{"id":121628,"date":"2025-12-11T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=121628"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:00:33","slug":"gold-slips-as-traders-digest-dovish-tilt-fed-silver-retreats-after-fresh-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/gold-slips-as-traders-digest-dovish-tilt-fed-silver-retreats-after-fresh-record-high\/12\/11\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Slips as Traders Digest Dovish-Tilt Fed; Silver Retreats After Fresh Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold prices declined in Asian trading on Thursday as markets absorbed the Federal Reserve\u2019s latest policy signals, while silver eased after briefly touching a new all-time high earlier in the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metal markets were mixed overall. Although the Fed cut interest rates as expected and announced a major liquidity-boosting plan, policymakers also emphasized that <em>future rate cuts will require a higher bar<\/em>, tempering the dovish mood. After strong rallies ahead of the meeting, gold and silver saw rounds of profit-taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spot gold slipped <strong>0.5% to $4,207.49<\/strong> an ounce, while <strong>gold futures for March<\/strong> edged <strong>0.3% higher to $4,235.50\/oz<\/strong> by 00:39 ET (05:39 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Silver Pulls Back After Hitting Fresh Record High<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Spot silver dipped to <strong>$61.8095\/oz<\/strong>, after earlier touching a new record of <strong>$62.8895\/oz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silver has surged sharply in recent weeks on expectations of <strong>tightening global supply<\/strong>, stronger industrial demand, and renewed safe-haven flows. The metal has <strong>more than doubled in 2025<\/strong>, outperforming gold, supported further by the U.S. government\u2019s designation of silver as a <strong>critical mineral<\/strong>\u2014a move that intensified investor interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gold Retreats Despite Fed Cut, QE-Style Boost<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold\u2019s pullback came after the Federal Reserve:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cut interest rates by 25 bps<\/strong> (widely expected)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Signaled a <strong>higher threshold for additional cuts<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Announced it will begin <strong>buying $40 billion per month in Treasury bills<\/strong>, increasing liquidity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While Powell\u2019s tone hinted at caution, markets viewed the resumed asset-purchase program as <strong>decisively dovish<\/strong>. Treasury yields fell immediately after the announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts at OCBC noted the decision was \u201cnot as hawkish as feared,\u201d and maintained expectations for <strong>one additional 25-bp cut in 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold had rallied strongly in the days leading up to the meeting, making the metal vulnerable to near-term profit-taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Broader Metals Mixed<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Spot platinum<\/strong> rose <strong>0.2% to $1,661.18\/oz<\/strong> after earlier losses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Copper futures (LME)<\/strong> climbed <strong>0.4% to $11,608.45 per ton<\/strong>, supported by improving risk sentiment and expectations of added market liquidity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices declined in Asian trading on Thursday as markets absorbed the Federal Reserve\u2019s latest policy signals, while silver eased after briefly touching a new all-time high earlier in the session. Metal markets were mixed overall. Although the Fed cut interest rates as expected and announced a major liquidity-boosting plan, policymakers also emphasized that future &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":110976,"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":[38,6827,49,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-commodities-news","category-daily-economic-reports","category-economic-reports","category-market-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121628","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=121628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121629,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121628\/revisions\/121629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}