Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver Hold Near Unchanged

	Close	Gain/Loss
Gold	$1314.30	+$0.30
Silver	$16.47	-$0.03
XAU	81.99	-0.50%
HUI	180.21	-0.65%
GDM	632.09	-0.05%
JSE Gold	1088.69	-26.37
USD	92.77	+0.17
Euro	119.23	-0.34
Yen	91.59	-0.14
Oil	$70.73	+1.01
10-Year	2.950%	+0.005
T-Bond	143.50	-0.15625
Dow	24357.32	+0.39%
Nasdaq	7265.21	+0.77%
S&P	2672.63	+0.35%

The Metals:

Gold gained $4.80 to $1318.80 in Asia before it fell back to $1310.30 by a little after 8AM EST, but it then bounced back higher in New York and ended with a gain of 0.02%. Silver chopped between $16.568 and $16.404 and ended with a loss of 0.18%.

Euro gold rose above EUR1102, platinum gained $0.50 to $909, and copper dropped a penny to about $3.07.

Gold and silver equities waffled near unchanged and ended slightly lower.

The Economy:

Consumer credit growth in March slowest in six months as credit-card use drops MarketWatch

Tomorrow brings the Labor Department's JOLTS report.

The Markets:

Oil rose over 1% on continued concerns about what the US will do about Iran's nuclear deal. An announcement is now expected at 2PM EST tomorrow.

The U.S. dollar index remained firm and treasuries edged lower on worries about inflation and fed policy.

The Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P gained roughly 1% in the first half hour of trade on deal-making news before they chopped back lower in afternoon trade, but they still ended with decent gains on the day.

Among the big names making news in the market today were Air France, Blackstone and Gramercy, Cognizant, Nestl? and Starbucks, and GE.

GATA Posts:

Nigeria, China sign $2.4 billion currency swap to lift trade

The Statistics:

As of close of business: 5/4/2018

Global Gold ETF Holdings

[WGC Sponsored ETF's]

Note: Change in Total Tonnes from yesterday's data: SPDR subtracted 1.468 tonnes.

COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 288.97: No change from yesterday's data.

Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 10,083.92: +38.07 change from yesterday's data.

The Miners:

NovaGold's (NG) AGM results, Great Panther's (GPL) COO departure, and Endeavour Silver's (EXK) AGM results were among the big stories in the gold and silver mining industry making headlines today.

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