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Gold Prices Up as US Inflation Slows, Hong Kong Police Fire on Protesters, 'Unsound' Italy Back-Tracks on Safe-Deposit Tax

Wednesday, 6/12/2019 14:20
GOLD PRICES rose back towards last week's multi-months highs in London trade Wednesday as US inflation data came in weaker than analysts forecast amid a raft of geopolitical headlines.
 
Hong Kong police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters, Saudi Arabia was hit by missiles from war-torn Yemen, Italy was rebuked by Brussels over its worsening budget deficit, and Germany issued new government debt at record-negative borrowing costs.
 
Accusing former US vice-president and potential 2020 presidential challenger Joe Biden meantime of having "some kind" of financial payback from Beijing, "China wants to make a deal very badly," said US President Donald Trump overnight.
 
"It is me right now that is holding up the deal. China ate our country alive during Obama and Biden. They ate us alive."
 
Instead of holding a 2.1% annual rise as expected, so-called 'core' US consumer price inflation slowed to 2.0% in May, today's figures said.
 
Ahead of today's data, betting on the US Federal Reserve holding interest rates at their current level at forthcoming policy meetings has collapsed according to data compiled by derivatives exchange the CME.
 
Chart of CME FedWatch tool data. Source: BullionVault
 
Gold priced in US Dollars rose Wednesday within $15 of last week's 14-month highs at $1348 per ounce.
 
The UK gold price in Pounds per ounce held at £1048, less than £5 shy of Friday's finish, the highest weekly close since March 2013, as former foreign secretary and pro-Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson launched his bid to succeed Theresa May as Conservative Party leader and therefore UK prime minister.
 
Euro gold prices meantime edged within 0.5% of last week's close of €1184, the highest Friday finish since April 2017, as Berlin issued new 10-year Bunds at record low interest rates of -0.24% per annum.
 
Italy's borrowing costs also slipped in the secondary market, but the spread between Italy and Germany's 10-year borrowing costs widened 3 basis points from Tuesday's 5-week low of 2.55 percentage points.
 
On a 12-month basis, the gold price in Euros has moved in the same direction as the BTP-Bund spread nearly two-thirds of the time since the Euro was launched in 1999.
 
Chart of BTP-Bund spread vs. Euro gold price. Source: St.Louis Fed
 
"Italy is moving in an unsound direction," said European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday after a new report warned that the Eurozone's 3rd largest member will breach its "debt reduction benchmark" in both 2019 and 2020 on Rome's current spending plans.
 
"Italy's public debt stood at 132% of its gross domestic product in 2018," says Germany's Deutsche Welle news service, "while the Eurozone calls for member states to stay within 60%."
 
Pushing for a flat tax with substantial cuts to government revenues, deputy premier Matteo Salvini today proposed taxing cash held in safe deposit boxes "to put this money back into circulation", but then quickly back-tracked on the idea, first proposed in 2018 as an amnesty for black-market savings in return for a payment of 20%.
 
"Both Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini have declared that Italexit is not in the government program," says Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, "but the signals they're sending to the markets on the subject are extremely ambiguous," with strongly anti-Euro figures appointed to key ministerial posts as talk of issuing domestic notes to pay government suppliers – so-called 'mini-BOTs' – returns.
 
"The idea of issuing mini-BOTs is a way to create a double currency," reckons Marcello Messori, director of the school of European political economy at the University of Luiss.
 
Going further, "It is a way to facilitate the exit of Italy from the Eurozone," says Riccardo Puglisi, an economist at the University of Pavia. 
 
The onset of India's monsoon season – vital in determining the size of the autumn harvest and therefore rural incomes in the world No.2 gold consumer nation – has meanwhile seen a violent cyclone develop in the Arabian Sea.
 
Cyclone Vayu may hit India's densely populated western state of Gujarat with the force of a Category 1 or 2 hurricane when it makes landfall early Thursday, according to forecasters.
 
Hong Kong's main stockmarket index today shed 1.7% as police tried to disperse tens of thousands of people protesting in what the authorities called 'rioting' against a new extradition law demanded by mainland China.
 
Crude oil prices sank nearly 3% after Saudi Arabia blamed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen, backed by Iran, for wounding 26 people in a missle strike on the kingdom's south-western airport of Abha.
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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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