LIVE Gold Prices $  | E-Mail Subscriptions | Update GoldSeek | GoldSeek Radio 

Commentary : Gold Review : Markets : News Wire : Quotes : Silver : Stocks - Main Page 

 GoldSeek.com >> News >> Story  Disclaimer 
 
Latest Headlines

GoldSeek.com to Launch New Website
By: GoldSeek.com

Is Gold Price Action Warning Of Imminent Monetary Collapse Part 2?
By: Hubert Moolman

Gold and Silver Are Just Getting Started
By: Frank Holmes, US Funds

Silver Makes High Wave Candle at Target – Here’s What to Expect…
By: Clive Maund

Gold Blows Through Upside Resistance - The Chase Is On
By: Avi Gilburt

U.S. Mint To Reduce Gold & Silver Eagle Production Over The Next 12-18 Months
By: Steve St. Angelo, SRSrocco Report

Gold's sharp rise throws Financial Times into an erroneous sulk
By: Chris Powell, GATA

Precious Metals Update Video: Gold's unusual strength
By: Ira Epstein

Asian Metals Market Update: July-29-2020
By: Chintan Karnani, Insignia Consultants

Gold's rise is a 'mystery' because journalism always fails to pursue it
By: Chris Powell, GATA

 
Search

GoldSeek Web

 
Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver Gain Almost 2% and 3%
By: Chris Mullen, Gold-Seeker.com


-- Posted Monday, 10 October 2011 | | Disqus

 

Close

Gain/Loss

Gold

$1669.00

+$32.70

Silver

$31.94

+$0.87

XAU

193.80

+3.39%

HUI

544.28

+3.54%

GDM

1573.29

+3.34%

JSE Gold

8605.62

+83.60

USD

77.51

-1.19

Euro

136.53

+2.75

Yen

130.42

+0.03

Oil

$85.41

+$2.43

10-Year

2.068%

UNCH

T-Bond

138.6875

-2.625

Dow

11433.18

+2.97%

Nasdaq

2566.05

+3.50%

S&P

1194.89

+3.41%

 
 

 

The Metals:

 

Gold climbed higher throughout most of world trade and ended near its New York noontime high of $1674.72 with a gain of 2%.  Silver rose to as high as $32.323 and ended with a gain of 2.8%.

 

Euro gold rose to almost €1222, platinum gained $31.70 to $1519.70, and copper gained 9 cents to about $3.36.

 

Gold and silver equities rose about 3% at the open and remained near that level for the rest of the day.

 

The Economy:

 

Congress takes up China, free trade, jobs bills  Yahoo

Americans Sargent, Sims share economics Nobel  Yahoo

China: Currency law would hurt U.S. jobs growth  Reuters

No U.S. Recession as Forecasts Improve  Bloomberg

 

There were no major economic reports today, and there are none due out tomorrow.

 

The Markets:

 

Charts Courtesy of http://finance.yahoo.com/

 

Oil rose as the U.S. dollar index fell after the euro climbed markedly higher on encouraging comments from Merkel and Sarkozy about recapitalizing European banks.

 

The bond market was closed today in observance of Columbus Day.

 

The Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P rose about 3% on optimism over Europe.

 

Among the big names making news in the market today were Apple, Dexia, and Netflix.

 

The Commentary:

 

News out of Europe overnight that appeared to confirm thinking that the rescue fund being put together by the Europeans is going to proceed in a timely fashion cheered the hedge fund community which ran pell mell back into the risk trades. In the process, both gold and silver moved up towards the upper end of their recent ranges, the Dollar sank like a rock, the Euro soared and the US Treasury market was mauled with an avalanche of willing sellers.

