Gold edges up to $1490 area, lacks follow-through


  • The overnight downtick remained limited amid a subdued USD demand.
  • A sharp intraday slide in the US bond yields extended additional support.

Gold edged higher through the early European session on Tuesday and is currently placed at the top end of its daily trading range, around the $1489 region.
 
Following an early tick lower to near one-week lows, the precious metal managed to regain some positive traction and recovered a part of the previous session's modest downtick. The US President Donald Trump's overnight comments raised hopes for a possible resolution of the prolonged US-China trade disputes and weighed on the precious metal's safe-haven demand.

Cautious mood helped gain some traction

However, a combination of supporting factors helped limit any follow-through selling, rather attracted some fresh dip-buying interest. A subdued US Dollar demand, amid firming expectations that the Fed will cut interest rates further at its upcoming meeting on October 29-30, was seen as one of the key factors lending some support to the dollar-denominated commodity - Gold.
 
This coupled with a sharp intraday fall in the US Treasury Yields, possibly in the back of a softer mood around equity markets, further underpinned the non-yielding yellow metal and remained supportive of the intraday uptick. The commodity remained well within a near two-week-old trading range, warranting some caution before placing any aggressive directional bets.
 
There isn't any major market-moving US economic data due for release on Tuesday and hence, the broader market risk sentiment, coupled with the USD price dynamics might continue to act as key drivers of any meaningful intraday momentum.

Technical levels to watch

XAU/USD

Overview
Today last price 1488.44
Today Daily Change 3.97
Today Daily Change % 0.27
Today daily open 1484.47
 
Trends
Daily SMA20 1495.88
Daily SMA50 1506.34
Daily SMA100 1456.22
Daily SMA200 1376.58
 
Levels
Previous Daily High 1495.25
Previous Daily Low 1481.91
Previous Weekly High 1497.95
Previous Weekly Low 1477.15
Previous Monthly High 1557.03
Previous Monthly Low 1464.61
Daily Fibonacci 38.2% 1487.01
Daily Fibonacci 61.8% 1490.15
Daily Pivot Point S1 1479.17
Daily Pivot Point S2 1473.87
Daily Pivot Point S3 1465.83
Daily Pivot Point R1 1492.51
Daily Pivot Point R2 1500.55
Daily Pivot Point R3 1505.85

 

 

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