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Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010 Nov 11, 2010 - 09:47 AM GMT

By: Adrian_Ash

Commodities

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleTHE PRICE OF GOLD gave back an earlier rise in London trade on Thursday morning, still recording its third-highest ever Gold Fix – and the fourth Fix this week above $1400 an ounce – as Asian stock markets closed marginally higher but European share markets stalled.


US crude oil contracts had leapt to a fresh two-year high above $88.50 per barrel in Asian trade. Three-month copper futures in London touched a new all-time record at $8966 per ton.

The gold price in Euros meantime jumped within 2% of June's all-time high, hitting €33,250 per kilo as Greek, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish government bonds all slumped – dragging the single currency back to yesterday's 1-month low – after a Greek official said Athens' 2010 budget deficit will hit 9.3% of GDP, rather than the 8.1% set by the joint European Union/IMF €110 billion support package.

Last year's Greek budget deficit is also being revised higher, the official said, rising above 15% of GDP.

"Does the [European Central Bank] understand the concept of contagion?" asks RBS bank's Jacques Cailloux in a note.

"The collapse of the Irish bond market [on Wednesday] is testimony that the periphery crisis is developing faster than any European policy maker had anticipated. The ECB should be more proactive and support Spain before the crisis spreads.

"Now is [the] time to act."

The gold price in Euros has now risen 7.3% since the single currency began falling a week ago from new 2010 highs to the Dollar.

At Thursday's AM Gold Fix in London, the daily correlation between Dollar-Gold and the Euro/Dollar exchange rate turned negative for the first time in nine weeks (rolling 1-month basis).

During the first nine years of the single currency's existence, gold and the Euro averaged a strong, positive correlation of 0.50 against the Dollar. That figure would read +1.0 if they moved precisely in lockstep.

The correlation has now been negative – with the Euro and gold moving in opposite directions – on 104 out of 219 trading days in 2010 to date.

"The strong theoretical relationship between gold prices and peripheral European sovereign CDS [credit-default insurance] rates will need to be reappraised" however, reckons the latest Commodities Weekly from Natixis bank, following Germany's proposed changes to the Eurozone's €440 billion emergency rescue fund.

"Private bondholders will henceforth be expected to bear some of the costs in the event of a default or restructuring...instead of leaving tax payers to foot the entire bill," write Nic Brown, Lysú Páez-Cortez, Bernard Dahdah and Micaella Feldstein.

For now, "the strong positive relationship still exists. [But] the explicit removal of a full bail-out for bond holders means many holders of Euros may feel less exposed to a potential sovereign default" via monetary inflation.

"German households already hold more gold that the Bundesbank – the world's second largest central bank holder of gold," Natixis' team concludes. "Merkel's proposed reforms may give them more comfort in holding Euro cash or core-European government debt instead."

Meantime on the data front this morning, Machine Orders in Japan reversed an earlier 10% month-on-month rise, while its Tankan survey showed a sharp decline in business sentiment.

New Zealand reported a jump in domestic food prices, but Australia reported a surprise jump in its jobless rate – news that "failed to dent buying interest" amongst Chinese gold traders however, and "bullish demand" for precious metals continued, according to a Hong Kong dealer, when Beijing reported slower-than-expected but still stellar growth in both Industrial Output and Retail Sales.

China's consumer-price and factory input inflation both rose sharply last month, other new figures showed.

Despite a slight rise in deposit rates, the real rate of interest paid to cash savers fell in October to minus 1.9% per year.

"US monetary policy made a very big mistake under Greenspan and Bernanke," said Nobel-winner and Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz in a speech today.

"Hong Kong should recognize that it is a very big mistake, and use a full gambit of instruments to stabilize the market," said Stiglitz, urging exchange controls across the world's emerging economies to block "hot money" investment fleeing sub-zero real rates in the rich West.

"China has had capital controls on short-term flows that have worked, not perfectly, but have worked to stabilize [in]flows."

"We are going to be moving into a new global regime in which we will have all kinds of impediments on the flows of capital, of short-term capital."

"The real issue is...how do we coordinate policy?" India's chief negotiator Montek Singh Ahluwalia asked Reuters today, as the G20 summit of developed and top emerging-economy politicians began in Seoul, South Korea.

"I don't think you should be too demanding...because such policy coordination has never been attempted before."

By Adrian Ash

BullionVault.com

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Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and a regular contributor to MoneyWeek magazine, Adrian Ash is the editor of Gold News and head of research at www.BullionVault.com , giving you direct access to investment gold, vaulted in Zurich , on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.

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