GOLD PRICE FORECAST: XAU/USD RETREATS TOWARDS $1,960 AS YIELDS REBOUND, FEDERAL RESERVE EYED

Gold price (XAU/USD) takes offers from the Year-To-Date (YTD) high while targeting the previous resistance surrounding $1,960, near $1,976 by the press time of early Monday in Asia. In doing so, the precious metal pares the recent losses after posting the biggest daily and weekly jump in three years in the last.

The latest recovery in the United States Treasury bond yields, backed by hopes of more liquidity in the market, seems to have underpinned the US Dollar rebound and weighs on the Gold price. Also challenging the XAU/USD bulls is trader’s anxiety as the key week comprising the Federal Reserve (Fed) monetary policy announcements begins. That said, the yellow metal’s previous fall could be linked to a slump in the bond coupons across the board amid fears of the return of the 2008 financial market crisis.