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[juuunx2] 16/4/2024 16:11

Yep not sure why hanging sub 30

[stonedyou] 15/4/2024 09:38

Gold rate today: Israel-Iran war continues to fuel gold prices despite US dollar rate touching 34-year high against Yen.

15 Apr 2024, 10:51 AM IST

Asit Manohar


Gold rate today, 15th April 2024: Despite the rally in the US dollar index, gold prices continue to trade with positive bias during early morning deals on Monday. On the Multi Commodity Exchange or MCX, gold rates today opened higher at ₹72,214 per 10 gm and went on to touch an intraday high of ₹72,362 per 10 gm within a few minutes of the commodity market's opening bell. In the international market, spot gold price is trading around $2,360 per troy ounce, which is around 0.70 percent higher from its Friday close.

Iran-Israel war in focus
Speaking on the reason for the rise in the gold prices, Royce Vargheese Joseph, Bullion & Energy Research at Kotak Securities said, "Gold prices are largely driven by escalating tensions between Iran and Israel amidst the ongoing Middle East crisis. This geopolitical uncertainty has fueled a rush into safe-haven assets, propelling gold prices up by 1.60 percent. Despite this sharp increase, the overall trend in gold remains bullish, with strong support seen at ₹70,000 per 10 gm mark."


“Gold and silver prices are rising despite the continuous rally in the US dollar index. The US dollar index touched 106 level and the US dollar rate has hit a 34-year high against the Japanese Yen, but the escalating tension in the Middle East has pushed demand for the safe haven," said Anuj Gupta, Head of Commodity & Currency at HDFC Securities.

After Israel's counterattack on Iran, the geopolitical tension in the Middle East has further escalated. Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel, which Tehran said was in response to the April 1 strike on its consulate in Syria. Almost all Iranian drones and missiles were shot down by Israeli, US, and allied forces before they reached their targets.

To stop further escalation of the Middle East crisis, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday reached out over the phone to the foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt, while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had calls with his Saudi and Israeli counterparts, amid signs of an escalating crisis in the Middle East following Iran's strikes on Israel.

Gold rate today: Important levels
On important levels regarding gold price today, Shiju Koothupalakkal, Technical Research Analyst at Prabhudas Lilladher said, "The precious metal has been skyrocketing in the last one and a half month from ₹62,200 zone to touch ₹72,800 per 10 gm levels, gaining almost 17% in a very short period. Currently, with the geo-political tensions looming around, the yellow metal is anticipated to gain further in the coming days with near-term targets of ₹73,700 and ₹75,200 levels. The near-term support would be maintained near the ₹70,200 zone as of now."

[stonedyou] 13/4/2024 11:35

Yep, agreed....

[juuunx2] 13/4/2024 10:13

Plenty of upside here must be raking in profits at these prices. Overdue re rating

[cinoib] 12/4/2024 12:38

$2,400 and heading for $3,000 is my bet and if I buy back in it's sure to drop. Remembering where it was when gold first touched $2,000 then we should now be about 36p not 24.

[justiceforthemany] 09/4/2024 13:37

Events Diary
Gold Forum Europe Conference
9-10 April 2024

Zurich, Switzerland

Cobus Loots, CEO of Pan African Resources will be presenting on Wednesday, April 10 at 13:50 CET.

For more information about the conference, please visit: Gold Forum Europe 2024

[stonedyou] 09/4/2024 10:23

Maybe the Sun Isn’t the Only Thing Being Eclipsed.


Chris Powell
GATA

"He is also secretary/treasurer of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. (GATA), which he co-founded in 1999 to expose and oppose the rigging of the gold market by Western central banks and their investment bank agents"



Recent action in gold and silver is astounding. Both monetary metals opened down hard as if somebody was trying to set a negative tone in the market for the day ahead after many days of strong advances.

Whereupon somebody pounced on the price smashes as if metal was a bargain at any price.

Something major has changed.

The Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury would not have been letting the monetary metals rise so sharply over the last few weeks if they still had much control over the markets, and if they still had much metal they were prepared to lose.

Is the second great era of gold price suppression ending just as the first great era ended with the collapse of the London Gold Pool in 1968, with the exhaustion of the ready reserves of the price suppressors?

In any case, the U.S. dollar is in danger of being murdered by its own government through over-issuance, spectacular and still-growing indebtedness, and political weaponization.

While the longstanding gold price suppression policy of the U.S. government and its allies, undertaken to defend the dollar and executed largely through the futures markets, remains a prohibited topic with the cowardly mainstream financial news organizations in the West, major central banks and governments throughout the world -- including those of China and Russia -- long have known all about it and have even discussed it openly.

Major financial houses know about it too, though they won't take the risk of discussing it openly.

GATA is a big reason why they know.

They all are aware of the uncoverable short position the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury have been running in gold for almost 50 years. The violence of the recent rally in the monetary metals strongly implies that this short position is being squeezed by equally big operators.

So maybe the sun won't be the only thing eclipsed. Maybe a predatory financial system will be eclipsed too, and payback, as the saying goes, is ...well, very unpleasant.


Chris Powell
GATA
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[stonedyou] 09/4/2024 10:17

GoldSeek Radio Nugget - Peter Kendall: Gold Has Room to Run.


