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Hawkish Fed Comments on Inflation Landed Right at Both Metals’ Supply Zones, and the Correction Wrote Itself
Macro Snapshot: The correction in gold and silver during the week ending August 28 was a confluence event. Both metals had rallied into well-defined supply zones (gold at ₹162,000-164,000, silver at ₹244,000-248,000) and were showing early signs of exhaustion. Into that setup, the July PCE release on August 26 came in hot on the headline (3.7% year over year against 3.6% consensus), and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s August 28 Jackson Hole address leaned decisively hawkish on inflation. The trigger
Hawkish Fed Comments on Inflation Landed Right at Both Metals’ Supply Zones, and the Correction Wrote Itself
Macro Snapshot: The correction in gold and silver during the week ending August 28 was a confluence event. Both metals had rallied into well-defined supply zones (gold at ₹162,000-164,000, silver at ₹244,000-248,000) and were showing early signs of exhaustion. Into that setup, the July PCE release on August 26 came in hot on the headline (3.7% year over year against 3.6% consensus), and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s August 28 Jackson Hole address leaned decisively hawkish on inflation. The trigger
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Mumbai: The World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) plans to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) in China, the world’s biggest consumer of the precious metal, and a coin-based fund in Europe in 2017, an executive of the council said on Wednesday. “We are working on two deals in China for investment products. ETF and retail platinum bars with a big state-run
JNA Awards 2017 Now Accepting Entries
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Muthoot Launches Anantavarsham Platinum Series
Mumbai: Muthoot Exim, the precious metals division of the 130-year–old corporate conglomerate Muthoot Pappachan Group, today launched India’s first ever range of non jewellery platinum products made from the rarest of precious metals, platinum. Named ‘Anantavarsham Platinum Series’, the new range of non jewellery products aims to give Indian customers unprecedented access to affordable platinum products, purchased via savings and
