• Silver price appears to be failing to maintain trade above $29.00 as the Fed sees only one rate cut this year.
• US bond yields rise despite traders holding Fed rate-cut bets for September.
• Investors await the US PPI data for further action.

Silver price (XAG/USD) struggles to gain ground above the crucial support of $29.00 in Thursday’s early European session. The white metal weakens as the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) dot plot of the June meeting has indicated that policymakers see only one rate cut this year. A few policymakers also advocated for maintaining the current interest rate framework for the entire year as they are less confident about inflation declining to the desired rate of 2%.

The appeal for precious metals remains vulnerable even though Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged that there is a slower progress in the disinflation process and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for May was cooler than expected.

Meanwhile, the US Dollar Index (DXY) has extended its recovery to 104.80 and 10-year US Treasury yields bounce back to 4.33% albeit the CME FedWatch tool shows that traders hold their bets for the Fed to reduce interest rates in the September meeting. Higher yields on interest-bearing assets increase the opportunity cost of holding an investment in non-yielding assets such as Silver.

Going forward, investors will focus on the US Producer Price Index (PPI) data for May, which will be published at 12:30 GMT. Annual headline PPI is estimated to have accelerated to 2.5% from 2.2% in April, with core reading growing steadily by 2.4%.