Heavy buying saw the price of gold jump on Monday reverting to levels last seen before Donald Trump’s election as the dollar weakens and hopes for faster economic growth in the world’s largest economy begin to fade.
Gold for delivery in December, the most active contract on the Comex market in New York with nearly 30m ounces traded by early afternoon, was exchanging hands for $1,317.10 an ounce. That a 1.5% gain from Friday’s close and brings gold’s year-to-date gains to over 14% or $165 an ounce.
Hedge funds which abandoned the gold market for equities and other yield-producing investments in what became known as the Trump trade, are now jumping back in
Gold is now at its the highest since the beginning of November. The metal touched a high of $1,338 on election night when results showed a likely Trump victory, but the rally in record volumes for the Comex market, soon evaporated and by mid-December gold was languishing at $1,150.
Gold bears had been making big bets that Trump’s plans for fiscal stimulus, including a $500 billion infrastructure spending program, will lead to strong US economic expansion, higher interest rates and a more robust dollar. All bad news for the gold price.
That narrative has now run its course. Global uncertainty and geopolitical worries including North Korea, the wobble on equity markets, the dollar at the cheapest since January 2015 and continued loose monetary policy have seen the return of the safe haven buyer.
Hedge funds or so-called managed money investors in gold futures and options which abandoned the market for equities and other yield-producing investments in what became known as the Trump trade, are now jumping back in.
Suki Cooper, an analyst at Standard Chartered in New York, quoted by the Financial Times estimated that investors bought a record 474 tonnes worth more than $19 billion over the past five weeks on the Comex market. “Buying only came close to such levels in Comex futures after the vote for Brexit,” according to Cooper.
Hedge funds added to their exposure to the yellow metal for the fifth straight week according to trader positioning data supplied by the government. Net longs – bets that gold will be more expensive in the future – rose 9% to the equivalent of 19.6m ounces (610 tonnes), the highest since October. That’s well below the mid-2016 record high, but marks a sharp reversal from the negative sentiment that prevailed for a good part of the summer.
Source: www.tradingfloor.com
3 Comments
Jonathan Phillips
1300 is the now new 1200 gold will prob rise past 1400 by xmas.
Bobb Lawrence
came around just about on sched. keep it close to ur vest…
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