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Late Friday Retreat Erases Weekly Advance For Precious Metals

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  • Precious metals had accelerated towards multi-week highs in early trade on Friday, however, a flurry of selling brought prices to broadly unchanged for the week.
  • Analysts attributed the late sell-off to profit taking heading into the weekend, exacerbated by a very strong U.S. existing home sales report, adding further pressure to the space after beating lofty expectations. Additionally, bullion gains appear to be stalling ahead of the 100-day MA that comes in just above $1,800.
  • Spot Gold and Silver both lost ~0.4% on Friday to trade at 1777.50 and 26.04 respectively, as we approach the close.
  • Oil prices succumbed to global growth demand anxieties this week, after failing to consolidate last week's breakout to the topside. *WTI futures - $61.90 (+0.78%) Brent futures - $65.80 (+0.61%)
  • Despite session gains on Friday, crude benchmarks retreated around 2% on the week. Prices were dragged down by surging coronavirus cases across major energy importers India and Japan. With India being a large, high growth market for oil case spikes may pose a challenge for demand in the short term.
  • OPEC+ are said to hold a full ministerial meeting on April 28, according to a draft agenda of the gathering seen by Bloomberg. Previously, OPEC+ had been discussing downgrading next week's full-scale ministerial meeting.
  • Elsewhere there were Reuters reports that OPEC Secretary-General Barkindo told members of the cooperative they could be fined and have assets seized if the US. adopts legislation that authorizes antitrust enforcement against countries in the bloc.
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