{"id":17479,"date":"2015-01-20T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/?p=17479"},"modified":"2015-01-27T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T23:58:45","slug":"a-mark-bullion-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/a-mark-bullion-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A-Mark Bullion Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A-Mark-Precious-Metals-Inc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17084 alignright\" 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\" \/><\/a>With the US out yesterday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the markets were quiet and gold took a brief pause from its recent rally.\u00c2\u00a0 That rally has resumed in full force today though and the yellow metal is pressing against $1,300 for the first time since August of 2014.\u00c2\u00a0 Gold is still feeling the effects of last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s news of the Swiss National Bank ending the CHF\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cap against the euro and the central bank deepening negative interest rates.\u00c2\u00a0 Gold was given further legs overnight with the International Monetary Fund cutting forecasts for global growth.\u00c2\u00a0 In the European sphere, there is also speculation that a Greek election this weekend may lead to the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exit from the currency bloc.\u00c2\u00a0 The combination of all these events has led to gold regaining its safe haven status.\u00c2\u00a0 Gold ETF demand last week surged by over 700,000 ounces which was the largest increase since October of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Like gold, silver has made impressive ground in 2015 and is up nearly 15% on the year so far.\u00c2\u00a0 It had a strong close on Friday by breaking through a long term down trendline and has formed a double top yesterday and today at $18.\u00c2\u00a0 Gold breaking above $1,300 decisively will translate to silver moving above $18.\u00c2\u00a0 It would then project to its 200 day moving average at $18.41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the US out yesterday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the markets were quiet and gold took a brief pause [&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":[50,1422,82],"class_list":["post-17479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-etfs","tag-gold-trading","tag-imf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479","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=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17480,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions\/17480"}],"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=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}