-- Published: Thursday, 11 February 2016 | Print | Disqus
The surge in gold prices over the past week has much to do with the current and upcoming events of central banks moving to even lower negative interest rates. The impact is being felt in countries which have enacted such. German and French banks got hit especially hard this week.
Today the sector getting hit especially hard in US stock indices is the banking sector as the market is throwing in the towel on ideas that the Fed will be able to lift interest rates further anytime soon. Keep in the mind that in December the Fed program was calling for 4 interest rate hikes. The market via the futures contract has thrown that idea out and sees at this time little chance of a second hike in interest rates anytime soon. In fact a March hike is now a -6%, yes that's a minus and the rest of the year is that way. That is a big change
You can see this on the CME Fed Watch Page at http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to-fomc.html
What this change in thinking has done is put in question the health of many major banks. We went into the year thinking in the US higher interest rates were coming. Suddenly that idea is out the window.
The question of "fear", has driven "safe haven" investments through the roof. Gold is up over $50 an ounce today, 10-Year Notes are now approaching a yield of 1.6%; the Yen has soared to a new contract high.
Expect corrections down from current levels, but in this environment expect the corrections to find willing buyers. Whether or not prices get up the 3rd PriceCount of mid $1300's remains to be seen, but it is an active PriceCount and will remain our objective until a new downside PriceCount setup develops.
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