{"id":18290,"date":"2015-07-09T15:29:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T22:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/?p=18290"},"modified":"2015-08-04T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T18:31:25","slug":"a-mark-bullion-update-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/a-mark-bullion-update-38\/","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>After a wild few days of trading, the Federal Open Market Committee minutes yesterday didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really provide any additional shocks to rattle the markets.\u00c2\u00a0 The FOMC expects inflation to rise, unemployment to fall, and the economy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s equilibrium real interest rate to move higher for the next few years.\u00c2\u00a0 The plan is to still raise the federal funds rate but the overall tone of the meeting had a slightly dovish bias.\u00c2\u00a0 There is concern among several members that Chinese equity liquidation as well as issues surrounding Greece may ultimately adversely affect the US.<\/p>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund lowered its global growth outlook for the remainder of 2015 to 3.30% from 3.50%.\u00c2\u00a0 This helped gold rally earlier today but the yellow metal was unable to hang onto its gains as the session wore on.\u00c2\u00a0 Sizable bids lifted gold from its lows under $1,150 on Tuesday and yesterday and this is now an increasingly important support level.\u00c2\u00a0 Silver has staged an impressive comeback after losing over 7% and falling under $15 on Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Physical demand in the US for coins and bars remains robust and should help buoy silver in the near term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a wild few days of trading, the Federal Open Market Committee minutes yesterday didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really provide any additional shocks to [&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":[53,58,1422,1387],"class_list":["post-18290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-federal-reserve","tag-global-economic-crisis","tag-gold-trading","tag-silver-prices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290","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=18290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18291,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290\/revisions\/18291"}],"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=18290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}