{"id":121172,"date":"2025-11-25T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=121172"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:45:46","slug":"gold-extends-gains-in-asia-as-december-fed-rate-cut-bets-accelerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/gold-extends-gains-in-asia-as-december-fed-rate-cut-bets-accelerate\/11\/25\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Extends Gains in Asia as December Fed Rate-Cut Bets Accelerate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold prices climbed in Asian trading on Tuesday, extending strong overnight gains as expectations grew that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December. A wave of upcoming U.S. economic data also boosted safe-haven demand, helping gold trend higher even as the dollar held firm. Broader metal markets advanced as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spot gold rose <strong>0.3%<\/strong> to <strong>$4,145.57<\/strong> an ounce, while February gold futures edged up <strong>0.2%<\/strong> to <strong>$4,180.0\/oz<\/strong> by 23:46 ET (04:46 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rate-Cut Expectations Surge After Dovish Fed Signals<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Markets have sharply increased their expectations for a December rate cut after two Federal Reserve officials voiced support for additional easing next month.<br>According to CME\u2019s FedWatch Tool, traders now price a <strong>77.2%<\/strong> probability of a <strong>25-basis-point<\/strong> cut at the <strong>December 9\u201310<\/strong> meeting, up from <strong>41.8%<\/strong> just a week ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower interest rates typically support <strong>non-yielding assets<\/strong> like gold by reducing the opportunity cost of holding them. The metal has already logged a series of record highs this year following rate cuts at the Fed\u2019s previous two meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Safe-Haven Demand Remains Strong<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold also drew support from heightened geopolitical tensions between <strong>China and Japan<\/strong>, as well as persistent concerns over aggressive fiscal spending in major developed economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Other Metals Advance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Platinum<\/strong> gained <strong>0.5%<\/strong> to <strong>$1,570.65\/oz<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Silver<\/strong> rose <strong>0.8%<\/strong> to <strong>$51.5555\/oz<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>LME copper futures<\/strong> jumped <strong>1.2%<\/strong> to <strong>$10,887.0<\/strong> per tonne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Markets Await Key U.S. Economic Data<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Traders remained cautious ahead of several crucial U.S. releases expected over the coming days.<br>While the upcoming prints cover <strong>September<\/strong>, they are likely the most recent data the Fed will have before its December meeting due to the <strong>prolonged government shutdown<\/strong> in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Producer Price Index (PPI)<\/strong> and <strong>retail sales<\/strong> data arrive later Tuesday<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PCE price index<\/strong>\u2014the Fed\u2019s preferred inflation gauge\u2014is due Wednesday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. officials have indicated that <strong>October inflation and labor data may not be released<\/strong>, which earlier contributed to expectations that the Fed might hold rates steady in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices climbed in Asian trading on Tuesday, extending strong overnight gains as expectations grew that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December. A wave of upcoming U.S. economic data also boosted safe-haven demand, helping gold trend higher even as the dollar held firm. Broader metal markets advanced as well. Spot gold &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":116449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6827,49,37,36],"tags":[7770,6874],"class_list":["post-121172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-daily-economic-reports","category-economic-reports","category-forex-markets","category-market-updates","tag-fomc-minutes","tag-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121173,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172\/revisions\/121173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}