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Silver Prices +2% for Week as Gold 'Struggles' at $1300, G7 Set for 'Trade War' Row

Friday, 6/08/2018 13:34
SILVER PRICES held on track for a 2% weekly gain in London trade Friday, outpacing gold's 0.3% rise in US Dollar terms as the yellow yet again failed to hold a break above $1300 per ounce.
 
"If gold is able to confirm a close above $1300, it could be able to gain up to the 200-day moving average at $1315," reckons a note from the trading desk of Belgian refining and materials technology group Umicore. 
 
But "the metal still struggles to find a handle above $1300," says the Asian trading team at Swiss refiners MKS Pamp, "and will need to consolidate above the figure to entice further interest.
 
"That said, underlying interest broadly sitting toward $1290-95 continues to provide an underlying level of interest.
 
"Silver has [meantime] found interest underneath $16.70 and will target a further leg higher."
 
Silver prices held around $16.75 per ounce Friday while world stock markets fell ahead of this weekend's G7 summit in Canada, set for a confrontation over the worsening 'trade war' between US President Trump and the other 6 developed-nation leaders.
 
Comparing the silver's relative pricing against gold, "The gold-silver ratio closed lower [on Thursday] at 77.42," says the New York office of Scotia Mocatta – the global bullion bank now being wound down as part of parent company Scotiabank's retreat from the precious metal market. 
 
"Support is at 77.36 – the Feb low," says Scotia's technical note on the Gold/Silver Ratio, looking for the figure to fall further as silver continues to outperform gold.
 
Chart of the Gold/Silver Ratio, daily London benchmarks. Source: BullionVault
 
Holding below 77.5 on Friday, the Gold/Silver is trading near its lowest reading in 4 months and stands more than 5% below April's approach of early 2016's twenty-year highs.
 
"Overall we forecast the silver price to average $17.40 [across all of] 2018, marking a 2% increase," says the new Silver Focus from specialist analysts Metals Focus, launched last night in London and Mexico City.
 
"This still compares unfavourably to gold, which we expect to achieve an average 6% higher year-on-year in 2018 at $1330."
 
On the data front Friday, and after new  US consumer borrowing came in one-third below analyst forecasts with the weakest April growth since 2011, new figures today said Japanese bank lending slowed to 2.0% annual growth in May – its weakest pace of the last 4 years.
 
In contrast to the weak borrowing figures, "US wage inflation is set to take off in the coming months, just like Japan," reckons strategist Albert Edwards at French investment bank Societe Generale, pointing to how last week's US payroll data "highlighted the recent surge in the voluntary 'quit rate' index.
 
"Aka 'take your job and shove it' this index now sits at its highest level for 18 years...[What's] most significant is the quit rate tends to lead wage inflation by around 6 months."
 
Wth the US Federal Reserve watching for signs of wage-push inflation to guide its 2018 interest-rate hikes, "At a recent round table client dinner most participants identified accelerating US wages as the greatest risk to market stability in the near term," Edwards warns.
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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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