-- Posted Thursday, 4 October 2012 | | Disqus
| Close | Gain/Loss |
Gold | $1790.80 | +$12.30 |
Silver | $34.97 | +$0.40 |
XAU | 193.50 | +2.91% |
HUI | 518.74 | +2.67% |
GDM | 1494.60 | +2.77% |
JSE Gold | 2334.55 | -10.97 |
USD | 79.35 | -0.62 |
Euro | 130.15 | +1.09 |
Yen | 127.46 | +0.08 |
Oil | $91.71 | +$3.57 |
10-Year | 1.665% | +0.042 |
T-Bond | 148.8125 | -0.875 |
Dow | 13575.36 | +0.60% |
Nasdaq | 3149.46 | +0.45% |
S&P | 1461.40 | +0.72% |
The Metals:
Gold climbed $16.56 to $1795.06 just before 2PM EST before it pared its gains a bit after the fed released Minutes from their September 12th meeting, but it still ended with a gain of 0.69%. Silver rose to $35.092 in early New York trade before it fell back to $34.655 in the next 15 minutes of trade, but it then rallied back higher for most of the rest of trade and ended with a gain of 1.16%.
Euro gold fell back under €1376, platinum gained $27.70 to $1714.20, and copper rose a couple of cents to about $3.80.
Gold and silver equities rose throughout most of trade and ended with almost 3% gains.
The Economy:
Report | For | Reading | Expected | Previous |
Initial Claims | 9/29 | 367K | 365K | 363K |
Factory Orders | Aug | -5.2% | -6.0% | 2.6% |
FOMC Minutes from the fed’s September 12th meeting “showed the Fed was broadly in agreement that more policy stimulus was needed given a meager economic recovery, which registered a paltry 1.3 percent annual rate of growth in the second quarter.”
US rate on 30-year mortgage hits record 3.36 pct. Yahoo
Tomorrow at 8:30AM EST brings September’s jobs data. Nonfarm Payrolls are expected at 120,000, the Unemployment Rate is expected at 8.1%, Hourly Earnings are expected at 0.2%, and the Average Workweek is expected at 34.4. At 3PM is Consumer Credit for August expected at $5.0 billion.
The Markets:
Charts Courtesy of http://finance.yahoo.com/
Oil rose as the U.S. dollar index and treasuries fell after ECB President Mario Draghi said the bank is ready to start buying government bonds as soon as the necessary conditions are fulfilled.
The Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P rose on relief about Europe.
Among the big names making news in the market today were Kohl’s, Gap, HP, T-Mobile, Google, and Apple.
GATA Posts:
China's currency foray augurs geopolitical strains
Felix Moreno de la Cova: Revisiting 'Gold Wars' by Ferdinand Lips
The Statistics:
As of close of business: 10/03/2012
Gold Warehouse Stocks: | 11,013,046.669 | -128.60 |
Silver Warehouse Stocks: | 142,587,123.060 | -847,267.68 |
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 | 1324.395 | 42,580,635 | US$76,264m |
London Stock Exchange (LSE) AND NYSE Euronext Paris AND Borsa Italiana AND Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Deutsche Börse - Xetra) | Gold Bullion Securities | 139.10 | 4,472,314 | US$8,004m |
London Stock Exchange (LSE) AND NYSE Euronext Paris AND Borsa Italiana AND Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Deutsche Börse - Xetra) AND NYSE Euronext Amsterdam | ETFS Physical Gold | 154.66 | 4,972,528 | US$8,109m |
Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) | Gold Bullion Securities | 11.16 | 358,789 | US$642m |
Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) | New Gold Debentures | 42.45 | 1,364,715 | US$2,214m |
Note: Change in Total Tonnes from yesterday’s data: SPDR added 1.809 tonnes.
COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 201.57: +0.54 change from yesterday’s data.
Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 9,920.18: No change from yesterday’s data.
The Miners:
WINNERS
1. Gold Reserve | GRZ +9.26% $3.54 |
2. Jaguar | JAG +7.14% $1.20 |
3. Revett | RVM+6.94% $3.70 |
LOSERS
1. Mines MGMT | MGN -2.00% $1.47 |
Winners & Losers tracks NYSE and AMEX listed gold and silver mining stocks that trade over $1.
Please see Yahoo’s Mining/Metals News Wire for all of today’s mining news.
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