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Precious metal investors are turning their attention to the U.S. economic outlook next week as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is likely to give his final clue before the central bank’s September monetary policy meeting.
Gold prices have lost all their weekly gains after hitting fresh 6.5-year highs on Tuesday as risk-on sentiment climbed on signs that the U.S.-China trade tensions were calming down in the near term. December Comex gold futures were down 0.3% on a weekly basis, last trading at $1,532.60.
“We had a positive response to the Chinese postponement of retaliatory action against the U.S. And it seems the U.S. President Donald Trump cooled off on the negative rhetoric as well. The market is hopeful that there might be a cession of aggression on the trade front here,”
Fed chair Jerome Powell will be giving a speech on Friday at the University of Zurich in Switzerland at 12:30 p.m. EDT. This will likely be the last speaking engagement before the Fed’s interest rate decision on September 18.
“Powell is due to give a speech late on Friday next week.
Markets are currently pricing in a 95.8% chance of a 25-basis-point cut and a 4.2% chance of no cut at all at the September meeting.
Capital Economics is currently projecting a rate cut in September and December while estimating for rates to remain on hold next year.
Powell’s speech on Friday will come after the most significant data release out of the U.S. next week — August’s employment report.
“Most importantly on Friday we have the U.S. payrolls number, which everyone is looking at. “Market is looking for about 168K print. Anything below that would send gold higher.”
Overall, the U.S. economic data this week was not too disappointing, showing that the economic outlook might not be as gloomy as markets are anticipating.
“On the whole, the data has been reasonably reassuring, suggesting that even though growth has slowed in the past few quarters, it is certainly not falling off a cliff … Second-quarter GDP data revealed that although the overall growth of GDP was revised down very slightly, consumption growth has been estimated to be close to 5% annualized, which is very strong.
The July spending data out of the U.S. also showed that strength has continued into the third quarter. “We are estimating consumption growth somewhere around 3.5%-4% in Q3, which is still pretty strong. Looks like GDP growth will be somewhere close to 2% again in Q3.
The U.S.-China trade war worries do not seem to be impacting the U.S. consumer.“We know that investment growth has been slowing but actually that’s what we would expect given the fact that growth in corporate profits has been slowing. “Consumers don’t seem to care at all so far. You might expect that to change if the next round of tariffs will start to put more upward pressure on consumer prices. So far, there isn’t much evidence of this.”
Don’t miss the U.S. dollar connection(Bullish perspective)
Another interesting ongoing development in gold is its ability to ignore the rising U.S. dollar.
“The dollar is in a breakout. The dollar index settled at the highest level of the year on Thursday and looking to confirm that settlement today.
A likely explanation for gold’s resilience is conflicting fundamentals, such as a steady U.S. dollar climb in light of the yield curve inversion.
“The Treasury complex is holding very well. And you’ve got a 2-year and 10-year yield inversion. Those are conflicting factors. They are neutralizing each other and allowing gold to hold ground and trade well.
What else to watch
Analysts have Trump’s Twitter on their radar as any new statements can trigger a new rally in gold. “Inflammatory statement from Trump can cause a lot of disturbance in the market and help gold.
Even though next week will be a short one due to the long weekend in the U.S., there will still be plenty of key data to digest. Reports to keep a close eye on include ISM manufacturing, the Beige Book, and durable goods.
“ISM manufacturing data is coming out on Tuesday. It will give us direction as manufacturing market still expects above 50 print. If this goes closer to the 50 mark, which is the borderline telling us whether it is expanding or contracting, that will have a big impact on the gold market.
Precious metal investors are turning their attention to the U.S. economic outlook next week as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is likely to give his final clue before the central bank’s September monetary policy meeting.
Gold prices have lost all their weekly gains after hitting fresh 6.5-year highs on Tuesday as risk-on sentiment climbed on signs that the U.S.-China trade tensions were calming down in the near term. December Comex gold futures were down 0.3% on a weekly basis, last trading at $1,532.60.
“We had a positive response to the Chinese postponement of retaliatory action against the U.S. And it seems the U.S. President Donald Trump cooled off on the negative rhetoric as well. The market is hopeful that there might be a cession of aggression on the trade front here,”
Fed chair Jerome Powell will be giving a speech on Friday at the University of Zurich in Switzerland at 12:30 p.m. EDT. This will likely be the last speaking engagement before the Fed’s interest rate decision on September 18.
“Powell is due to give a speech late on Friday next week.
Markets are currently pricing in a 95.8% chance of a 25-basis-point cut and a 4.2% chance of no cut at all at the September meeting.
Capital Economics is currently projecting a rate cut in September and December while estimating for rates to remain on hold next year.
Powell’s speech on Friday will come after the most significant data release out of the U.S. next week — August’s employment report.
“Most importantly on Friday we have the U.S. payrolls number, which everyone is looking at. “Market is looking for about 168K print. Anything below that would send gold higher.”
Overall, the U.S. economic data this week was not too disappointing, showing that the economic outlook might not be as gloomy as markets are anticipating.
“On the whole, the data has been reasonably reassuring, suggesting that even though growth has slowed in the past few quarters, it is certainly not falling off a cliff … Second-quarter GDP data revealed that although the overall growth of GDP was revised down very slightly, consumption growth has been estimated to be close to 5% annualized, which is very strong.
The July spending data out of the U.S. also showed that strength has continued into the third quarter. “We are estimating consumption growth somewhere around 3.5%-4% in Q3, which is still pretty strong. Looks like GDP growth will be somewhere close to 2% again in Q3.
The U.S.-China trade war worries do not seem to be impacting the U.S. consumer.“We know that investment growth has been slowing but actually that’s what we would expect given the fact that growth in corporate profits has been slowing. “Consumers don’t seem to care at all so far. You might expect that to change if the next round of tariffs will start to put more upward pressure on consumer prices. So far, there isn’t much evidence of this.”
Don’t miss the U.S. dollar connection(Bullish perspective)
Another interesting ongoing development in gold is its ability to ignore the rising U.S. dollar.
“The dollar is in a breakout. The dollar index settled at the highest level of the year on Thursday and looking to confirm that settlement today.
A likely explanation for gold’s resilience is conflicting fundamentals, such as a steady U.S. dollar climb in light of the yield curve inversion.
“The Treasury complex is holding very well. And you’ve got a 2-year and 10-year yield inversion. Those are conflicting factors. They are neutralizing each other and allowing gold to hold ground and trade well.
What else to watch
Analysts have Trump’s Twitter on their radar as any new statements can trigger a new rally in gold. “Inflammatory statement from Trump can cause a lot of disturbance in the market and help gold.
Even though next week will be a short one due to the long weekend in the U.S., there will still be plenty of key data to digest. Reports to keep a close eye on include ISM manufacturing, the Beige Book, and durable goods.
“ISM manufacturing data is coming out on Tuesday. It will give us direction as manufacturing market still expects above 50 print. If this goes closer to the 50 mark, which is the borderline telling us whether it is expanding or contracting, that will have a big impact on the gold market.
