The gold futures contract gained 0.13% on Tuesday, as it fluctuated following Monday’s advance. The market retraced most of the decline from September 1 local high of $2,001.20. Yesterday it has reached new short-term local high of $1,982.40 before coming back to the opening price. Gold is still trading within a consolidation along $1,950-2,000, as we can see on the daily chart:
Gold is 0.6% higher this morning, as it is trading along yesterday’s daily high. What about the other precious metals? Silver gained 0.40% on Tuesday and today it is 0.7% higher. Platinum gained 2.45% and today it is 0.2% higher. Palladium gained 3.88% yesterday and today it’s 0.7% lower. So precious metals are slightly higher ahead of today’s FOMC announcement.
Yesterday’s Empire State Manufacturing Index release has been better than expected and the Industrial Production number has been worse than expected at only +0.4%.
Today we will get the important FOMC Statement release. But we’ll also get the Retail Sales number at 8:30 a.m. and Business Inventories release at 10:00 a.m.
Where would the price of gold go following today’s Fed news release? We’ve compiled the data since January of 2017, a 43-month-long period of time that contains of thirty FOMC releases. The first chart shows price paths 5 days before and 10 days after the FOMC release. We can see that the biggest 10-day advance after the NFP day was +10.5% after March 15, 2020 release and the biggest decline was -7.2% after March 3, 2020 release. However, we’ve had an increased volatility following coronavirus fear then.
The following chart shows average gold price path before and after the FOMC releases for the past 43 months and 30 releases. The market was usually declining ahead of the FOMC day. Then it was going up for a week-long period. We can see that on average, gold price was 0.8% higher 10 days after the FOMC Statement announcement.
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