Homepage / Archived News or Quarterly News / 4th Quarter 2015
Date Posted: 3/08/2016 @ 2:14am
This page provides a comprehensive overview of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium during the quarter.
For each of the precious metals, you'll find charts. Below the charts, you will find Bullion News Headlines from the 4th Quarter of 2015. Every news link was originally posted on this guide's homepage.
When investing in any market, a good way to judge price movement in the future is to learn from the past.
The charts below are provided by the courtesy of
1) US Dollar Charts - 4th Qtr 2015
3) Silver Charts - 4th Qtr 2015
4) Platinum Charts - 4th Qtr 2015
5) Palladium Charts - 4th Qtr 2015
6) 4th Quarter - 2015 Bullion News & Commentary
In the 4th quarter of 2015, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) and European Central Bank (ECB) dictated the US Dollar's movement.
Just like last quarter,
I used dotted lines in the chart below to indicate when the Fed and ECB
made their announcements to show you how it moved the US Dollar.
When you look at the U.S. dollar chart, you're not only looking at a currency chart, but you are also looking at a tug-of-war game played by the World's Central Banks to weaken their currencies against the U.S. Dollar.
This is also known as "Currency Wars." A currency war is also referred to as "the race to the bottom" for currencies, and that is the current climate we find ourselves in.
Currency wars happen when a country's central bank devalues its currency against other foreign currencies, making its exports more competitive by making them cheaper to foreigners. (continued...)
US Dollar Price Chart - 3rd Quarter - (Oct 1st, 2015 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
The quarterly chart (above) gives the impression that the US Dollar was falling at the beginning of the quarter, but actually, the US Dollar had been moving in a choppy sideways trade since May of 2015.
The first dotted line on this quarterly chart (above) indicates when the Federal Reserve chose not to raise rates at its October meeting. They stated that they did not want to raise rates due to volatility in global markets.
After the Fed didn't raise rates in October, the heat was on them from Wall Street to raise rates in December. (continued...)
US Dollar Price Chart - (Oct. 1st, 2014 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
The US dollar rose after the Fed's October meeting until the ECB announced that they were not going to extend their version of QE (quantitative easing) as long as economists and investors had predicted.
See Article: ECB Day: Markets tumble as Draghi disappoints investors - as it happened
Before the ECB's announcement, the U.S. dollar broke above the $99.00 resistance level, but after the ECB's decision, the U.S. dollar lost a lot of strength, falling back below $99.00.
US Dollar Price Chart - (Oct 1st, 2012 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
After the Fed failed to raise rates in October, the market expected two things to happen in December.
After the U.S. dollar fell in response to the ECB's announcement, it stayed above the $97.00 support level for the rest of the year.
The US Dollar's long-term resistance level currently sits at $101.00 and its support levels currently sit at $93.00 and $90.00.
US Dollar Price Chart - (Jan 1st, 2006 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
Gold hit new lows in the 4th quarter of 2015; for the last two years, gold's price has been dictated by the Fed's decision, or lack thereof, to raise interest rates.
Since the Federal Reserve ended Quantitative Easing (QE) in October of 2014, Wall Street has been expecting an interest rate hike, but the Fed failed to act.
Dovish talk from the Federal Reserve caused gold to rise in the
first few weeks of the quarter. The price of gold rose so much that it briefly broke above the $1180 price resistance level.
After failing to raise rates in October, the Federal Reserve shifted its stance and began advocating for a rate hike in December.
Gold Price Chart - (Oct 1st, 2015 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
In early December the markets expected the ECB (European Central Bank) to increase Quantitative Easing at a December 3rd meeting. The ECB's announcement disappointed markets which caused a small spike in the price of gold.
Following the Fed's announcement that it was raising rates by 25 basis points (0.25%), gold traded sideways for the rest of the year. In its sideways movement, gold's price briefly touched the $1045 price level twice while staying above it, making it a new support level.
Gold Price Chart - (Oct 1st, 2014 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
Gold's price support levels currently sit at $1045 and $1000, and its price resistance levels sit at $1180 and $1350.
Gold Price Chart - 10year - (Jan 1st, 2006 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
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Silver's price chart for the 4th quarter of 2015 looks almost identical to gold's price chart and the rest of the precious metals.
Like gold, silver's movement was mostly dictated by the actions of central banks.
Silver Price Chart - 3rd Quarter - (Oct 1st, 2015 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
In mid-November the price of silver fell to its support level of $14.00 a troy ounce.
The $14.00 price support level for silver was identified in last quarter's silver charts here: Silver Charts - 3rd Qtr 2015
Silver Price Chart - (Oct 1st, 2015 - Dec 31st, 2015)
Bullion News
Highlighted in the 10-year chart below are Silver's long and short-term support and resistance levels.
Silver Price 10-year Chart - (Jan 1st, 2006 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
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Although Platinum and Palladium are more affected by industrial market forces than gold and silver, all the quarterly charts for the precious metals look very similar.
The reason for this has everything to do with the Federal Reserve and ECB (European Central Bank). (continued...)
Platinum Price Chart - 4t Quarter - (Oct. 1st, 2015 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
Bullion News
Although the price of Platinum moved to a high of $1020 and fell briefly below $840, it started and ended the 4th quarter of 2015 in the low $890s.
Platinum's resistance level sits at $1040 a troy ounce. In the 1-year chart (below), we see that the price of Platinum continues to make lower lows and it seems that it has not found a bottom yet.
So, we need to look at a longer-term chart to find a solid support price for the price of platinum. In the 10-year chart below, Platinum's support level sits at its 2008 low of $750 a troy ounce.
Perhaps if the price of Platinum hasn't found its bottom yet, it will find it somewhere between where it is now and $750.00.
Platinum Price Chart - (Oct 1st, 2014 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
Platinum Price Chart - (January 1st, 2006 - December 31st, 2015)
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The Federal Reserve and the ECB's actions, indicated in the chart below, dictated palladium's price in this quarter.
Palladium is primarily an industrial metal, which is why this movement in palladium is rare, because supply and demand factors usually affect these metals more so than monetary factors. (continued...)
Palladium Price Chart - 4th Quarter - (Oct. 1st, 2015 - Dec. 31st, 2015)
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Palladium Price Chart - (October 1st, 2012 - December 31st, 2015)
The charts above are provided by the courtesy of StockCharts.com.
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The Quarterly News starts with the end of the quarter articles, first.
Please note that not all of the links below work; the links are kept because the headlines provide insight into how the markets were moving at the time.
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