Gold Silver Reports (GSR) — GOLD PRICES rose against all major currencies but leapt versus the Euro on Tuesday as the coalition government in Italy refused to cut its 2019 budget deficit plans in defiance of senior European Union figures.
Gold priced in US Dollars rose to 1-week highs above $1202 per ounce, and the UK gold price in Pounds per ounce jumped 1.8% to 3-week highs above £927 as the country’s ruling Conservative Party found its annual conference riven by continued arguments over leadership and Brexit.
But the gold price jumped fastest against the weakening Euro single currency, hitting €1042 per ounce – nearly 3.0% above last week’s new 32-month low – as the price of Italian government bonds fell hard, pushing up Rome’s cost of borrowing.
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The spread between Italian bond yields and German Bund yields leapt back above 300 basis points – the multi-year highs reached duriing this spring’s election crisis – following what Italy’s deputy prime minister, Luigi Di Maio of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, called “market terrorism” from Brussels.
The 2019 budget announced by the coalition of right-wing Lega and M5s parties last Thursday puts Italy’s deficit between government income and spending at 2.4% of the country’s annual gross domestic product.
Below the EU’s legal limit 3.0% of GDP limit, it would still grow Italy’s underlying debt-to-GDP ratio – already the worst in Europe behind Greece.
“One crisis was sufficient,” said outgoing president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday, referring to the Greek debt crisis starting in 2010.