What a party it seems liquidity can provide! Then again, when all is said and done, there is nothing left for the monetary and political leaders left to do except to intervene and bail out the banks. Dealing with the root causes (the failure of socialism and a cradle to grave nanny state which spends too much) would entail too much hardship on the populace which is addicted to government handouts, witness a huge hit on the balance sheets of the banks who bought this junk and thereby threaten the re-election prospects of too many politicians. That is a big no-no so the path of least resistance and the one that will ALWAYS be seized upon by short-sighted political leaders is to have the taxpayers pay for all this seeing that governments have no money except that which they take from the citizens in the form of taxes (this also includes borrowing money which will be eventually taken from future generations in the form of higher taxes).

No matter - the markets love it as the punch bowl has been spiked - at least for today.

Seeing that risk was back on, gold moved higher putting in a strong performance that has taken it to the upper end of its range during this period of consolidation. It must break through $1680 with some gusto to convince technicians that this consolidation is over and it is getting ready to at least have a shot at resuming its longer term uptrend.

As mentioned in the KWN Weekly Metals Wrap, the speculative side of both the gold and silver markets has been severely flushed with ongoing long liquidation continuing for some time now. What is needed is for a halt to be put to the rush to the exits by the specs and a renewed interest or desire in taking long positions on the Comex in both metals if these two precious metals are going to have a shot at a trending move higher. Neither metal will be able to sustain upside breakouts if the speculators do not return and inject their cash into these markets. If they are convinced that the bailouts in Europe are going to be of sufficient size to prevent any further credit market lockups, then this could be the fundamental spark needed to convince those sitting on the sidelines to re-enter.

The chart for gold remains the same as it has been for the last few weeks. Note the resistance levels and you can see where the yellow metal is at from a technical perspective. If it clears here, then it should make a move towards psychological resistance at the $1700 level. If that gives way, then $1720-$1725 is up next.

Downside support is a bit higher coming in first near $1640 followed by $1620 with more substantial support remaining at the $1600 level.

Silver is knocking on the door of strong resistance near $32.50 once again and continues to tease with this level. If the bulls can power through the selling coming in here, then it has a good shot at moving to near $34 before any serious resistance arises. Above $34, and we have some real potential to trend, especially if the specs come roaring back into this market. They have been fleeing in droves and at extremely low levels of concentration on the long side based on last Friday's Commitment of traders report.

The HUI thus far (it is still early) looks very strong and is trading right at a tough resistance level (540). If it can push through this level and close strong, it should have enough technical momentum to try a run at the 20 day moving average near 558.

The Dollar is getting the fire beat out of it today as Treasuries sink over a full two points and the forex crowd is salivating over the Euro. If it cannot claw back above the swing low noted on the chart, there are a large contingent of speculative longs in the greenback which are going to be in some serious trouble. Many of these guys ( and a large number of them are undercapitalized small traders) bought in above this level and those positions are going to be seriously underwater if this support level fails to hold.- Dan Norcini, More at http://www.traderdannorcini.blogspot.com/

 

GATA Posts:

 

Lars Schall: Germany should end the secrecy and bring its gold home

Alasdair Macleod: Quantitative easing, or when there's nowhere left to run

 

The Statistics:

Activity from: 10/07/2011

Gold Warehouse Stocks:

11,119,115

+3,399

Silver Warehouse Stocks:

105,948,147

+13,239

 

Global Gold ETF Holdings

[WGC Sponsored ETF’s]

 

Product name

Total Tonnes

Total Ounces

Total Value

New York Stock Exchange Arca (NYSE Arca) AND Singapore Exchange (SGX) AND Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) AND Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx)

SPDR® Gold Shares

1229.507

39,529,892

US$65,625m

London Stock Exchange (LSE) AND NYSE Euronext Paris AND Borsa Italiana AND Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Deutsche Börse - Xetra)

Gold Bullion Securities

115.35

3,708,632

US$6,195m

London Stock Exchange (LSE) AND NYSE Euronext Paris AND Borsa Italiana AND Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Deutsche Börse - Xetra) AND NYSE Euronext Amsterdam

ETFS Physical Gold

126.23

4,058,350

US$6,785m

Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)

Gold Bullion Securities

14.21

473,478

US$765m

Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE)

New Gold Debentures

44.54

1,432,021

US$2,341m

NASDAQ Dubai

Dubai Gold Securities

0.154

4,948

US$8m

 

COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 163.70.

