Following a slow week, the precious metals market reheated as both gold and silver spiked on the first business day of the week. Their rally wasn’t due to latest developments in the forex market although the US dollar did depreciate against leading currencies including Euro and Aussie dollar. The recent U.S housing data weren’t too positive as existing home sales slipped by 1.2% in June to reach an annual rate of 5.08 million. In my view, this news wasn’t enough to pull up gold and silver prices. Perhaps we have witnessed another short squeeze that could explain this rapid spike in gold and silver prices. If gold and silver will change direction today, this could suggest the short squeeze theory had some merit. On today’s agenda: Canada Retails Sales, Australia’s CPI for Q2 2013, and China flash Manufacturing PMI.
Here is a short outlook for precious metals for Tuesday, July 23rd:
Gold and Silver Prices Review – July Update
On Monday, gold sharply increased by 3.33% to $1,336; Silver also spiked by 5.39% to $20.50 – its highest level since mid June. During July, gold rose by 9.17%; silver, by 5.39%.
In the chart below are the normalized rates of gold and silver for 2013 (normalized to 100 as of June 28th). The prices of gold and silver have rallied in recent weeks.
The ratio between the two precious metals slightly fell on Monday to 65.17. During July, the ratio rose by 3.59% as gold moderately out-performed silver.
See here the weekly outlook of gold and silver for July 22-26.
The gold and silver futures volumes of trade have reached on Friday to 180 thousand and 23 thousand, respectively. These numbers are lower than the volume traded during the month. Conversely, the week started with high volumes of trade. If the volume will continue to rise in the coming days, this could pressure up the volatility of precious metals prices. The chart below shows the volume of trading gold and silver futures in the CME during the past several weeks.
On Today’s Agenda
Canada Retails Sales: This report will refer to the retails sales in Canada as of May. In the recent report regarding April 2013, retails sales inched down by 0.3%;
Australia’s CPI for Q2 2013: In the previous report regarding the first quarter of 2013, the CPI rose by 0.4% compared to the fourth quarter and by 2.5% compared to Q1 2012; this report could affect the Aussie dollar which is linked with commodities rates;
China flash Manufacturing PMI: this index is based on a survey covering 800 companies in 20 industries in China; in the previous HSBC Manufacturing PMI survey regarding June 2013 the Manufacturing PMI declined again to 48.3; this index indicates China’s manufacturing sectors have contracted at a slightly faster pace than in May; if the index will continue to contract, this may adversely affect precious metals prices;
Currencies / Bullion Market – July Update
The Euro/ USD currency pair rallied again on Monday by 0.33% to 1.3186. During July, the Euro/USD rose by 1.35%. Moreover, other currencies such as the Aussie dollar and Japanese yen sharply appreciated yesterday against the U.S dollar by 0.84% and 0.97%, respectively. The correlations among gold, Euro and Aussie dollar remained robust, e.g. the correlation between the Euro/USD and gold price is 0.59 in recent weeks. If these correlations will remain strong, the currencies pairs Aussie/USD, Euro/USD and Canadian dollar/USD are likely to affect precious metals prices.
Current Gold and Silver Rates as of July 23rd
Gold (short term delivery) is traded at $1,334.50 per t oz. a $2.80 or 0.21% decrease as of 01:42*.
Silver (short term delivery) is at $20.46 per t oz – a 0.26% decrease as of 01: 42*.
(* GMT)
Here is a reminder of the top events and publications that are scheduled for today and tomorrow (all times GMT):
Today
13:30 – Canada Retails Sales (May 2013)
00:30 – Australia’s CPI for Q2 2013
02:45 – China flash Manufacturing PMI
Tomorrow
09:00 – Flash German, French and Euro Zone Manufacturing PMI
15:00 – U.S. New Home Sales
For further reading:
- Gold and Silver Outlook for July
- Will Gold Recover from its Recent Fall?
- Weekly Outlook for July 22-26
- Gold and Silver Weekly Outlook for July 22-26
- Euro/USD Weekly Overview for July 22-26
- Gold and Silver Yearly Outlook For 2013
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