Spot gold may rise into a trading zone of $1258—$1266 level per ounce, as it has broken a resistance at $1245, Technical Analyst Neal Bhai.
Global stocks extended their slump on worries over slowing growth and fears that a fresh flare-up in tensions between U.S. and China could quash chances of a trade deal.
Spot gold fell 0.2 percent to $1,235.57 per ounce at 0823 GMT, while U.S. gold futures were 0.1 percent lower at $1,240.8 per ounce.
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Gold prices were steady in early Asian trade on Friday, after rising about 1.5 percent in the previous session, while the dollar inched up ahead of the U.S. payrolls data due later in the day.
Gold fell alongside equity markets on Monday partly in response to gains in the dollar which is benefiting from a run of strong U.S. economic data reinforcing expectations of further interest rate rises.
Gold inched higher but was on track for its longest monthly losing streak since January 1997 as the U.S. dollar firmed against the euro after Italy’s budget jitters threatened the European currency.
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Analysts pin most of the blame on the dollar. Its unexpected strength this year has usurped the yellow metal as skittish investors’ preferred haven asset. Meanwhile, higher US interest rates also make gold less appealing, because it offers no yield.
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – As platinum miners curb production, rhodium output will drop, causing prices to rally further, Dawson said. That could rekindle visions of the market a decade ago, when rhodium topped $10,000 an ounce after five years of a supply deficit were compounded by South African power shortages that curbed mine output.
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Gold prices fell to a six-week low on Tuesday as the dollar firmed near three-and-a-half month highs, with investors awaiting direction on US monetary policy from the US Federal Reserve.
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Trump Trade Fears Take Gold and Palladium Futures on a Wild Ride – Measures of 60-day historical volatility for gold and palladium futures climbed to the highest in about a year. Volatility in silver also increased. Prices were whipsawed last week as Trump administration officials tried to calm markets, while their boss warned of short-lived “pain” from a trade stand-off with China. In Russia, the largest palladium producer, dozens of companies and key allies of President Vladimir Putin are facing a new wave of U.S. sanctions.
Gold Silver Reports — Sibanye Gold Ltd. appointed heads for its platinum, gold and coal businesses as the South African company restructures after expanding into these commodities through acquisitions.
Wayne Robinson has been named chief executive officer of the gold and uranium unit, while Jean Nel was appointed CEO of platinum, Sibanye said in a statement Monday.