Hedge funds’ bullish bets on gold jump to four-year high
Hedge funds and other large speculators boosted their net-long position in gold.
Gold suffered a third day of selling on Wednesday dropping more than $17 to a 6-week low of $1,3291.50 an ounce over rising fears about US economic stimulus.
In midday-trade, just hours before the expected tapering of the Federal Reserves quantitative easing program was due to be announced, the gold price recovered somewhat to $1,298 an ounce.
The gold price seemed to have turned a corner in August, briefly exiting a bear market as it fought back from near 3-year lows, but those gains have now been mostly wiped out.
The US Federal Reserve meeting ends Wednesday at 2:30 EST and consensus is that the Chairman Ben Bernanke will announce a relatively modest $10 billion reduction in the bank’s asset purchases program currently running at $85 billion a month.
The gold price has increased nearly 60% since QE1 was announced in December 2008 when the ruling price was $837 an ounce, but the metal has retreated some $380 in 2013.
2 Comments
RBF
$1,3291.50
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Someone needs to proofread this.
JH
same ole. Gold drops and Frik is front and center – gold rises and Frik becomes the Invisible man.
There really is no valid reason to write about the minutiae of each decrease, and then write nothing about a $55 rise.
I can think of one reason. I just hope its not valid.