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New York closed Friday at
$1,661.70 and slipped in Asia to $1,656 ahead of London to $1,662.25. The
euro was weaker at €1: $1.3212 50 cents weaker. Today, gold Fixed it at
$1,652.50 down $4 and in the euro at €1,257.706 up a euro, while the
euro stood at €1: $1.3139. Ahead of New York’s opening it stood
at $1,652.00 and in the euro €1,257.04 while the euro was at €1:
$1.3142.
Silver was$30.97 at the
close in New York but opened in London at $30.87. Ahead of New York’s
opening it stood at $30.60.
Gold (very
short-term)
Gold’s
trading range should continue to narrow, with a slightly weaker bias, in New
York.
Silver (very
short-term)
Silver’s
trading range should continue to narrow, with a slightly weaker bias, in New
York.
Price Drivers
Investors should continue to keep their eyes on the
Indian Rupee, which is now almost crossing the Rs.53 to $1 level, keeping
gold prices in India rising. Indian investors relate to Rupee prices of gold
not U.S. dollar prices. If they were to see gold in U.S. dollar prices they
would be buying now. Of course, it is the weakening in the value of the Rupee
that should be prompting Indian investors buying, but this awareness is not
the current perception there. What this shows us is just how easy it is to
lose sight of the ball in the gold market. Most of our readers relate only to
the dollar price of gold or secondly to the euro price. However, the gold
price is a measure of the value of currencies and not the other way around
where currencies measure gold. But with Indian demand reaching over 800 tonnes in a good year, out of 2,800 tonnes
of newly mined gold supply annually [28%] this feature of the gold market is
important. [To follow our weekly commentary, please subscribe to our newsletters at www.GoldForecaster.com and at www.SilverForecaster.com.]
While many believe that
Chinese demand should be thrown in with Asian demand, it is very different
from Indian demand in its nature. Chinese gold demand comes with no religious
connotation, no family obligations to provide financial liquidity and
security to daughters getting married but with the main common denominator of
saving real money. Both types of demand are to ‘buy and hold’ for
the long-term. Both believe that the rising price confirms the wisdom of
further investment in precious metals [silver included] and do not look for a
‘top’ in which to sell. However, both can still be fooled into
believing that a Yuan or a Rupee price measures the value of gold.
The Indian government will
allow the Rupee to weaken and prefer that Indian investors change their attitude
to gold as it reduces money supply to the broad economy [they ignore the
black financial system], whereas the Chinese government encourages its
citizen’s to investment in gold.
Regards,
Julian D.W. Phillips
for the Gold & Silver Forecasters
Global Gold Price (1 ounce)
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Today
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1 day ago
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Franc
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Sf1,503.05
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Sf1,503.65
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US
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$1,655.25
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$1,653.00
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EU
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1,250.76
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€1,251.32
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India
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Rs.87,045.46
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Rs.86,799.03
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