Live Spot Gold
Bid/Ask
2,912.602,913.60
Low/High
2,881.602,928.50
Change
+19.60+0.68%
30daychg
+114.20+4.08%
1yearchg
+797.40+37.68%
Silver Price & PGMs
(Kitco News, Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 ) – Gold prices are holding good gains in midday U.S. trading Tuesday, on follow-through buying after a strong rally on Monday. Safe-haven bidding and a slump in the U.S. dollar index this week are supporting the yellow metal. April gold was last up $24.00 at $2,925.10. May silver prices were last up $0.05 at $32.36.
Risk aversion remains elevated early this week. U.S. trade tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China went into effect Tuesday, with the targeted countries already retaliating. That puts $1 trillion worth of global commerce within the realm of trade sanctions.
Broker SP Angel said today: “Speculation is rising that China will let the yuan depreciate to blunt the impact of tariffs and support exporters.” Presently, analysts expect China’s central bank to continue to hold the yuan steady, “but any further weakness against the U.S. dollar is expected to push Chinese buyers further into gold as a haven,” said SP Angel.
The key outside markets today see the U.S. dollar index solidly lower again and hit a nearly three-month low. Nymex crude oil futures prices are lower, hit a nearly three-month low, and trading around $68.00 a barrel. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note is presently at around 4.16%. Said broker SP Angel today: “The 10-year yield has now fallen from 4.8% to 4.14% as traders brought forward rate-cut expectations amid economic growth slowdown concerns.”
Technically, April gold futures bulls have the solid overall near-term technical advantage. Bulls’ next upside price objective is to produce a close above solid resistance at the contract high of $2,974.00. Bears’ next near-term downside price objective is pushing futures prices below solid technical support at last week’s low of $2,844.10. First resistance is seen at $2,950.00 and then at $2,974.00. First support is seen at $2,900.00 and then at the overnight low of $2,892.50.
May silver futures bulls and bears are on a level overall near-term technical playing field. However, prices are trending down on the daily bar chart. Silver bulls’ next upside price objective is closing prices above solid technical resistance at $33.00. The next downside price objective for the bears is closing prices below solid support at $30.00. First resistance is seen at the overnight high of $32.61 and then at $33.00. Next support is seen at $32.00 and then at this week’s low of $31.635.
Posted by:
Jack Dempsey, President
401 Gold Consultants LLC
jdemp2003@gmail.com