USOIL Soft on SPR Talk
USOIL has entered its 4th straight negative week and loses around 1% today, weighed by persistently high US inflation and OPEC+ recent dismissal of calls to increase production
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USOIL has entered its 4th straight negative week and loses around 1% today, weighed by persistently high US inflation and OPEC+ recent dismissal of calls to increase production
Gold started the week on the back foot, but today it extends this month’s advance, with gains of around 5%, rising to its highest level since June
Past performance is not an indicator of future results Further to our previous analysis, gold's EMAs are pushing for a more bullish formation. EMAs are trend-following indicators and work under trend conditions. Consolidations tend to lead to whipsaw signals. The shorter-term green EMA has moved into a bullish position, and we are now looking for the mid-term orange EMA to cross above the longer-term red EMA (aqua ellipse). If this…
US Dollar’s post-CPI rally weighed USOil down and it remains downbeat today, running a mixed week, despite the solid start to it
Past performance is not an indicator of future results Further to our previous article, we consider UKOil's weekly scale (FXCM's proxy for Bent). After a pullback, UKOil has stabilised with the three EMAs (left chart) showing angle and separation. The right chart is also weekly, but we have zoomed in on the price action. A close above last week's high (aqua horizontal) is bullish, charting a reference low. This is…
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North American traders seek the US Dollar, which puts pressure on XAU/USD, following the de-escalation in US Producer Price Index and Mr. Powell’s focus on employment
The commodity comes from two negative weeks, but starts the current one on the offensive, helped by the infrastructure bill that was passed by US Congress over the weekend
Past performance is not an indicator of future results Source: www.tradingview.com The weekly chart above shows gold (XAUUSD) from the beginning of 2019. The indicator below is the correlation coefficient between the precious metal and the US10Y. For most of this period the correlation has been negative (green rectangle). A reason for this is that bonds and gold are both considered safe-havens. During this period the yield on the US10Y…
Oil is up around 60% for 2021 and has a current price of approximately $82/barrel (Brent). OPEC+ is due to meet today and market participants don't expect a change to the current output schedules. This despite President Biden and allies encouraging producers with spare capacity to increase production. There is general alarm around inflation and the current call of "transitory" is debated. As such, a cap on oil prices will…
Past performance is not an indicator of future results Gold has had a very ordinary 2021. The precious metal has been drifting sideways for most of the year (blue rectangle). We have added a triple moving average to get a sense of gold's directional bias. This is inherently risky because moving averages are trend-following indicators. This means that they work very well during trending moves but give constant whipsaw signals…
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