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Gold gains traction on weak US economic data

June 20, 2024By Reuters
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Gold prices edged up on Wednesday after data suggesting lackluster US economic activity kept alive hopes for at least one interest rate cut this year.

Spot gold was up 0.1% at USD 2,330.23 per ounce as of 12:32 p.m. ET (1632 GMT). Most of the markets in the US are closed for the Juneteenth holiday.

US retail sales barely rose in May and figures for the prior month were revised considerably lower, data showed on Tuesday, suggesting economic activity remained lackluster in the second quarter.

That slightly boosted the odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut in September to 67% from 61% a day earlier, the CME FedWatch tool showed.

The main drive for gold’s price action remains the market expectations over the Fed’s monetary policy and despite prices creeping up, the move is quite subdued as the market waits for more substantial news, said Ricardo Evangelista, senior analyst at ActivTrades.

Lower interest rates reduce the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion.

“Market expectations point to at least one rate cut from the Fed. That scenario has been fully priced in the value of the dollar. Government purchases (of gold) remain stable as well. So, unless there is any significant change in this scenario, prices are expected to remain supported above the USD 2,300 level,” Evangelista said.

Gold prices rose about 1.3% last Friday on signs of inflation cooling in the United States amid a selloff across European equities as French stocks were battered by political turmoil.

Political uncertainty surrounding Europe can be positive, with elections in France and the UK nearing, Kinesis Money market analyst Carlo Alberto De Casa said.

The more immediate focus, however, is on the US weekly jobless claims data on Thursday and flash purchasing managers’ indexes on Friday.

Spot silver was up 0.6% at USD 29.69 per ounce, platinum rose 0.8% to USD 977.49 and palladium gained 2.1% to USD 905.51.

(Reporting by Harshit Verma in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza, Sohini Goswami, and Deepa Babington)

 

This article originally appeared on reuters.com

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