Silver and gold rallied again during last week. The recent U.S reports may have contributed to the slow recovery of precious metals: housing starts and building permits fell by 16% and 5.4%, respectively, during January; existing home sales dropped to…
Gold and silver continued to rally last week following the ongoing slowdown in the U.S: retail sales declined by 0.4% during January; industrial production declined by 0.3% in January. Finally, jobless clams rose by 8k to reach 339k. Janet Yellen,…
Gold and silver recovered last week following the news of the slow progress of the U.S economy: Nonfarm payroll employment rose by only 113k jobs; the manufacturing PMI decreased by 5.2 percentage points to 51.3 – this means the manufacturing…
The first FOMC meeting of the year ended with another mini-taper of $10 billion; thus, the FOMC’s asset purchase program will purchase $65 billion a month of LTS and MBS. This decision may have had a moderate adverse effect on…
Gold and silver changed direction and fell last week mainly following the latest FOMC’s decision to cut down again its asset purchase program by an additional $10 billion to $65 billion a month. This mini-taper was expected and yet it…
Gold price continued to slowly recover during last week, while silver changed course and fell. The weakness in the equities markets and the depreciation of the US dollar against the Euro and Japanese yen may have contributed to the rally…
Gold and silver continued to slowly recover during last week following their tumble in December. The current low volatility in the bullion market might continue until the next FOMC meeting at the end of January will take place. This meeting…
Gold and silver bounced back mainly by the end of the week following the lower than expected rise in new jobs. According to the latest NF payroll report, only 74k jobs were added in December, which was lower than anticipated.…
Gold and silver moved in an unclear trend during last week. But on a weekly scale they have finished higher than the previous week. Several U.S reports were released last week that provided a mixed signal regarding the progress of…
The last FOMC meeting of the year ended with a mini-taper of $10 billion so that quantitative easing 3 will continue to purchase $75 billion a month of LTS and MBS. This decision may have had a moderate adverse effect…