CRUDE OIL & GOLD TALKING POINTS:
- Crude oil price with stocks on a rare bit of upbeat US trade news
- Gold prices struggle for direction US Dollar, bond yields diverge
- Sensitivity to headline risk calling for cautious trading approach
Crude oil prices rose alongside stocks yesterday as an apparent delay in US auto tariffs and progress on implementing the USMCA trade agreement – the replacement for NAFTA – buoyed market-wide sentiment. Gold prices stalled as swings between risk-on and -off extremes fueled divergence in bond yields and US Dollar. That put the metal’s defining anti-fiat and non-interest-bearing attributes in conflict.
CRUDE OIL, GOLD PRICES AT THE MERCY OF HEADLINE RISK
Prevailing macro trends in market mood are likely to remain the driving catalyst from here. G10 FX markets are showing risk-off signs in Asia Pacific trade and the bellwether S&P 500 are trading lower, but this may be corrective after yesterday’s moves. The stock of scheduled event risk is relatively sparse, putting prices at the mercy of incoming headlines. That is a recipe for kneejerk volatility, so caution seems prudent.
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GOLD TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Gold prices remain pinned down below resistance in the 1303.70-09.12 area. Breaking above this barrier opens the door for a test of the 1323.40-26.30 zone. A region dense with overlapping support levels runs through 1260.80. A daily close below this threshold exposes the 1235.11-38.00 region.
CRUDE OIL TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Crude oil prices continue to oscillate above support at 60.39. A daily close below it initially targets the 57.24-88 area. A dense resistance bloc in the 63.59-67.03 zone caps the upside. If buyers manage to breach it, a path toward retesting the $70/bbl figure may be cleared.
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--- Written by Ilya Spivak, Currency Strategist for DailyFX.com
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