Greenlight For Gold?
Has the Fed just given the green light for gold to gain into the start of 2024? With a dovish dot plot forecasting 3 Fed rate cuts next year bonds were heavily bought last night and the USD was convincingly sold.
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Seasonals Favour Heavier S&P 500 Selling Post The Fed
Today is the Federal Reserve’s hotly anticipated interest rate meeting. Expectations in short-term interest rate markets are for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates four times next year. Now this seems a very dovish expectation.
EURUSD & US CPI
A major risk event is coming up for the US on Tuesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate meeting on Wednesday. Although US CPI data is unlikely to change the Fed’s mind for Wednesday it will certainly set the mood and tone.
Will The US Jobs Print On Friday Send Gold Soaring?
If you notice you can see that the seasonal pattern becomes very strong after the middle of December. That is not for no reason. The middle of December marks the last Fed meeting, so investors are often confident to take their gold position once the path for US yields and the USD is more predictable with the Fed having finished their last interest rate meeting for the year.
Will The BoC Sink The CAD?
Short-term interest rate markets see the bank of Canada making four 25bps interest rate cuts next year. With expectations that the bank of Canada will leave current interest rates unchanged at 5% this week. Could there be some significant selling in the Canadian dollar?
Seasonals Say Gold Is To Break All Time Highs!
The seasonals are saying that gold could be about to break its all-time high. The average return in gold between the 13th of December and February the 20th is over 4%. If the seasonal pattern repeats this year, according to its average, that will take gold to fresh all time new highs!
Dollar Bears Poised To Pounce In December?
Markets have been happy to sell the dollar recently on the narrative that the US is seeing slowing economic data, inflation is falling, and the prospect of federal reserve interest rate cuts are growing ever closer. This dollar weakness is expected to continue as long as the Federal reserve doesn’t signal any more rate hikes.
Worth Filtering For Tech Stock?
Speculation is growing that the US economy is heading for a soft landing. If this is the case, then the recent strong run in technology stocks could carry on. Using the season axis filter option we can filter the strongest seasonal patterns of the individual shares making up the NASDAQ 100.
How Will The OPEC+ Meeting Impact Oil?
Oil markets have been pushed and pulled around in recent days and weeks on the worries about supply with the Israel Hamas conflict and most recently on concerns regarding the collaboration of production levels within the OPEC+ group. The latest concern is Nigeria and Angola, having to accept a new baseline that reflects their actual production capabilities.