{"id":45176,"date":"2013-06-13T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/gold-prices-fall-silver-prices-down-as-well\/45157\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T18:10:06","slug":"gold-prices-fall-silver-prices-down-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/gold-prices-fall-silver-prices-down-as-well\/45176\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Prices Fall, Silver Prices Down as Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-1408583772585547\";\n\/* SMW - News Links *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3490797620\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/metal\/gold-price.aspx\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"gold price today\">Gold prices<\/a> edged lower during Asian trading hours on Thursday as rattled investors shaken by yet another tumultuous day in equity markets sought safety in yen and other liquid currencies. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/metal\/silver-price.aspx\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"silver price today\">Silver<\/a> prices, meanwhile, also slipped in early trading on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-45176\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At last check, U.S. gold futures for August delivery fell 0.47% to $1,385.40 an ounce while spot gold edged down 0.14% to $1,385.91 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p>Not even weaker U.S. dollar could support bullion prices as global investors are edgy amid rising ambiguity over when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowfinance.com\/federal-reserve-system-fed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Reserve<\/a> could start winding down its economic stimulating, bond purchase program.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Nikkei 225 tumbled 6.35% while both Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite Index plunged more than 2%. European equities were trading sharply lower.<\/p>\n<p>Volatility in both riskier assets and currency markets along with lack of economic data right through this week is also prompted investors to look at technicals or to make tradeoff between risk-return and safe haven bets.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s decision to upgrade the U.S\u2019s sovereign credit rating outlook to \u201cstable\u201d also stoked concerns that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowfinance.com\/federal-reserve-system-fed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Reserve<\/a> could now start decelerating its economic stimulating measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sentiment is still very divided over whether the Fed will taper or not,\u201d commented Joyce Liu, an investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the lack of major market-moving events, people are just trading on technicals until some senior Fed officials say something before the FOMC meeting next week,\u201d added Liu.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve is scheduled to hold its next Federal Open Market Committee meeting (FOMC) on June 18-19.<\/p>\n<p>Silver futures were down 0.23% to $21.75 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/markets\/pre-market\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Premarket Movers\">pre-market trading<\/a>, the iShares Silver Trust (ETF) (<a href=\"https:\/\/thestockmarketwatch.com\/stock.aspx?stock=SLV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYSE: SLV<\/a>) was up 0.05%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nr_clear\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"nrelate_popular_2\" class=\"nrelate nrelate_popular nrelate_default nr_1col nr_text\"><\/div>\n<p>\t<!--[if IE 6]>\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery('.nrelate_default').removeClass('nrelate_default');<\/script>\n\t<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\t\tnRelate.domain = \"www2.thestockmarketwatch.com%2Fstock-market-news\";\n\t\tvar entity_decoded_nr_mp_url = jQuery('<span\/>').html(\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130616100341\/http:\/\/api.nrelate.com\/mpw_wp\/0.51.4\/?tag=nrelate_popular&domain=www2.thestockmarketwatch.com%2Fstock-market-news&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.thestockmarketwatch.com%2Fstock-market-news%2Fgold-prices-fall-silver-prices-down-as-well-3%2F45176&nr_div_number=2&maxageposts=7200&increment=1\").text();\n\t\tnRelate.getNrelatePosts(entity_decoded_nr_mp_url);\n\t\/* ]]&gt; 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