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Gold Price Flat, Asian Premiums Fall But Platinum +3.4% for Week as London 'Set to Fight EU' on Derivatives VAT

Friday, 9/14/2018 14:14
GOLD PRICES edged back Friday lunchtime in London, cutting this week's gain to 0.5% as world stock markets rose and crude oil rallied but held below this week's approach of May's 3.5-year highs.
 
Russia joined Turkey in raising its key interest rate, making the first such move since 2014 and helping the Ruble recover almost 4% from this week's 2.5-year low versus the Dollar on the FX market.
 
Silver fell back to unchanged for the week at $14.21, but platinum prices held firm to trade 3.4% above last Friday's finish at $809 in US Dollar terms.
 
Price of platinum in US Dollars per ounce. Source: BullionVault
 
The Indian Rupee also rallied Friday after hitting fresh record lows versus the Dollar this week, gaining alongside Mumbai's stock market as inflation in the No.2 gold consumer nation showed a slowdown to a 4-month low of 4.5% and the Finance Ministry said it will do "everything possible" to stem the currency's plunge.
 
Despite the ongoing wedding season and next month's start of Diwali however, domestic gold prices fell to a $2 discount per ounce versus bullion import prices, Reuters reports, suggesting poor demand.
 
"The market lost momentum due to the price rise," the newswire quotes Harshad Ajmera of JJ Gold House in Kolkata.
 
"Buyers are waiting for prices to fall below $1200."
 
Chinese gold premiums also slipped, falling from $7 per ounce over London quotes last Friday to finish today at $5.50 on the Shanghai Gold Exchange.
 
Alongside wholesale bullion, the SGE this week opened trading in Chinese Panda gold coin, calling it "an important measure to build an authoritative and fair commemorative coin trading platform."
 
Launched in 1982 and exempt from China's VAT sales tax in 2012, the Panda has become the 5th most popular bullion gold coin among collectors worldwide.
 
China's state-owned gold miner Shandong is planning to float on the Hong Kong stock market, it said today, looking to raise US$768 million.
 
Already worth $6.3bn on the Shanghai market, Shandong (SHA: 600547) operates 12 mines producing almost 7% of China's world-leading gold output.
 
Chinese conglomerate Fosun International is meantime looking to buy London commodities broker Marex Spectron, Reuters says elsewhere – rumors denied by Marex.
 
Heart of the world's bullion market, London will fight the European Union's push to impose VAT on commodity derivatives traded through the City, the Financial Times says, with government officials standing by the UK's position on its Terminal Markets Order of 1973.
 
In physical supply, "a weaker Rand is lowering production costs" for platinum miners in South Africa, says Bloomberg – "good news for margins" but encouraging no "meaningful" cut in output as prices hold near 10-year lows "with top supplier Anglo American Platinum Ltd. even ramping up."
 
"About half of South African output is estimated to be unprofitable," says the newswire.
 
Among platinum's many industrial uses, it is a vital part of hydrogen fuel cells – a technology which could by 2030 power 6.4 million vehicles worldwide, according to new industry forecasts, potentially generating almost one-fifth of the world’s energy by 2050.
 
You can buy platinum at 0% commission fee this month using BullionVault.
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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.

See the full archive of Adrian Ash articles on GoldNews.

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