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Gold rises as Powell steers middle-way, market still prices in rate cuts
By TradeRadius | Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:59:29 UTC
Gold (XAU/USD) trades up almost half a percent in the $2,380s on Thursday as markets continue to foresee interest-rate cuts coming down the track. In his second day of testimony to US lawmakers, Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell steered a middle way between cautious optimism that inflation would come down without causing too many job losses – achieving what economists call a “soft-landing” – while retaining a data-dependent vigilant approach to inflation.
His comments supported Gold, which performs better when interest rates are expected to fall, since lower interest rates increase the asset’s attractiveness to investors by reducing the opportunity cost of holding it.
Gold is also benefiting from further emerging data showing that central banks are continuing to hoard all over the world. This comes despite the news on Sunday that the largest consumer of Gold, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), stopped buying the precious metal for the second month running in June, following an 18-month buying bonanza.
Gold rises as Powell steers middle-way, markets see cuts coming
Gold gained on Wednesday after markets assessed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell as cautiously optimistic in his second day of testimony to US lawmakers in Washington.
In comments to the House Financial Services Committee Powell said that “We see current Fed policy as restrictive," indicating that at their current level, interest rates were successfully doing the job of bringing inflation back down to the Fed’s 2.0% target.
When asked about the timing of future Fed interest-rate cuts and whether he would wait for the Fed’s preferred gauge of inflation, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, to fall below the Fed’s target before pulling the trigger, Powell said that he would not, because, “inflation has a certain momentum,” and “you don’t want to wait until inflation gets all the way down to 2.0%.” At its last reading, both headline and core PCE fell to 2.6%, suggesting the Fed might not be that far away from making rate cuts.
This reinforced current market-based barometers of when the Fed will cut interest rates. The CME FedWatch tool continues to see a high 70% probability of a 0.25% cut in the Fed Funds rate – the Fed’s primary policy interest rate – in September. Such a cut would bring the policy rate down to an upper bound of 5.25%. The CME FedWatch tool bases its probability on the price of 30-day Fed Funds futures prices.
Although investors had been hoping for more concrete details of when the Fed would cut interest rates, Powell’s overall optimism about achieving a “soft-landing” for the economy – when inflation falls back to target without unemployment rising too high – buoyed sentiment. That said, Friday’s official jobs report, the Nonfarm Payrolls release, reported the US Unemployment Rate rising to 4.1% from 4.0%, when no rise had been expected. It was the third month of increase in a row.
Gold buoyed by central bank buying
Gold makes further gains on Thursday due to the emergence of data showing central banks around the world are still hoarding Gold despite the news that the largest consumer, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), has ceased Gold purchases for two months running in June.
Despite the PBoC’s absence from the market, which accounts for over a quarter of buying, the Bank of India (BOI) bought nine tons of Gold in June, the National Bank of Poland four tons, and the Czech National Bank two tons, according to TD Securities.
Analysts at Citibank remain optimistic about central-bank demand, which they see rising in the second half of the year to reach a total of around 1,100 tons in 2024, a 5.8% increase from the previous year. They put the gains down to an increasing likelihood of trade wars and concerns about US fiscal policies.
To that end, Citibank’s official forecast is for Gold to hit $2,600 by the end of 2024.
Meanwhile, Bert Melek, Head of Commodity Strategy at TD Securities, forecasts Gold to hit $2,475 in Q1 of 2025.
Technical Analysis: Gold rising for third day in a row
Gold makes gains for the third day in a row following the formation of a bearish Two-Bar reversal pattern (green-shaded rectangle in the chart below) at the top of the early July up move. This pattern forms after a long green-up day is followed by a long red-down day of a similar length and size. It can be a sign of a short-term reversal. In the case of Gold this has not played out.
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