Market Report: Punters paradox
After hitting new eight-year highs on Tuesday gold backed off. By morning trade in Europe today, gold was up $4 on the week at $1775 havin...
Market Updates
Market Report: Teed up for a bull run
With the active silver contract running off the board and both gold and silver approaching the half-year mark, this week there were strong...
Market Report: Running into Q2 factors
By early morning trade in the European time zone today, gold and silver were hardly changed on the week, with gold unchanged at $1729, and...
Market Report: Gold and silver diverge
Gold and silver followed different paths this week, with gold rising $53 from last Friday’s close to trade at $1735 in morning trade in...
Market Report: Lack of physical gold
Gold and silver suffered small losses on the week in subdued trading. In European trade this morning gold was at $1707, down $22 from last...
Market Report: Supply/demand balance shifting
Gold and silver consolidated this week, trading in a tight range. From last Friday’s close, gold eased $9 to $1725 in early morning trad...
Market Report: Silver begins to catch up with gold
Gold consolidated recent gains this week, losing $3 from last Friday’s close to trade at $1738 in early European trade this morning. On...
Market Report: Breakout for gold and silver
After a month of consolidation, gold and silver finally broke out on the upside yesterday. In early morning European trade gold was up $38...
Market Report: Comex premiums reappear
Gold and silver rose on the week, with gold up $21 from last Friday’s close at $1721 in morning European trade today and silver up 70 ce...
Market Report: Traders struggling to close shorts
Despite persistent premiums on Comex over London’s spot gold and silver, both metal contracts were marked down this week, with gold down...
Market Report: The squeeze continues…
Gold rose on the week, but silver was barely changed. From last Friday’s close, gold rose $47 to $1728 in early European trade this morn...
Market Report: Squeeze on the swaps
Gold and silver were not much changed on a dramatic week. In European trade this morning gold was down $5 at $1690, and silver was down 28...
Market Report: Please find me some physical!
Ahead of the Easter break it has been an interesting week for precious metals. Gold rose $55 from last Friday’s close to $1681.8 yesterd...
Market Report: Broken markets
This was a week of continuing confusion for markets in gold and silver futures, being disconnected from indicated physical prices outside...
Market Report: Bear squeeze on bullion banks
In a dramatic week, gold and silver rose strongly on a decline of open interest on Comex. These conditions signaled an epic bear squeeze o...
Market Report: Silver catches virus
As the metal with the strongest antibiotic qualities it is ironic that the coronavirus pandemic has affected the silver price so harshly....
Market Report: Paper gold and silver crash
As our headline chart shows, gold and silver prices fell heavily over the week, with silver crashing relative to gold. The gold/silver rat...
Market Report: Coronavirus spreads outside China
This was the week when investors began to take the coronavirus seriously as it began to spread across America. Europe had already panicked...
Market Report: Coronavirus begins to bite
This was the week that markets finally took notice of the coronavirus. Bonds soared and equities crashed in a flight to perceived safety....
Market Report: Gold roars through $1600
Gold and silver performed strongly this week as it became clear to a wider investment audience that a new bout of coordinated global money...