Metal prices moved positively this week.

Metal prices moved positively this week. Silver led with a gain of 2.5% followed by gold at 1.9%

and palladium at 1.2%. Platinum showed a small loss of 0.4%.

GoldMoney customers, who hold almost 21 tons of gold in storage worldwide, increased

their trading activity this week by 39% despite the North American markets closing for the

Thanksgiving holiday. The allocation of trading swung in favour of gold which accounted for

69%. Customer trading in both gold and silver moved from a strong net buy last week to a

marginal net sell this week. General sentiment weakened slightly with the ratio of buyers to

sellers falling to 0.95 from last week’s 0.98.

GoldMoney’s Head of Business Development Andrew McGowan said: ‘We’ve continued to

see some significant buy trades in gold this week although general sentiment remains under

pressure. Interestingly, the decline in the ratio of buyers to sellers was primarily driven by

silver where the ratio fell 14% even though silver showed the largest price increase for the

week.’

Amid the bearish sentiments of the gold market, there was an interesting day’s trading on

Monday says Alasdair Macleod, GoldMoney’s Head of Research: ‘At 0600GMT on Monday

morning a seller of 1,500 contracts pushed the price down $11 to $1226.7, forcing a trading

halt for 20 seconds. This appeared to be a deliberate attempt to drive gold down to the $1200

level and beyond by taking out all the stop-loss orders in the market at a quiet time and is a

repetition of tactics employed on several previous occasions. This time it didn’t work and after

the trading halt the price stayed above $1230 before closing strongly up on the day at over

$1250.’

Physical gold demand is unlikely to dwindle thanks to the Asian appetite for the precious metal

says Alasdair: ‘Gold deliveries on the Shanghai Gold Exchange appear to be picking up again,

and net exports for October from Hong Kong hit an all-time high of 131 tonnes (the breakdown

of these figures will be available in mid-December). There is a sense that positive seasonal

factors are likely to generate higher physical demand from Asia, which fails to recognise the

fact that at these low prices it is likely to increase anyway.’

Ends

NOTES TO EDITOR

For more information, and to arrange interviews, please call Gwyn Garfield-Bennett on 01534 715411, or email

gwyn@directinput.je

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