Gold extended gains as the dollar sank after the U.S. Unemployment Jobs data
On Thursday, after the U.S. unemployment data came live, it pointed toward a cooling off in the labor market. However, it helped Gold to rise as the dollar sank due to this data hit. As the U.S. labor market is at a cooling-off stage, economists are worried about facing a harsher Federal Reserve rate in the next year.
The Labor Department said that the initial unemployment benefits claims rose 9000 to a seasonally adjusted 225000 for the week ended on Dec 24. As per the Reuters report, Economists polled a forecast claim of 225000 for the latest week.
Meanwhile, gold jumped 0.7% to $1817.30 per ounce by 1:41 p.m. ET (1841 GMT); in contrast, the U.S. gold settled 0.6% to $1826 in the future. The chief market strategist at Blue Line Futures in Chicago, Phillip Streible, said that the unemployment jobs data had showcased dollar weakness. As a result, the treasury yields are backing off, causing gold to turn around. But, the markets were thin on volume due to Christmas and New Year Holidays.
Making gold cheaper for foreign currency holders, the dollar index sank 0.6%, After hitting a six-week high in the previous session of the 10-year treasury yield benchmark. Spot gold is headed for a quarterly gain of nearly 9.5% with the extended price of $ 200 from a more than two-year low hit in September. The hope is still high with the U.S. central bank slowing its pace of interest rate hikes.
Streible added that Gold could find good support in the $1700s, the target for the next year is $1950. This week Gold has extended its highest gains in the past six months. It seems China’s COVID quarantine rule of Chinese visitors traveling and foreign travelers entering China will become normalized. These rules will affect the gold value.
An independent analyst Ross Norman said ‘Encouragingly for gold bulls, silver is outperforming as this is often a good indicator of a move higher in the entire metals complex.’
- Published By Team Nation Press News
