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Gold Price Falls, Sinks vs UK Pound Despite N.Korea Missile, London Bomb + Spain's Catalonia Crisis

Friday, 9/15/2017 13:34
GOLD PRICE gains of 1.6% from last week were again erased Friday in London, as the outlook for interest-rate hikes trumped new geopolitical tensions led by another weapons test by the pariah state of North Korea.
 
Dollar priced-gold retreated to $1325 per ounce – more than $30 below last Friday's 12-month high – as major government bond prices fell yet again, driving US Treasury bond yields up to their highest since mid-August above 2.20% on 10-year debt.
 
After threatening to "sink" Japan and turn the US "into ashes and darkness" on Thursday, Pyongyang this morning fired its furthest-yet missile test over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, splashing into the Pacific.
 
British police said an 'improved explosive device' caused an explosion on a rush-hour London Tube train, with 22 people needing hospital treatment, mostly for burns.
 
Spain's finance ministry meantime won a court order to take control of financial payments by the regional government in Catalonia, where a referendum on independence – deemed "illegal" by Madrid – is scheduled for 1 October.
 
Yesterday saw Madrid threaten local mayors in the would-be breakaway region with jail if they assist with the vote.
 
"Today's trading has been surprisingly uneventful given the news from North Korea this morning," says a trading note from Swiss refining and finance group MKS Pamp's Asian team.
 
Most notably, "the SGE premium has pulled back a little from yesterday," MKS says of benchmark Chinese prices, "to trade between $2-4 over loco London prompting some selling out of China" – the world's No.1 mining, consumer and importing nation."
 
The UK gold price in Pounds per ounce meantime slid to a 5-week low Friday, down almost 6% from last week's 10-month high as Sterling continued its rally after the Bank of England yesterday hinted it may need to raise its key rate – now at a all-time record lows of 0.25% – "by a somewhat greater extent...than current market expectations."
 
Chart of the UK gold price in Pounds per ounce. Source: BullionVault
Since late-August the Pound has now jumped 6.4% against the Dollar, recovering levels last seen on 24 June 2016 – the day of the UK's shock Brexit referendum result – at $1.36.
 
Today's jump in Sterling saw London's stockmarket fall for the 4th day running, with the FTSE100 index of primarily international businesses losing 1.2% as other European equities held flat.
 
Trading in US interest-rate futures now puts a near-99% certainty on the Fed holding unchanged next week, but betting on a November hike has risen from zero to 4% over the last week, and betting on the end of 2017 now sees a 53% chance of rates being higher than now – up from barely 30% at the start of this month according to the CME's FedWatch tool.
 
The gold price in Euro terms also fell to 2-week lows on Friday, dropping back to €1106 per ounce, a new low for September so far.
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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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