UK gold coin sales jump on concerns over Labour’s fiscal plans
While the possibility of a capital gains hike by Labour adds to the coins’ appeal, it’s one of many potential drivers for the Mint’s increased sales.
On Wednesday gold surged past the $1,300 an ounce level with December futures trading on the Comex market in New York jumping more than $60 or nearly 5% to exchange hands for a high $1,338.30 an ounce before paring much of the gains.
Ahead of the US markets opening gold was back trading at $1,299 an ounce in massive volumes.
Financial markets around the world braced for a sell-off after Trump’s triumph in the US presidential elections with gold benefitting from safe haven buying. The metal also made the most the fall in the value of the dollar with the US dollar index losing nearly 2% to 96.15, before clawing back most of the decline.
Conventional wisdom is that the gold price and the dollar move in opposite directions. The dollar’s all-time peak of 164.7 was reached in February 1985. That coincided with a bottom in the price of gold of $284.25 an ounce. In August and September 2011, when gold was peaking above $1,900, the dollar index dipped below 75.
Last week HSBC Chief Precious Metals Analyst James Steel was quoted by Bloomberg as saying a Clinton win would be supportive of the gold price, but a Trump triumph could spark as much as a $200 an ounce jump in the price adding that the metal could “enjoy at least a 8 percent jump whoever wins the race”:
Both candidates have espoused trade policies that could stimulate demand, with gold offering a potential “protection against protectionism,” he says. Even the relatively more internationalist Democratic candidate has argued for the renegotiation of longstanding free-trade agreements. That’s positive for gold — even if “not on the scale of Mr Trump’s agenda.
Year to date gold is managing gains of over 20% or some $250 an ounce, one of its best annual performances since 1980.
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Dhaval Shah
I don’t believe this news, gold prices are increased because Indian government banned its 500 and 1000 Rupee notes with immediate effect from 8th November, 2016 11:59 PM. The announcement came around 6 PM evening. This step was taken to remove black cash money with the people. So people who has cash money with them tried to buy gold as much as they can in order to make some safety on their black money. There are few Jewellers in Mumbai have sold almost all gold they had in the stock, some big jewellers might have sold around 3000 Million Ruppes ($1 = 66 Rupees) worth gold in 6 hours.
so for that 6 hours, gold prices jumped and as people cannot use the currency to buy anything further, the gold prices came down, its nothing to do with Donald Trump and Hillary clinton. for more news see this news.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-08/jewelers-in-demand-as-indians-seek-to-dispose-banned-bank-bills