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Regular updates on global precious metal market movements.

Stay up to date with weekly price movements and the key financial, geopolitical, and economic factors shaping global and local precious metal markets.

These essential reports are ideal for first-time investors though to SMSF trustees and financial intermediaries allocating to gold on behalf of their clients. They are available via our website or can be delivered straight to your inbox. Subscribe here.

Senior Trader Daily Update 03 July 2017

Good morning everyone. I trust it was a pleasant weekend. Precious metals continued back-pedalling on Friday. The looming Independence Day holiday in the US tomorrow, as...

03 July 2017

Senior Trader Daily Update 30 June 2017

Good morning everyone and Happy Friday! Precious metals values remained on the backfoot with the normally supportive US dollar weakness factor, taking a back seat to gene...

02 July 2017

Senior Trader Daily Update 27 June 2017

Good morning everyone.There is no rhyme, reason nor logic behind the ‘clip’ of gold that was forced through the COMEX / CME August Gold Futures contract between 9.01am an...

27 June 2017

Senior Trader Daily Update 26 June 2017

Good morning everyone. I trust you enjoyed your weekend. Gold and silver closed out last week on a somewhat buoyant note, a weaker Greenback providing a boost but arguabl...

26 June 2017

Gold: Bored or Bullish?

It’s been a poor end to the financial year for precious metal investors, with both gold and silver declining for most of June. In USD terms, gold started the month around...

23 June 2017

Senior Trader Daily Update 23 June 2017

Good morning everyone and happy Friday.Tales of the feted Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi (1584 – 1645) often recount how the Ronin had the ability to defeat reputabl...

23 June 2017

Senior Trader Update 21st June

Good morning everyone, Gold and silver continued their retreat on Monday as US equities and Greenback strength weighed upon precious metals investor sentiment. ETF redemp...

21 June 2017

Senior Trader Update 20th June

Good morning everyone, Gold and silver continued their retreat on Monday as US equities and Greenback strength weighed upon precious metals investor sentiment. ETF redemp...

20 June 2017

Senior Trader Market Update 19 June

Good morning everyone and I trust you had a good weekend. The effects of Wednesday’s US FOMC monetary policy statement continued to reverberate across the precious metals...

18 June 2017

Senior Trader Update - Fed Hikes Rates 15 June

Good morning everyone. The focus overnight was entirely upon the US central bank’s FOMC monetary policy statement which confirmed a widely anticipated interest rate hike...

16 June 2017

Senior Trader Update 13 June 2017

Good morning everyone and I trust you enjoyed your long weekend. Keeping it brief this morning, gold and silver are both weaker since we last convened in spite of a softe...

13 June 2017

Senior Trader Update Friday 9th June

Good morning everyone and Happy Friday! Gold, silver and platinum slid lower in AUD terms before bargain hunting and shortcovering lifted them out of their lows while a ‘...

08 June 2017

Senior Trader Update- Gold Breaks Out of Multi-Year Downtrend

Good morning everyone. If gold is the thermometer that reflects the health of the global economic and geopolitical body at any moment in time, then the yellow metal’s ral...

07 June 2017

Senior Trader Update 6th June

Good morning everyone. Economic data releases are seemingly providing the intraday speculative flux at present, with political and geopolitical events less dominant for t...

06 June 2017

Senior Trader Update 5 June 2017

Good morning everyone. I trust you had a good weekend. Having drifted lower throughout Asian trading on Friday before a positon-squaring bounce into the European session,...

05 June 2017

Senior Trader Update 2 June 2017

Good morning everyone and Happy Friday. The winning post is in sight! A real mixed bag across the precious metals complex yesterday with various data releases creating fl...

02 June 2017

Senior Trader Commentary 1 June 2017

Good morning everyone. After some backfilling (technical corrective & consolidation work) during Far Eastern trading yesterday, the precious metals complex (gold particul...

01 June 2017

Senior Trader Update 31 May 2017

Good morning everyone. Precious metals bulls (those of them at their desks with Chinese, UK and US investors absent) managed to press their advantage in think market cond...

31 May 2017

MARK YUSKO: 'The US is going to have a crash and it will be massive'

via business insiderIn his keynote speech, Mark Yusko, CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, outlined where he sees the biggest opportunities and risks for investors ar...

30 May 2017

Senior Trader Update - 30 May 2017

Good morning everyone. A quiet start to the week with activity significantly curtailed by the absence of UK and US investors who were observing a bank holiday and Memoria...

30 May 2017

Altair Asset Management hands back cash to clients citing looming correction

Australian asset manager Altair Asset Management has made the extraordinary decision to liquidate its Australian shares funds and return "hundreds of millions" of dollars...

29 May 2017

Gold, Bitcoin and Australian Property

Gold and silver prices have enjoyed a strong end to May 2017, with the former now trading back above AUD $1700oz. This week will likely prove decisive in terms of where t...

29 May 2017

Senior Trader Update 29th May

Good morning everyone and I trust you had a good weekend. Well, gold and silver surged higher on Friday and I must admit I am at a bit of a loss as to the reason(s) why....

28 May 2017

Senior Trader Update 26 May 2017

Good morning everyone and Happy Friday. A mixed bag in precious metals as at the close of business in New York on Thursday. XAU/AUD & XAG/AUD closed firmer, bolstered pur...

26 May 2017

ABC Bullion Achieves Full Membership of LBMA

ABC Bullion cements leadership position in global bullion market with full LBMA membership

25 May 2017

Senior Trader Market Update 25 May 2017

Good morning everyone. Choppy, sideways trade within a comparatively narrow range was seen yesterday in XAU/AUD with a firming Aussie dollar during late US trading negati...

25 May 2017

Senior Trader Daily Update 22 May 2017

Good morning everyone and I trust you had a good weekend. Choppy, volatile trade was seen across the precious metals complex to close out the week with gold and silver di...

21 May 2017