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...
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20 June 2017
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ‘...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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26 May 2017
ABC Bullion Achieves Full Membership of LBMA
ABC Bullion cements leadership position in global bullion market with full LBMA membership
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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...
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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...
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21 May 2017
Chinese Insurer Warns Of "Mass Defaults, Social Unrest" Due To "Mass Redemption" Run
In a stunning announcement made by one of China’s largest insurers, Foresea Life has warned of "mass defaults and social unrest" unless China's regulator lifts a recent b...
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19 May 2017
Senior Trader Daily Commentary 19 May 2017
Good morning everyone and Happy Friday! Confusion on the US political scene transmitted across to financial market volatility yesterday as early US dollar and equity mark...
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19 May 2017
Senior Trader Update 18 MAY 2017
Good morning everyone, “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” (John Maynard Keynes). It pains me having to draw inspiration from the British e...
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18 May 2017
Senior Trader Update 16th May 2017
Gold and silver were firmer as the week commenced and perhaps it was no great surprise, as a cursory glance at the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report (as at May 9t...
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15 May 2017
Gold Stabilises
Gold prices have stabilised overnight, after falling down toward USD $1215oz, providing some respite for precious metal longs who’ve endured a painful few weeks, with bot...
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12 May 2017
The Death of Volatility
It’s been another soft week for precious metal prices, with gold currently trading just below USD $1,220oz. Silver is currently sitting just above USD $16oz, a more than...
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10 May 2017
Senior Trader Update 10th May 2017
Good morning everyone, XAU/USD stuck to the recent script, holding doggedly to the (inverse) correlation between itself & USD/JPY (chart attached). Speculative rebalancin...
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10 May 2017