Gold Price Forecast: XAU/USD corrects to near $1,970 on UBS-Credit Suisse deal, Fed policy eyed


  • Gold price has corrected to near $1,970.00 as investors are getting anxious about the Fed policy.
  • Safe-haven appeal for Gold has been trimmed as UBS promised to rescue Credit Suisse.
  •  Gold bulls are experiencing a momentum loss and are expected to deliver a mean reversion to near the 20-EMA.

Gold price (XAU/USD) corrected to near $1,970.00 after UBS announced the Credit Suisse rescue plan. The precious metal is gauging a cushion around the $1,970.00 support, however, further correction looks possible.

Investors should be aware of the fact that the market participants were pumping funds into the yellow metal to safeguard themselves from the volatility associated with a potential banking fiasco. A buyout deal by UBS has trimmed fears of global banking turmoil. The buyout deal has sent a signal that central banks are prepared to provide assistance to commercial banks in order to retrieve the confidence of investors.

The US Dollar Index (DXY) is demonstrating a back-and-forth action around 103.80 as the market is preparing for the interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve (Fed), which is scheduled for Wednesday. Analysts at Danske Bank see Fed chair Jerome Powell raising rates by 25 basis points (bps) despite recent turmoil amid banking sector jitters.

Bulk morning gains generated by the S&P500 futures are halved now, portraying that the UBS-Credit Suisse deal is not sufficient enough to deal with the global banking jitters. Negative market sentiment would stay for a period of time as the banking mess is still to show true colors. Meanwhile, the UBS-Credit Suisse deal has trimmed demand for US government bonds, which were being considered as safe-haven. This has pushed the 10-year US Treasury yields higher to 3.46%.

Gold technical analysis

Gold price delivered a stalwart rally after a breakout of the Symmetrical Triangle chart pattern on an hourly scale. A breakout in the aforementioned chart pattern is followed by heavy volume and wide ticks. After a perpendicular rally, Gold bulls are experiencing a momentum loss and are expected to deliver a mean-reversion to near the 20-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at $1,964.00.

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) (14) is oscillating in the bullish range of 60.00-80.00, which indicates that the upside momentum is extremely solid.

Gold hourly chart

XAU/USD

Overview
Today last price 1973.78
Today Daily Change -15.68
Today Daily Change % -0.79
Today daily open 1989.46
 
Trends
Daily SMA20 1856.42
Daily SMA50 1879.63
Daily SMA100 1824.16
Daily SMA200 1776.95
 
Levels
Previous Daily High 1989.51
Previous Daily Low 1918.31
Previous Weekly High 1989.51
Previous Weekly Low 1867.66
Previous Monthly High 1959.8
Previous Monthly Low 1804.76
Daily Fibonacci 38.2% 1962.31
Daily Fibonacci 61.8% 1945.51
Daily Pivot Point S1 1942.01
Daily Pivot Point S2 1894.56
Daily Pivot Point S3 1870.81
Daily Pivot Point R1 2013.21
Daily Pivot Point R2 2036.96
Daily Pivot Point R3 2084.41

 

 

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