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Trump Fan John Paulson Cuts GLD Gold Investment as Inflation Hits 5-Year High

Wednesday, 2/15/2017 14:39
GOLD INVESTMENT prices sank to 2-week lows Wednesday lunchtime in London as new data showed the US cost of living rising at its fastest pace in 5 years as Donald Trump became president last month.
 
The official Consumer Price Index jumped 2.6% last month from January 2016, the strongest annual inflation since March 2012.
 
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen yesterday told Congress that she's minded to raise rates from the current 0.75% ceiling at an "upcoming meeting".
 
The Dollar rose today against the Euro for the 9th of 11 sessions so far in February, while world stock markets gained after Wall Street set yet more all-time highs overnight.
 
Separate data yesterday showed billionaire Donald Trump supporter John Paulson cutting his gold investments after the Republican's presidential victory in November, reducing his hedge funds' exposure by more than four-fifths from the peak of late 2012.
 
Regulatory filings to the SEC by Paulson & Co. said Tuesday that his hedge funds cut their holdings of the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEArca:GLD) – the world's largest bullion-backed exchange-traded trust fund – by 9% in the fourth quarter of 2016.
 
Down to 4.3 million shares, that equaled less than 1.5% of the gold investment ETF's total shares in issue.
 
Five years ago Paulson owned more than 28 million GLD shares, some 7% of the fund's then-total stock.
Chart of the GLD gold ETF's bullion backing, 26-week percentage change vs. the spot bullion price
 
Having grown in the first half of 2016 at its fastest pace since the global financial crisis saw US stock markets crash to 14-year lows in 2009, the GLD ended last year with its sharpest liquidation since the gold-price crash of 2013, accelerating after Trump's 9 November win. 
 
Of the GLD's largest 9 shareholders to report their Q4 positions so far, 8 reduced their investment between October and December, cutting their holdings 27% between them.
 
The GLD's price has since risen 6.8% so far from New Year's Eve, tracking gold bullion's 7.4% gain on the benchmark London PM price auction.
 
"What gold's got going for it with the Trump presidency," says Jeff Rhodes, CEO of Dubai-based precious metals dealer Zee Gold DMCC, "is that you don't know what's going to be said, what's going to be tweeted."
 
"[But] the fiscal package likely to come from Donald won't be good for gold...but good for the Dollar."
 
Silver in contrast "looks fantastic" Rhodes told Bloomberg on Monday. "I think we're looking at the mid-$20s, I'm really bullish."
 
Silver tracked gold investment prices lower on Wednesday, but held only 10 cents shy of last week's finish to trade at $17.85 per ounce.
 
Ten-year US Treasury bond yields meantime rose to 2.52%, nearing December's 27-month high of 2.60%, hit immediately after the Federal Reserve made only its second hike to US interest rates of the last decade.
 
Bottoming that same day at $1123 per ounce, wholesale gold investment prices have recovered 8.6%, slipping briefly below $1220 on today's US inflation data release.
 
Donating a third of a million dollars to the Republican Party ahead of Trump's 2016 victory, Paulson & Co. in November slashed the headcount at its London office, with what the Financial Times called "high-profile departures" including gold strategist and former partner John Reade, hired in 2009 from Swiss bullion bank UBS.
 
Reade was this month appointed chief market strategist at the mining-backed World Gold Council market-development organization.
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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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