zone contagion. This was still short of Lagarde’s $600 billion goal.
The Netherlands was drawn into the spotlight over the weekend when the government failed to agree on budget cuts, making elections nearly unavoidable and casting doubt on its support from future euro zone aid.
Investors will watch the China HSBC manufacturing survey at 1430 GMT as a measure of the conditions of the world’s 2nd largest economy. The Federal Reserve meets on Tuesday and Wednesday, and its statement on monetary policy is given on April 25th. The Bank of Japan meets on Friday and is expected to ease again.
Trading is sluggish as the market waits for clues.
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NEWS
Gold May Drop as Dollar Strengthens Before Data, Fed Statement – Business Week
Gold hovers around $1,640/oz; eyes on Fed meeting - Reuters
Italian Police Seize $5 billion of U.S. Securities - Reuters
Sarkozy, Hollande to Square Off as Le Pen Has Record Vote - Bloomberg
COMMENTARY
Get Physical Gold & Silver – Zero Hedge
The Best Reason in the World to Buy Gold - Forbes
James Rickards on Central Banks Obsession with Gold and Why more QE is Imminent! – Future Money Trends
Auguries — Doors of perception – Financial Post
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1360 hard line in the sand this morning... euro 1.3131 the low..
You know the drill Pepe.............BTFD!
Isn't this fun?
Aghhh!!!
Will the Fed get the balls to Ctrl-I instead of Ctrl-P???
There is no Ctrl-Z to what the Fed has done.
the standard tricks won't cut it anymore...
WE NEED A SPECIAL COMBO PLAYSET!!
Make it 600 trillion. Maybe it is a computer problem because of the high number. If not nobody's getting paid back anyhow, so who cares. Just make it work.
Make it 600 trillion.
Fill in the blank _______000.000,000.
What is the value of 0, nothing, so what is all those 000's after the 1, oh thats nothing as well :)
you know they gonna Ctrl+P..so today is a good day for buying gold&silver.
If they don't Grammie is not gonna get her meds.......you wouldn't cut off Grammie would you?
no no...let grammie get all the financial crack she needs...keynesian cheap currencies
For the love of God Ben, fire up those Heidelbergs! Turn those machines back on!
US debt is going up by $1.5 trillion a year and unfunded liabilities by $6.63 trillion a year. They have to print. If not now then in a couple of months. Europe having its problems is helping the Fed. But the Fed will have to print sooner or later.
In tough economic times, don't forget to sell gold ... and soon the sun will rise over California first.
Sell gold and buy Euro bonds......tis the way to financial success Muppets!
we need national tax strikes world wide
The international con game plays on as the gansters fuck with Gold and Silver yet again despite the fact that THE SHITHOLE in London is running out of the metal.
They only have the one play in the playbook.....what did you expect them to do?
nm
They still won't print yet!
There will be a shit storm in Europe first. BOJ will ease on Friday and we'll see the FED come in once markets crap themselves.