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Long-term Relationship Between Gold and Crude Oil Price Challenged

Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015 Feb 05, 2015 - 06:55 PM GMT

By: Clif_Droke

Commodities Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief this week after a case of the jitters the last couple of weeks. Fears over a deflationary plunge in the euro zone had sparked an increased demand for safe haven assets, including gold and silver. The decline to multi-year lows in the crude oil market as recently as a few days ago also fed into investors’ desire for safety. In the last couple of days, however, those fears have at least momentarily abated as the oil price has rallied while Treasury prices and the U.S. dollar have declined. Consequently, gold and silver safe haven demand has declined in recent days.


Gold prices were down more than 1% on Tuesday on news that Greece’s government had dropped calls for a write-off of its foreign debt. This was one of the main factors behind Wall Street’s case of the jitters in the last two weeks. Equity prices rallied sharply Tuesday while U.S. Treasury bonds had their worst 1-day showing in over a month, with the 10-year Note down over 2%.

The U.S. dollar ETF (UUP) meanwhile closed decisively under its 15-day moving average for the first time this year (below). This constitutes a serious challenge to the immediate-term (1-3 week) uptrend; whether the dollar bears are up to the task of forcing the dollar’s value lower from here remains to be seen in the all-important follow-through sessions.



Whether or not Tuesday’s turnaround was the start of renewed “risk-on†approach among investors remains to be seen. An upside follow-through in equities in the next couple of sessions would almost certainly weigh on gold’s safe haven demand. A failure to maintain support above the dominant short-term trend line for gold (see paragraph below) would also bode ill for the yellow metal’s prospects in February. A continuing concern I have for the metal is the failure of gold’s relative strength line to keep pace with the gains of the actual gold price in January (see chart below). Ideally, gold’s relative strength line should be confirming any strength in the precious metal’s price to let us know gold is in strong hands.



It’s significant that gold was down this week at the same time that U.S. Treasuries were sharply lower. In the past, rising bond prices (and falling yields) were bearish for gold and silver since a bullish bond market was viewed as a sign that investors were becoming risk-averse by chasing the speculative rally in bonds. In recent months, however – and with international bond yields approaching zero in some cases – lower yields and higher bond prices have galvanized investor interest in the precious metals. This is due to, among other things, the lack of income opportunities from Treasury instruments along with the concomitant fear of deflation.

In a note to clients on Tuesday, BoA/Merrill asserted that a “decoupling†was taking place between gold and its century-old relationship between oil and is now being driven by movements in interest rates and currencies. BoA/ML analyst Michael Widmer said, “We think that a unique combination of factors is again making gold attractive in investor portfolios: negative nominal interest rates, a closing volatility gap to other asset classes, and improving weekly returns.†This is certainly a point worth considering, although it’s still much too early to state with any certainty that the long-term positive correlation between gold, oil and interest rates is officially over. The coming months will likely reveal whether this burgeoning relationship is merely a temporary intermediate-term transitional phase or the start of a new long-term inverse relationship among gold, oil and bond prices.

After rising more than 8% in January for its best monthly performance in three years, gold prices are still above the short-term (30-day) moving average but below the immediate-term 15-day MA. The 30-day MA is also where the silver price found support after its sharp decline last week, as the following graph illustrates. The 30-day MA is significant since it has proven to be a pivotal guide line for gold, and especially silver, prices in the last two years. Whenever the silver price has decisively broken under its 30-day MA a sharp decline has usually followed. It’s imperative that silver maintain support above the 30-day trend line in the critical days ahead.



On the ETF front, fresh inflows were reported into gold funds on Monday, with holdings of the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) climbing to their highest since October at 24.65 million ounces. I don’t consider this news significant to the short-term outlook, however, as inflows can go both ways depending on the volatile psychology of fund managers.

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