Gold Rises to New Record Highs to Over Euros 1,000

By: GoldCore

Gold is the strongest currency in the world today and has risen to $1,220/oz and over €1,000/oz with a variety of macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds supporting the yellow metal. These include geopolitical risks in the Koreas and in the Middle East, the macroeconomic risks posed by the continuing sovereign debt crisis, concerns about the euro and growing concerns about a double dip recession.

Risk aversion has increased with equity markets internationally under pressure due to the poor Chinese manufacturing data and continuing sovereign debt concerns in the eurozone. Gold is currently trading at $1,222/oz and in Euro, GBP, CHF, and JPY terms, at €1,007/oz, £845/oz, CHF 1,428.58/oz, JPY 110,933/oz respectively.

The growing environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico may also have ramifications for markets. The financial cost of tackling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst in US history, now stands at nearly $1 billion as BP prepares for its latest attempt to stem the flow of oil. Scientists are concerned that the massive oil spill could kill much of the invertebrate and fish in the sea and this could ripple across the food chain leading to even higher food prices and inflation. US wholesale food prices are up 6.8% in the past year. Food prices for the month rose by 2.4%, the sixth consecutive monthly increase and the largest jump in over 26 years. This jump in inflation has come at a time of dollar strength and should the dollar experience another period of weakness (which seems likely) then inflation could rise significantly.

Gold has risen again due to continuing economic uncertainty in the eurozone. This is not being helped by the increased degree of political uncertainty as seen in Germany where President Kohler has resigned due to remarks he made supporting the war in Afghanistan.

A close above $1,230/oz could see us quickly surge to surpass the recent record (nominal) high of $1,248/oz. Gold's support is at $1165/oz and $1185/oz.

Silver

Silver is currently trading at $18.35/oz, €15.13/oz and £12.69/oz. Silver remains very undervalued versus gold and has massively underperformed gold remaining less than half of its nominal high of $50/oz in 1980. This should change in the coming months and should see silver outperform and play catch up with gold resulting in the gold/silver ratio falling over time.

Platinum Group Metals

Platinum is trading at $1,545/oz and palladium is currently trading at $456/oz. Rhodium is at $2,675/oz.

News

Gold may advance to $1,400 to $1,450 an ounce by the end of the fourth quarter following an "anticipated consolidation phase" earlier in the year, Commerzbank said in a technical analysis report (Bloomberg).

India gold futures recovered from their previous day's losses on Tuesday afternoon to hit a fresh all-time high following strong overseas (Economic Times).

This update can be found on the GoldCore blog here.

Mark O'Byrne
Director

WINNERS MoneyMate and Investor Magazine Financial Analysts 2006

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