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¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
The high-frequency traders were certainly active in Far East trading on Thursday...with the low of the day in gold coming around 3:30 p.m. Hong Kong time...about thirty minutes before the London open.
Gold crept higher from there...and jumped up a bit between 1:15 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. in New York. After that, the gold price traded sideways.
Gold closed at $1,550.60 spot...down three bucks from Wednesday. Net volume was an eye-watering 200,000 contracts.
It was more or less the same chart pattern in silver...and silver closed at $26.90 spot...down 8 cents. Net volume was a very impressive 40,000 contracts.
The platinum price followed the same basic pattern as gold and silver...but palladium really got it in the neck. Here are the charts for both.
At the end of the day, gold was down 0.28%...silver was down 0.30%...platinum down 0.85%...and the winner was palladium, down 3.46%.
The dollar index opened at 82.75 in Far East trading on their Thursday...and then didn't do much until about half-past lunchtime in Hong Kong. The index then blasted off...and was up a bit over 50 basis points by 9:00 a.m. in London...probably on the Bank of Japan money printing news. Except for its spike high [83.43] at 8:30 a.m. in New York, the index began to head south at an ever-increasing rate...with the low [82.63] coming around 2:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. From that juncture, the dollar index crept higher into the close...finishing the Thursday trading session at 82.72...virtually unchanged from where it started the day.
And as I'm sure you've already noted, the effects of the big rise...and subsequent decline in the dollar index...were nowhere to be found in the precious metal price action.
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The CME's Daily Delivery Report showed that 383 gold, along with 185 silver contracts were posted for delivery on Monday. In gold, the only short/issuer of note was JPMorgan Chase in its client account with 356 contracts. The two biggest long/stoppers were HSBC USA and Barclays...with 192 and 157 contracts respectively.
In silver, it was JPMorgan Chase with all 185 contracts issued from it's in house [proprietary] trading account...and by far the largest long/stopper was Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia with 162 contracts. The link to yesterday's Issuers and Stoppers Report is here.
There weren't any reported changes in either GLD or SLV yesterday...at least as of 10:40 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time yesterday evening. But after what happened on Wednesday night, I'll always remember to check back in the wee hours of the morning to make sure that they didn't pull another "midnight move" in SLV. [I checked at 5:08 a.m. Eastern time as I was editing this column, and SLV still showed unchanged.]
While on the subject of SLV...Joshua Gibbons, the Guru of the SLV Bar List, updated his figures for activity up until the close of SLV business on Wednesday...and you can read all about it at theabout.ag/SLV/ Internet site linked here.
The U.S. Mint had a smallish sales report yesterday. They sold 5,500 ounces of gold eagles.
Over at the Comex-approved depositories on Wednesday, they didn't report receiving any silver...but shipped 641,035 troy ounces of the stuff out the door. The link to that activity is here.
At the bullion store yesterday, it was the third day in a row where business was far above normal...and only towards the end of the day did things slow down a bit...but only a bit. We've sold more platinum and palladium in the last three days than we have in the last three months combined. Lots of gold sales, too...but the vast majority of sales are silver...and it has always been that way. The mood is different now. People are worried...about interest rates...the banks...Cyprus...you name it. The idea of making a buck is still part of the buying equation, but it has become the secondary reason to buy since the Cyprus incident...especially considering the revelation that the Canadian government is considering the same policy with its own "too-big-to-fail" banks.
Here is a short note that I sent my Member of Parliament on Monday...and I'll be meeting with him next weekend on this issue...
01 April 2013
The Honourable Mike Lake, M.P.
9225-28 Avenue NW
Edmonton, Alberta T6N 1N1
Subject: Canada's 2013 Budget
Hi Mike,
I trust that you had a good spring break/Easter...and that Deb and the kids are well.
Several Canadian readers of the almost 40,000 world-wide subscribers to my daily blog sent me copies of Canada's latest budget that came down just recently. They had some concerns about it...and so do I.
I refer you to pages 144/145 of this document [page 154/155 on the pdf counter] where "Systemically Important Canadian Banks" are discussed. The first bullet point on page 145 [pdf page 155] reads as follows...
