Gold edges up on bargain hunting after hitting over 3-week low
Reuters|
Feb 07, 2018, 08.56 AM IST
Gold prices edged up on Wednesday as investors resorted to bargain hunting after the yellow metal's sharp decline of over 1 per cent to its lowest in more than three weeks in the previous session.
Fundamentals
Spot gold was up 0.2 per cent at $1,327.97 an ounce, as of 0106 GMT. Prices touched their lowest since Jan. 11 at $1,319.96 on Tuesday.
US gold futures were up 0.1 per cent at $1,330.70 per ounce.
Asian share markets were trying to find their footing on Wednesday as a semblance of calm returned to Wall Street where major indices bounced into the black after days of deep losses.
Stock markets were routed around the globe as resurgent US inflation raised the possibility that the US Federal reserve would tighten policy more aggressively than previously expected.
The original trigger for the US stock market sell-off was a sharp rise in US bond yields late last week, after data showed US wages increasing at the fastest pace since 2009. That raised the alarm about higher inflation and, with it, potentially higher interest rates.
Monday's rout on Wall Street frayed investors' nerves, but it is not enough to knock the Federal Reserve off course from its intended path to further raise interest rates in 2018 as the economy continues to hum along, analysts say.
Barrick Gold Corp expects to record a pre-tax charge of around $429 million at its stalled Pascua-Lama project in South America in the fourth quarter due to reclassifying its gold reserves.
SPDR Gold Trust , the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, said its holdings fell 1.44 per cent to 829.27 tonnes on Tuesday from 841.35 tonnes on Monday.
US exported about $21 billion worth of non-monetary gold last year, up 4.4 per cent from 2016 when it totalled $20.1 billion, federal data showed on Tuesday.
Fundamentals
Spot gold was up 0.2 per cent at $1,327.97 an ounce, as of 0106 GMT. Prices touched their lowest since Jan. 11 at $1,319.96 on Tuesday.
US gold futures were up 0.1 per cent at $1,330.70 per ounce.
Asian share markets were trying to find their footing on Wednesday as a semblance of calm returned to Wall Street where major indices bounced into the black after days of deep losses.
Stock markets were routed around the globe as resurgent US inflation raised the possibility that the US Federal reserve would tighten policy more aggressively than previously expected.
The original trigger for the US stock market sell-off was a sharp rise in US bond yields late last week, after data showed US wages increasing at the fastest pace since 2009. That raised the alarm about higher inflation and, with it, potentially higher interest rates.
Monday's rout on Wall Street frayed investors' nerves, but it is not enough to knock the Federal Reserve off course from its intended path to further raise interest rates in 2018 as the economy continues to hum along, analysts say.
Barrick Gold Corp expects to record a pre-tax charge of around $429 million at its stalled Pascua-Lama project in South America in the fourth quarter due to reclassifying its gold reserves.
SPDR Gold Trust , the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, said its holdings fell 1.44 per cent to 829.27 tonnes on Tuesday from 841.35 tonnes on Monday.
US exported about $21 billion worth of non-monetary gold last year, up 4.4 per cent from 2016 when it totalled $20.1 billion, federal data showed on Tuesday.
