Silver Price Forecast: XAG/USD trades at multi-month highs around $23.70s

Silver hit a six-month high at around $24.12 before reversing its curse, though it remains positive.
Inflation in the United States continues its downtrend, still far from the 2% goal.
The Federal Reserve is expected to hike rates by 50 bps, with odds around 90%.

Christian Borjon Valencia FXStreet

Silver price advanced sharply above the $24.00 figure following the November inflation report in the United States (US) release, which ticked lower, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve (Fed). The US Dollar (USD) is plunging while precious metals advance. At the time of writing, the XAG/USD is trading at $23.74 after hitting an eight-month high of $24.12.

The Department of Labor reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose marginally by 0.1% from last month and decreased slightly on a year-on-year basis to 7.1%, missing previous analyst expectations of 7.3%. Even though inflation has dropped since its peak in June at 9.1%, the so-called core CPI suddenly shifted upwards during September. Nevertheless, in the last two months, core CPI moved downwards, with November figures standing at 6%, below what analysts had predicted as 6.3%.

Money market futures suggest that the Federal Funds rate (FFR) may reach a peak of 5% before being cut in September 2023, around 20 bps. At the same time, weakness was seen for the US Dollar Index, which sank to six-month lows around 103.586, though it is trimming some of its earlier losses, sitting at 103.900.

Elsewhere, US Treasury bond yields, namely the 10-year benchmark note rate, plunged 15 bps, from around 3.630% to 3.459%, while US 10-year TIPS yield, a proxy for real yields, dropped 11 bps to 1.215%, a tailwind for the precious metal segment.

Silver (XAG/USD) Reaction to US CPI report

XAG/USD remains upward biased and rallied above $24.00, on traders speculating that the Federal Reserve might not be as aggressive as inflation continues to slow down. Silver found solid resistance at the R4 daily pivot at $24.14, since then, retraced $0.40 towards current prices, erasing some of its earlier gains. A fall below the $2 daily pivot at $23.73 could pave the way toward the R1 level at $23.52, followed by the daily pivot at $23.31, which would turn the white metal flat compared to Tuesday’s opening price.

XAG/USD

Overview
Today last price	23.75
Today Daily Change	0.43
Today Daily Change %	1.84
Today daily open	23.32

Trends
Daily SMA20	21.93
Daily SMA50	20.68
Daily SMA100	20.01
Daily SMA200	21.25

Levels
Previous Daily High	23.54
Previous Daily Low	23.11
Previous Weekly High	23.69
Previous Weekly Low	22.03
Previous Monthly High	22.25
Previous Monthly Low	18.84
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	23.27
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	23.37
Daily Pivot Point S1	23.11
Daily Pivot Point S2	22.9
Daily Pivot Point S3	22.69
Daily Pivot Point R1	23.53
Daily Pivot Point R2	23.75
Daily Pivot Point R3	23.96

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Christian Borjon Valencia

FXStreet

Markets analyst, news editor, and trading instructor with over 14 years of experience across FX, commodities, US equity indices, and global macro markets.

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