Gold keeps diving on jobless data

On Tuesday, metal prices kept sagging in the face of trade worries as well as a soaring evergreen buck.

August delivery gold futures dipped by nearly 0.88% on the Comex exchange ending up with a one-and-a-half-year minimum of $1,217.10 per troy ounce.

The leading precious commodity was held back due to the fact that trade tensions resumed after the Chinese authorities ascertained that the US government turned out to be wrong to blame Chinese leader Xi Jinping for preventing progress on a trade deal. Additionally, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro informed that the American trade strategy isn’t as terrible as many depict.

Apart from that jobless claims dived to its lowest value since December 1969, thus backing hopes for increased Fed rates. The key US financial institution had rates increased twice in 2018 and it’s anticipated to lift rates at least two times before the end of 2018.

Higher rates happen to be rather an adverse effect for gold as the precious commodity because it’s very hard for this metal to go on a par with yield-bearing assets when Fed rates leap.

Simultaneously, the evergreen buck managed to rally that also put pressure on the commodity. Gold normally goes down when the US currency ascends. The plausible explanation is that the precious commodity is normally denominated in the evergreen buck, being very susceptible to any fluctuations in the value of this currency.

The USD index, employed to evaluate the greenback’s value versus a group of six key currencies, managed to jump by 0.38% hitting 95.20.

Bullion gets less costly for those investors who keep other currencies when the evergreen buck rallies, and it becomes more affordable when the greenback slumps.

As for other commodities, they also declined on the Comex. Silver futures sagged by 1.86% being worth $15.285 a troy ounce. Copper futures dived by 2.03% trading at $2.704 a pound.

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