"The Government proposes to implement a "bail-in" regime for systemically important banks. This regime will be designed to ensure that, in the unlikely event that a systemically important bank depletes its capital, the bank can be recapitalized and returned to viability through the very rapid conversion of certain bank liabilities into regulatory capital. This will reduce risks for taxpayers. The Government will consult stakeholders on how best to implement a bail-in regime in Canada. Implementation timelines will allow for a smooth transition for affected institutions, investors and other market participants." [Emphasis is mine. - Ed]
Based on what happened to the banks in Cyprus last week, I'm wondering if you can define what is meant by "certain bank liabilities"? As a starting point, every bank account in Canada is a "bank liability"...your bank accounts, and mine, included.
When [not if] this "proposed" legislation becomes the law of the land, and has to be implemented, will currently-in-place deposit insurance cover any portion of the savings that you and I have in our respective bank accounts...and what kind of capital controls can we expect when this occurs?
One last question I have is regarding the time line for all of this. How soon can we expect our government to draft this legislation and get it passed into law?
I look forward to hearing from you on this matter at your earliest convenience.
With best wishes,
Ed Steer
Edmonton, Alberta
P.S. Just as a "heads up"...and I'm only speculating at this point...but the first bank that will probably require the largess of the Canadian government/taxpayer to bail them out is Scotiabank...as their precious metals division, Scotia Mocatta...along with JPMorgan Chase in the U.S.A...are massively short both gold and silver on the COMEX at the moment...and the amount of money it will cost the Bank of Nova Scotia to extricate themselves from this situation will make your eyes glaze over.
Selected news and views........
Mapping the Witch-Hunt of the World's Offshore Bank Account Holders
A cache of 2.5 million files of cash transfers, incorporation dates, and links between companies and individuals has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts. The secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) lay bare the names behind covert companies used by people from American doctors to Russian executives and international arms dealers in more than 170 countries (as shown in the map below).
One wonders how and why this sudden (and timely) leak of documents occurred (which just happened to turn up at a source's house). If we were a tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist we might suspect that this is a staged coup to create a witch-hunt against all offshore capital (legitimate or illegitimate) - and an attempt, as with Cyprus, to push money out of banks and into circulation (pushing the velocity up) as all other monetary policy 'tricks' have failed.
My feelings exactly! This Zero Hedge piece on this new item is well worth the read...and it showed up in my in-box about twenty-five minutes after the spiegel.de piece above. I thank Marshall Angeles for sending it.
Draghi Says EU Needs Bank-Loss Rules Earlier, by 2015
European Union regulators need the power to force losses on bank investors no later than 2015, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said, endorsing a push from Germany and like-minded nations to speed the process.
“We would like to see these rules enter into force not in 2019, 2018, but way way earlier, like 2015,” Draghi said at a press conference in Frankfurt today. He said it’s “very urgent” that the EU adopt a framework for restructuring or shutting down banks so governments will no longer need to take “ad hoc” actions, as they did in imposing losses on depositors in Cyprus.
EU leaders have set a June deadline for governments and the European Parliament to agree on legislation setting out how authorities should handle bank failures, including through so- called creditor bail-ins. In the absence of such a system, nations have injected 1.7 trillion euros ($2.2 trillion) into their banking systems since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., according to European Commission data.
This Bloomberg story was posted on their Internet site early yesterday morning Mountain Time...and I thank Manitoba reader Ulrike Marx for sharing it with us.
Draghi: Cyprus levy 'not smart'
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi on Thursday admitted that an initial plan to tax small savers in Cyprus was "not smart", but stressed that the island is "no template" for others.
Looking back on the events that both investors and ordinary Cypriots, Draghi said that the ECB had not been the source of the original (and subsequently rejected) idea to impose a tax on small savers, but did agree to it as part of an overall deal on 15 March.
"That was not smart, to say the least, and it was quickly corrected the day after in the Eurogroup conference call," Draghi said during a press conference in Frankfurt after the monthly meeting of the ECB governing council.
He added that Cyprus was "no template" for other countries or banks in trouble and said that Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem was "surely misunderstood" when he was quoted suggesting this may be the case.
