{"id":21578,"date":"2023-09-23T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T10:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/investing\/gold-ends-week-little-changed-clinging-to-mid-1900-despite-hawkish-fed\/"},"modified":"2023-09-23T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T10:23:47","slug":"gold-ends-week-little-changed-clinging-to-mid-1900-despite-hawkish-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microloannexus.com\/?p=21578","title":{"rendered":"Gold ends week little changed, clinging to mid $1,900, despite hawkish Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<p><span class=\"text\">\u00a9 Reuters. <\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>Investing.com \u2014 Gold prices ended the week little changed, rebounding from a one-week low, as markets continued their debate on whether the Federal Reserve\u2019s final rate hike for the year would be in November or December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeakening global growth prospects are (also) starting to attract some safe-haven flows towards bullion,\u201d Ed Moya, analyst at online trading platform OANDA, said. \u201cGold has shown that the $1,900 level was a major line in the sand and now it appears to be poised to consolidate around the $1,950 level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gold\u2019s most-active futures contract on New York\u2019s Comex, , settled up $6, or 0.3%, at $1945.60 an ounce. For the week, it closed virtually flat, down 0.03%.<\/p>\n<p>The  was at $1,925.01 by 15:10 ET (19:10 GMT). Spot gold, determined by real-time trades in physical bullion and more closely followed than futures by some traders, was up $4.90, or 0.3%, on the day. For the week, it rose 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor gold to move back above the $2,000 level, investors will need to see major dollar weakness, which will be driven by evidence that the labor market is breaking,\u201d Moya said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Markets debating when next Fed hike will be<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The  hit six-month highs on Friday, limiting buying of dollar-denominated commodities by holders of other currencies. Offsetting some of the dollar\u2019s charge was a decline in U.S. bonds, measured by the , which hit its highest since 2007 before retreating.<br \/>Both yields and the dollar shot up this week after the Fed projected another quarter-percentage point  by the year-end, despite leaving rates unchanged for September itself at a policy meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are prepared to raise rates further, if appropriate,&#8221; Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told a news conference on Wednesday. &#8220;The fact that we decided to maintain the policy rate at this meeting doesn&#8217;t mean we have decided that we have or have not at this time reached that stance of monetary policy that we are seeking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fed had raised interest rates 11 times between February 2022 and July 2023, adding a total of 5.25 percentage points to a prior base rate of just 0.25%. The central bank has forecast that U.S. rates will trend around 5.1% through 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed has two more policy meetings left for this year \u2014 in November and December. Markets are trying to guess which month the central bank would pick for what would be its last hike for 2023.<\/p>\n<p>(Ambar Warrick l<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/commodities-news\/gold-prices-rise-as-dollar-comes-off-sixmth-peak-but--outlook-dim-3180181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Reuters. Investing.com \u2014 Gold prices ended the week little changed, rebounding from a one-week low, as markets continued their debate on whether the Federal Reserve\u2019s final rate hike for the year would be in November or December. \u201cWeakening global growth prospects are (also) starting to attract some safe-haven flows towards bullion,\u201d Ed Moya, analyst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-21578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-investing","8":"tag-featured"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gold ends week little changed, clinging to mid $1,900, despite hawkish Fed | Micro Loan Nexus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a9 Reuters. 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