By FXEmpire.com
Analysis and Recommendations:
Gold has surprised markets today, by falling to 1606.85 before the Fed releases. Gold was expected to trade sideways today, while investors waited for news from the Feds on monetary easing. Usually additional monetary easing is a negative for the USD and positive for gold. Both are weak in today’s trading.
Investors moved back into the markets, in a risk on attitude, as news from Greece stated that the New Democracy was able to form an acceptable government and has so informed the Spanish President. The problem facing them now, is that of Finance Minister, most of the favored candidates have declined the position. With Greece now firmly tucked away, investors moved into other riskier assets deflating gold.
Just a heads up since gold is volatile and will react to most economic indicators we will begin to post the daily calendar with events that could affect the price of gold. The gold price is sensitive to a number of scheduled U.S. and Euro area macroeconomic announcements–including retail sales, non-farm payrolls, and inflation. Gold’s high sensitivity to real interest rates and its unique role as a safe-haven and store of value typically leads to a counter-cyclical reaction to surprise news, in contrast to their commodities. It also shows a particularly high sensitivity to negative surprises that might lead financial investors to become more risk averse.
These results have a number of implications. To reduce the uncertainty of the return on gold transactions, traders may wish to time their orders flow so as to avoid the release of information that has been shown to affect prices. For longer-term market participants, these results provide confirmation of the pro-cyclical bias of many commodities and gold’s role as a safe-haven during periods of economic uncertainty.
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Economic Data for June 20, 2012 actual. v. forecast
|
Date |
Currency |
Event |
Actual |
Forecast |
Previous |
|
JPY |
Trade Balance |
-0.66T |
-0.36T |
-0.51T |
|
|
GBP |
Average Earnings Index +Bonus |
1.4% |
0.8% |
0.9% |
|
|
GBP |
Claimant Count Change |
8.1K |
-3.0K |
-12.8K |
|
|
USD |
Interest Rate Decision |
0.25% |
0.25% |
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|
USD |
FOMC Statement |
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|
USD |
Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks |
Upcoming Economic Events that affect the CHF, EUR, GBP and USD
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Date |
Time |
Currency |
Event |
Forecast |
Previous |
|
Jun 21 |
6:00 |
CHF |
1.33B |
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|
7:00 |
EUR |
44.7 |
|||
|
7:00 |
EUR |
45.1 |
|||
|
7:15 |
CHF |
7.9% |
|||
|
7:30 |
EUR |
45.2 |
|||
|
7:30 |
EUR |
51.8 |
|||
|
8:00 |
EUR |
9.1B |
|||
|
8:00 |
EUR |
45.1 |
|||
|
8:00 |
EUR |
46.7 |
|||
|
8:30 |
GBP |
-2.3% |
|||
|
10:00 |
GBP |
-17 |
|||
|
12:30 |
USD |
386K |
|||
|
13:00 |
USD |
54.0 |
|||
|
14:00 |
USD |
4.62M |
|||
|
14:00 |
USD |
-5.8 |
|||
|
Jun 22 |
8:00 |
EUR |
106.9 |
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|
All Day |
EUR |
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|
13:00 |
EUR |
-11.2 |
Upcoming Government Bond Auctions
Date Time Country
Jun 21 08:30 Spain
Jun 21 08:50 France
Jun 21 09:30 UK
Jun 21 09:50 France
Jun 21 15:00 US
Jun 21 17:00 US
Jun 22 15:30 Italy
Jun 25 09:10 Norway
Jun 25 09:30 Germany
Jun 25 10:00 Belgium
Jun 25 15:30 Italy
Jun 26 00:30 Japan
Jun 26 08:30 Holland
Jun 26 08:30 Spain
Jun 26 09:10 Italy
Jun 26 09:30 UK
Jun 26 14:30 UK
Jun 26 17:00 US
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