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Gold Price Erases Spike After 'Overshooting' on Rate-Cut Bets, GLD Shrinks from 'Very, Very Overbought'

GOLD PRICES fell further from Tuesday's new 6-year highs in London trade Thursday, erasing the last of this week's spike against many major currencies even as the US Dollar struggled once more on the FX market.
 
Asian stock markets rallied another 1.1% overnight, but Europe slipped once more while New York futures held flat.
 
Canadian and Australian Dollar gold prices fell below last Friday's finishing levels, while the UK gold price in Pounds per ounce dropped near £1100, down almost £30 from Tuesday's 7-year peak.
 
Euro gold fell to €1232, also down 2.3% from this week's new multi-year high.
 
Chart of gold priced in the Euro. Source: BullionVault
 
"We do not expect a weak Dollar," said a note from Dutch bank ABN Amro after this week's gold price highs, "so we keep our year-end forecast for gold prices at $1400 per ounce.=
 
"Gold prices are currently overshooting."
 
"With futures markets now pricing in three cuts in the fed funds rate by December," adds the UK's Investors Chronicle magazine, "there is plenty of room for monetary policy to become less loose than investors currently expect.
 
"If investors are disappointed...bonds and gold might well both sell off."
 
The odds of the Fed cutting by 0.50 points instead of just 0.25 at its end-July meeting rose back above 1-in-4 overnight according to betting on interest-rate futures, but that remains below the 39% likelihood foreseen this time last week.
 
"I think 50 basis points would be overdone. But I would be willing to go for an insurance cut of 25," said St.Louis Fed President James Bullard to Bloomberg on yesterday.
 
A leading 'dove' on interest-rate policy, Bullard also said Wednesday that he has declined White House requests for "exploratory" talksabout taking the top job at the Federal Reserve, potentially replacing Jerome Powell after President Trump repeatedly attacked current Fed policy on Twitter.
 
Trump is now set to meet China's President Xi, discussing their worsening Pacific trade dispute, at the G20 meeting of world leaders in Osaka, Japan.
Gold prices in China, the metal's largest mining, importing and consumer nation, today edged lower again from Tuesday's new 6-year highs versus the Yuan.
 
Shanghai premiums edged higher however, rising 50 cents per ounce to the equivalent of $16.20 above London quotes at the city's afternoon fixing.
 
Investor interest in the 7 largest US gold-backed ETF trust funds grew 0.6% on Wednesday as their stock price edged back, with a small outflow from the giant GLD offset by inflows to cheaper IAU.
 
"For the GLD," said technical analyst Mark Newton to CNBC, "getting up above $130 is very constructive in the intermediate term.
 
"The real issue, though, is that momentum has gotten very, very overbought in a short period of time. The GLD is up over 12% just since the latter part of May."
 
Japan's retail sales and ANZ Bank's survey on the outlook for Australia's business activity both came in less bad than forecast.
 
But consumer confidence in the 19-nation Eurozone – the world's second largest economic bloc after the United States – showed a fall back towards New Year 2019's 18-month lows.
 
US jobless benefit claims rose last week, new data then said Thursday – defying analyst forecasts – while revised first-quarter figures said price-inflation in the world's No.1 economy was also weaker than Wall Street expected.

Adrian Ash

Adrian Ash, BullionVault Gold News

Adrian Ash is director of research at BullionVault, the world-leading physical gold, silver and platinum 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 he has now been researching and writing daily analysis of precious metals and the wider financial markets for over 20 years. A frequent guest on BBC radio and television, Adrian is regularly quoted by the Financial Times, MarketWatch and many other respected news outlets, and his views from inside the bullion market have been sought by the Economist magazine, CNBC, Bloomberg, Germany's Handelsblatt and FAZ, plus Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore.

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