Gold gained almost $10 to $1308.21 in Asia before it fell back to $1299.65 in London, but it then jumped to as high as $1323.23 in New York and ended with a gain of 1.62%.Silver surged to as high as $21.18 and ended with a gain of 1.88%.
Euro gold rose to about €975, platinum gained $19 to $1497, a copper climbed a penny to about $3.22.
Gold and silver equities rose over 2% by late morning and ended with about 2.5% gains.
This data, which is released once a month from the US Treasury Department, gives a fairly good sense of the appetite for Dollar denominated assets among Foreign investors and Foreign Central Banks.
It is dated however and one must remember that. Today's data is for the month of May so you can see it is not especially timely. However, it still has value in my opinion.
I am still eagerly waiting for the June data during which Treasury usually makes the adjustment from the country in which the Treasury transaction was completed to the country of origin.
In looking over the Major Foreign Holders of Treasuries data ( broken down by country), a couple of things stand out. First, China and Japan, the two largest holders of our debt, both INCREASED their holdings during the month of May.
China bought $7.7 billion worth while Japan bought $10.4 billion. Chinese holdings are down $26.4 billion from the same month last year. Japanese holdings on the other hand are up a staggering $116.4 billion from May 2013.
Belgium, the center of the so-called "conspiracy" (among the gold perma bulls) for surreptitious buying of US Treasuries unloaded $4 billion of the things. I guess someone forgot to tell them this month that they are supposed to be buying the Treasuries that the US Federal Reserve has stopped buying for its QE program. Remember, the theory is that the tapering has not actually stopped even though the Fed has announced that it has begun tapering and is slowing its purchases of US Treasuries. You see, the Treasury buying is really still going on. It is just being done through back channels using Belgium as the epicenter.
Sigh! It never does end does it with some of those folks.
Overall, there was a pretty healthy increase among all of the buyers for May. They increased their holdings of Treasuries to $5.976 trillion, up from $5.960 trillion in April. That is a $15.1 billion increase.
Compared to the same period last year (May 2013), Treasury holdings are up $318 billion ($5.976 to $5.658). So much for the demise of the US Dollar.
Keep in mind that this particular data set is the "Holdings" data.
As far as the NET PURCHASES DATA goes, Total NET Foreign Purchases for May increased by $25 billion. That is a big improvement from the previous month (April) when the number was a negative $13.589 billion. A negative number means foreign investors, official institutions, etc. were selling (there was a net OUTFLOW of capital instead of a NET INFLOW).
NET PURCHASES of US equities showed another increase for May ($10.78 billion). That comes on the heels of a net increase for April of nearly the same amount ($10.19 billion). Foreign appetite for US stocks remains strong.
NET PURCHASES of US government agency debt jumped to $4.169 billion after falling the previous month by $2.082 billion.
The loser this month, among foreign investors, was US corporate debt. There were NET OUTFLOWS of $5.385 billion for May. That follows net outflows of $8.509 billion in April. This category is especially volatile however.
All in all, demand for US dollar denominated assets among foreign investors/institutions/official sector was strong in May.
One last thing for this set of comments - gold is moving higher today on news that the US has introduced a new set of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine situation. Russia is not happy about it. Also, the escalation in tensions and the conflict over in Israel and the Gaza region with Hamas has fueled nervousness in stock markets and is bringing selling into equities, buying into bonds, and buying into gold. Gold is being driven of late by headlines.
It looks as if it might want to run up into the former resistance zone ($1330- $1340). Geopolitical tensions have put a "13" handle in front of it and is offering psychological support.
You can look at the ADX and see the muddled mess on the chart. There is no clearly defined trend at the moment.
As I have been writing this, news has come out that a passenger plane has been downed over the Ukraine. That is really fueling the safe haven bids...We'll have to get the details on this as they come out.”- Dan Norcini, More at http://www.traderdannorcini.blogspot.com/
New York Stock Exchange Arca (NYSE Arca) AND Singapore Exchange (SGX) AND Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) AND Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) AND Mexico Stock Exchange (BMV)
SPDR® Gold Shares
806.034
25,914,801
US$33,744m
London Stock Exchange (LSE) AND NYSE Euronext Paris AND Borsa Italiana AND Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Deutsche Börse - Xetra)
Gold Bullion Securities
138.13
4,441,056
US$5,838m
London Stock Exchange (LSE) AND NYSE Euronext Paris AND Borsa Italiana AND Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Deutsche Börse - Xetra) AND NYSE Euronext Amsterdam
ETFS Physical Gold
152.66
4,908,200
US$8,004m
Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)
Gold Bullion Securities
11.16
358,789
US$472m
Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE)
New Gold Debentures
41.90
1,347,046
US$1,769m
Note: Change in Total Tonnes from yesterday’s data: SPDR subtracted 2.694 tonnes.
COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 165.06: No change from yesterday’s data.
Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 10,038.52: No change from yesterday’s data.
B2Gold’s (BTG) second quarter production results, McEwen’s (MUX) second quarter production results, Eurasian’s (EMXX) exploration results, Aurcana’s (AUN.V) new board member, SilverCrest’s (SVLC) second quarter production results, and Santacruz Silver’s (SCZ.V) second quarter production results were among the big stories in the gold and silver mining industry making headlines today.
WINNERS
1.Timmins
TGD +12.79% $1.94
2.SilverCrest
SVLC +10.77% $2.17
3.Silver Standard
SSRI +9.17% $9.68
LOSERS
1.DRDGOLD
DRD -1.40% $2.81
2.Freeport
FCX -0.65% $38.50
3.Nevsun
NSU -0.80% $3.74
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