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Weekly Technical and Precious Metals Positioning Report - 090516

Click to see our weekly report that captures the technical outlook for precious metals using Point and Figure and Ichimoku Cloud charts, along with a brief commentary tha...

09 May 2016

Weekly Technical and Precious Metals Positioning Report

Weekly Technical and Precious Metals Positioning ReportStarting this week, ABC Bullion will be distributing a weekly report that captures the technical outlook for precio...

02 May 2016

Silver – Following on from the Break

After the decent break that took place on Tuesday the 19th, it looks worthwhile to have a quick visit to the Weekly Charts and ratio charts to see how the picture has mov...

02 May 2016

Gold: The answer to a 20 year challenge

“Why investors may need to lower their sights”, looks at the extraordinary performance of financial markets in the last thirty years, describing them as a ‘golden age’ fo...

30 April 2016

Platinum Commentary and Technical View

Platinum has had a strong start to 2016, with the market rallying from US$889.50 to a high of US$1,008.50 in early March, a 13.30% increase, before easing back slightly....

27 April 2016

Precious Metals on the Move, the US Economy and Salient Advice

Precious metals continue to impress, with another impressive week for the gold and especially silver. In US Dollars, the gold price continues to consolidate around the $1...

22 April 2016

A Silver Special, Inflation Watch, and Investing in the Decade Ahead

Despite the overnight weakness, it’s been another solid week for precious metal investors, with gold trading just below USD $1230 per troy ounce, whilst in local currency...

15 April 2016

Gold Consolidates First Quarter Gains

Gold and silver prices have had another solid week, with the precious metals trading above USD $1230 and USD $15 per troy ounce respectively.In Australian dollar terms, t...

08 April 2016

Gold: Why Economics is the Dismal Science

Precious metals have closed out a very impressive Q1 2016, a welcome respite after what has been a tough three years for those who’ve been long in the sector. After start...

01 April 2016

Gold: the Correction We Had to Have

Gold prices corrected sharply overnight, with the price of the yellow metal falling as low as USD $1214 per ounce, with silver following suit, trading as low as USD $15.1...

24 March 2016

Gold Steady on Dovish Fed

Gold prices have consolidated this week, originally pulling back before the very dovish projections from the Fed put some wind under the sails of precious metal prices.In...

18 March 2016

Gold: Trumping All Assets During a Trifecta of Absurdity

If they closed the books on 2016 tomorrow – precious metal investors would be celebrating a very happy year indeed. After ending 2015 as the most hated asset class on the...

09 March 2016

Gold: Nothing has Changed, Everything has Changed

First: the facts. Gold prices have been on a tear the past week, with the price of the yellow metal climbing above USD $1240 an ounce, now up an incredible 18% in USD ter...

12 February 2016

Gold: Rally Continues as Bankers Ease

Precious metals continued their impressive rally this week, with gold and silver climbing above USD $1150 an ounce and within touching distance of USD $15 an ounce respec...

05 February 2016

Gold: Will the Rally Continue?

It’s been another positive week for precious metal investors, with the gold price comfortably pushing through USD $1100 an ounce, whilst silver has also strengthened, cur...

29 January 2016

Gold: The Revenant

After closing out 2015 as one of the least popular asset classes on the planet, precious metals have come ‘back to life’, holding their own and even advancing in value wh...

22 January 2016

Gold: So it Begins

Calendar year 2016 has had a volatile start for investors in financial markets, with equities the world over under significant stress. Fears regarding a slow-down and pot...

14 January 2016

Final Thoughts for 2015

Was it worth it?That’s the question we think a lot of investors will be asking as they wrap Xmas presents this year. The hours spent reading blogs and research and balanc...

22 December 2015

Gold: They did it – now what?

Gold prices have eased this week, with the price of the yellow metal now trading at USD $1,053 an ounce, down nearly 2% from last Friday’s London PM Fix. Silver has also...

18 December 2015

Gold: Waiting on the Fed

Precious metal markets have traded in a relatively narrow range this week, with market participants waiting patiently on the impending Federal Reserve interest rate decis...

11 December 2015

Gold: Yellen at the Bottom

Gold prices rallied overnight, erasing some of the losses from earlier in the week, which had at one point pushed the yellow metal below USD $1,050 an ounce. Silver, whic...

04 December 2015

Gold: The Value of Liquidity

It’s been another soft week for precious metals, with the price of gold trading just above USD $1072oz, down USD $10oz on last Friday’s London PM Fix. Silver has fared sl...

26 November 2015

Gold: Rate Hike Priced In?

After starting the week on the back foot, precious metals prices have staged a minor recovery, with gold currently trading at USD $1082 an ounce, unchanged from last Frid...

20 November 2015

Gold: Searching for a Bottom

It’s been another tough week for precious metal investors, with gold in both USD and AUD easing further. The catalyst was last Friday’s non-farm payroll report, which sma...

13 November 2015

Metals off Sharply as US Rate Hike Odds Firm

Gold and silver prices have been in free fall this week, as increased odds of an interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve next month have battered sentiment toward preci...

06 November 2015

Gold Volatile as Market Eyes Rate Cut on Cup Day

It’s been a volatile week for precious metal investors, with gold and silver prices easing after the Federal Reserve meeting. The sector had started the week on a more po...

29 October 2015

Gold Stabilises: Are Interest Rates Headed to 1%

Precious metal prices have had an uneventful week, easing USD $10 per ounce, whilst in Australian dollars, we’ve seen the market consolidate just above AUD $1600 per ounc...

23 October 2015