The year ended on a stronger note for gold. The demand for gold surged thanks in part to the high crop prices that farmers in rural India are getting for their produce. It’s clear that gold has a great influence on the economy of a country. According to the Economic Times of India, the demand for gold rose in India as a result of farmers getting more for their crops. Clearly, it has been a good harvest judging by the 15% rise in gold purchases in December. The rising prices of crops like Soybeans, cotton and guar have boosted farming income.
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Dubai’s Investors and Gold Fans Are Seeing Opportunities in Falling Prices
For every penny gold goes down, there is a whole crowd of people trying to get the most. Trump’s victory didn’t stimulate the gold market as many experts expected. In fact, the precious metal dropped to its lowest point in five months.
Losing Gold Market Remains Highly Profitable for Australians
While international markets keep losing value when it comes the yellow market, this doesn’t represent a huge problem for the production industry in Australia. Even with the falling prices, the profits for Australian producers are massive.
China & PBOC’s gold announcement and consequences
The severe recent price drop has a few reasons behind it. They go from the financial (and now obvious) matter to the psychological aspects of the market. It becomes a true race between gold and the United States Dollar.
Sunday Summary: The China Situation, Gambling on Digital Currency, Mixed Demand For Gold
Although seeing massive gains in recent years, the Chinese stock market had it’s first real test in the last week with losses of between 5.1% and 5.5%. This amounts to around 2.4 trillion USD in China’s equities, with flow on effects to commodity markets such as copper, along with limited losses in international stock markets.
The Mining Industry is wounded
All the markets around the world are in expectation because the severe problems in the European continent. Many indexes were truly hurt in the last couple of days. Specialised media has talked about all the ups and downs in the equity markets but the commodities are being ignored quite a bit.
Gold Recovery and China-PBOC’s Trouble
The economy at an international scale has a stubborn flu. The European Union and Greece situation, denominated by the media as the “Grexit”, is impacting on all the markets and making falling almost all indexes. Even the strong and disciplined Asian potencies are being affected in a way or another. We can see precious metals having weeks of constant sinking and nobody do something about it. Maybe India can be responsible for the recovery of gold, silver and jewellery markets.
Gold is losing the race against the Dollar
These are not good days for gold prices. Too many important and relevant events eclipsing the precious metal market are going on. From America to Greece, there is big news in the economic matter. At every side, gold prices are getting hit and the fall continues.
