The charts that matter: gold dips after Buffett buys in

Warren Buffett bought into gold's bull market just as the price slipped again. Here's how the charts that matter most to the global economy reacted.

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Now a swift rundown of this week’s main charts.

The charts that matter

Gold slipped back after Warren Buffett’s purchase of half a billion dollars’ worth of shares in mining giant Barrick. It’s now over $100 below the fresh peak it hit at the start of the month – but the show’s by no means over yet.

(Gold: three months)

US dollar index (DXY – a measure of the strength of the dollar against a basket of the currencies of its major trading partners):

(DXY: three months)

Ten-year US government bond yield:

(Ten-year US Treasury yield: three months)

Ten-year Japanese government bond yield:

(Ten-year Japanese government bond yield: three months)

Ten-year German bund yield:

(Ten-year Bund yield: three months)

Copper:

(Copper: nine months)

Aussie dollar:

(Aussie dollar vs US dollar exchange rate: three months)

Bitcoin:

(Bitcoin: three months)

Oil price (Brent crude):

(Brent crude oil: three months)

Amazon:

(Amazon: three months)

Tesla:

(Tesla: three months)

Have a great weekend.

Ben Judge

Ben studied modern languages at London University's Queen Mary College. After dabbling unhappily in local government finance for a while, he went to work for The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh. The launch of the paper's website, scotsman.com, in the early years of the dotcom craze, saw Ben move online to manage the Business and Motors channels before becoming deputy editor with responsibility for all aspects of online production for The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News websites, along with the papers' Edinburgh Festivals website.

Ben joined MoneyWeek as website editor in 2008, just as the Great Financial Crisis was brewing. He has written extensively for the website and magazine, with a particular emphasis on alternative finance and fintech, including blockchain and bitcoin. 

As an early adopter of bitcoin, Ben bought when the price was under $200, but went on to spend it all on foolish fripperies.