Gold Seeker Weekly Wrap-Up: Gold and Silver Gain Over 4% and 5% on the Week

The Metals:

Gold fell $3.45 to $1716.35 in Asia, but it then rallied back higher for most of the rest of trade and ended near its late session high of $1737.96 with a gain of 1.05%.Silver slipped down to $33.29 at about 9AM EST, but it then rose to as high as $33.94 in late morning New York trade and ended with a gain of 1.53%.

Euro gold rose to about €1313, platinum gained $13.60 to $1616.60, and copper fell a couple of cents to about $3.88.

Gold and silver equities rose roughly 2% by late morning and remained near that level for the rest of the day.

The Economy:

All of this week’s other economic reports:

Next week’s economic highlights include Core PCE Prices and Personal Income and Spending on Monday, the Employment Cost Index, the Case-Shiller 20-city Index, Chicago PMI, and Consumer Confidence on Tuesday, ADP Employment, the ISM Index, and Construction Spending on Wednesday, Initial Jobless Claims, Productivity, and Unit Labor Costs on Thursday, and January’s jobs data, Factory Orders, and ISM Services on Friday.

The Markets:

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

Oil ended slightly lower in mixed trade.

The U.S. dollar index fell rather markedly “after a top European Union official said Greece and private creditors are near an agreement on voluntary write-downs on Greek-government debt.”

Treasuries rose on disappointing economic data that sent the Dow and S&P lower, but the Nasdaq managed to find slight gains on decent earnings reports.

Among the big names making news in the market Friday were Facebook, Eastman Chemical and Solutia, Chevron, Ford, Apple, and P&G.

The Commentary:

“Take a look at the following chart of gold priced in Euros, or "Euro-Gold" as I prefer to term it. I have mentioned here and on some of my KWN Weekly Metals Wrap that this chart is one that all gold traders must continue to reference if they are to get a proper handle on the technical aspects of this market. The reason for this is that the issue most shaking the gold market during the "risk off" trades was the mess in the sovereign debt situation of many countries in the Euro-Zone.

Fears over that factor were seeing European-based buying of gold as doubts over the integrity of the Euro surfaced and still are haunting the minds of many traders and investors from that region. After all, put yourself in their place - when you see nations such as Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal (that is today's concern) having to pay record or near record yields on their government issued debt to attract sufficient buying to absorb it; when you see France along with some other nations there downgraded, would you not want to follow prudence and at least move a portion of your Euro-denominated assets into gold for protection? I know I sure would.

Either way, that process has kept Euro gold very well bid, even when we were seeing some decent selling showing up on the Dollar priced gold chart.

As long as this chart stays strong, and it is currently very strong with price threatening to take out the resistance level noted and make a run at the former all time high, any dips in Dollar priced gold are not going to last long.”- Dan Norcini, More at http://www.traderdannorcini.blogspot.com/

GATA Posts:

Central bank policy is obscuring market values, Warsh tells Stanford audience

The Statistics:

Activity from: 1/26/2012

Global Gold ETF Holdings

[WGC Sponsored ETF’s]

Note: Change in Total Tonnes from yesterday’s data: SPDR added 1.512 tonnes.

COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 174.03: No change from yesterday’s data.

Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 9,510.70: No change from yesterday’s data.

The Miners:

Tanzanian Royalty’s (TRX) COO election to Chair the Tanzania Chamber of Minerals, Ivanhoe’s (IVN) Board of Directors, Freeport’s (FCX) new chief executive at its Indonesian unit, and Scorpio’s (SPM.TO) 2011 production results and 2012 guidance were among the big stories in the gold and silver mining industry making headlines Friday.

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