This story, filed from Berlin, was posted on the euobserver.com Internet site early yesterday evening Europe time. It's similar to the previous Bloombergstory is some ways...but different enough that I posted them back-to-back...and I thank Roy Stephens for sending it.
Japanese bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda makes history with monetary blitz
The Bank of Japan has launched the most daring monetary experiment of modern times, aiming to double the money base within two years to overpower deflation and catapult the economy out of slump.
The blast of money is expected to reignite the yen “carry trade” and flood global markets with up to $2 trillion (£1.3 trillion) of pent-up savings, giving the entire world a shot in the arm.
The BoJ’s new team under governor Haruhiko Kuroda voted 8:1 for a double dose of “quantitative and qualitative monetary easing”, vowing to inject stimulus for “as long as it takes” to break the deflation psychology.
“This will be recorded in economic history books as a watershed in central bank action. Investors should be shocked and awed,” said Stephen Jen from SLJ Macro Partners.
This must read Ambrose Evans-Pritchard commentary was posted on thetelegraph.co.uk Internet site late yesterday evening BST...and I thank Ulrike Marx for bringing it to our attention.
Four King World News Blogs
The first commentary is from Richard Russell. It's entitled "I Haven't Seen Anything Like This in 60 Years". Next comes this interview with Gerald Celente...and it's headlined "Powerful and Destructive Big Bank Holiday Coming". The third blog is with Egon von Greyerz...and the title says "Desperate Countries to Accelerate Private Wealth Destruction". Lastly is thisJim Sinclair interview...and it's bears the headline "This Will Create the Mother of All Financial Crisis".
Alasdair Macleod: Danger in Bank Accounts
The thinking behind GoldMoney’s business model was that there might come a time when prudent savers would want to protect themselves from the twin risks of a global banking crisis and a loss of purchasing power of paper currencies. The first of these two risks is now upon us, and it is important that everyone with savings to protect is aware of what is happening to banks and their bank accounts. By the time this is fully understood by the media it may be too late to act.
It has been obvious for some time that banks in many jurisdictions are insolvent and that they are simply too big for governments to rescue. Furthermore, while some governments feel they have a reasonable chance of muddling through, they are all aware that a crisis in one major nation, such as Spain or Italy would most probably lead to a chain of defaults beyond anyone’s control. It should come as no surprise that central bankers have been considering how to deal with this problem and that they have resolved a solution.
That solution, as we saw clumsily applied in Cyprus, is for central banks to use creditors’ funds to rescue banks in difficulty, which includes uninsured deposits, instead of taxpayers’ money. What this means is that if you have deposits greater than the level guaranteed by your government, the unguaranteed portion (in the eurozone, over €100,000) is free to be used to recapitalise the bank.
This short must read essay by Alasdair was posted on his financeandeconomics.org Internet site earlier this week.
Largest Dutch bank defaults on physical gold deliveries to customers
Last week, a Rubicon was crossed in the precious metals market as one of the largest banks in Europe defaulted on their gold contracts, and informed their customers there was no physical gold available for delivery.
ABN AMRO, the largest Dutch bank in the Eurozone, issued a letter to their gold contract customers of failure of delivery, and instead will pay account holders in a paper currency equivalent to the current spot value of the metal.
I had quite a number of readers send me this story since it first became public over a week ago. The first thing that I did when I heard about it, was send the news item to James Turk for his approbation. He said that it was true, but that ABN AMRO was such a tiny player in the gold market, that it was hardly worth worrying about...and that was why I didn't post this particular story until now.
If you keep an eye on the CME's Daily Delivery Report that I comment on every day at the top of this column...and link the website as well...you'll see their name pop up from time to time, but they are [as James said] tiny players in the grand scheme of things...but players nonetheless. I thank reader John Gillies for sending me this particular version of the story which showed up on the examiner.com Internet site on Wednesday.
A Ton Of Gold Bricks: What Capital Flight Looks Like In Italy
Curious why so little has been said about cash flowing out of Italy's banks, especially when even UniCredit's CEO today proudly warned everyone he is all for confiscating uninsured deposits as long as "everyone else is doing it" - and no, he is not kidding, so when it does happen, nobody will be able to say they weren't warned. Maybe it is because Italian cash is actually not leaving the country at all. Instead, real "wealth" is departing the boot-shaped nation, quietly and under the radar, as fast as it can in another form: gold.
