Oil alert: wait for the inventories
Yesterday’s private survey showed larger-than-expected cut in oil output.
Gold tacks on in Asia as diving greenback drives buying sentiment
On Tuesday, gold rallied in Asia because financial markets neglected signs of tighter monetary policies ahead for the BOJ and ECB and took advantage of a diving greenback to purchase the US dollar- -denominated commodity.
Gold futures ascended 0.47% demonstrating an outcome of $1,341.20 a troy ounce following Monday’s no floor trading on the exchange due to the Martin Luther King Day holiday. Apparently, all electronic transactions are going to be booked with trades for settlement on Tuesday.
Overnight, the number one precious metal was still backed at four-month maximums because demand for the American currency kept going down.
The evergreen buck neglected data on Friday demonstrating that underlying American consumer prices reported their largest soar for 11 months in December, thus contributing to hopes that inflation is going to accelerate in 2018.
By the way, gold happens to be very sensitive to moves in the US currency.
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Market updates on September 13
The retail sales for the US in focus today
"Buy the rumor - sell the fact" action for USD/TRY
During today's Turkish central bank meeting, the market anticipated a rate cut between 200-300 pips.
Traders await the releases for the USD
The USA will publish the level of retail sales and core retail sales on September 13, at 15:30 MT time.
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