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Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013 Feb 12, 2013 - 06:45 PM GMT

By: Ben_Traynor

Commodities

U.S. DOLLAR gold bullion prices failed to recover yesterday's lost ground Tuesday morning, hovering below $1650 per ounce, as stocks and commodities eased higher and the Euro gained against the Dollar, following news of a fresh nuclear test in North Korea and denials from policymakers that a currency war is taking place among major economies.

Like gold, silver also failed to make up ground lost yesterday, trading below $31 throughout this morning.


The G7 group of economies reaffirmed their "longstanding commitment to market determined exchange rates" in a joint statement published Tuesday.

"We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that we will not target exchange rates," said the statement attributed to G7 finance ministers and central bank governors.

"We are agreed that excessive volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and financial stability. We will continue to consult closely on exchange markets and cooperate as appropriate."

G7 member Japan last month announced it will implement open-ended quantitative easing next year when its current QE program ends, as part of efforts to raise the inflation rate towards a new 2% target.

Following the start of the financial crisis in 2007, the Yen appreciated against the Dollar from over ¥120 to just over ¥75 by August 2011. That month, Japan intervened in the market by selling ¥1 trillion, while the Bank of Japan increased the size of its QE program. The Yen has since fallen against the Dollar to more than ¥90.

"There is no such thing as a currency war," says former Swiss National Bank chairman Philipp Hildebrand, writing in the Financial Times.

"Central banks are simply doing what they are meant to do and what they have always done. They set monetary policy consistent with their domestic mandates. All that has changed since the crisis is that central banks have had to resort to unconventional measures in an effort to revive wounded economies."

In September 2011, the SNB pegged the Swiss Franc to the Euro at a rate of SFr1.20, saying it was prepared "to buy foreign currency in unlimited quantities" as part of a stated effort to achieve "substantial and sustained weakening" of the Swiss Franc.

The Franc fell against the Euro this morning following comments by current SNB chairman Thomas Jordan, who said he expects the SFr1.20 peg to remain in place and that the Franc will weaken against the Euro.

"Currencies should not be used for commercial purposes," said French president Francois Hollande this morning, one week after calling for a "medium-term exchange rate" target in a speech to the European Parliament last Monday.

The Euro rallied against the Dollar this morning, regaining some of last Thursday's losses. Gold in Euros fell to its lowest level since the start of the month, down 2% on the week at around €39,300 per kilo by lunchtime in London.

Gold in Dollars was down 1.3% on where it started the week, while gold in Sterling was virtually unchanged and gold in Yen was up.

Spain's borrowing costs meantime rose this morning at an auction of one-year government debt, with average yields rising from 1.472% at an auction on January 15 to 1.548% this morning.

Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy is due to meet European Central Bank president Mario Draghi later today, before Draghi makes a speech to the Spanish parliament.

UK inflation remained at 2.7% last month, official data published Tuesday show, the 38th month in a row that it has been above the Bank of England's 2% target.

"Inflation is likely to remain well above the 2% target for quite some time," reckons said James Knightley, economist at ING Bank in London, who adds that the Bank if likely to restart its QE program soon "which may continue to weigh on Sterling".

Barclays meantime is to cut 3700 jobs worldwide as part of a strategic review aimed at cutting costs by £1.7 billion, the bank announced Tuesday.

By Ben Traynor
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Editor of Gold News, the analysis and investment research site from world-leading gold ownership service BullionVault, Ben Traynor was formerly editor of the Fleet Street Letter, the UK's longest-running investment letter. A Cambridge economics graduate, he is a professional writer and editor with a specialist interest in monetary economics.(c) BullionVault 2013

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