-- Published: Friday, 21 August 2015 | Print | Disqus
| Close | Gain/Loss | On Week |
Gold | $1159.40 | +$7.40 | +3.96% |
Silver | $15.28 | -$0.20 | +0.39% |
XAU | 52.17 | -2.94% | +5.08% |
HUI | 126.72 | -2.72% | +8.88% |
GDM | 425.88 | -2.35% | +6.47% |
JSE Gold | 1022.93 | +20.30 | +27.60% |
USD | 94.94 | -0.93 | -1.71% |
Euro | 113.68 | +1.29 | +2.31% |
Yen | 81.87 | +0.81 | +1.75% |
Oil | $40.45 | -$0.69 | -4.82% |
10-Year | 2.054% | -0.030 | -6.47% |
Bond | 160.375 | +0.28125 | +1.50% |
Dow | 16459.75 | -3.12% | -5.82% |
Nasdaq | 4706.03 | -3.52% | -6.78% |
S&P | 1970.89 | -3.19% | -5.77% |
The Metals:
Gold gained $15.42 to $1167.42 in Asia before it fell all the way back to $1149.00 in London, but it then rose to as high as $1161.67 in New York and ended with a gain of 0.64%. Silver slipped to as low as $15.14 and ended with a loss of 1.29%.
Euro gold fell to about €1020, platinum lost $6 to $1021, and copper fell a couple of cents to about $2.30.
Gold and silver equities rose about 2% at the open before they fell to see as much as 3% losses at times, but they did end off their lows of the session.
The Economy:
Disappointing business surveys intensify world growth fears Reuters
Factory activity slows in August: Markit Reuters
Grim China data caps worst week of year for stocks Reuters
All of this week’s other economic reports:
NAHB Housing Market Index - August | 61 v. 60 |
Next week’s economic highlights include the Case-Shiller 20-city Index, the FHFA Housing Price Index, New Home Sales, and Consumer Confidence on Tuesday, Durable Goods Orders on Wednesday, Initial Jobless Claims, GDP, and Pending Home Sales on Thursday, and Personal Income and Spending, Core PCE Prices, and Michigan Sentiment on Friday.
The Markets:
Charts Courtesy of http://finance.yahoo.com/
Oil fell along with the U.S. dollar index on more global growth concerns that sent treasuries higher and the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P over 3% lower.
Among the big names making news in the market Friday were Uber, Deere, Netflix, Apple, Coke, and Visa.
GATA Posts:
Alasdair Macleod: China chooses her weapons
The Statistics:
Activity from: 8/20/2015
Gold Warehouse Stocks: | 7,311,047.775 | -932.35 |
Silver Warehouse Stocks: | 170,376,295.877 | -696,947.555 |
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) AND Mexico Stock Exchange (BMV) | SPDR® Gold Shares | 675.443 | 21,716,165 | US$25,108m |
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$5,148m |
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$5,693m |
Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) | Gold Bullion Securities | 11.16 | 358,789 | US$415m |
Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) | New Gold Debentures | 24.48 | 786,940 | US$910m |
Note: Change in Total Tonnes from yesterday’s data: SPDR added 3.576 tonnes.
COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 161.02: No change from yesterday’s data.
Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 10,107.64: No change from yesterday’s data.
The Miners:
Eldorado’s (EGO) suspended mining operations in Greece and Hecla’s (HL) preferred dividend were among the big stories in the gold and silver mining industry making headlines Friday.
WINNERS
1. DRDGOLD | DRD +4.72% $1.33 |
2. Goldcorp | GG +0.13% $15.49 |
LOSERS
1. Eldorado | EGO -15.04% $3.39 |
2. Avino | ASM -10.71% $1.00 |
3. Coeur | CDE -7.67% $3.61 |
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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