During last week, gold and silver prices slightly declined. A couple of U.S reports may have moderately affected forex and commodities prices: the U.S PPI rose by 1.1% during September; U.S jobless claims fell by 30k to 339k. These news items may have contributed to movement of the USD against other major currencies, and consequently bullion rates. In Europe, the speculations around the future move of Greece and Spain and their debt crisis might reach new high this week as the EU Summit will be held. If the EU Summit will result in some big headlines, such as Spain making the formal request to ECB to start its bond purchase program, this could help rally the Euro. Nonetheless, during last week the Euro/USD fell by 0.68%; on the other hand, AUD/USD rose by 0.47%.

The video report herein has an outlook of gold and silver for the main publications and events that may affect precious metals during October 15^th to 19^th. Some of these reports include: U.S CPI, Housing starts, Euro summit, China's GDP, U.S retail sales, Philly Fed index, FOMC members' speeches, Canadian core CPI, Existing home sales, and U.S. jobless claims.    

 Tuesday –U.S Core CPI: According to the U.S Bureau of Labor statistics during August, the CPI rose by 0.6%(M-o-M); the core CPI rose by 0.10%; the core index rose over the last 12 months by 1.9%;

Wednesday – U.S. Housing Starts: this report was historically correlated with gold– as housing starts rise, gold tended to decline the next day (even when controlling to the USD effect); in the previous report, the adjusted annual rate reached 733,000 in August 2012, which was 2.3% above July’s  rate;

Wednesday –China Third Quarter GDP 2012: during the second quarter of 2012, China expanded by only 7.6% in annual terms; the current expectations are that the Q3 2012 grew in annul terms may even further fall; if the growth rate will be lower than in the previous quarter it might adversely affect commodities prices;

Thursday – EU Economic Summit: there will be a two day EU economic Summit, in which the European leaders will talk about the recent financial developments related to the EU debt crisis. In the Summit the members may talk about Spain's debt crisis. Perhaps Spain will make its official request for aid in this Summit. If there will be big headlines from this Summit it may have some effect on the financial markets;

Thursday – Philly Fed Manufacturing Index: In the recent September survey, the growth rate rose from -7.1 in August to -1.9 in September. If the index will remain negative it may adversely affect not only USD but also commodities (the recent Philly Fed review);

 For further reading:

Gold and Silver Monthly Report for October

Weekly Outlook Financial Markets for October 15-19