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Silver Fundamental Analysis December 20, 2012, Forecast

By:
Barry Norman
Updated: Aug 21, 2015, 01:00 UTC

Analysis and Recommendations: Silver is trading at 31.348 tumbling 32 cents as precious metals retreated along with industrial metals on disappointing

Silver Fundamental Analysis December 20, 2012, Forecast

Silver Fundamental Analysis December 20, 2012, Forecast
Silver Fundamental Analysis December 20, 2012, Forecast
Analysis and Recommendations:

Silver is trading at 31.348 tumbling 32 cents as precious metals retreated along with industrial metals on disappointing housing starts in the US and mixed data out of Germany. Taking cues from rise in gold prices along with upside in the base metals complex, Spot silver prices also gained 0.1 percent today. Additionally, a weaker DX also acted as a positive factor for the white metal prices. The base metals pack traded on a positive note today on account of upbeat global market sentiments along with weakness in the DX. However, sharp upside in the prices was capped as a result of mixed LME inventories today. Copper, the leader of the base metals group traded on a mixed note the back of positive global market sentiments coupled with weakness in the DX

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Economic Data December 19, 2012 actual v. forecast

Date

Time

 

Currency

 

Importance

 

Event

Actual

 

Forecast

 

Previous

 

 

Dec. 19

09:00

 

EUR

 

 

 

German Ifo Business Climate Index 

102.4

 

102.0 

 

101.4 

 

 

 

09:00

 

EUR

 

 

 

German Current Assessment 

107.1

 

108.0 

 

108.1 

 

 

 

09:00

 

EUR

 

 

 

German Business Expectations 

97.9

 

96.3 

 

95.2 

 

 

 

09:30

 

GBP

 

 

 

MPC Meeting Minutes 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:00

 

GBP

 

 

 

CBI Distributive Trades Survey 

19

 

25 

 

33 

 

 

 

13:30

 

USD

 

 

 

Building Permits 

0.899M

 

0.875M 

 

0.868M 

 

 

 

13:30

 

USD

 

 

 

Housing Starts 

0.861M

 

0.873M 

 

0.888M 

   

 

13:30

 

CAD

 

 

 

Wholesale Sales (MoM) 

0.9%

 

1.0% 

 

-1.5%

   

 

Upcoming Economic Events that affect the CHF, EUR, GBP and USD

Date

Time

Currency

Event

Forecast

Previous

Dec. 20 

09:30

GBP

Retail Sales (MoM) 

0.3%

-0.8%

 

09:30

GBP

Retail Sales (YoY) 

1.5%

0.6%

Dec. 21

07:00

EUR

GfK German Consumer Climate 

5.9

5.9

 

09:30

GBP

Current Account 

-14.0B

-20.8B

 

09:30

GBP

GDP (QoQ) 

1.0%

1.0%

 

09:30

GBP

GDP (YoY) 

-0.1%

-0.1%

Government Bond Auction

Date Time Country 

Dec 20 10:30 UK 

Dec 20 16:30 Italy  

Dec 20 18:00 US 

Dec 21 16:30 Italy  

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