{"id":44064,"date":"2013-11-12T09:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=44064"},"modified":"2013-11-12T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:55:41","slug":"miner-hedging-smart-buying-seen-gold-falls-symbolic-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/11\/12\/miner-hedging-smart-buying-seen-gold-falls-symbolic-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Miner Hedging & Smart Buying Seen If Gold Falls to “Symbolic” $1000"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Gold Market Report<\/strong>
\nfrom Adrian Ash<\/strong>
\nBullionVault<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nTues 12 Nov 08:55 EST<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHOLESALE GOLD bumped up to $1285 Tuesday lunchtime in London, reversing an overnight drop to fresh 3-week lows at $1277 as European stock markets slipped with government bond prices.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“A slip through the six-month support line at $1270.16 will confirm our bearish outlook,” says Commerzbank’s Axel Rudolph.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“We could potentially,” says French bank Natixis’ precious metals analyst Bernard Dahdah, “see gold prices reach levels of $850 to $1,000. But this is our very low-case scenario.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Gold prices that low could unleash a wave of forward selling by mining companies, says French investment bank BNP Paribas, with miners trying to lock in current prices for fear of further falls ahead.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Producers, the share prices of which have not been faring well of late,” BNP’s commodity team notes, “might initiate and\/or accelerate hedging<\/a>\u00a0were we to approach the symbolic $1000 level, adding supply to the market and further downward pressure to prices.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Were gold to fall below that price, investment author and hedge-fund manager Jim Rogers told India’s\u00a0ET Now\u00a0TV last week, “I hope I’m smart enough to buy a lot more.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Explaining why he’s not\u00a0buying gold<\/a>\u00a0right now, “It went up 12 years in a row, which is highly unusual for any asset,” says Rogers. “And of course, India’s doing its best to kill the gold market.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0This month’s Diwali festival saw gold buying drop by more than one-third from 2012, according to retail dealers, thanks to the lack of supply caused by the\u00a0Indian government’s anti-gold import rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Even with gold falling a further 3% in the wholesale bullion markets for November so far, “There’s little sign yet of a boost in physical demand,” says one Asian dealing desk.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Gold is clearly lacking bullish conviction,” says another.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“With equities performing well,” agrees Scotiabank’s latest\u00a0Metals Matters\u00a0monthly, “and with the global economy looking more stable, investment demand for gold may well remain subdued.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“That could keep the lid on prices.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Confidence levels amongst UK private investors rose in October\u00a0for the third month running<\/a>, says a survey from retail stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, reaching a nine-year high with 8 in 10 respondents saying the stock market will rise again in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Market professionals have also “fallen into a state of relative complacency,” says bond-fund giant Pimco’s CEO Mohamed El-Erian, “comforted by the notion of a ‘central-bank put’.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“The result is financial risk-taking that exceeds what would be warranted strictly by underlying fundamentals.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Contrasting with last week’s strong GDP and new jobs figures, the National Federation of Independent Businesses said Tuesday that\u00a0its optimism index<\/a> dropped 2.3 points to 91.6 last month, primarily due to the government shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Gold for UK investors had earlier turned higher from its 3rd dip below \u00a3800 per ounce this year as the British Pound sank on news of much weaker than expected consumer price inflation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The news comes after strong GDP and other data raised expectations that the Bank of England could soon raise UK interest rates from their all-time low at 0.5%.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Adrian Ash is head of research at BullionVault, the secure, low-cost gold and silver market for private investors online, where you can fully allocated bullion already vaulted in your choice of London, New York, Singapore, Toronto or Zurich for just 0.5% commission.<\/p>\n

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London Gold Market Report from Adrian Ash BullionVault Tues 12 Nov 08:55 EST WHOLESALE GOLD bumped up to $1285 Tuesday lunchtime in London, reversing an overnight drop to fresh 3-week lows at $1277 as European stock markets slipped with government bond prices. \u00a0“A slip through the six-month support line at $1270.16 will confirm our bearish … <\/p>\n

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