Registering its first green close in four trading days
gold futures settled up 0.5 % at $ 1,312.70 / oz due in part to yesterday's comments out of the FOMC.
Not exact matches
Spot
gold rose for a second session, firming by 0.7 percent to $ 1,313.83 an ounce by by 2:05 p.m. ET, while U.S.
gold futures for June delivery
settled up $ 7.10 at $ 1,312.70.
Spot
gold edged higher by 0.34 percent to $ 1,252.91 per ounce, while U.S.
gold futures for June delivery rose $ 2.80 to
settle at $ 1,254.
Gold futures prices later retreated slightly from those levels to
settle at $ 1,360.
RE the second point: if someone can explain to me how the
Futures Market (which is cash
settled) will affect the actual Market Ill stand corrected on that point... having said all this I do believe BTC is overvalued on a «fundamental» basis because there has not been enough adoption and the transaction cost is too high but it is acting more like
gold 2.0 and there will have to be a better method of lowering transaction costs and increasing speed or using an alternative coin.
Silver
futures settled last Friday in New York at 16.26 an ounce while currently trading at 16.36 up about $ 0.10 for the trading week reacting neutral off of the monthly unemployment number which was released this morning stating that we added 103,000 jobs which were very disappointing sending
gold prices higher, however having very little impact on silver.
However, the ratio of
gold standing for delivery — the process by which a
futures contract can be
settled for physical
gold rather than cash — rose exponentially into early December and has since fallen significantly but remains at historically high levels: The standard COMEX response would be that the overwhelming majority of
futures contracts are simply rolled over at expiration into a
future month or
settled in cash.
One of the things they have done at the outset is to set up a Yuan -
gold contract in the
futures market in Shanghai,
settled in physical
gold.
In simple terms, the EFPs and PNTs enable the counterparties a Comex
futures contract or LBMA forward to
settle the contract in an acceptable form other than the actual physical commodity as required by the contract specifications (e.g. one
gold futures contract requires the delivery of a 100 oz.
Gold futures in the April contract
settled last Friday in New York at 1,324 an ounce while currently trading at 1,317 down about $ 7 for the trading week near a two week low.
It marks the first time overseas investors have been able to access a Chinese commodity market — an oil
futures contract — that can be
settled, not only with U.S. dollars, but also Chinese Yuan, eventually a basket of currencies... and
gold.
The price of
gold futures for December delivery rose $ 3.70 to
settle at $ 1,294.70 per ounce after the president's shutdown comments.
Gold futures traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange
settled at $ 1,305.10 a troy ounce on Tuesday, having declined 3.5 % over the last two weeks.
Gold futures for December delivery climbed 0.6 % to
settle at $ 1,197.70 an ounce at 1:36 p.m. on the Comex in New York.
Designed to provide a risk management tool for regional bankers, jewelers, retail traders and other industry participants, the ICE
Futures Singapore Kilo
Gold Futures is physically
settled with delivery in Singapore.
(Less than 1 % of open interest in
gold futures — which itself represents a small percentage of the global
gold market — is actually
settled in physical
gold bullion.