Gold consolidating in new range; downward pressure on US inflation levels is fading. Gold has continued its period of price consolidation over the past week and has essentially been trading sideways in a range between $1,908 and $1,946 (intraday). While still in its uptrend, it is now dicing with the 10-day moving average and if […]
Coininvest round-up Monday 5th September 2022
Don’t let the dollar’s strength confuse you Miserable gold generates even more bearish technicals, but is now oversold Silver is relatively stable given gold’s action; the ratio is down from 96 to 94, but still very high. Net short the largest since May 2019. Dollar remains strong but gold is now holding just above $1,700 […]
Coininvest round-up Monday 13th June 2022
We noted last week that the U.S. yield curve was nearing inversion; well now we are at the tipping point, with the two-year and ten-year rates level. A yield curve inversion reflects risk-off sentiment with particular respect to fears of a recession. Investors tend to buy the long-term bonds with a view to locking in […]
Gold trying to break higher – markets firmly in risk-off
It’s always a sign of extreme nervousness when the dollar, Treasury yields, and gold are all moving higher. With the markets now fully expecting a 50-point rate hike from the Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting of 3rd and 4th May, attention has been increasingly focused on geopolitical risk, which of course revolves largely […]
Gold — A short-lived recovery after the speculative clear-out — US potentially freezing Russia’s gold reserves
With the Fed March meeting now out of the way, geopolitics has been the primary focus of the markets over the past week – although the increased hawkishness from Chair Jay Powell and other members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) at the start of last week, only a couple of days after the […]