The gold spot is falling due to broad US dollar strength and steady US real yields. US Industrial Production exp\u00e0nded at a lower rate than in April, showing that the US economy is slowing.
Gold spot (XAUUSD) drops as a reaction to the buoyant US dollar, which is staging a comeback after printing losses of 1% on Thursday, trimming some of its losses despite the decline of Treasury yields for the second straight day in the week.
The Gold Index is trading at $1839.20 and losses 0.97%. US Real yields remain steady, weighing on the precious metal’s price.
market sentiment remains positive as US equities recover some ground. The US Dollar Index, a measure of the buck\u2019s value, advances 0.83%, sitting at 104.666. in the meantime, the US 10-year Treasury yield drops to 3.229%, for a loss of seven basis points.
In the meantime, US 10-year TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities), a proxy for real yields, is down one basis point, sitting at 0.665%, a headwind for the yellow metal.
Elsewhere, the US economic calendar featured May\u2019s Industria Industrial Production, which expanded by 5.8% YoY, lower than April\u2019s reading at 6.3%, adding signs of an economic slowdown. \u201cThe pace at which everything is changing is quite alarming,\u201d according to WSJ sources. They said that the economy still stands on fairly solid ground to withstand inflation, supply-chain issues, and rising interest rates.
Earlier in the day, the Minnesota Fed\u2019s President Neil Kashkari commented that he supported 75 bps in June and could support another in July. He added that a prudent strategy might be to continue with 50 bps increases. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said a soft landing is feasible if the post-pandemic shift is done well.
The XAU\/USD is in consolidation amidst the lack of a catalyst that could propel the yellow metal prices either way. At the time of writing, XAU\/USD sits below the 200-day moving average (DMA), which lies at $1843.48. That would open the door for consolidation in the $1800-$1850 range, where the non-yielding metal remained throughout the last week.
A daily close of XAU\/USD beneath the 200-DMA would expose the Jun 1 daily low at $1828.33. A break below would open the door for a May 18 test at a $1807.23 cycle low. Once broken, a fall to $1800 is next.
Upwards, XAU\/USD\u2019s first resistance would be the 200-DMA. If XAU bulls achieve a daily close above it, a move towards the 50-DMA at $1874.80 is on the books. Once cleared, the XAU\/USD following resistance level would be the 100-DMA at $1891.92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The gold spot is falling due to broad US dollar strength and steady US real yields. US Industrial Production exp\u00e0nded at a lower rate than in April, showing that the US economy is slowing.Gold spot (XAUUSD) drops as a reaction to the buoyant US dollar, which is staging a comeback after printing losses of 1% …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":61843,"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":[38,37,36],"tags":[6874,7462,6984,6871],"class_list":["post-67318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-commodities-news","category-forex-markets","category-market-updates","tag-gold","tag-market-sentiment","tag-treasury-yields","tag-usd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67318","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67324,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67318\/revisions\/67324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}