 

Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 10,005.74.

 

The Miners:

 

Mining news was slow today with Canadian Markets closed for Thanksgiving Day.

 

WINNERS

1.  Comstock

LODE +14.46% $2.62

2.  Golden Minerals

AUMN+12.90% $8.14

3.  Mines MGMT

MGN +11.04% $1.60

 

LOSERS

1.  Avino

ASM-1.11% $1.78

Winners & Losers tracks NYSE and AMEX listed gold and silver mining stocks that trade over $1.

       

All of today's gold and silver stock news:

Lone Star Gold, Inc. Provides Update on First Week's Research on Mexico-Based Gold-Silver Ocampo Property - More
- October 10, 2011 | Item | ShareThis


Texada Ventures Inc. Announces Signing of Definitive Earn In Agreement - More
- October 10, 2011 | Item | ShareThis


Ruby Creek Receives First Mining License - More
- October 10, 2011 | Item | ShareThis


Tara Minerals Adds to Iron Ore Holdings - More
- October 10, 2011 | Item | ShareThis


 

- Chris Mullen, Gold Seeker Report

 

- Would you like to receive the Free Daily Gold Seeker Report in your e-mail? Click here

Additional Resources for today’s Gold Seeker Report can be found:

© Gold Seeker 2011

Note: This article may be reproduced provided the article, in full, is used and mention to Gold-Seeker.com is given.

 

 

Disclosure: The owner, editor, writer and publisher and their associates are not responsible for errors or omissions.  The author of this report is not a registered financial advisor.  Readers should not view this material as offering investment related advice. Gold-Seeker.com has taken precautions to ensure accuracy of information provided. Information collected and presented are from what is perceived as reliable sources, but since the information source(s) are beyond Gold-Seeker.com’s control, no representation or guarantee is made that it is complete or accurate.  The reader accepts information on the condition that errors or omissions shall not be made the basis for any claim, demand or cause for action.  Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results.  Any statements non-factual in nature constitute only current opinions, which are subject to change.  Nothing contained herein constitutes a representation by the publisher, nor a solicitation for the purchase or sale of securities & therefore information, nor opinions expressed, shall be construed as a solicitation to buy or sell any stock, futures or options contract mentioned herein.  Investors are advised to obtain the advice of a qualified financial & investment advisor before entering any financial transaction.


-- Posted Monday, 10 October 2011 | Digg This Article | Source: GoldSeek.com

comments powered by Disqus



 



Increase Text SizeDecrease Text SizeE-mail Link of Current PagePrinter Friendly PageReturn to GoldSeek.com

 news.goldseek.com >> Story

E-mail Page  | Print  | Disclaimer 


© 1995 - 2019



GoldSeek.com Supports Kiva.org

© GoldSeek.com, Gold Seek LLC

The content on this site is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and is the property of GoldSeek.com and/or the providers of the content under license. By "content" we mean any information, mode of expression, or other materials and services found on GoldSeek.com. This includes editorials, news, our writings, graphics, and any and all other features found on the site. Please contact us for any further information.

Live GoldSeek Visitor Map | Disclaimer


Map

The views contained here may not represent the views of GoldSeek.com, Gold Seek LLC, its affiliates or advertisers. GoldSeek.com, Gold Seek LLC makes no representation, warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy or completeness of the information (including news, editorials, prices, statistics, analyses and the like) provided through its service. Any copying, reproduction and/or redistribution of any of the documents, data, content or materials contained on or within this website, without the express written consent of GoldSeek.com, Gold Seek LLC, is strictly prohibited. In no event shall GoldSeek.com, Gold Seek LLC or its affiliates be liable to any person for any decision made or action taken in reliance upon the information provided herein.