Gold Up Up Up Surges To One~Year High on Financial Uncertainty
In markets, there are always monsters in the dark—some real, some stitched together by imagination and fear. Right now, many currency traders appear to have been spooked by the spectre of the Federal Reserve losing its independence, haunted by talk of political meddling and looming economic weakness due to White House polices. These ghosts of institutional decay and “threadbare” doom narratives have crept into probability matrices across trading desks, pulling even seasoned hands off their compass bearings. Yet, in the middle of this haunted house, the dollar still stands upright—scarred, yes, but hardly broken.
Gold Silver Reports ~ Gold climbed to its highest in almost nine months on Thursday as the dollar, U.S. Treasury yields and equity markets dipped on bets that the Federal Reserve could find it hard to raise U.S. interest rates this year.
Gold Silver Reports ~ After Yellen Reports, Gold Near 8 Month High on Wednesday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that only “gradual” adjustments to monetary policy were likely and stressed that global headwinds could hurt U.S. growth.
Gold Silver Reports ~ Today was repeat of yesterday’s session in that markets sold off most of the day but managed a better recovery during the last hour by closing only slightly below the unchanged line. Apparently the bulls are still alive and putting up a fight during these tug-of-war sessions.
Gold Silver Reports ~ Crude Oil prices slid for a fourth straight session on Tuesday and teetered close to 12-1/2-year lows hit last month, after weak demand forecasts from the U.S. government and the western world’s energy watchdog, while weak equities also pressured prices.