Chris Waltzek

GoldSeek Radio


Peter Kendall returns with gold blasting through $2,325 this week, yet another record high! we review the charts of key markets in real-time. He co-edits Elliott Wave International’s Elliott Wave Financial Forecast with Steven Hochberg. He also provides commentary on cultural trends, the economy and the U.S. stock market for the firm’s Global Market Perspective.

- Elliott Wave analysis on the gold sector suggests gold price just started the most significant 3rd wave.

December 1st [2023]...We walked through the pace is about gold was in [Steven Hochberg's] forecast. And as I look at your [live gold] chart, I can see the waves as they've played out and as he suggested they would. We talked a lot about October and exactly what Steve had said in the short-term update in October...and then by December, you know that we were fairly certain that that low was in place and that we would continue to new highs which happened pretty soon.

After you know that this the first set of new all-time highs that took place in. I guess it was still December, it might have been January but there we were... we got it and then we pulled back; that's wave two that pulled back into earlier this year and now we're in a third wave up, which is exactly what Steve was calling for and it's playing out very nicely, as you mentioned.

- We review the US equities chart - our guest expects a consolidation.
- With the epic GPU maker, NVIDIA higher by 10x in about one year, is the price nearing a key zenith and if so what steps can investors take to shield their portfolios?
- Are nascent money managers blissfully unaware of the risks associated with price excesses?
- How closely does the global financial asset bubble resemble the key financial manias of the past?
- Further Elliott Wave analysis suggests $3,000+ in the coming years.
- The COT data suggests the herd may once again be wrong, hinting at further gold gains for contrarian-minded investors.

Check out EWI Promotion for Goldseek Listeners.

[stonedyou] 08/4/2024 21:48

Healthy Central Bank Gold Buying Continued in February

April 08, 2024

Mike Maharrey

Market Analyst


Central banks continued to add to their gold reserves in February, albeit at a slightly slower pace.

On net, global central bank gold reserves increased by 19 tons in February with some selling pushing down that total. It was the ninth straight month of net central bank gold buying.

China was the biggest buyer in February. The People's Bank of China increased its official gold holdings by 12 tons. The Chinese central bank has added gold to its hoard for 16 straight months. China officially holds 2,257 tons of gold. The Chinese have added over 300 tons of gold to their reserve since they resumed reporting gold purchases in October 2022.

The People's Bank of China added 1,448 tons of gold to its stash between 2002 and 2019, and then suddenly went dark until it resumed reporting in the fall of 2022. There is speculation that the Chinese were still adding gold to their holdings off the books during those silent years.

In fact, China may hold far more gold than it officially reports. As Jim Rickards pointed out on Mises Daily back in 2015, many analysts believe that China keeps several thousand tons of gold “off the books” in a separate entity called the State Administration for Foreign Exchange (SAFE).

The National Bank of Kazakhstan is back in a buying mood. It added 6 tons of gold to its reserves in February. Kazakhstan tends to shift back and forth between buying and selling.

The Reserve Bank of India bought 6 tons in February. Since resuming buying in late 2017, the Indian central bank has purchased over 200 tons of gold. In August 2020, there were reports that the RBI was considering significantly raising its gold reserves.

Turkey continued to add to its reserves in February but at a slower pace. After leading buyers in January with a 12-ton increase in its gold reserves, the Turks added another 4 tons in February.

Last year, Turkey was a net seller, liquidating 160 tons of gold in the spring of 2023. The central bank returned to buying in the third quarter of last year.

According to the World Gold Council, the big gold sale was a specific response to local market dynamics and didn’t appear to reflect a change in the Turkish central bank’s long-term gold strategy. The Turkish central bank sold gold into the local market to satisfy demand after the government imposed import quotas in an attempt to improve its current account balance. The country is running a significant trade deficit.

These central banks also added gold to their reserves in February:

Singapore - 2 tons
The Czech Republic - 2 tons
Qatar - 2 tons
Kyrgyz Republic - 1 ton
There were two notable sellers in February.

Uzbekistan sold 12 tons of gold. It is not uncommon for banks that buy from domestic production – such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan – to switch between buying and selling.

The Central Bank of Jordan reduced its gold holdings by 4 tons.

The World Gold Council noted that sales in 2024 have lagged behind the same period last year, but still described central bank gold buying as "healthy," adding that "the broad trend of gold buying remains intact."

Last month, the World Gold Council said the continuation of gold buying supports its expectation that "2024 will be another solid year of central bank gold demand."

"Last year central banks placed great emphasis on gold’s value in crisis response, diversification attributes, and store-of-value credentials. A few months into 2024 the world seems no less uncertain meaning those reasons for owning gold are as relevant as ever."

Last year, central bank gold buying fell just 45 tons short of 2022’s multi-decade record.

According to the World Gold Council, central banks net gold purchases totaled 1,037 tons in 2023. It was the second straight year central banks added more than 1,000 tons to their total reserves.

Central bank gold buying in 2023 built on the prior record year. Total central bank gold buying in 2022 came in at 1,136 tons. It was the highest level of net purchases on record dating back to 1950, including since the suspension of dollar convertibility into gold in 1971.

China was the biggest buyer in 2023.

Analysts at ANZ Bank recently said they expect central bank gold buying to remain hot for at least the next six years. According to these analysts, "Depleted trust in the U.S. fixed-income assets and the rise of non-reserve currencies are other themes that could support central bank gold buying."