{"id":2730,"date":"2009-06-29T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2009-06-29T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T16:05:31","slug":"gold-consolidates-as-investors-await-global-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2009\/06\/29\/gold-consolidates-as-investors-await-global-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Consolidates as Investors Await Global Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fast Brokers<\/strong> &#8211; Gold is following the consolidation of the Dollar and U.S. equities while ignoring the pop in crude.\u00a0 The precious metal seems range bound for the immediate-term as investors await the heavily-weighted economic data coming later in the week.\u00a0 Gold has logged larger volume on its down-bars than up-bars on the 1-hour during its upswing beginning dating 6\/23, while volume on the 4-hour has been rather tame.\u00a0 Therefore, the present upturn of gold has been limited to a sub-$950\/oz reality.\u00a0 As a result, the near-term momentum is tilted in favor of the bears as the GBP\/USD and EUR\/USD fight near-term downtrends of their own.\u00a0 The overall behavior of gold reflects that of the market as a whole with investors uncertain whether to bank on a global economic recovery or a new leg down.\u00a0 We expect volatility to pick-up beginning late Tuesday\/Wednesday with key unemployment, housing, and manufacturing data pouring in from around the globe along.\u00a0 Additionally, the ECB will make a monetary policy decision on Thursday.\u00a0 Hence, while gold may be subdued for the immediate-term, investors shouldn\u2019t get too complacent.\u00a0 The near-term key for gold to the downside will be holding 6\/15 and 6\/16 lows.\u00a0 Important near-term barriers to the upside are our 1st and 2nd tier downtrend lines along with 6\/26 highs.<\/p>\n<p>Present Price: $935.60\/oz<\/p>\n<p>Resistances: $936.01\/oz, $939.02\/oz, $941.85\/oz, $943.88\/oz, $945.75\/oz<\/p>\n<p>Supports: $932.48\/oz, $929.77\/oz, $927.98\/oz, $$925.24\/oz, $923.59\/oz<\/p>\n<p>Psychological: $900\/oz, $950\/oz<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fastbrokers.net\/news\/image\/6_29gold.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/fastbrokers.net\/news\/image\/6_29gold.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Market Commentary<\/strong><\/em> provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastbrokers.com\/index.php?PL080\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fast Brokers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> FastBrokers\u2019 market commentary is provided for information purposes only and under no circumstances should be regardedneither as an investment advice nor as a solicitation or an offer to sell\/buy any financial product. 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Please carefully review all risk disclosure documents before opening an account as these financial instruments are not appropriate for all investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fast Brokers &#8211; Gold is following the consolidation of the Dollar and U.S. equities while ignoring the pop in crude.\u00a0 The precious metal seems range bound for the immediate-term as investors await the heavily-weighted economic data coming later in the week.\u00a0 Gold has logged larger volume on its down-bars than up-bars on the 1-hour &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2009\/06\/29\/gold-consolidates-as-investors-await-global-data\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gold Consolidates as Investors Await Global Data&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}