在本週二舉行的以色列選舉前，美國總統特朗普再發長文表示支持以色列總理內塔尼亞胡。

Spot gold briefly fell below $4,000/oz in Asian trade on Oct. 23 — the first time since July — and is down more than 3% this week. Wang Jun, chief analyst at Green Dahua Futures, cites three market-moving drivers: (1) high oil prices — Brent topped $114/bbl, reinforcing global and US inflation persistence; (2) firmer Fed December rate-hike expectations, with elevated US inflation lifting the dollar and US Treasury yields and eroding gold’s appeal (Wang calls this the main driver); and (3) global liquidity tightening and deleveraging. He expects international gold to remain under pressure into late October and early November.

日本30年期國債收益率上升0.5個基點，至3.835%。