Market Updates
Keep up-to-date in the past week’s price action and the current geopolitical and economic factors driving the international and local precious metal markets.
Stocks fall and gold rallies
Gold continues to rally amongst the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The Australian Friday trading session has been an extremely volatile, with gold rallying to an intra-session high of US$1,951 on news of...
04 March 2022
Gold soars as Russia invades Ukraine
News of Russia’s first missile strike saw gold leap nearly 1% in five minutes, with the yellow metal extending to an intra-session high of US$1,974 shortl...
25 February 2022
Invasion threat lifts gold
Inflation didn’t move gold, but geopolitical tensions did. Gold’s rally this week has been driven higher on fear. Maintaining this seven-month high may be challenging unless institutional ...
18 February 2022
Gold at a two-week high
Spot gold reached its highest level overnight in two weeks as US inflation soared to a 40 year high. Fears of entrenched inflation in the US and a lack of promising signs in the recent US jobs data ar...
11 February 2022
Gold looks sturdy at US$1,800
Gold has shrugged off the hawkish tone from the Federal Reserve Bank this week, with a handful of factors keeping gold elevated…...
04 February 2022
Gold breaks through past resistance
Gold broke above the past barrier of US$1,830s, touching the low US$1,840s overnight, pushed higher by three key factors, real rates, risk off mode and increasing geopolitical tensions… &n...
21 January 2022
Will 2022 be good for gold?
Santa brings a gold rally: Gold popped overnight, up 0.26% to US$1,804 at the time of writing....
23 December 2021
Fed sets out a plan and gold agrees
Gold’s leapt higher overnight in a surprising move. Some media outlets initially attributed gold’s rally to the Bank of England increasing rates (more below) however what the UK’s ce...
17 December 2021
Australians, your moment to buy gold is here!
Gold is clearly consolidating, after the November plunge it’s now hugging previous support. This is a positive sign. ...
10 December 2021
Gold consolidates as Fed admits they’re wrong
The Federal Reserve Bank drops ‘transitory’ from their language, pushing gold down. Though the yellow metal appears to be consolidating and looking for support. This week we discover that ...
03 December 2021
