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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...
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...
19 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...
18 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...
15 May 2017
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...
12 May 2017
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...
10 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...
10 May 2017
Good morning everyone, Choppy, range-driven trading was seen in gold on Monday with both XAU/AUD & XAU/USD rallying after the result of the French election became known b...
09 May 2017
Gold prices in Australian dollars have had a small rise today, with the local currency under pressure after yet another disappointing retail sales report. The data, relea...
08 May 2017
Good morning everyone and I trust you had a pleasant weekend. Quite a healthy range in XAU/AUD on Friday, effectively AUD 40.00 (+20 in Asia from 1656 to 1675 and then a...
08 May 2017
Good morning everyone, The Federal Open Market Committee left US interest rates unchanged in its current range between 0.75% and 1.00% but it was the hawkish tone of the...
04 May 2017
This week, I took advantage of a temporary pullback in precious metal prices to Top Up my ABC Bullion Gold Saver account. I normally use the ABC Bullion Gold Saver to inv...
03 May 2017
Good morning, Unsurprisingly, investors have swum to the side of the pool ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC monetary policy statement by the US Federal Reserve at which it is ant...
02 May 2017
Good morning everyone. The entire precious metals complex was driven lower on Monday, commencing during Far Eastern trading when news began to filter through that the US...
02 May 2017
Good morning everyone and I trust you had a good weekend. Sideways, range-trading was seen ahead of Friday’s US GDP data release but price action turned extremely volatil...
30 April 2017
USD precious metal prices have weakened over the past several trading days, with the price of gold currently trading at USD $1,264oz, down close to 2% from their temporar...
28 April 2017
Gold was largely confined to an AUD 1690 – 1700 range on Thursday, while in USD terms the metal chopped around between USD 1262 – 1270 (albeit with a modest ‘offered’ ton...
28 April 2017
Good morning everyone. A choppy day as far as XAU/USD (gold in USD) was concerned with the prices staging a late rally on US dollar and stock market weakness but in XAU/A...
26 April 2017
Good morning everyone. The investing ‘herd’ eschewed safe haven assets and piled back into ‘risk-on’ assets (stocks) and currencies which resulted in lower precious metal...
26 April 2017
Good morning everyone and I trust you had a pleasant weekend. As expected, gold went into a holding pattern as the week drew to a close on Friday, there was little to pro...
24 April 2017
Good morning everyone, A jobbers / range traders market in Gold/AUD at present as AUD 1690 & 1710/15 continue to remain the demarcation lines. While the situation in Nort...
21 April 2017
Good morning everyone, Gold continued its consolidative price-action in AUD terms yesterday, hitting resistance in the ‘sticky’ AUD 1710-1715 noted in yesterday’s comment...
20 April 2017
Good morning everyone and I trust you had a good long weekend. Investors (and I would venture, most people in general) remained on edge as major geopolitical events conti...
18 April 2017
Good morning everyone, Whether he’s raining down Tomahawk Cruise missiles on airfields in Syria or slapping the US Dollar down with comments to the WSJ that he prefers a...
13 April 2017
Given the community concern about housing affordability, and the vested interests at play, the reaction to the latest rumours that the government may allow Australians to...
12 April 2017
Good morning everyone, Reasonable each-way interest was evident throughout Far Eastern trading yesterday as gold drifted lower from the TOCOM open before finding support...
12 April 2017
Good morning everyone. Notwithstanding that geopolitical developments remained front and centre in investor minds vis-a-vis the Trump Administration’s surprisingly muscul...
11 April 2017
