Daily Gold News: Gold Lower Ahead of the FOMC release

The gold futures contract lost 0.23% on Tuesday, as it continued to trade within a short-term consolidation. The market gave back almost all of its December’s advance recently. Last week gold retraced some of that decline. But the market stalled at $1,850 level, as we can see on the daily chart ( the chart includes today’s intraday data ):

Gold is 0.5% lower this morning, as it is trading below $1,850 mark. What about the other precious metals? Silver gained 0.21% on Tuesday and today it is 1.1% lower. Platinum gained 0.24% and today it is 1.8% lower. Palladium lost 0.93% and today it is 0.7% lower. So precious metals are lower this morning.

Yesterday’s CB Consumer Confidence release has been slightly better than expected at 89.3. Today we will get the FOMC Statement at 2:00 p.m.

Where would the price of gold go following that news release? We’ve compiled the data since January of 2017, a 48-month-long period of time that contains of thirty three 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 FOMC day was +10.5% after March 15, 2020 release and the biggest decline was -7.2% after March 3, 2020 release. But we’ve had an increased volatility following coronavirus fear then.

The latest FOMC Statement release came out on December 16th. Gold price was 1.9% higher 10 days after the release.

The following chart shows average gold price path before and after the FOMC releases for the past 48 months and 33 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 0.48% higher 10 days after the FOMC Statement announcement.

Below you will find our Gold, Silver, and Mining Stocks economic news schedule for the next two trading days:

Wednesday, January 27

• 8:30 a.m. U.S. – Durable Goods Orders m/m, Core Durable Goods Orders m/m
• 2:00 p.m. U.S. – FOMC Statement , Federal Funds Rate
• 2:30 p.m. U.S. – FOMC Press Conference

Thursday, January 28

• 8:30 a.m. U.S. – Advance GDP q/q , Advance GDP Price Index q/q, Unemployment Claims, Goods Trade Balance, Preliminary Wholesale Inventories m/m
• 10:00 a.m. U.S. – CB Leading Index m/m, New Home Sales

For a look at all of today’s economic events, check out our economic calendar.

Paul Rejczak
Stock Selection Strategist
Sunshine Profits: Analysis. Care. Profits.

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