Gold Seeker Weekly Wrap-Up: Gold and Silver Gain Over 1% and 3% on the Week

Please Note: US Markets are closed on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The Metals:

Gold fell to as low as $1625.27 by about 10:30AM EST before it rebounded midday, but it still ended with a loss of 0.67%.Silver slipped to as low as $29.42 before it also bounced back higher, but it still ended with a loss of 1.63%.

Euro gold rose to about €1291, platinum lost $7.70 to $1484, and copper fell slightly to about $3.63.

Gold and silver equities fell about 2% in the first hour of trade before they rebounded slightly in late trade, but they still ended with over 1% losses.

The Economy:

Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter Yahoo

Fed to Weigh Further Easing Amid Doubts About Recovery CNBC

All of this week’s other economic reports:

Next week’s economic highlights include Empire Manufacturing on Tuesday, PPI, Net Long-Term TIC Flows, Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization, and the NAHB Housing Market Index on Wednesday, Initial Jobless Claims, CPI, Housing Starts, Building Permits, and the Philadelphia Fed on Thursday, and Existing Home Sales on Friday.

The Markets:

Charts Courtesy of http://finance.yahoo.com/

Oil fell as the U.S. dollar index and treasuries rose on worries about European credit downgrades that sent the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P lower.

France loses AAA-rating in blow to eurozone Yahoo

Looming S&P downgrade hits euro zone markets Reuters

Among the big names making news in the market Friday were JPMorgan, Diamond Foods, and Fannie Mae.

The Commentary:

“The inability of the metal to secure a CLOSE above $1,650 in spite of yesterday's surge towards $1,660 has engendered profit taking by shorter-term oriented longs this morning. As noted the other day, the metal has had a strong rally off of a major double bottom on the chart near $1,535 since the last couple of trading days of 2011 to the present coming over $130 higher since then. Longs are wisely pulling some chips off of the table after watching the push higher in yesterday's session fail to attract enough momentum to keep it trading above that $1650 level.

The US Dollar surge to yet another 52 week high is proving to be a source of some rather stiff headwinds for the longs today as the equity markets are selling off and risk aversion trades are showing their usual signature once again.

Dip buying has been the order of the day since this rally began. We will now watch to see where this buying will resurface. There is some light support that should appear near $1625- $1620. If it does not hold there, $1,600 is the next stop.

Bulls will need to push this thing past $1650 again and KEEP IT ABOVE THAT LEVEL to have a legitimate shot at $1675 - $1680, where bullion bank selling can be expected to appear.

The trend on gold since August has been down on this shorter term chart. However, the inability of the bears to take the metal down below $1535 and start another leg lower resulted in a bout of short covering among the weaker hands in that category. Bulls have pressed hard using the strong physical offtake at the lower price levels as their ally and have managed to take the price over $1600 which is constructive. But they have a lot more work to do to turn this chart pattern decidedly bullish.”- Dan Norcini, More at http://www.traderdannorcini.blogspot.com/

GATA Posts:

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A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty 'Hi-yo, Silver! Away!'

The Statistics:

Activity from: 1/12/2012

Global Gold ETF Holdings

[WGC Sponsored ETF’s]

Note: No change in Total Tonnes from yesterday’s data.

COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 171.84: No change from yesterday’s data.

Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 9,516.75: No change from yesterday’s data.

The Miners:

Gold Fields’ (GFI) project in Kyrgyzstan, AuRico’s (AUQ) preliminary results for the fourth quarter, Pretivm’s (PVG) filed technical report, Lake Shore’s (LSG) production results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011, and Coeur’s (CDE) Director of Corporate Communications were among the big stories in the gold and silver mining industry making headlines Friday.

WINNERS

LOSERS

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