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Gold Bullion Hits Longest Dollar Price Drop Since 1989 as GLD Shrinks Again

Friday, 8/31/2018 13:37
GOLD BULLION prices held above $1200 per ounce for US Dollar investors in London trade Friday but neared the end of August lower for the fifth month running.
 
Matching the worst runs of gold's 1990s' bear market, that stretch has only been beaten once – back in 1989 – since benchmark London bullion prices were allowed to float half-a-century ago.
 
"The ongoing outflows from ETFs, record high speculative shorts and upbeat US economic data are still the major headwinds for gold and signify the recovery might be short- lived," Reuters quotes Religare Securities analyst Sugandha Sachdeva in New Delhi.
 
"Sustaining higher prices looks difficult in the near term," she tells LiveMint.
 
Even with retail gold demand in the No.2 consumer market now "picking up" ahead of the coming Hindu festive season, "gold is selling at a premium of [just] $1 per ounce in [India's] domestic market" reports the Economic Times today.
 
"We might not see investment demand for gold in the upcoming festive season," reckons jewelry tycoon Joy Alukkas of the eponymous chain store. "It will only be jewellery sales."
 
Over in the United States, the giant SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD) saw net liquidation yet again on Thursday, shrinking for the 15th of 22 sessions in August to need fewer than 758 tonnes of bullion backing, the lowest since late-February 2016.
 
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After US data yesterday said the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation has risen to its target pace for the first time in 6 years, new data on Friday showed inflation in the 19-nation Eurozone – the world's largest currency bloc by economic output – slowing this month, also now running at 2.0% per annum.
 
The Euro erased the last of this week's earlier 0.8% gain versus the Dollar on the news, trading back below $1.1650 and holding the gold bullion price for French, German and Italian investors just above €1033 per ounce.
 
Down €4 from last Friday's finish that was €10 above mid-August's 31-month low.
 
UK gold prices in Pounds per ounce meantime held at £927, just £2 above the lowest Friday finish since December 2016.
 
Asian and European equities extended yesterday's drop on Wall Street, pulling Japan's Topix index almost 7% lower for 2018 so far while the EuroStoxx 50 traded almost 3% down from New Year.
 
Overall the MSCI World Index of global stock markets fell for a second day running after coming within 2.5% of January's record peak on Wednesday, thanks to the new all-time US highs.
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Adrian Ash is director of research at BullionVault, the physical gold and silver market for private investors online. Formerly head of editorial at London's top publisher of private-investment advice, he was City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning from 2003 to 2008, and is now a regular contributor to many leading analysis sites including Forbes and a regular guest on BBC national and international radio and television news. Adrian's views on the gold market have been sought by the Financial Times and Economist magazine in London; CNBC, Bloomberg and TheStreet.com in New York; Germany's Der Stern; Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore, and many other respected finance publications.

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