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Precious metals under pressure despite price-supporting news

The gold price is down this morning and trading below $1,090 per troy ounce. It found no support yesterday from the disappointing ISM index in the US.

This has further reduced expectations of the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates in anything like the near future. Robust coin sales also had no impact. 

According to figures from the U.S. Mint, 170,000 ounces of gold coins were sold in the US in July, the highest monthly volume since April 2013. 

Australia's Perth Mint also reported robust coin sales of a good 51,000 ounces in July. In addition, Turkey imported 14.3 tons of gold again last month, although these were the highest imports since November, they likewise did nothing to shore up prices, according to Commerzbank. 

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