As the clip from Bloomberg shows, a car was intercepted at the Italy-Switzerland border, with a very special cargo: numerous bars of gold weighing a whopping one ton, worth $6 million.
First of all, dear reader, I doubt very much if there was a tonne of gold in the car, as it would barely move if there was...and the suspension system of most cars couldn't handle that kind of gross weight...and I wouldn't give you ten cents for its braking power in the mountains under those load circumstances. Besides which, it would be impossible to hide 81 good delivery bars in any car. To top it off, a tonne of gold at the current U.S. spot price at the London open this morning was worth a hair under US$50 million...so you can scale this story down a bit in that respect...but it's an excellent bet that physical gold is on the move everywhere...and the number of ounces that the government catches as it crosses international borders is a drop in the bucket.
This Zero Hedge piece from yesterday was sent to me by Marshall Angeles...and the embedded video is well worth watching.
The gold price was $35 for years -- and suddenly there was no market at all
Another day, another interview for GATA secretary/treasurer Chris Powell...and more preaching to the choir...and maybe the stray bystander near the church door -- this time with Jessica Lau of Sprott Money News, who posed questions about the Western central bank gold price suppression scheme, the debacle in Cyprus, bitcoin, and a lot more. The interview is about a half hour long and audio was posted at the youtube.com Internet site yesterday.
There's far more to this must read/listen GATA release than mentioned in the previous paragraph, so please spend some time on this story which was posted on the gata.org Internet site last evening.
Nick Barisheff: Can a Cyprus-Like “Bail-in” Occur with Gold?
Last week’s Bullion Buzz article, Cyprus and Gold: Lighting a Candle in a Dark Room, seems to have touched a nerve with many investors, and my inbox has been inundated with concerns about an event like this occurring in Canada. Most expressed concern over whether such a “bail-in” could occur with gold. We have found gold investors and the gold community in general to be better-informed about the dangers of central bank intervention than those who have no interest in gold, but when it comes to the opaque machinations of central bankers, the best any of us can offer is little more than an educated opinion. Where we at BMG do have unique expertise is in the field of wealth protection through uncompromised bullion ownership and allocated bullion storage. It is from this position that I would like to respond to the concerns that the threat of bank expropriation of funds has caused.
The issue has been exacerbated further by a flood of blog posts based on the most recent 2013 Canadian Budget, and pages 144 and 145 of the Canadian Economic Action Plan 2013 in particular. This document makes it clear that such a Cypriot-style bail-in, a euphemism for outright expropriation of depositors’ funds, is being considered for uninsured deposits over CDN$100,000. In fact, a similar program is already in place in the United States for uninsured deposits, and will likely be implemented in most of the southern EU countries that have major banking problems.
Events in Cyprus have led to the realization that people who have worked hard and put their savings into a bank are technically lenders to the bank. In the case of insolvency they are “unsecured creditors,” and not automatically entitled to their own funds. Understandably, this has caused a great deal of concern amongst depositors and investors alike, especially to someone who has viewed economic activity from the standpoint of gold, as I have, for the past fifteen years.
This commentary by Nick falls into the absolute must read category...and it was posted on the bmgbullion.com Internet site yesterday.
http://www.bmgbullion.com/document/5125
| Title: | Can a Cyprus-Like “Bail-in” Occur with Gold? |
| Category: | Gold |
| Author: | Nick Barisheff |
| Date: | 2013-04-03 |
| Type: | Article |
Last week’s Bullion Buzz article, Cyprus and Gold: Lighting a Candle in a Dark Room, seems to have touched a nerve with many investors, and my inbox has been inundated with concerns about an event like this occurring in Canada. Most expressed concern over whether such a “bail-in” could occur with gold. We have found gold investors and the gold community in general to be better-informed about the dangers of central bank intervention than those who have no interest in gold, but when it comes to the opaque machinations of central bankers, the best any of us can offer is little more than an educated opinion. Where we at BMG do have unique expertise is in the field of wealth protection throughuncompromised bullion ownership and allocated bullion storage. It is from this position that I would like to respond to the concerns that the threat of bank expropriation of funds has caused.
