{"id":22888,"date":"2017-04-25T17:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T00:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/?p=22888"},"modified":"2017-05-09T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T22:35:33","slug":"mark-bullion-update-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/mark-bullion-update-14\/","title":{"rendered":"A-Mark Bullion Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A-Mark-Precious-Metals-Inc.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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>Over the weekend, France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential election narrowed down to two candidates in Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.\u00c2\u00a0 Macron is ahead of Le Pen in election polls heading into next month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential election and his agenda is considered to be market friendly, including labor market reforms as well as cutting excessive public spending.\u00c2\u00a0 Macron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current position in the election, the avoidance of a nightmare run off between Le Pen and Melenchon, and North Korea failing to launch a nuclear missile test on a national holiday, all combined to provide a risk-on environment to the equity markets.\u00c2\u00a0 European stocks climbed near 20 month highs while the Dow Jones shot up 230 points to just under all-time highs at 21,000.\u00c2\u00a0 The softened geopolitical climate and the equity price action brought on gold liquidation.\u00c2\u00a0 Gold is sitting at two week lows and looks poised to test its 200 day moving average at $1,254.50.\u00c2\u00a0 Silver has traded lower in six of the last seven trading days and will look towards gold for short term direction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Shop for gold and silver online<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/buy-gold\">https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/buy-gold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential election narrowed down to two candidates in Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.\u00c2\u00a0 Macron is ahead [&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":[1421,1422,1385,1387,1406],"class_list":["post-22888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-gold-prices","tag-gold-trading","tag-djia","tag-silver-prices","tag-silver-trading"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888","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=22888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22902,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888\/revisions\/22902"}],"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=22888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}