Spot gold (XAU/USD) prices have been choppy and recently fell back towards this week’s lows around $1730, with prices having been buffeted by the conflicting forces of falling US bond yields against a strengthening US dollar. Spot prices thus continue to trade well within recent ranges; to the upside, last week’s post-FOMC highs at just under $1756 are the key area of resistance to watch, whilst last week’s low at around $1720 is the main area of support to take note of. Until the US dollar and US bond yields can start moving in sync with each other again, god might well continue to chop either side of its 21-day moving average at $1736.50.
As noted, gold is caught between the conflicting forces of a continued drop in US government bond yields (the 10-year yield is now close to 1.65%, a near 10bps pull-back from last week’s highs) and a strengthening US dollar (the Dollar Index or DXY hit fresh two week highs on Tuesday and is comfortably back above the 92.00 level again).