The lack of interest in the Gold market by traders, speculators and of course investors continues to keep the price of Gold seemingly locked in place. When the market gets this boring you will start to see some traders sell into the weakness knowing a rally is not in the cards. Typically these are day traders just looking to short the market trying to pick up a few shekels.
The Silver market is still inundated with a tremendous amount of silver on the shelves of warehouses and dealers vaults, keeping the price under pressure.
The price of Palladium continues to decline as funds and other speculators head for the exits. Speculators have reduced their net long positions by almost 2,300 contracts last week. Palladium ETFs are also in liquidation mode as holdings are now hitting a new low for the year. The threat of a 20 percent tariff by the President on imported automobiles is the main driver of lower prices.
The price of Platinum continues to be under pressure as the demand for diesel engines fades away. Now adding fuel to the fire is a report that a German Court has approved plans by some cities to ban older diesel cars. Hard to find any good news in the PGM market these days.
Greece Gets Relief
Eurozone creditors reach ‘historic’ deal on Greek debt relief.
A story in the financial times on Friday reported that the Eurozone governments have brokered a long-awaited debt relief deal for Greece, pushing back repayment deadlines on almost €100bn of bailout loans as the country prepares to exit its era of financial rescue programs.
Finance ministers hammered out the final points of an agreement in more than six hours of talks that stretched into the night in Luxembourg on Thursday. The deal was immediately hailed by governments as a “historic” step after eight years in which Greece has undergone three bailout programs and suffered the worst depression of any European economy in modern times.
“It is an exceptional moment,” said Pierre Moscovici, the EU’s economy commissioner, after the meeting. “The Greek crisis ends here tonight in Luxembourg.” The debt deal sent a ripple of enthusiasm through Greek financial markets on Friday. The yield on the thinly traded Greek 10-year bond dipped by 22 basis points to 4.1 per cent, its lowest for more than a month. Meanwhile the Athens composite index of leading Greek equities rose 2.5 per cent, led by bank stocks.
The agreement means the repayment of €96bn of bailout loans, about 40 per cent of the total Greece needs to repay the Eurozone over the coming decades, will be pushed back 10 years. The earliest repayment deadlines shift from 2023 to 2033. The plan also includes increasing the size of Greece’s final installment of bailout money to help build up cash reserves that can sustain it over the months to come.
Sounds to me as if this is just another attempt to kick the can down the road avoiding a debt crisis and is no different than what we are doing here in the States ignoring our country’s debt.
Have a wonderful Monday.
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