GoldMoney Market Report : Starting at $1,286 on Monday gold continued with the momentum of last Friday’s fall, bottoming out on Tuesday at $1,261 in US trading.
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Starting at $1,286 on Monday gold continued with the momentum of last Friday’s fall, bottoming out on Tuesday at $1,261 in US trading. From then on the price rallied to end slightly higher for the week at $1,290. In contrast, silver fell by 2.8% over the week closing at $20.77 on Friday. GoldMoney customers, who hold almost 21 tons of gold in secure vault storage worldwide, increased their trading activity by 53% in USD terms compared with last week. This continues a trend of steadily increasing trading levels over the last 3 weeks. The relative share of trading between the metals remained similar to last week with gold accounting for almost two thirds of the total. Both gold and silver suffered another net sell this week and once again gold was the larger net sell in total USD terms. Trading in palladium remained subdued despite the price falling by 4.1% over the week. Commenting on customer activity, GoldMoney’s Head of Business Development Andrew McGowan said: ‘The ratio of buyers to sellers increased from 1.10 last week to 1.53 this week which indicates a significant improvement in sentiment despite the overall net sell in terms of USD trading value.’ Commenting on market mood, GoldMoney’s Head of Research Alasdair Macleod said: ‘Sentiment for gold and silver in Western capital markets is now extremely bearish, and this has been reflected in an increase in open interest on Comex as prices fell, illustrated in the charts below. It is unusual to see open interest increase substantially on falling prices. In gold, it represents additional short sales amounting to 72.4 tonnes since 6th November, and in silver nearly 2,600 tonnes. So far it has failed to drive the gold price below $1,200, but if last week was anything to go by then a bear-raid later today cannot be ruled out, when Far Eastern buyers are absent from the market. However, if the recent low at $1,261holds this action will be judged with hindsight as a selling climax, which is ultimately bullish.’
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