Gold Bulls hope that gold has formed a triple-bottom pattern, which if true suggests the subsequent move will be strongly upwards. However, triple-bottom patterns are uncommon and often turn out to be flag patterns, or consolidations in a continuing bear market. We will need to see gold trading convincingly above the 200-day moving average (currently at $1283) for confirmation the market has turned. Until then the computers that trade to programmed formulae are likely to remain on the bear tack on the basis that the downtrend is still in place. These bears include analysts who either think that next year US interest rates will rise, which is seen to be bad for gold, or alternatively see a deepening recession leading to a stronger dollar, measured against other currencies. When the FOMC came out with minutes postponing rising interest rates, gold and silver were the best performers in the commodity complex. Those who think rising interest rates are bad for gold forget that during the 1970s interest rates rose over the decade and gold also rose from a low of $36 in June 1970 to over $800 at the end of the decade. And those who think falling prices seen in a slump are bad for gold forget that in 1934 the price was raised against the dollar by 69%. Next week Monday. Japan: M2 Money Supply. Tuesday. UK: CPI, Input Prices, Output Prices, ONS House Prices. Eurozone: ZEW Economic Sentiment, Industrial Production. Wednesday. Japan: Capacity Utilisation, Industrial Production. UK: Average Earnings, Claimant Count Change, ILO Unemployment rate. Eurozone: Trade Balance. US: PPI, Retail Sales. Thursday. Eurozone: HICP. US: Initial Claims, Net Long-Term TICS Flows, Capacity Utilisation, Industrial Production, NAHB Survey. Friday. US: Building Permits, Housing Starts. read it all here: silverseek/article/market-report-market-turbulence-13685
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:32:58 +0000
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