Barry Stuppler

Demand for physical gold was lacklustre in top consumers India and China this week, while the lure of the metal remained stable in Singapore, but India’s peak wedding season is expected to usher in renewed interest for bullion in coming weeks . . . .

Gold reached a high of $1,284 in early morning trading then there was some short-term profit taking and professional selling . . . .

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Turkey purchased a record $13.8bn of gold from abroad this year, $9.8bn more than in the same period last year, Bloomberg reported . . . .

Gold continues to stay in its recent $15 per ounce trading range from $1,266 to $1,281 . . . .

Perhaps the biggest unknown in assessing global gold consumption in this, or any, year is the true level of Chinese gold consumption . . . .

Gold continues to consolidate in a narrow $10 high/low trading range . . . .

Large speculators raised their bullish net positions in the Silver futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday . . . .

Auto catalyst metal palladium will struggle to maintain its recent push to 16-year highs above $1,000 an ounce, but is still expected to set record average highs this year and next as emissions controls ramp up, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday . . . .

My good friend Pierre Lassonde, cofounder and chairman of Franco-Nevada, doesn’t know how we’ll replace the massive gold deposits of the past 130 years or so. Speaking with the German financial newspaper Finanz und Wirtschaft this month, Pierre says we’re seeing a significant slowdown in the number of large deposits being discovered . . . .