Gold surges over 1.5% as Dollar subdued, Yields tumble; palladium climbs 7%

Gold surges over 1.5% as Dollar subdued, Yields tumble; palladium climbs 7%

On Wednesday, both spot gold and US gold futures’ prices had skyrocketed more than a whacking 1.5 per cent as a steep drop in American Currency alongside US Treasury bond Yields amid mounting geo-political angsts over Ukraine issue, had underpinned the safe-haven yellow metals’ safe-haven allure.

On top of that, as Citi analysts were quoted saying in a client note that a gradual, but, steady recovery in global auto industry would spur up palladium’s demand in a near future, the industrial metal’s prices climbed as much as 7 per cent.

Palladium acts as an auto-catalyst in autos. Nevertheless, in the day’s sharp gain in the bullion’s prices was almost entirely prompted by growing tensions near Ukraine border, while a steep sell-off of US Treasury Yields by the Russian Central Bank, which had downsized its US Treasury bond notes holdings to a roughly $2.3 billion from a whopping $150 billion in 2017, had led to a nosedive in US bond notes with US 10-year Treasury Yields tumbling to 1.85 per cent a day after hitting a fresh two-year peak.







A faltering in US Treasury Yields, which often coincides with a teetering in the greenback