{"id":40178,"date":"2013-07-19T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=40178"},"modified":"2013-07-19T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:07:41","slug":"miners-rushing-to-hedge-as-gold-rallies-china-premium-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/07\/19\/miners-rushing-to-hedge-as-gold-rallies-china-premium-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Miners “Rushing to Hedge” as Gold Rallies, China Premium Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Gold Market Report<\/strong>
\nfrom Adrian Ash<\/strong>
\nBullionVault<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nFriday, 19 July 09:10 EST<\/strong><\/p>\n

GOLD\u00a0crept higher in quiet summer trade in London on Friday, adding 0.4% for the week as world stock markets also rose but commodity prices fell back.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Silver held 2.5% below last Friday’s finish in Dollars.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Government bond prices were unchanged.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Gold going down is\u00a0not necessarily a bad thing<\/a>,” said US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke to lawmakers in semi-annual testimony on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“It suggests people have somewhat more confidence, and… feel less need for whatever protection gold affords.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0But “gold investors started to get nervous<\/a>” in late 2012, says a note from Canada’s TD Securities “about an eventual deceleration in the Fed’s extremely accommodative monetary policy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Positive returns elsewhere [then] prompted investors to get out of gold.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Looking ahead, however \u2013 and with Bernanke repeating this week that tapering QE is “not a preset course” \u2013 “Economic data is unlikely to be stellar,” says the TD note, “and the Fed will remain coy.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Touching $1295 per ounce in Asian trade Friday, gold prices for Euro investors were flat from last week.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The price in Sterling stood 0.5% lower at \u00a3846 per ounce for the first weekly drop in three.<\/p>\n

“Gold miners across the world are cutting output and costs as gold prices slump,” says the latest\u00a0Commodities Weekly\u00a0from French investment bank and bullion dealers Natixis.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“This is affecting new projects as well as existing mines.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0After reducing their ‘hedge book’ as a group from nearly 3,000 tonnes to almost zero last decade as gold prices rose five-fold, “Mining companies are [now] queuing up at bullion banks to discuss short-term hedging arrangements,” says one London bank’s trading desk in a note.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Some forward sellers already sleeping well at nights…others are rushing to lock-in ‘good’ prices.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Gold lenders are currently enjoying the strongest sustained returns in almost a decade according to data from market makers and other bullion banks, with\u00a0gold lease rates up and swap offer rates negative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Some emerging-market central banks are taking advantage,” adds the London bullion bank’s note, “getting some yield on their gold reserves” by offering metal for loan.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Philippinnes, Russia and Turkey between them have accounted for half the total addition to national\u00a0gold bullion<\/a>\u00a0reserves in the last 5 years.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Now the world’s No.2 consumer, “China is importing large quantities of gold to meet [private] domestic demand,” says Friday’s note from Commerzbank in Germany.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“China thus remains a crucial support for the gold price.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0China’s gold demand is “slowing” however, says today’s note from Standard Bank, which points to the Shanghai gold premium falling from $37 per ounce above London’s benchmark two weeks ago to $22 today.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Real economic indicators remain uninspiring” for industrial commodities, Standard Bank adds.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Freight volumes in China continue to show significant drops…consistent with [weaker] manufacturing data for raw materials, exports orders and to some extent new orders.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Chow Tai Fook Jewellery, the world’s biggest jewelry chain, is meantime one of several stores being investigated in China for price collusion, government newspaper the\u00a0People’s Daily\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Down 25% for 2013 so far, shares in Chow Tai Fook rallied sharply last week after it reported a jump in second-quarter sales.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“We don’t understand why we got involved in the story,” a spokeswoman told Reuters overnight.<\/p>\n

Adrian Ash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

BullionVault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Please Note: This article is to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events \u2013 and must be verified elsewhere \u2013 should you choose to act on it.<\/p>\n

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London Gold Market Report from Adrian Ash BullionVault Friday, 19 July 09:10 EST GOLD\u00a0crept higher in quiet summer trade in London on Friday, adding 0.4% for the week as world stock markets also rose but commodity prices fell back. \u00a0Silver held 2.5% below last Friday’s finish in Dollars. \u00a0Government bond prices were unchanged. \u00a0“Gold going … <\/p>\n

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