The issue has been exacerbated further by a flood of blog posts based on the most recent 2013 Canadian Budget, and pages 144 and 145 of the Canadian Economic Action Plan 2013 in particular. This document makes it clear that such a Cypriot-style bail-in, a euphemism for outright expropriation of depositors’ funds, is being considered for uninsured deposits over CDN$100,000. In fact, a similar program is already in place in the United States for uninsured deposits, and will likely be implemented in most of the southern EU countries that have major banking problems.
Events in Cyprus have led to the realization that people who have worked hard and put their savings into a bank are technically lenders to the bank. In the case of insolvency they are “unsecured creditors,” and not automatically entitled to their own funds. Understandably, this has caused a great deal of concern amongst depositors and investors alike, especially to someone who has viewed economic activity from the standpoint of gold, as I have, for the past fifteen years.
As mentioned last week, a significant crisis in confidence is beginning to develop thanks to the light shined on the dark underbelly of central banking by the Cyprus fiasco. Central bankers know that the only thing keeping their Ponzi scheme, our modern fiat currency economic model, alive is confidence. The most important tools central bankers have in their arsenal are the right to create unbacked fiat currency, fractional reserve banking and the perception management resources they use to prevent mass withdrawal of funds. The right to create unbacked currency is the crown jewel privately owned central banks have fought to possess for hundreds of years .This privilege has come under more scrutiny over the past few years, thanks in large part to the Internet and to former Texas congressman Dr. Ron Paul, who educated an entire generation about the true nature of the Federal Reserve and its private ownership. Fractional reserve banking, which allows banks to lend out nine dollars for every dollar invested, works until there is a loss of confidence and people rush to remove their currency from banks since, at best, the banks have only a fraction of the funds lent out on reserve. Finally, the vast resources the banks and financial services industry have amassed over the past three hundred years allow them to control all sides of almost any financial discussion, and to manage perception quite effectively. This effectiveness is clearly reflected by the success of their campaign against fiat currency’s number one alternative—gold. After a decade of solid gains against all currencies and after holding purchasing power better than any other fiat currency in existence from as far back as biblical times, gold is still considered a risky and “barbarous” investment by mainstream investors.
This entire matrix is in jeopardy now due to events in Cyprus. The threat of such drastic action as expropriation of investor savings tells us that something quite serious is occurring behind the scenes.
Gold has a target on its back because when it is pegged to currency, it restricts the amount of currency that can be created. President Nixon removed this peg in 1971, and central bankers went one step further by attempting to apply the fractional reserve banking model that worked so beneficially for them with paper currency to gold.
As a result of this attempt we have a world flooded with complex paper gold instruments that are essentially derivatives or proxies for gold. Many who have purchased these products, which include gold certificates, gold accounts, pooled gold, futures contracts, options, mining shares and ETF shares, believe they are invested in gold and are therefore hedged against financial calamity. Investors have been attracted to these paper gold investments because of convenience and low fees. In order to own uncompromised gold, investors need to do their homework; it is more complicated than a quick Internet search and the click of a mouse, and he or she will have to pay higher fees for allocated storage with a credible custodian.
Therefore the short answer to the question of whether such a “bail-in” could occur with gold is yes and no. It could easily occur with what we call compromised gold ownership, but highly unlikely with uncompromised gold. Knowing the difference between these two could mean the difference between financial devastation or financial survival and prosperity.
Compromised Gold
Compromised gold, by our definition, is any gold that is not owned outright and held in hand, or owned outright and held in allocated storage. There are no exceptions to this rule, even though many people believe that the form of gold they own is an exception.
This is a complex subject that BMG is qualified to discuss, having spent significant sums on legal advice. To make the issue simple, we can say that the reason most forms of gold ownership are compromised is because in the event of a crisis, gold owners may find that they are simply unsecured creditors similar to bank depositors. At best, they will receive a cash settlement, but this will likely come after years of legal battles with other third-party claimants; if and when it does come, gold will most certainly be trading at a much higher price.
