Calm Before the Storm

November 08, 2023

by Alasdair MacLeod Gold Money

The writing of this market report was at a time of great volatility, due to it coinciding with the speech of the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The drift of it appears to be that Hezbollah will support Hamas. If so, it means an intensification of the Palestinian crisis Which would presumably drive gold and silver prices higher. This market report should be read in this context.

[…] Gold and silver continued to consolidate their bullish moves of last month, with gold trading at $1997 in lunchtime European trade, down $9 from last Friday’s close, and silver was $23.25, up 15 cents on the same timescale. Gold’s turnover on Comex has been moderating, though Open Interest (the thin line in the chart below) continued to recover.