Gold hit fresh multi-month highs near the $1,910 on Monday but has since dropped back under the $1,900 handle. Geopolitics remains the wildcard that could stoke surprise volatility in either a bullish or bearish direction. The Russian ruble has been coming under significant pressure on Monday, indicative of rising fears …
Read More »Weekly Recap 14-18 February
The safe-haven Japanese yen weakened on Friday and risk-sensitive currencies such as the Australian dollar rose as investors took comfort from a plan for talks between the United States and Russia on the crisis in Ukraine. The euro rose as the dollar weakened. The yen and the Swiss franc, a …
Read More »Gold Trapped In A $14 Range As Bulls Prepare An Assault Of $1900
During Friday’s session, the yellow metal consolidated around the $1,886-$1,900 area, amongst exchanges of statements in news media between Russia, Ukraine, and NATO countries, keeping uncertainty around the current situation in Ukraine.The US 10-year Treasury yield fell five basis points sits at 1.925% in the bond market. At the same …
Read More »Geopolitics, Australian Wages Data Impacting AUD/USD
AUD/USD was unable to hold to the north of the 0.7200 level for a third successive trading session, despite solid jobs data earlier in the week keeping calls for RBA monetary tightening this year.At current levels in the 0.7170s, AUD/USD is trading a touch lower on the day, though still …
Read More »USD Remains Cool Amid Geopolitical Chaos
Gold and the USD Indexes reacted energetically to the concerns raised by Eastern Europe’s tensions. However, only the US dollar can stay cool about its medium-term future.Geopolitical tensions uplift gold, silver and mining stocks, they are in rally mode each and every minute a doom-and-gloom headline surface. However, while the …
Read More »Gold Attacks the 1900s 18/2/2022
The yellow metal prices achieved noticeable gains during the previous trading session, attacking the psychological barrier of 1900 within the ascending path, in which we relied on consolidation above the level of 1878, explaining that push to visit 1892, recording the highest of 1901 during the early trading of the …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session – 17 Feb.
Thursday’s asset trading closed largely negatively with a significant decline in risk appetite because tensions in Eastern Europe that have come back to the news headlines.Risk assets, first and foremost stocks and the euro, declined as yields of US Treasury bonds fell in favour of higher safe haven assets, most …
Read More »Demand For Safe Havens Surges, With US Dollar As Only Exception
Ukraine-Russia conflict continued to dominate the headlines and fueled demand for safe-haven assets, although speculative interest stood away from the greenback. Major pairs remained stable within familiar levels after both countries blamed each other for some shelling that took place early on Thursday in the Donbass territory.The situation escalated as …
Read More »Gold Returns to Consolidate Above The Resistance 17/2/2022
Positive moves dominated gold trades after testing the ascending channel’s support around 1844, which pushed it to rebound in the bullish direction to settle above 1859 resistance, and intraday stability above 1865. Technically, by looking at the 240-minute chart, we notice that the price continued to obtain a positive stimulus …
Read More »Gold May be Forced to a Corrective Decline 16/2/2022
Mixed movements dominated the gold prices during the last trading session, recording the highest level at 1880, which formed a negative pressure factor that forced the price to retreat strongly towards the retest of 1844. On the technical side, today, and carefully looking at the 4-hour chart, we notice the …
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