Adrian Ash's Contributions

Inflation Key to Gold Breaking Four-Year Trading Range

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices slipped Tuesday in London's wholesale market, falling for only the fourth time in 16 trading days as world stock markets, commodities, and government bond prices all rose yet again. The US Dollar extended...

Gold Investment Jumps Into 2018

By Adrian Ash – Gold investment ended 2017 with a bang as demand hit a 13-month high. BullionVault users added almost two-thirds of a tonne to their total holdings in December, the heaviest net investment demand since...

Gold Price Link to US Rates Weakest Since Mid-2015 as Bond Yields Jump on Trump Tax Bill

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices rose against a falling US Dollar on Wednesday morning, touching 2-week highs at $1266 per ounce despite an overnight jump in longer-term US interest rates after lawmakers in Washington voted to...

Fed Rate Rise Sees Gold Price Jump $10 as UK and ECB Hold Despite Rising Inflation

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices rose further in London trade Thursday, gaining $20 per ounce from this week's 5-month lows after the US Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate as expected. After UK inflation came in at...

Strongest US GDP in 2 Years Erases Week's Gold Price Gains, Platinum 'Oversold' Says HSBC

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices dropped on Wednesday as new data said the US economy expanded 3.3% per year between July and September, its fastest pace since 2014. Falling from its 6th attempt above $1296 so far this...

Gold Price Hits 5-Month Aussie High as No.2 Mine Output Forecast to Halve in 40 Years

By Adrian Ash – Gold price gains of 0.5% from last Friday's finish held firm in London trade today as world stock markets recovered more of this week's drop and commodities also rallied after falling from their recent multi-year highs.

Comex Gold Sees 'Another Large Sell' as Bullish Silver Betting Grows to 7-Week High

By Adrian Ash – COMEX gold contracts recovered a $5 drop against a weakening US Dollar in London lunchtime trade Tuesday, rising back to last week's finish at $1275 after what analysts called another "large sell" order on...

Rising Gold Prices Lag Crude Oil as Saudis Accuse Iran of War, Equities Rise With Bitcoin

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices held most of yesterday's 1.0% jump against the Dollar and touched new 3-week highs for Euro investors on Tuesday, trading higher as crude oil rose and Saudi Arabia accused Iran of...

Gold Prices Slip in Big Week for Central-Bank Policy, Trump Campaign Managers Arrested

By Steffen Grosshauser – Gold prices inched lower on Monday morning in London ahead of a busy week for central bank policy meetings, plus Donald Trump's pick for the next head of the US Federal Reserve writes...

Gold Prices Hit 3-Week Low as UK GDP Makes Rate Rise a 'Done Deal', GOP Back Taylor Rule at US Fed

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices fell to the lowest in 3 weeks against all major currencies in London on Wednesday, falling as world stock markets rose after Wall Street set fresh all-time highs despite growing expectations of...

Gold Price Rallies as China Fears 'Minsky Moment'

By Adrian Ash – Gold price losses of 2.0% for the week so far were cut to 1.2% lunchtime Thursday in London, as world equities fell from new record highs and government bond yields rose against a backdrop of fresh...

Precious Metals Jump as China Returns from Holidays

By Adrian Ash – Gold and silver edged higher against a falling Dollar in Asian and London trade Monday, each gaining half-a-per-cent after traders in world No.1 consumer country China returned from national holidays.

Gold Price Hits 6-Week Dollar Low as Euro Falls After Catalonia Vote

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices fell to new 6-week lows in London trade Monday as the Dollar rose and world stock markets edged higher. The Euro slipped after Sunday's clashes with civil police in Spain's Catalonia region as...

Gold Price Down Again Amid US Rate-Rise Bets, Strong China Trading, Pall-Plat Parity

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices fell beneath yesterday's 1-month lows in London trade Thursday, dipping to $1278 per ounce as most commodities edged higher with world stock markets. With gold prices now falling almost...

Gold Prices Slip Back Near $1300 After Comex Options Surge on N.Korea 'War' Talk

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices this morning cut yesterday's sharp $15 gain following North Korea's accusation that the US has "declared war", falling back to $1302 per ounce in Tuesday's London trade as the Dollar rose and world...

Gold Bullion Fails to Recover $1300 Even as Dollar Retreats Post-Fed, Kim + Trump Trade Insults

By Adrian Ash – Gold bullion rallied almost $10 per ounce on Friday from yesterday's 4-week lows against the Dollar but failed to recover what analysts called the "key pivot" of $1300 despite claims of safe-haven buying...

Gold Investment 'Roars' in Japan on N.Korea Tension But Rate-Rise Talk Hits Price as Stocks Rise

By Adrian Ash – Gold investment prices at multi-week lows against all major currencies except the Japanese Yen on Tuesday in London, erasing the last of September's earlier 4.0% jump versus the Dollar as global stock...

Gold Price Falls, Sinks vs UK Pound Despite N.Korea Missile, London Bomb + Spain's Catalonia Crisis

By Adrian Ash – Gold price gains of 1.6% from last week were again erased Friday in London, as the outlook for interest-rate hikes trumped new geopolitical tensions led by another weapons test by the pariah state of North Korea.

Tick-Tock, Northern Rock

By Adrian Ash – Over the previous half-decade, Northern Rock had regularly topped the UK's 'Best Buy' tables for fixed-rate bonds and deposits. Yet customer savings accounted for only one-third of its funding, needed to finance the UK's fastest-growing book of home loans.

Gold Prices Probe Key $1356 Level

By Adrian Ash – Gold prices fell below $1350 per ounce Friday lunchtime in London, cutting the metal's weekly Dollar gain to 1.7% and heading for a loss against other major currencies after touching a new 12-month high for US investors at...

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