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Silver Hit by Heaviest Bearish Betting in 15 Years, Gold Prices Unmoved by Italy's 'Messy' Election

Monday, 3/05/2018 14:09
GOLD PRICES held onto last week's closing level Monday morning in London as the weekend's national elections in Italy – the Eurozone's third largest economy – gave no clear winner overall, writes Steffen Grosshauser at BullionVault.
 
Analysts and traders were further worried by US President Donald Trump's open declaration of a "trade war", with commodity prices slipping and major government bonds rising.
 
"The messy Italian election result adds a bit to the nervousness in global equity markets at present," reckons Shane Oliver, chief economist at AMP Capital Investors in Sydney.
 
"I think gold prices are up partly because of the uncertainty over the impact of the Italian election on the Eurozone," said Ji Ming, chief analyst at Chinese gold mining group Shandong.
 
Ahead of the weekend's Italian vote however – widely forecast to result in a hung parliament – hedge funds and other leveraged speculators cut their bullish betting on Comex gold futures and options, new data said late Friday.
 
The 'Managed Money' category cut its net long position on US gold derivatives by 15% in the week to 27 February, down to the smallest level in two months according to data compiled by regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
 
Speculative betting on silver prices meantime grew more bearish for the third week running, with the Managed Money holding its most negative position since records began in 2006.
 
Outside miners, bullion banks and other commercial players, overall betting on Comex silver futures and options turned net bearish for the first time since early 2003.
 
Silver prices today slipped back to $16.45 per ounce, some 1.6% above last week's post-Powell drop to 2-month lows.
 
Chart of Managed Money category's net betting on Comex silver derivatives. Source: BullionVault via CFTC
 
Italy's vote saw the Eurosceptic 5-Star Movement become the largest single party, but a right-wing alliance including former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia was set to gain the most seats.
 
In Germany meanwhile, the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed on Sunday to back another coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservative Party (CDU), reaching a breakthrough after five months of political uncertainty.
 
Most European shares advanced Monday morning but Italy's FTSE MIB Index lost more than 1% as the Euro held steady on the FX market.
 
Gold climbed $5 to touch $1327 per ounce – its highest level since new US Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell told Congress last Tuesday that he expects to raise interest rates 4 times this year – before retreating to $1323.
 
For EU investors gold climbed €3 to €1076, while the UK gold price in Pounds per ounce touched a 2-week high above £963.
 
Crude oil prices rose 0.5% ahead of a meeting between Opec and other big global oil suppliers, as Libya's biggest crude oil field announced a production halt. 
 
Asian trade overnight saw further gains for the Japanese Yen – often seen as a "safe haven" – ahead of this week's central-bank decisions from Tokyo, Australia and the Eurozone.
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Steffen Grosshauser is Senior Operations Executive and Head of German-speaking Market at BullionVault, the worldwide biggest physical gold and silver market for private investors.

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