Gold Today -New York was closed on Monday but closed at $1,325.60
on Friday after Thursday's close at $1,313.30.London opened at $1,330.
-The $: ? was almost unchanged at $1.1167 down from $1.1165
yesterday.
-The dollar index was slightly weaker at 95.59 from 95.65
yesterday.
-The Yen was almost unchanged at 103.26 from yesterday's 103.28
against the dollar.
-The Yuan was slightly stronger at 6.6800 from 6.6770 yesterday.
-The Pound Sterling was stronger at $1.3338 from
yesterday's$1.3328.
Yuan Gold Fix
Trade Date
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Contract
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Benchmark Price AM
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Benchmark Price PM
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2016096
201609 5
|
SHAU
SHAU
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285.59
284.84
|
285.73
285.24
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Dollar equivalent @ $1: 6.6800
$1: 6.6770
|
|
$1,329.77
$1,326.87
|
$1,330.42
$1,328.73
|
After a lackluster day in London, when the gold price sat around $1,326
all day, Shanghai took the gold price higher to $1,330 and London held it
there at the open.
The Yuan was slightly weaker against the dollar once more. The pound
continued to strengthen as you can see.
LBMA price setting: The LBMA gold price setting on Monday was at $1,330.05.
Yesterday it was at set at $1,328.30.
The gold price in the euro was set on Tuesday at ?1,191.05 up
strongly onyesterday's?1,189.91.
New York is closed today but at the time New York usually opened,the gold
price was trading at $1,332.75 and in the euro at ?1,193.36.At
the same time, the silver price was trading at $19.57.
Silver Today -The silver price held its level while New York was
closed at $19.36, after $19.39 yesterday.
Gold (very short-term)The gold price will consolidate with a
positive bias, today in New York.
Silver (very short-term) The silver price will consolidate with
a positive bias, today in New York.
Price Drivers
With New York closed we saw London do nothing and then follow Shanghai
this morning. With London being the center of physical demand and supply one
would have expected London to lead the way, but is followed both New York and
Shanghai. But we do need to see strong moves to see clearly which market
holds pricing power. At the moment it is New York and has been for a long
time. Gold itself wanted to drift higher, which should set the tone for New
York today.
Another underwhelming G-20 meeting was held in Shanghai where only the
nicest things were said about China's hosting the event and the inclusion of
the Yuan in the currencies that make up the SDR of the IMF.Essentially, it is
recognition of the present and growing use of the Yuan in the world monetary
system. Having set that milestone in place we expect to see a steady erosion
of the use of the dollar in global trade at the expense of the dollar over
time.
We see the role of gold growing in this structural change largely being
used to 'smooth out' the transition'.
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Over in China, we note there is a number that is not issued and could well
have a big impact on the volumes imported into China. While Chinese officials
point to the withdrawals from the Shanghai Gold Exchange as a measure of
imports into China, the size of gold holdings in the SGE are not published.
It is possible that these could be growing solidly, increasing the levels of
imports. While the People's Bank of China uses SAFE and others to hold gold
for them before these are included in "Official reserves" we note
that the PB o C controls the SGE and may well also hold gold through the SGE?
Usually "Official Gold Reserves" are imported separately and not
included in SGE numbers but there is no reason why they should not be, in
reality, part of these.
Gold ETFs - As New York was closed yesterday there were no sales or
purchases into or from the SPDR gold ETF or from or to the Gold Trust,
leaving their respective holdings at 937.89 tonnes and 225.39 tonnes.
Since January 4th this year, the holdings of these two gold
ETFs have risen by 364.165 tonnes.
Silver - The silver price is keen to follow gold but needs to see
action in New York after the holiday yesterday before we see any big moves.
Regards,
Julian D.W. Phillips
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Global Gold Price (1 ounce)
|
|
Today
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Yesterday
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Franc
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Sf1,304.10
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Sf1,299.83
|
US
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$1,332.75
|
$1,327.10
|
EU
|
?1,193.36
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?1,188.84
|
India
|
Rs.88,614.95
|
Rs. 88,199.07
|
China
|
Y 9,042.71
|
Y 8,861.84
|
|
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