Wednesday, 6/09/2021 13:53 GOLD PRICES held flat around $1891 per ounce in London trade Wednesday, drifting ahead of tomorrow's US inflation data as Western stock markets slipped and longer-term borrowing costs retreated following mixed inflation figures from China.
Factory-gate prices in the world's 2nd largest economy jumped 9% last month from May last year, depths of the first wave of Covid pandemic and lockdowns, while machine-tool orders in neighboring Japan showed a 141% year-on-year jump.
But the Consumer Price Index in China slipped 0.2% from April, capping annual inflation at 1.3%, while money-supply growth in Japan slowed hard from 9.2% per year to 7.9% last month.
"The best forecasters are definitively on Yellen's side," says