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While gold and silver saw divergent trading action at the start of this week, they are both on the defensive early on.

There was a role reversal Monday with gold regaining the upper hand on silver as both remain close to 2024 price highs.

The dollar has extended its mid-March recovery to a 3-week high in the wake of the Bank of Japan's first rate hike since 2007 as the Yen had a "sell the fact" reaction falling to a new low for the move and that in turn put early pressure on precious metals prices...[MORE]

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Good morning. The precious metals are lower in early U.S. trading.

U.S. calendar features Housing Starts, TIC Data. 2-day FOMC meeting begins.

Even though April gold posted a solid gain in Wednesday's trade, further confirmation of residual/sticky US inflation today could unleash an additional and perhaps more aggressive long liquidation washout.

Fortunately for the bull camp, the US dollar has not rallied on stubborn signs of sticky US inflation and declining US rate cut hopes, but that could change if Tuesday's inflation concern is reconfirmed by today's inflation news.

It should also be noted that Bitcoin posted new all-time highs again and, most gold mining shares showed significant gains yesterday with Newmont and Barrick up 1.7%, Harmony gold up 3.6% and Sibanye Stillwater up 6.7%...[MORE]

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While the dollar has not shown fresh direction following its aggressive recovery bounce yesterday, the upward bias from the charts and a measure of newfound respect for lingering inflation reduces the prospect of US easing in June.

However, gold and silver should be cushioned by continued chatter about a European rate cut in June.

In today's action, the markets could simply "mark time" as the other shoe to drop (Thursday's PPI) could easily rekindle another upward pulse in the dollar and downward pulse action in gold and silver...[MORE]

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There is no doubt the gold market has expended a tremendous amount of speculative buying fuel in achieving a $200 rally and today the trade will finally see the true origin of the rally.

In our opinion, part of the significant rally in gold is the market's attempt to mirror the record rally in Bitcoin, with a lesser force from hopes of a June rate cut.

Clearly, traders are becoming price-sensitive as Friday's massive range-up move has stalled and trading volume has moderated significantly...[MORE]

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