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Gold futures post highest settlement since mid-February 2013
Settlement price is taken at 1:30pm EST even though it continues to trade on the COMEX.
Gold futures climbed Thursday, sending bullion up for a sixth straight session to its highest finish in seven years,as persistent worries about China’s coronavirus and a benign interest-rate environment provide a runway higher for the precious metal.
Gold for April delivery GCJ20, +0.58% on Comex rose $8.70, or 0.5%, to settle at $1,620.50, after a similar rise on Wednesday. Prices for the most-active contract posted the highest finish since Feb. 14, 2013, according to FactSet data. Gold has climbed in tandem with the U.S. dollar, something that doesn’t usually occur as a stronger greenback can weaken the appeal for dollar-pegged safe haven assets like gold. The U.S. dollar index DXY, +0.14% climbed for a third day Thursday to a three year high.
On Thursday, the China’s central bank cut its benchmark one-year loan prime rate by 10 basis points, and the five-year loan prime rate by 5 basis points.
That followed its recent cut in the one-year medium-term lending rate.
The PBOC “sent another solid signal to investors to sway them that the bank is ready to support the economy through its monetary policies,” said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at AvaTrade.
Gains for metals come as fears about stress to the global economy from the virus has pushed the 10-year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -2.71% down to 1.525%, while the ICE Dollar Index DXY, +0.14%, a gauge of the buck against a basket of a half-dozen currencies, was up 0.1% at 99.831, trading around 0.7% higher week to date.
“Gold rise and US dollar index rising simultaneously is symbolic of safe haven demand. I had mentioned last week that global spread of coronavirus is the key. Coronavirus is infecting more and more people worldwide,” said Chintan Karnani, chief market analyst at Insignia Consultants.
If U.S. bond yields “continue to trade at historically low levels for the rest of the month,” then gold will rise to $1,672.50 and then $1,707.80 by early March, Karnani told MarketWatch. Low bond yields have resulted in switch over to gold investment over bonds, he added.
Although the daily rate of new cases of COVID-19, the infectious disease that reportedly originated in Wuhan, China, has gone down, investors have been keying in on the spread of coronavirus in other parts of the globe.
South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said COVID-19 has claimed the nation’s its first life. The mayor of the South Korean city of Daegu urged its 2.5 million people to refrain from going outside, according to the Associated Press. Meanwhile, Japan reported the death of a pair of elderly passengers who had been on a ship that had quarantined because of the virus.
Precious metals pulled back slightly after U.S. economic data early Thursday. Initial jobless claims edged up by 4,000 to 210,000 in the seven days ended Feb. 15, the government said Thursday. The figures are seasonally adjusted. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a 210,000 reading. A reading on manufacturing, meanwhile, the Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook Survey, produced a reading that was its highest in three years, outstripping analysts’ estimates.
Among other metals, March silver SIH20, +0.08% settled at $18.319 an ounce, up less than penny, or 0.04%. Prices are holding at their highest levels since January of this year. March copper HGH20, -0.71% shed 0.7% to $2.588 a pound.
April platinum PLJ20, -2.45% shed 2.5% to $979 an ounce, but March palladium PAH20, +1.07% climbed by 0.1% to $2,573.90 an ounce—just enough to eke out another record settlement.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-extends-gains-to-highest-level-since-2013-2020-02-20