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Gold Price Flat as Half-Billion Da Vinci Sale Sees Stocks and Junk Bonds Rally

Thursday, 11/16/2017 18:21
GOLD PRICES edged back up to $1280 per ounce on Thursday in London as world stock markets rose for the first session in six.
 
With gold prices trading just $10 per ounce above the 13-week closing low of week-ending Friday 3 November, so-called "junk bond" prices also rallied with equities.
 
US corporate bonds rated below investment grade gained 0.7% from yesterday's new 7-month low as measured by the SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF ( NYSEArca:JNK).
 
Wednesday night saw a new all-time record set for a work of art sold at auction, when Salvator Mundi -- reputedly by 15th Century Italian Leonardo da Vinci -- fetched $450m at Christie's in New York.
 
The sale had been squeezed into a sale of Post-War & Contemporary Art.
 
"This was a thumping epic triumph of branding and desire over connoisseurship and reality," the New York Times quotes one Manhattan art adviser.
 
Shares in Christies' competitor Sotheby's (NYSE:BID) today rose 2.9%.
 
BID fell almost 90% during the global financial crisis of a decade ago, having sunk previously ahead of the Tech Stock Bubble bursting in early 2000.
 
Sales volumes through the global fine-art market shrank by some 60% over the two years following Tokyo's stockmarket and property crash starting in late 1989.
 
Chart of Sotheby's stock price. Source: Google Finance
 
"Most of the world is well advanced in the economic cycle," says a new report from French investment bank Societe Generale, warning clients that "at the same time, leverage is high, especially on non-financial corporate balance sheets.
 
Should the US Fed continue raising interest rates, it says, a slowdown in economic growth will "put global debt back in the spotlight and have [a] spiralling effect.
 
"Historically [such] periods signalled a bull run for gold and [the stockmarket volatility index] VIX in particular."
 
The Dollar on Thursday held above yesterday's 1-month lows to the Euro currency as new US data showed industrial production in the world's largest economy rising just ahead of forecast in October.
 
Fresh Eurozone data showed a slight slowdown in inflation across the 19-nation currency union at 1.4% per year.
 
British retail sales meantime showed a smaller than expected decline last month from September's jump, helping Sterling to rally and curbing the gold price in UK Pounds per ounce below £970, barely changed for the week so far.
 
"The financial markets are bulging with systemic risk," says the latest quarterly letter from gold-mining fund manager John Hathaway to clients of Tocqueville Asset Management, pointing to "financial-asset valuations at all-time highs" while the size of US government debt now makes "exit from radical monetary policy difficult, if not impossible."
 
"History teaches that resolution of [such] impasses most often results in monetary debasement," says Hathaway.
 
"Gold and silver constitute a short list of non-financial assets with monetary characteristics."
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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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