Rio Tinto and Glencore spoke for months about deal that was once taboo
The news of Glencore and Rio’s discussions “has turned up the temperature on an already simmering M&A environment,” RBC Capital Markets analyst says.
Gold hit a three-week low on Tuesday, and silver its lowest in four weeks as the dollar strengthened and expectations increased that the U.S. Federal Reserve will soon reduce monetary stimulus.
Gold is down more than 23% this year, dropping to a near-three year low of $1,220 at the end of June, and is set break its unbroken 12-year bull run this year.
Some investors lost faith in the metal amid a U.S. equity rally and low inflation.
“Tapering has become the centrepiece again,” Frank McGhee, the head dealer at Integrated Brokerage Services in Chicago told Bloomberg News. “There is no reason for gold to go higher in the current environment.”
Spot gold hit its lowest since Oct. 17 at $1,275.80 an ounce in earlier trade. It was down 0.2% at $1,280.16 by 14:46 GMT. Prices swung between gains and losses, earlier rising as much as 0.3%.
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letsgetphysical
Lets get this straight, dollars are still being pumped into the market, tapering hasn’t happened yet and dollars have increased in value against gold, all the while less gold is being produced as miners cant afford to extract the stuff. in the mean time the banks are buying physical gold for less dollars and paper gold is being dumped and substituted by the institutions for physical at lower prices. All the while the scare mongering goes on as they comment there is no reason for gold to go higher in the current environment. I say buy gold, with the proviso the less the govt knows about it the better.