- Gold futures and gold miners trade broadly lower, extending yesterday’s big drop amid the rise in risk-on sentiment that followed France’s presidential election results.
- “Traders’ expectation that Le Pen will not become the next French President has resulted in a technical correction for gold and silver,” says Chintan Karnani, chief market analyst at Insignia Consultants, and if the technical correction continues until Friday, it would “mark the beginning of a short-term bearish phase."
- Results are exacerbated by a relatively rare quarterly earnings miss from Barrick Gold, which had beaten in five of the previous six quarters, hurt by lower production and higher costs than expected; Newmont Mining is down 5% even after a Q1 earnings beat with a 2017 outlook that remained mostly unchanged.
- ABX -10.4%, NEM -4.7%, GG -4.7%, KGC -6.4%, AEM -5.4%, EGO -5.3%, FNV -3.2%, GOLD -2.5%, GFI -2.6%, SLW -5.5%.
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