Uncompromised Gold
Gold to which a person holds clear title and stores in a vault as “allocated” bullion cannot be legally dealt with by anyone but the owner. However, ensuring that gold is uncompromised is costly, and true allocated storage is more expensive than simply holding gold in a bank safety deposit box or in one’s home. Both forms of gold ownership involve risk, as bank safety deposit boxes can be raided in the name of national security. This occurred in Britain in 2011, when police raided 7,000 safety deposit boxes; many people claimed the gold they held in those boxes, with no proof of ownership, went missing. Holding significant amounts of gold directly not only creates the risk of losing the gold to theft, but also may put your entire family at risk. Most insurance companies will not insure gold stored at home, nor gold stored in a safety deposit box.
Uncompromised gold bullion is gold to which we hold a title document stating the refiner, serial number of the bar, the weight, the fineness or purity and the name of the owner.
Allocated and Unallocated Storage
Owning and storing gold in secured allocated storage is a two-step process. First we buy the gold and receive title documentation, and then we store it in a vault under a custodial agreement on an allocated basis.
Vaults can also be compromised, which is why bullion owners should not look for the cheapest storage available. Guaranteeing that a vault is not subject to third-party claims from landlords and lenders requires extensive legal work. Otherwise, we may find the contents of the vault tied up in court as collateral against the debts of the failed storage facility.
Ultimately, the most secure storage at this time is within the London Bullion Market Association’s (LBMA) “chain of integrity” defined as:
It is possible to hold pooled gold in allocated storage as BMG mutual funds do. However, not all bullion funds store their gold on an allocated basis.
The following chart compares the two:
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Conclusion
One would have to be quite uninformed in order to be complacent about the events in Cyprus, because they reflect a state of desperation on the part of central bankers that is alarming. Something must be near the boiling point to cause these established institutions to make such a desperate move that in truth disarms one of their most powerful weapons—investor confidence. Jim Sinclair, quoted in our previous article, feels it may be the “quadrillion dollars” in derivatives that could explode any day.
Perhaps it is one of the six major trends discussed in $10,000 Gold, the movement away from the U.S. dollar, that is at the root of their concern. This past week saw a $30-billion trade agreement between China and Brazil, and following that a trade agreement betweenChina and Australia. Both agreements will bypass the U.S. dollar completely. The U.S. dollar, the world’s de facto reserve currency since the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944, is more directly threatened by gold than any other currency. Much of the downward pressure on gold and the ramped-up negative publicity campaign against gold is likely a direct result of this competition.
Therefore, it our conclusion now, as it was when we started our first fund in 2002, that the most effective way to protect oneself from the potential for wealth confiscation through bail-ins is through gold, owned outright and stored in secure allocated storage.
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¤ THE WRAP
There are no markets any more...only interventions. - Chris Powell, GATA
The most important thing about yesterday's price action in all four precious metals was the fact that new low price ticks for this move down were set yesterday in all of them. If I had to bet ten bucks on whether or not yesterday's price action signified an end to the engineered price decline, I'd be happy to bet it. Even if I was proved to be wrong, we are within spitting distance of the bottom.
Confirming this bottom was the monstrous volume that occurred, not only yesterday...but on Wednesday as well. As far as I'm concerned, the next major price move will be up, but the timing of that rally is unknown...as is it's strength and duration. As Ted Butler continues to point out, it all depends on who the sellers are when the technical funds start to cover their record number of short positions as the critical moving averages are broken to the upside. If they wished, JPMorgan and the raptors could inflict a lot of pain on the technical fund short holders by putting their collective hands in their pockets at that point. A price explosion in all four precious metals would be the immediate result, as the technical funds would be trying to cover in a "no ask" market.
At the moment, at least in gold, silver and platinum, the principle moving averages are light years away. But not so for palladium. Here are their respective 6-month charts...
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The news that will move the markets this morning in New York will be the release of the jobs numbers at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time and, as I always say at this juncture, it will be interesting to see how the precious metals react, or are allowed to react, when they are released.
All was calm in the Far East during their Friday trading session...and not much is happening now that London has been open a couple of hours. Both metals are down a hair...and gold volume is about average...with most of the activity in the current front month, which is June. Silver's volume is decent already, but a lot of it is roll-overs out of the upcoming May delivery month. The dollar index didn't do much all night...and is about unchanged as I hit the 'send' button on this morning's column.
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