Gold price: Hedge funds can't exit market fast eno
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Posted On: 11/24/2015 8:06:57 AM
Gold price: Hedge funds can't exit market fast enough
Frik Els | November 23, 2015
Gold price: Hedge funds can't exit market fast enough The shorts are back in town
On Monday on the Comex market in New York, gold futures with December delivery dates fell more than 1% to trade at a fresh five year low.
Settling at $1,065.00 gold is down $110 an ounce or just under 10% from where it was trading just before the Federal Reserve's interest rate announcement last month which opened the door for a rate rise – which would be the first in nine years – when the bank next meets in December.
The likelihood that Fed will raise rates from near zero where they have been since December 2008, before the end of the year prompted large futures speculators or "managed money" investors such as hedge funds to dramatically raise bearish bets on the metal.
Higher interest rates boost the value of the dollar and makes gold less attractive as an investment because the metal is not yield-producing and futures traders have been hammering this home by dumping an unprecedented 130,000 lots or the equivalent of some 368 tonnes of gold in just three weeks.
Hedge funds added more than 40% to their short positions, raising bets that gold will be cheaper in future to over 10 million ounces. According to the CFTC's weekly Commitment of Traders data speculators also cut long positions pushing the market into a the second biggest net short position ever.
Hedge funds were net short in July and early August for the first time since at least 2006, when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission first began tracking the data.
Frik Els | November 23, 2015
Gold price: Hedge funds can't exit market fast enough The shorts are back in town
On Monday on the Comex market in New York, gold futures with December delivery dates fell more than 1% to trade at a fresh five year low.
Settling at $1,065.00 gold is down $110 an ounce or just under 10% from where it was trading just before the Federal Reserve's interest rate announcement last month which opened the door for a rate rise – which would be the first in nine years – when the bank next meets in December.
The likelihood that Fed will raise rates from near zero where they have been since December 2008, before the end of the year prompted large futures speculators or "managed money" investors such as hedge funds to dramatically raise bearish bets on the metal.
Higher interest rates boost the value of the dollar and makes gold less attractive as an investment because the metal is not yield-producing and futures traders have been hammering this home by dumping an unprecedented 130,000 lots or the equivalent of some 368 tonnes of gold in just three weeks.
Hedge funds added more than 40% to their short positions, raising bets that gold will be cheaper in future to over 10 million ounces. According to the CFTC's weekly Commitment of Traders data speculators also cut long positions pushing the market into a the second biggest net short position ever.
Hedge funds were net short in July and early August for the first time since at least 2006, when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission first began tracking the data.
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NASDAQ DIP and RIP
Here is the best word that describes what i do here.
Intuitive;
means having the ability to understand or know something without any direct evidence or reasoning process.
I was born with it, I'm truly blessed!
Alway's searching for winners'
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