Daily Bullion Report — Thursday, 9 July 2026
MCX Gold & Silver · Full-day levels · Bias: SELL RALLIES · Live: Gold Rs1,44,749 · Silver Rs2,26,504
• Gold: weekly target 1,42,750 by Friday — HIT. Actual low 1,42,457.
• Silver: target 2,21,000 — HIT. Actual low 2,20,221.
🚨 IRAN–US WAR — WHAT HAPPENED (in short)
- Iran attacked three commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz (6–7 July).
- The US retaliated with strikes on 80+ targets, then a second wave — Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Chabahar, Iranshahr.
- Trump declared the June MoU “over” at the NATO summit; said talks may continue but called them a waste of time.
- US strikes on Kharg Island — Iran’s main oil export hub — and said it could take the hub over.
- Oil sanctions on Iran reimposed from 7 July, cancelling the 60-day waiver.
- Iran’s IRGC struck US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. Air-raid sirens in both.
- Brent crude +6% to ~$78. European stocks −1.6%. ~6,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf.
- EU aviation regulator: avoid Iran, Iraq, Lebanon airspace until 31 August.
🎯 THE EFFECT — AND WHY GOLD DID NOT RALLY
Why: the textbook “war = gold up” reflex keeps failing. The real chain is:
Conflict → oil spikes → inflation fear → Fed stays hawkish → real yields rise → non-yielding gold sells off.
Gold is a real-yield asset, not a headline asset. Until a shock is large enough to threaten growth rather than prices, war headlines cap gold instead of lifting it. Silver is hit harder still — it is 55% industrial demand with no true safe-haven bid.
🔮 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT — PROBABILITIES
Scenario |
Probability |
Gold Effect |
|---|---|---|
Tit-for-tat strikes continue, no full war Both sides absorb costs; talks limp on |
55% |
Gold capped — sell rallies. Our base case. |
De-escalation, talks resume (2–4 weeks) Oil retreats, risk premium unwinds |
25% |
Gold falls faster toward 1,40,000 |
Full-scale war / Hormuz closure ~20% of world oil blocked; growth shock |
20% |
Gold spikes — the one tail risk to the sell thesis |
The line that matters: our sell thesis is invalidated only if gold sustains above 1,47,800. That is the level the 20% scenario would take out. Below it, every rally is a selling opportunity.
🥇 GOLD — Range 1,42,750 – 1,46,380
⭐ The big one: Gold will make the major low of this year between 15 July and 15 August. That will be the last low — an excellent physical buying opportunity, and a positional buy in both Gold and Silver. Exact entry levels will be declared in the report on or after 15 July only.
🥈 SILVER — Range 2,33,400 – 2,21,000
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