{"id":17245,"date":"2014-11-19T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/?p=17245"},"modified":"2014-11-20T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T23:57:50","slug":"a-marks-bullion-update-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/a-marks-bullion-update-9\/","title":{"rendered":"A-Mark&#8217;s Bullion Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17084\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A-Mark-Precious-Metals-Inc.jpg\" alt=\"A-Mark-Precious-Metals-Inc\" width=\"206\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A-Mark-Precious-Metals-Inc.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A-Mark-Precious-Metals-Inc-60x20.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A-Mark-Precious-Metals-Inc-135x46.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>After a mostly stagnant week of trading, gold and silver finished last Friday by making fresh weekly highs and breaking through previous resistance levels.\u00c2\u00a0 Gold decisively closed above $1,180 on Friday and despite an uneventful trading day yesterday, it has caught bids yet again today after forming a base in this higher range.\u00c2\u00a0 Stops in silver were triggered at $16 on Friday and it quickly shot up to an intraday high of $16.40.\u00c2\u00a0 There is now a double bottom at $16 from yesterday and today which is buoying the market.\u00c2\u00a0 The near term objective to the upside is the 50 day moving average at $17.15.<\/p>\n<p>USD weakness, largely due to German economic sentiment beating expectations, has given gold extra legs today.\u00c2\u00a0 The SPDR gold ETF saw the first inflow of ounces being added since November 3rd.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall holdings in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest gold backed ETF now stand at 723 tons (23,244,450 ounces).\u00c2\u00a0 Chinese physical demand is also staying marginally elevated and is trading at a $2-3 premium over London spot gold.\u00c2\u00a0 In India, the central bank (Reserve Bank of India) is in talks with the government to increase curbs on gold imports.\u00c2\u00a0 Developments on this should be watched closely and an announcement could be made as early as this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Imports of gold into India in October jumped fourfold from a year earlier to $4.2 billion, raising concern about India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s balance of payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a mostly stagnant week of trading, gold and silver finished last Friday by making fresh weekly highs and breaking through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207],"tags":[1422,98,116,578],"class_list":["post-17245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-gold-trading","tag-physical-gold","tag-spot-price","tag-gold-price"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17246,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions\/17246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}