Market Updates

Gold shrugs off Swiss Referendum and turns higher!

If nothing else, this week’s price action in gold proves that the market sure has a sense of humour. Many observers were sure that the failure of the Swiss referendum ove...

Market Update: AUD gold back above $1400oz as Switzerland heads to the polls!

The Australian dollar price of gold has reclaimed $1400oz, up 4% for the year, as weakness in the local currency, which has fallen to just USD $0.85 cents, buoyed prices...

Amazing Superannuation Statistic

The Superannuation industry in this country is huge.So huge, that it’s set to hit the $2 Trillion mark by early 2015, truly extraordinary for a country of only 22 odd mil...

Market Update: Gold - All eyes on Switzerland!

Gold prices eased overnight, falling as low as USD $1175oz, as the latest poll out of Switzerland suggested just weaker support for their upcoming referendum regarding in...

Market Update: Gold rallies as physical buyers step into markets

After falling as low as USD $1130oz on Friday the 7th November, gold staged a massive reversal, rallying some USD $50oz to close out the week just below the USD $1180oz m...

Market Update: The Fed ends QE3

Gold prices pulled back overnight, as the Federal Reserve announced the winding up of its current round of Quantitative Easing. Whilst this announcement was expected, the...

Market Update: Gold - searching for a bottom

After a solid three weeks, and a strong bounce of the USD $1180oz level in early October, gold prices pulled back overnight, and are currently trading at USD $1232oz, dow...

Market Update: #HeartofGold & Gold Symposium Update

Last week, ABC Bullion was delighted to attend the 7th annual Gold Investment Symposium, which was held at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth Hotel. As we have for the past few...

Market Update: Gold - Was that a triple bottom?

A strong headline non-farm payroll report out of the US last Friday saw gold prices finally break below USD $1200oz. This weakness continued into the early part of this w...

Chief Economist, Jordan Eliseo's extended interview with The Business

Market Update: Gold – What is in store for Q4?

Gold prices bounced around overnight, with the final quarter of the year shaping up as critical in where the metal heads moving into 2015.After a very disappointing Q3 re...

SMSF Trustees and Physical Bullion – a Growing Trend

Over the last decade or so, there has been a veritable explosion in the number of Australians setting up Self Managed Super Funds (SMSFs), and taking control of this key...

Market Update: Gold - is there no end to the pain?

If you were to make investment decisions for your portfolio based on the weight of reporting one sees in the financial news, then there’s almost no question that the gold...

Market Update: Supporting Australia's #heartofgold

On the surface, it might be hard to imagine that a group of white-collar workers operating out of an air-conditioned office in the middle of the Sydney CBD have jobs dire...

Market Update: Gold eases even as Geopolitical tensions rise

Gold prices have eased back further this week, with a sharp plunge overnight taking the yellow metal down to USD $1219oz, down 1% since last Fridays London PM Fix.Silver...

Market Update: Gold below USD $1250oz as USD soars

It’s been a disappointing start to September, typically one of gold’s strongest months, with precious metal prices weakening across the board. Gold, which started the mon...

Special report 4: Five factors driving gold higher

Whether it’s a golden wedding anniversary we’ve attended, cheering on an Australian to a gold medal performance at the Olympics, or describing a friend or loved one as ha...

Special Report 3: After the Crash – The precious metal market today!

It’s nearly 18 months since the gold market witnessed its sharpest falls in three decades, with the price of the yellow metal plummeting from the USD $1600 to USD $1300oz...

Special Report 2: Gold versus Platinum (no - not the metal)

Just over a year on from the largest precious metal correction in decades, and in an environment where equity markets appear unstoppable, it might seem futile to explain...

Special Report 1: Negative Rates are killing Australia’s $700bn Term Deposit Market - is Gold the Answer?

On the 8th August 2014, Christopher Joye wrote a typically insightful piece in the AFR, titled “Cash sacrificed on the altar of easy credit”. The article didn’t mince wor...

Market Update: Gold back above USD $1300oz on ‘Incursion Risk’

Gold prices got their mojo back overnight, moving sharply higher as the situation between the Ukraine and Russia deteriorated, with Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoig...

Market Update: Gold weakens as markets shudder

Irrespective of their market of choice, investors the world over got a wake up call overnight that risk does in fact still exist.In what was the most tumultuous night for...

Market Update: Gold steadies around USD $1300oz as risk returns

The tragic events in the Ukraine, and the ongoing and in many ways escalating conflicts in Israel, Gaza and Iraq were a sad reminder to everyone, investors included, that...

Market Update: Gold hit hard as Bears regain control, for now

Precious metal investors received a rude shock this week with gold, which looked like it was finally ready to re-exert itself, but falling roughly USD $50oz in two tradin...

Market Update: Gold steady as Fed talks “Exit Strategy

The precious metal market has enjoyed another steady few days, consolidating gains above the USD $1300oz level for gold, whilst silver is just above the USD $21oz level f...

Market Update: Physical Gold and Protecting Wealth

Whether it’s a golden wedding anniversary we’ve attended, cheering on an Australian to a gold medal performance at the Olympics, or describing a friend or loved one as ha...

Market Update: Gold best performing asset class in H1 2014

Gold prices have traded in a relatively narrow range again this week, oscillating between roughly USD $1315oz and USD $1335oz, as the market awaits a compelling impetus t...