Gold steady as investors await Bernanke outlook

Gold traded little changed on Monday as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of a presentation by the US Federal Reserve chief later in the week that will be scoured for clues on the central bank’s attitude to another round of quantitative easing.

By (Reuters)

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Published: Mon 16 Jul 2012, 4:19 PM

Last updated: Tue 7 Apr 2015, 11:24 AM

Gold has been sensitive to the Fed’s stance on monetary stimulus this year and particularly to the impact of such a move on the dollar, which has consistently trumped bullion as the more-sought-for destination for safety amid the festering euro zone debt crisis that has sapped market liquidity.

Spot gold was little changed at $1,589.75 an ounce by 0634 GMT, after rallying 1 percent on Friday.

US gold futures contract for August lost 0.1 percent to $1,589.70.

Technical analysis, however, suggested spot gold could retrace to $1,570 an ounce during the day, said Reuters market analyst Wang Tao.

The correlation between the dollar and gold stood at -0.68, steady from Friday and the strongest inverse correlation in nearly three months. A reading of -1 suggests a perfect inverse correlation in which one asset rises and the other drops.


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