Gold looks to close week flat below $1560

Wall Street erases early gains after opening at record highs.
US Dollar Index climbs to fresh multi-week highs.
Consumer Confidence in US deteriorates slightly in January.

Eren Sengezer FXStreet

The XAU/USD pair climbed to a fresh daily high of $1560 in the early trading hours of the American session but struggled to preserve its momentum. As of writing, the pair was trading at $1556.85, adding 0.28% on a daily basis and looking to close the week flat.

USD looks to end the week on a strong note

The broad-based USD strength and the upbeat market mood on Friday keep the pair's upside limited. The data from the US showed that Housing Starts advanced to its highest reading in 13 years by rising 16.9% in December to help the USD outperform its rivals in the second half of the day.

Although the Federal Reserve announced that Industrial Production in US contracted by 0.3% in December, a surprise 0.2% increase in Manufacturing Production offset the negative impact of the uninspiring data. Finally, the Univesity of Michigan's Consumer Confidence Index edged lower to 99.1 in January (preliminary) from 99.2.

The US Dollar Index gained traction and rose to its highest level since the post-Christmas slump at 97.66. As of writing, the index was up 0.3% on the day at 97.60.

Meanwhile, Wall Street's main indexes opened at fresh record highs on Friday but retraced early gains to turn flat on the day and the 10-year US Treasury bond yield retreated from daily highs to suggest that risk sentiment is turning neutral ahead of the weekend.

Technical levels to watch for

XAU/USD

Overview
Today last price	1557.01
Today Daily Change	3.15
Today Daily Change %	0.20
Today daily open	1553.86

Trends
Daily SMA20	1531.14
Daily SMA50	1492.81
Daily SMA100	1496.79
Daily SMA200	1436.05

Levels
Previous Daily High	1558.15
Previous Daily Low	1548.3
Previous Weekly High	1611.3
Previous Weekly Low	1540.3
Previous Monthly High	1525.1
Previous Monthly Low	1454.05
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	1552.06
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	1554.39
Daily Pivot Point S1	1548.72
Daily Pivot Point S2	1543.59
Daily Pivot Point S3	1538.87
Daily Pivot Point R1	1558.57
Daily Pivot Point R2	1563.29
Daily Pivot Point R3	1568.42

Author

Eren Sengezer

FXStreet

As an economist at heart, Eren Sengezer specializes in the assessment of the short-term and long-term impacts of macroeconomic data, central bank policies and political developments on financial assets.

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