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Gold Price Analysis: XAU/USD registered highest close in nearly 8 years above $1,770

  • Gold closed the third straight week in the positive territory.
  • Risk-averse market environment provides a boost to safe-haven gold.
  • Markets are likely to continue to react to coronavirus headlines.

The troy ounce of the precious metal gained 1.5% last week and posted its highest daily/weekly close since October of 2012 at $1,771. 

Heightened concerns over a second economic lockdown in the US amid the surging number of confirmed coronavirus cases caused risk-off flows to continue to dominate the financial markets. Florida reported nearly 9,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday while Texas decided to close bars and limit restaurants' capacity to 50% to limit the spread of the virus. 

Wall Street's main indexes lost between 2.4% and 2.8% on Friday to reflect the intense flight-to-safety, which ramped up the demand for safe-haven gold.

At the start of the next week, there won't be any significant macroeconomic data releases featured in the economic docket and investors are likely to react to weekend's coronavirus figures from the US.

Technical levels to watch for

XAU/USD

Overview
Today last price1771.34
Today Daily Change0.00
Today Daily Change %0.00
Today daily open1771.34
 
Trends
Daily SMA201732.05
Daily SMA501722.11
Daily SMA1001667.98
Daily SMA2001586.78
 
Levels
Previous Daily High1772.04
Previous Daily Low1747.59
Previous Weekly High1779.41
Previous Weekly Low1742.97
Previous Monthly High1765.38
Previous Monthly Low1670.72
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%1762.7
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%1756.93
Daily Pivot Point S11755.27
Daily Pivot Point S21739.21
Daily Pivot Point S31730.82
Daily Pivot Point R11779.72
Daily Pivot Point R21788.11
Daily Pivot Point R31804.17

Gold daily chart

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Eren Sengezer

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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