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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 Update 10/04/2017

Good morning all, By now everyone would be aware of the US missile strike against Syria on Friday, a geopolitical development that we flagged in Friday morning’s comment...

10 April 2017

$6 Million Dollar Homes and $10,000 Gold!

Whilst not as headline grabbing nor as strong a start to the year as we witnessed in 2016, Q1 of 2017 has been kind to precious metal investors, with gold and silver pric...

07 April 2017

Head Trader Daily Commentary 06/04/2017

A subdued session in the Far East yesterday and during European trading saw gold drift lower as Chinese investors returned to their desks and were on the offer for much o...

06 April 2017

Head Trader Daily Commentary

Good morning all, Chinese participants remained absent yesterday during Far Eastern trade as they observed Tomb Sweeping Day but AUD/Gold took a leg higher when the AUD w...

05 April 2017

Senior Trader Update: Gold catches a bid in Asian trade

Good morning all, AUD/Gold caught a bid in Asian trading yesterday in spite of reduced liquidity due to the absence of Chinese participants who are out for ‘Tomb Sweeping...

04 April 2017

Interest Rates and Inflation

If you are to taking your cue from the market as to what will happen next with Australian interest rates, then you’d come to the conclusion that the RBA has reached the e...

13 March 2017

Gold: Time for Caution

The precious metal market has had a mixed week, with gold pushing up toward USD $1,263 per troy ounce, approaching the 200 day moving average, before pulling back toward...

02 March 2017

Greenspan Shrugged, Credit Suisse and RBA Fake News

The precious metal complex has continued its solid start to calendar year 2017, with gold currently trading at USD $1,238 per troy ounce, whilst silver is sitting at USD...

22 February 2017

Market Update: Exter’s Pyramid and the “End of Easy Money”

Last week, ABC Bullion participated in the SMSF Association’s National Conference in Melbourne. To coincide with the Conference, we are proud to release our latest resear...

20 February 2017

Market Update: Gold Bounce, “Trumpathy” and Dow 30,000!

Investors in both gold and silver have enjoyed a solid first month of calendar year 2017, with the price of both precious metals in USD rising by 5.30% and 8.40% respecti...

03 February 2017

Market Update: Final Thoughts for 2016!

Despite the price weakness and rapidly declining sentiment toward precious metals in the aftermath of the US presidential election, it is worth reflecting on the fact tha...

09 December 2016

Market Update: Gold: Is the Bull Market Already Dead?

Up until a few weeks ago, 2016 was shaping up as the year that the precious metal market well and truly moved back into bull mode, with strong price gains that easily exc...

29 November 2016

Gold and the US Election Result

Gold: Right but so Wrong! In the week leading into the election (before the FBI released there “nothing to see here” comments regarding Secretary Clinton’s email issue),...

14 November 2016

Gold Trumping Stocks!

In our market update last week, we noted that longer term investors should look at a gold price close to AUD $1650oz as a gift, and one that they may wish to take advanta...

04 November 2016

Gold Correction! Buying Opportunity?

In a bull market, you should either be long, or sitting on the sidelines waiting to get long. It’s a simple message, but one that a senior trader at ABC Bullion is fond o...

26 October 2016

Gold, OMFIF, the Fed, BoJ and Bond Markets!

Precious metal prices rallied last week, with the price of gold climbing back toward USD $1,340 per troy ounce (oz), whilst silver prices rallied toward the USD $20oz lev...

28 September 2016

Can Gold Play a Role in an SMSF?

Physical gold has been one of the best performing assets this year, up some 20%, with the price currently sitting just below AUD $1,750 per troy ounce. This continues a s...

18 September 2016

Thoughts Post-Jackson Hole

With the central banking symposium at Jackson Hole coming to an end, Livewire, one of Australia's leading financial news platforms, was kind enough to ask us, as well as...

30 August 2016

Market Update: Anniversaries, Smart Money, Regulation and Banning Cash: It’s all about Trust!

It’s been a relatively uneventful month for precious metals so far, with the price of gold in USD up slightly, currently trading at USD $1,352 per troy ounce, whilst silv...

18 August 2016

Grossly Unintelligent

Too much bullishness is never a good thing! For precious metals bulls, it is worth keeping that in mind, with the metal trading near AUD $1800 an ounce this week, up circ...

04 August 2016

Gold for Australian Investors - Market Update 29th July

On Tuesday night, ABC Bullion hosted a sold out seminar; “The New Bull Market in Precious Metals”, in front of over 600 existing and new clients, as well as an assorted m...

28 July 2016

Should Value Managers Buy Gold?

There has been a flurry of articles written about precious metals lately, not surprising considering the strong rally in the first half of 2016, which saw gold and silver...

04 July 2016

Brexit: The Vote, and the Impact on Gold and Broader Markets

Financial markets went through one of their most volatile trading days on record Friday, with an unexpected Brexit vote causing chaos on currency markets and stock exchan...

26 June 2016

Complimentary access to Livewire Live

Gold prices rallied strongly on Friday night, an understandable reaction to some of the worst US employment data in years. The news, which rattled currency markets, saw a...

06 June 2016

Gold: What to Make of the Pullback

For the first time in 2016, precious metal investors are on the back foot, with gold and silver declining from early May. After closing out April at USD $1274.50 and USD...

03 June 2016

Gold Consolidating Gains

Despite the overnight pullback, it’s been another solid week for precious metal investors, with gold in USD trading at $1267 per troy ounce. In Australian dollars, prices...

12 May 2016

Brief Platinum Update

Look for a move to US$1020 with support at US$1013If support at US$1013  doesn’t hold then note a target to US$982 on the hourly P and F? That takes the price back to nea...

10 May 2016