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Gold Bullion Hits Trump Highs as Real Bond Yields Fall, Le Pen Win 'Unlikely But Dramatic'

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:43
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Adrian Ash is head of research at BullionVault, the world-leading gold trading & ownership service online…

GOLD BULLION rose sharply to near 5-month highs in London trade Tuesday morning, setting its highest London benchmark price since 10 November – the day after Donald Trump's US election victory –as major government bond prices also rose, pushing bond yields down to multi-week lows amid growing jitters over this month's French presidential vote.
 
Benchmark German Bund yields retreated to 5-week lows of just 0.24%, and 10-year US Treasury yields fell to 2.32%.
 
That cut the real rate of interest on US bonds, over and above market expectations for inflation, further below last week's 1-month lows.
 
Gold prices in London's wholesale bullion market fixed this morning at $1258.65 per ounce, 1.0% higher from Monday's auction.
 
Chart of real 10-year US T-bond yields vs gold price
 
World stock markets meantime held flat for a second day overall, while commodities ticked higher, pushing US crude oil back above $50 per barrel.
 
Silver tracked the rise in gold bullion, also nearing its highest price of the 20 weeks since Donald Trump won the US presidential election at $18.34 per ounce.
 
Platinum prices failed to rally in contrast, trading at a near-record $298 per ounce discount to gold as the start of US business approached.
 
“Gold [faces] a probable double top near $1264,” says the latest technical chart analysis from French investment and bullion market-making bank Societe Generale, pointing to the Dollar price's 200-day Moving Average.
 
“A break above is needed for an extended rebound,” says SocGen, pointing to a possible target above $1300 per ounce.
 
Gold priced in Euros  meantime hit €1181 per ounce at Tuesday's AM fixing in London – its highest since 1 March – as a new French opinion poll said anti-Euro, anti-EU candidate Marine Le Pen is neck-and-neck with social democrat centrist Emmanuel Macro on 25% each for this month's first round of the presidential election.
 
“Macron would go on to beat Le Pen in the second round,” says the poll from Le Monde/Cevipof – “one of the biggest samples among the many regular surveys,” according to Reuters – with the former Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry set to beat the nationalist “by 61% to 39% on 7 May.”
 
“If there's one lesson from the Brexit and Trump experience,” writes cross-asset analyst, former Lehman Brothers' VP and now regular CNBC guest Larry McDonald, “it's don't listen to establishment (bias) tainted polls.
 
“Traders are starting to put election hedges back on…even as polls continue to show euro-skeptic Marine Le Pen will lose in May's second round,” he adds, pointing to another sharp widening of French 2-year bond yields over the rates offered by comparable German Bunds.
 
While the odds of Le Pen winning the final round currently look low, says a note from fixed-income analyst Merveille Paja at US investment bank J.P.Morgan, her stated policy of “Frexit would create balance sheet stress and solvency challenges…[and] a FX redenomination…which would likely lead to higher yields in French bonds.
 
“This is a big risk given the fiscal deficit in France.”
 
Gold priced in Sterling also touched its highest prices on Tuesday since the end-February highs, rising above £1011 per ounce as a committee of MPs asked the Government to back up its claims that “no deal will be better than a bad deal” after the 2 years of Brexit negotiations triggered last week.
 
Six of the Brexit committee's 14 members refused to stand behind the report however, calling it “skewed and partisan.”
 
Best-selling UK newspaper The Sun meantime said “Up yours senors” across a photo of the Rock of Gibraltar on its front-page today, referring to Madrid's stance on the UK output amid the Brexit negotiations and also alluding to The Sun's famous 1990 “Up yours Delors” headline.
 
An advert appears just above today's headline, promoting cut-price holidays to seven EU nations, including Spain.

Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and head of editorial at the UK’s leading financial advisory for private investors, Adrian Ash is the editor of Gold News and head of research at BullionVault – winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation, 2009 and now backed by the mining-sector’s World Gold Council research body – where you can buy gold today vaulted in Zurich on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.

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