27 November 2022
With the Thanksgiving holiday, Black Friday and the World Cup diverting attention away from the markets there was a relatively quiet week with most sectors performing mildly positively, perhaps encouraged by the release of the minutes from the November FOMC meeting which were taken as suggesting the Fed might start reducing its aggressive interest rate impositions as soon as December.
21 November 2022
The Chinese mainland remained the top recipient for re-refined high purity gold exports from the Swiss gold refineries in October which continued to see the yellow metal flowing from West to East. However volumes to India slipped while exports to Turkey remained at a high level. Article updated with country-by-country destination chart.
10 November 2022
The U.S. Midterm elections which saw President Biden and the Democrats perform far less badly than anticipated, closely followed by the latest CPI figures which saw inflation come in lower than expected, saw gold, silver, pgms. equities and bitcoin all surge sharply.
07 November 2022
The Shanghai Gold Exchange's latest gold withdrawals data for October has come in at under 100 tonnes, comfortably below last year's level, but above that for Covid-hit 2020. October figures do tend to be anomalous as the SGE is closed for the Golden Week holiday, but the low figure does suggest that overall Chinese gold demand for the full year is likely to fall below that for 2021
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