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Gold Prices Retreat on 'Profit Taking' as Stocks Rally, EU 'Flies On 1 Wing'

Tuesday, 6/28/2016 14:04
GOLD PRICES retreated up to 4% from last week's multi-year Brexit highs versus major currencies Tuesday, testing $1305 per ounce in US Dollars as world stock markets rallied and government bonds eased back from new records.
 
French and German stock markets rallied back towards Friday's closing level, reversing yesterday's further 3% drop.
 
London's domestically-focused FTSE250 index also rose, but recovered only one-fifth of its 14% Brexit plunge so far to 18-month lows.
 
"The flight to safety since Friday is only likely to have further elevated the long positioning," says the latest weekly note from Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi's London precious metals analyst Jonathan Butler, pointing to last week's record-high speculative bullish betting on gold and silver.
 
"[That] brings the threat of profit taking in the near term, particularly if risk-off sentiment fades," he adds, also warning that the surge of investors holding exchange-traded trust fund vehicles related to gold prices may unwind if they "go in search of yield as the economic picture becomes clearer."
Chart of gold prices vs. SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEArca:GLD) bullion backing in tonnes
 
But while such factors could "result in downside for gold, [Mitsubishi's] basic assumption is that investors will continue to turn to gold as a risk hedge in the short to medium term."
 
Gold prices in China edged back Tuesday from yesterday's new 3-year highs, fixing at the equivalent of a $6 per ounce premium to London spot quotes at the afternoon benchmarking in Shanghai.
 
That reversed the rare but severe Shanghai gold discounts of $10 and $3 seen Friday and then Monday.
 
Trading volume in the Shanghai Gold Exchange's main spot contract meantime held at twice its typical level, but was only one-third the new record set last Friday as news of the UK's Brexit vote result broke.
 
Politically meanwhile, and asking victorious UKIP member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage " Why are you here?" on Tuesday, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the UK should "clarify its position...as rapidly as possible".
 
With British prime minister David Cameron refusing to trigger Article 50 after he campaigned and lost for Remain last week, a successor may not be in place until early September his Conservative Party said Monday.
 
For the wider EU, the Brexit result "[has] cut off one of our wings but we are still flying towards new horizons," Juncker continued in a speech to the European Parliament today, vowing to "fight...for a united Europe".
 
UK GDP growth will slow to "around zero in the second half of 2016 and into early 2017," reckons Swiss bank UBS's London economist David Tinsley.
 
Ratings agency S&P yesterday cut its long-term view on the UK from the highest 'triple-A' level to 'AA', saying that the Leave result "will weaken the predictability, stability, and effectiveness of policy-making in the UK."
 
A 'risky trinity' of rising debt levels, low productivity and little room for central-bank rate cutting means "this huge Brexit shock [threatens to] wreak havoc for the Pound and asset prices," says Chinese-owned investment and bullion bank ICBC Standard Bank's FX strategist Steven Barrow.
 
"Some semblance of recovery could occur if the UK [central bank] can save the economy from recession. Unfortunately we are not too hopeful."
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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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